First day of hockey

After 2 years of skating lessons, we signed Keyra up for the Initiation Program for hockey.  We really weren't sure what to expect from her as there were plenty of times last year where we had to fight with her to get her on the ice.  I got her all suited up in her gear and away she went.  She skated right out and grabbed a puck and fired it.  She was motoring around really well and taking some really nice slap shots.  She even put a few in the net.  After a short pee break, she went back out and started some more drills and shooting the puck.  I gotta say, that was the most fun I have ever had watching hockey.  It was an absolute blast.

Trinity had her big demo on the weekend, which I missed...again.  It falls every year on the weekend of our year end men's baseball tournament.  Ange video taped it, so I at least got to see it second hand.  After, hockey, ball, and gymnastics demos, we went to a buddy's house for a BBQ and camp fire.  The kids ran around and played some more until they were totally exhausted.

Back to School

As I was leaving this morning, Trin was putting in her new earrings that she got for her birthday.  They are danglers, so I was telling her that she needs to be careful when she is running around and playing at recess.  Her response was, "We don't run around and play on anything anymore, daddy.  We are on the big yard now.".  Man, that was a hard dose of reality.  At least she still gave me a hug and kiss before I left for work.

Keyra seems excited to go back to school as well.  She is still in SK at this point so not much of a change for her.

On a side note, I had the girls out playing hockey on the driveway on Sunday.  Trin thought she would play goalie, and learned the hard way that it was a bad decision.  Keyra has all of a sudden developed a shot.  I know it was just with hockey balls, but she was going top cheese on a few, which zinged right past Trinity's head.  She also hit her in the knee with a clapper.  

Monopoly

Keyra is gone to grandma's for the week, so we decided to have a game of Monopoly last night between, Trin, Ange and myself.  Trinity was getting bored near the end as the game was taking a long time, so we ended up calling it.  Although Ange had by far, the most money, Trinity and I had some pretty nice monopolies and I am sure we would have taken her down eventually.