I hope you all liked how long my 'summer' went on...

O.k. so it is FAll. I spent some of this evening outside at a soccer practice for Andrew, it's COLD! YA, ya, all you Winnipegers say "boo hoo", but the truth is that BC's cold is bone chilling. The prairie 'cold' usually involves the sun still shinning, and the only thing that reminds you that you should not lick the flag pole is the fact that you are oddly aware of your nostril hairs. (they are frozen!) So there. And "no" I have not ventured out in a blizzard in minus 40 degree weather... if I had, my analogy would probably be a tad different. I just finished another jag of working everyday for the last 4 weeks. Money is a helpful thing. One of the items I'll be helping to pay for is a huge picture window. A couple of weeks ago the boys were practicing their golf swing in the backyard, they do have 'wiffle' golf balls but I guess Andy ran out of those and found one of his 'real' ones. He made a great swing, the ball went flying, hit a nearby bird bath and deflected into one of the four 5.5 feet by 5.8 feet ocean facing picture windows. (The boys have since realized that the window will cost more than 2 new xbox 360's...Andrew said to me the other day, "I wish I hadn't broken that window" this was out of the blue and terribly cute.) My sweet hubby has been very busy at work, they have recently hired some new staff so that will help lighten the load soon, which will be much needed. He's thinking that maybe when my brother-in-law gets back up here that they should play some hockey together on Friday nights. Did you hear that? Who's moving back up here? Oh, yeah...MY SISTER and family are moving back here December 1st! How fun. I found a suite for them to rent...1/2 a km from our house. Super Fun. It will be so great for the kids to be able to be so much a part of each others lives. What a blessing.
Brendan and Andrew are continuing to be awesome runners! It's pretty exciting to see. They have finished up their fall season of cross country and had a recent Terry Fox run with the school. (Chloe was able to run in that as well, she was the first girl back in the group of K/GR1! : ) All the kids are in Soccer this season. It makes Saturdays pretty full of one thing, but it's great seeing each of them playing. They are all enjoying their new classes, Brendan Gr.4, Andrew GR.2 and Chloe K. (She's loving school, and wishing she could go longer like the boys and wishing she could have play dates everyday as well.)
Kelly and I were running again, but lately the weather and the fact that the sun is rising and setting alot quicker,makes it hard to fit in outside runs together. What we have been doing for the past five weeks is going to 'kickboxing' class! It's quite fun. Something I wouldn't have picked out of the blue to do on my own, but with a couple of friends...lots of fun. I'm doing it with Kelly and Laura. You'd better be careful if you try to cross us! We've got some new and very effective moves! I showed my guy some the other night and asked if he was impressed...he said "I'm a bit scared". Teeeheee.
So, there ya go for another...who knows how long this will have to last. Sorry. Kisses to you all.