Saturdays are the best! Part 2

Yesterday, in preparation for Thanksgiving;  Gordie and the boys repainted the family room. It is the same Dijon Yellow as we painted it in Jan. 2000; Nov 2004 and Feb 2006. I guess we like it :) I had sought advice from the lady at the paint store and she advised me to stick with it, but to take some of the things of the walls. Hmmmpf.  I am so clueless about decorating, sad, but true. At about 4 pm, I made some dough for pizza. At 6 pm when the dough was ready, Gord changed the plan and instead made  these gorgeous, delicious Strombollis. The kids thought it was almost as good as pizza (they think G's pizza is the world's best). Here's what it looked like, SO sorry I can't give you a taste!





We also had these. You can't go wrong with Toll House cookies.

Saturdays are the best!

Today was the first official day of school vacation. We started with a basketball game- which went into overtime and sadly, Adam's team lost 28-26. We then picked up our old pal Gina, who is spending a few days with us. 

The kids had lots of fun outdoors today even though it was 29 degrees. I know that to some of you hardy Northerners that is bikini weather, we were freezing out there! You can see Saf's breath while her and Landers are conversing.

so pretty, my girl Saff. 


It was cold enough to make you want to jam your 6 year old head into a size 3t hat.

what ya gonna do about it?

A new basketball hoop (a la Freecycle-woohoo) was a big surprise for the kids. That other guy, is Tim-bob, our buddy, he helped Gordie and Adam with the hoop.