Skate with Santa

 This year's U of C Alumni Skate with Santa included face painting and crafts and even Mrs. Claus.

We ended up staying for the dinos basketball games too.

Stamps and horses

Kaya was super patient in the arena and decided to make a horse of her own to ride in the wood shavings.

 We went to a Stamps game.

 I painted my first watercolor of a street in France for Bille.

Miss Sonja and I went for a walk.

The happiest day of Kaya's life

 The kids adopted Cookie and Fudge from the SPCA. Kaya says it is the happiest day of her life.

 Patrick and I stayed up until midnight building a cage.

 Cookie poses for a mug shot.

Fudge stares down the camera.

November

 I enjoyed an evening in Canmore and taught yoga in Banff.

 Adlai and cousins.

The skyline at dusk.

Fezzik, Inigo, the Dread Pirate Roberts and... Captain America

 Halloween was fun this year.

Patrick also had just returned from a short visit with baby Ginny.

Partial solar eclipse

 I love our little ravine and also Kaya's kite from school. Fill your heat with love. Be truthful. Don't steal. Be safe. Smile! Say "Please and thank you."

 The kids filled stitch the homemade pumpkin with leaves.

The astronomers had set up a special viewing of the eclipse and I also read about how the shadows are semi-circles during a partial solar eclipse. Low and behold - it's true.

Fish creek park

 We returned to my childhood haunts and enjoyed a walk by the stream in the setting sun.