Well, today is December 1st, the first day of Advent and I've never got the children out of bed so easily....the promise of the Advent calendar chocolate for breakfast never fails!
Canadians start the whole countdown to Christmas a little earlier than us, and many of us have had our Christmas lights up on our houses for a couple of weeks now. The reason being that if you wait til December, you'll get frostbite trying to attach fiddly little lights to your guttering. We said that we wouldn't switch on ours until today, but actually we caved in about a week ago. People seem to call them 'winter lights' here and they stay on until well into the New Year.
Last week was 'Light Up Okotoks' again, but the kids and I didn't go this year as I was sick. Neil opened the office and spent his night serving hot chocolate and tying endless amounts of helium CIR REALTY balloons for happy Okotokians. He came home with numb fingers and blisters.....bless him!
With the arrival of the Christmas spirit, comes the arrival of the cold weather and snow. We've experienced one of the warmest Novembers on record, with no snow at all, and mild temperatures with plenty of warm Chinooks keeping the frost just to overnight time. However, this week has seen temperatures plunge downwards and we've had a couple of snowfalls to make us happy again. More snow is forecast for the beginning of next week, and the world is turning white again!
We're off this coming weekend to chop down our Christmas tree in the foothills. $5 buys you a permit, and with this you can select up to 3 trees, chop them down and transport them home. Bargain! We plan to make a day of it with our friends, the Ross's and have a fire pit with marshmallows out in the forest. Photos to come later.
In the meantime, here are a couple of photos of the house in it's Christmassy lights, and our latest addition - a hand carved reindeer from Millarville christmas market.
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