Christmas Break

It's surprising that we have pictures of anything other than eating or drinking because it feels (and unfortunately looks) like all we did this past Christmas break. Our time at home was super busy but as always super fun! I worked for most of the time we were home and Steve spent a bunch of the break writing a paper: that being said we managed to pack in a million and one different activities: an early Christmas with Steve's family before the left for Mexico; a party at the cabin with our friends; a ski trip with the regular crew; the regular Christmas stuff with my family; boxing day with Steve's cousins and Aunt and then Vancouver for Jenny and Glenn's wedding , a couple of days with Kristen and Bill after the wedding, dinner with Trav and Jihye who just arrived in Vancouver from Korea, a night with Dave and Nicole and then Mark's wedding before we flew home. Oh yah, I threw in a root canal and physical on Steve's birthday just so I wasn't too cheery. He hates cheery people on his birthday! Anyways, here are some pictures from the differing events.

Jenny's wedding - what can I say other than she was the most beautiful bride and we all had such a wonderful time celebrating with her and Glenn.

Also, as the pictures show this holiday was dominated by a lot of different babies as well as a lot of guitar hero. Even my Gran played!

And finally, the picture of me and Aimes with the same outfit ... seriously that happened even an entire Continent apart. It really didn't help our single identify as "the Aimes" at the wedding!

The Whip Cream Incident

We escaped the city this weekend when two of our friends invited us out to their cabin for some country time. We sipped red wine all night and made a delicious dinner followed by an apple pie. Steve and Joe were in charge of whipping the cream...Can you believe that the two of them have somewhere around 18 to 20 years of university schooling between them? Ha!

Thanks Joe and Marie-Noelle!

The Men of Ste Cunegonde

Dr. Steve working away on his thesis... (instead of saying Doctor we've taken to calling Steve-o Drrr. Rogers, cause he's not really a doctor yet!)

Our super male model taking a time out. Dom, where's your Mac?

Taking the bottom of the blender apart with the ever present kitchen utensil called the pipe wrench!

Dom re-tiling a lose tile in our kitchen... in ski goggles.

Sometimes all you can do is laugh and walk away without asking...

Tom & Kathleen

Tom and Kathleen Shearer came for a visit a couple of weeks ago! Steve and I love when people come visit because it gives us an excuse to get out and explore the City too, hint hint to all of you out there that have not come to visit yet! These are a couple of pictures from the day.

The Ultimate Defeat

We played ultimate frisbee this fall in an outdoor fall league. It was tons of fun and a bit different than the summer game. The field is smaller, only 5 players are on the field at the time there is no stop time and no pull except for the initial pull in each half. This means that every time a team scores a point they immediately put the disk down in their end zone and then the other team starts trying to move it up the field from that end zone. It's this little difference in the game which can either work in your favour or not and in our last game - not. We suffered possibly the worst defeat in ultimate history losing 55 to 9 which means that for every 1 point that we got, they got 8! Ouch!! Here's a picture of our sad faces right after the defeat. We didn't let it bother us for long...

Happy Halloween!!!

Well my roomies attempted to ignore that today is HALLOWEEN but did I let them - not a chance. While I was the only one to dress up...Steve thinks he might sleep on the couch tonight because my outfit was so good...I did manage to get Steve and Dom to carve pumpkins with me tonight! Joyeux Halloween!!!!

PS. Dom did offer to put on a skirt if I wore the beard out to dinner but Jennifer refused. Bah Humbug!

The Punkin Patch

Because fall is a season out here, and I mean a real season, not just two days in between summer and winter when all of the leaves blow away, well, anyways, as I was saying, because fall is a real season out here, the Quebecois really celebrate fall by decorating with a harvest theme - lots of pumpkins and hay bales, gourds and corn still on the husk. It looks just great! I of course bought a bunch of pumpkins to fill the house with but did stop short at buying a hay bale due to the fact that we live in a condo. This tradition is one tradition I am bringing back to Edmonton even if it means that I have to dust the snow off of my pumpkins and hay bales set out on my front step each fall!

Ste. Cunegonde's Super Male Model

Motorists, especially female motorists, proceed with caution as you head towards the Pont Champlain because here he is...Ste. Cunegonde's very own, very sexy, super male model...and he's larger than life...seriously, how big are you on this sign Dom? Anyways, your blue steel rules.

Dr. Steve!!

Steve timidly let me into the Music Library a couple of weeks ago to show me his Masters Thesis. How cool is this - when you type "Stephen Rogers" into the library catalogue, his name appears with a call number to lead all the eager little music students to his thesis, Zansippar which is a hardcover bound book in the stacks!!!

Anyways, he almost died when I hauled out the camera and made him pose with it, quietly mouthing the whole time, "hurry up I know people in here! Not that I cared...my husband is an academic superstar.

PS. funniest part - we went to the library to get this "shoot" twice - first time Aimes had to distract him with her wily charm and second time Jenny with hers!

PPS. It's not the thickness of the thesis but what's inside that counts.