Ok so it's been a realllly long time since I've posted, but to be fair I've been uber busy. So I'm going to give a bit of a recap of what's been going on around here...
For Hallowe'en this year Hailey went as Winnie-the-pooh. Mike's sister Julie sent us the costume in the mail. The great thing was it was super warm and we put pajamas on underneath so she was good to go. It was so cute taking her trick-or-treating and I was surprised how into it she was! Every time someone gave her a candy she would say "that you buddy!"
Co-op has been going really well. I was invited to attend the zone meeting in Toronto in early December and meet the rest of the team (I have only ever spoken to them via teleconference). It was really nice to put everyone's face with their voice and to get to know them a little better. I also enjoyed staying at the Fairmont downtown and thankfully it was only a few minutes walk to the office as the weather starting to get pretty bad the first day that I was there. I met up with Amber on the Thursday night too and we did some Christmas shopping at the Eaton Centre.
Mike has been enjoying his job and got a nice break at Christmas. He had about a week and a half off. I went to the staff Christmas luncheon on Christmas Eve day, and my boss also took me out for lunch earlier in the week. Everyone at work was really into the holidays and it made it fun to be there even though we couldn't wait for a holiday!
Mike and I stayed at home on Christmas day this year. This was the first time I had not woken up in my parents' house on Christmas morning! It was really fun to see Hailey all excited though. She needed a bit of help with her stocking, but after that she was totally into ripping her presents open!
Hailey was pretty excited about her new easel!
The most shocking news recently was when we were all home to celebrate Christmas at mom and dad's. We all got home on the Sunday night (Dec. 27th) and we opened our stockings but decided to leave the presents until morning. Long story short the next morning at about 8am the house started to fill with smoke and we all had to get outside. It was so sad seeing the house we grew up in burning, especially with all the work Mom and Dad have put into it. There were a couple of news articles in the Lucknow Sentinel and Kincardine News about it. Mom, Dad and Doug have been staying at Grandma Husk's house since it happened.
There is so much more I could add but I'm exhausted and still have four more days of work this week so I'll have to update more later!
Here is one more recent pic though, this one was taken on my birthday.
