Hockey School - Day 2

Joshua and Katerina are in the Edmonton Oilers Hockey School this week. On Monday, they got to meet Colin Fraser. He was just traded to the Oilers from the Chicago Blackhawks. The kids were excited because he talked about winning the Stanley Cup. Here are a couple of pictures from Monday. Katerina is doing a drill on ice in the first picture. Joshua (in the blue helmet) and Katerina (far left) are listening to the coach in the second picture.

Katerina's Jazz Recital

On Saturday, Katerina had her jazz recital. The class was beginner jazz and they danced to O-Zone's "Mai Ai Hee (Dragostea Din Tei)". On the video, Katerina is the first one entering off the left side of the stage (my left).



If you want to see a larger version, here is the link to YouTube: Katerina's Jazz Recital.

Here are some pictures, too:

Happy Pi Day!

In honour of the symbol "pi" π (3.14159265...), I've made a pie. It is a strawberry-blackberry pie. It's still cooling so we haven't eaten it yet. Soon, though. Yum!

Cake Wreck

Gosh! It's dusty in here! It's been 6 months since my last post. Eek. Well, here it goes.

Cake Wrecks is a blog dedicated to 'interesting' professional cakes. We had our own experience recently. Isabella's 6th birthday was last month. Normally, I order my cakes from Save-On-Foods just down the street from us. I've always had great cakes. Not so this time. The cake we ordered looked like the icing exploded all over it. The manager did give us the cake for half off and the cake did taste good.

Here is what we ordered:




Here is what we received. Notice how "Isabella" is spelled "Isalella" and the "6th" is written as "th6":




Even with the Cake Wreck the party was a success. Here are few pictures from that day:

Joshua Says . . .

At a weekend birthday party:

Joshua - "Can you make me another sandwich, please? I'm still hungry."

Me - "Are you sure? Cake is going to be served soon."

Joshua - "Yep. A hockey player's gotta eat, you know."

Back to school

Today is the day! Joshua and Katerina start Grade 3 and Isabella is starting Grade 1. She's a big kid now!

Summer ballet wrap-up

The girls had their summer recital and it was a blast! Isabella was in girly glory because her costume had a tutu.



Katerina had two performances, jazz and ballet. This was her first time taking a jazz class and she loved it. I only have a picture of her jazz costume, though.




She liked jazz so much she wanted to take a jazz class. Unfortunately, her school only offers the classes on the weekends, which conflict with hockey. However, I was able to find some classes that fit in our schedule at another school. She will be taking a jazz class (no performance) and a lyrical class (performance).

With the addition of these classes, she will be dancing almost 3 hours per week. Plus, Isabella and Katerina had auditioned and been accepted to dance in the Edmonton Festival Ballet company. They put on a Christmas show every year for the public. The production is "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and they will rehearse 1 hour per week from the middle of September to the end of November. The show will run December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. So, for a couple of months, Katerina will be dancing 4 hours per week. She really wants to do this, though.

All three kids are in their final week of day camp at the YMCA, this week. They are having an enormous amount of fun this summer and that's what makes it all worth it. The next two weeks, the twins will have hockey skills camp, 1.5 hours per day, but the rest of the time they will have a bit of down time before school starts (September 2).