Mini Christmas

Hi all,

We had ourselves a "Mini Christmas" on Sunday evening. Marielena's cousin Ghyslene, from Victoria has been staying here in Ottawa with the DiBartolo's for a while and has now left for home for the holiday's.

As a nice sendoff, we had "Mini Christmas" for her so she could have a Christmas'ish dinner and open some gifts with her family here.

Here is the post complete with pics that I submitted on the DiBartolo/Boisvert Blog highlighting the evening:

P.S The crazy guy in some of the pics, is Marielena's brother, Michael.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The 2005 Holiday Season is officially underway with last nights inagural Mini Christmas. Will it become an annual event? One can only wait and see.

As Ghyslene is leaving to head back to Victoria for the Holidays, Diane had the brilliant idea to host a sleek and compact version of the holiday festivities just for her! In addition to Diane, Fred, Michael, Staci, Marielena and myself, Grandmaman, Aunt Mariette and one of Ghyslene's friends Nick, were all in attendance.

We kicked off the evening with some Moose Milk and then sat down to dinner. We even had mini Christmas presents at each place setting. In keeping with the mini theme, we comitted a mini masacre to an entire family of Cornish chickens; all neatly lined up in the baking pan wrapped in swaddling tin foil.

Afterwards, Ghyslene opened all her gifts and made off with quite a bounty of girly bathroom stuff, a great sweater and a beautiful angel pendant. Some peanut butter cheesecake topped off the evening quite well, I must say.

Here are some pics of the evening.

Lookin forward to Christmas

Hi everyone.

Christmas is fast approaching and I am really looking forward to it.
This year is very special for us. Last year we were all very worried for Chris and this year we can celebrate for her. Although she is still under going some preventative treatments at oncology she is will be 1 year cancer free on December 28. See, God does answer prayers. Now that is a reason for a Merry Christmas.

Now for some words of caution. WATCH THE ICE!!!
On Sarturday I walked to work and slipped on some ice not far from my house. I scraped my right knee, slightly sprained my left ankle and severly damaged by pride (there were witnesses to my clumsiness , of course).

C Ya L8tr

Christmas is coming!

Hey Everyone!

Merry (early) Christmas!! It's coming soooo fast. I have soooo much left to do. But! The important thing is that Brian and I will be home in, wait for it.....FOUR MORE DAYS! Eeeek! I seriously have been waiting forever for this, and I am so excited to see everyone! So far, they're calling for good weather on Thursday and it had better stay that way or I will NOT be a happy traveler :)

Things here in Regina are good, they've been chilly. Regina is an odd city, in that it doesn't bother to plow, ever. It snowed 5 days ago, and there are still drifts on MAIN roads, so as you can imagine driving on our street is next to impossible. It baffles us. It's causing Brian to have some road rage :) Classes are now completed, and I live to tell of my first semester of my MA. An accomplishment in itself. I am still working full time, and have 35 exams to grad before I come home on Thursday. Busy busy! I also have a scary amount of my Christmas shopping left to do, but it will get done! Today is alotted for a scholarship application, and cleaning and doing laundry so that we can pack before I have to start my marathon marking session on Tuesday night. It's already 2 however, and I'm still in my pyjamas so I'd better get motivated.

Glad to hear that all is well with everyone. Mike and Lena, hope you have a fantastic time in Ottawa, take lots of pics and we'll miss you. To everyone else - see you in a few days!!!!!!

Loads of love from Brian and I!

Theresa
xoxoxox