Scenes from Christmas Eve Day

I'm going to have to make this super quick since we are almost literally on our way out the door for our annual Christmas Eve visit to see our friends Tracey and Andre. I just wanted to post a few pictures from earlier today.

This morning, Lucas and Marilu made cookies together, and this was the uniform apparently.

Later on, they visited a community rink and played some pickup hockey with Lucas's friend Liam and his dad. Try to ignore my finger in the 3rd and 4th picture. It was -25 C, and I was probably too numb to notice where it was.

These aren't from Christmas Eve, but they were taken this week so they're close enough. In the first, you can get an idea of just how much snow we've had so far this year. The second was just Lucas being goofy.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Hockey at Canadian Tire Centre

Lucas's first hockey game was a success. All the kids seemed to have a good time, and his team won, with the winning goal being scored with less than a minute left in the game. The pictures we took pretty much sucked, but thankfully, our friend Tracey (whose boy Thierry is on the opposing team) took a bunch of great shots with her much more expensive camera. Check 'em out below.

Proud parents.

If there's one thing he really needs to work on, it's keeping both hands on the stick.

Victory for the Zombie Minions!

Cheering at the Sens Game

Thanks to our friend Tracey, we have plenty of good pictures of Lucas's hockey game yesterday afternoon. Before that though, I wanted to share something from the Senators game we went to last night. Some older boys in front of Lucas took off their shirts while cheering for the Sens, and it only took a few minutes before our little hockey fan followed suit.

First Hockey Game!

Lucas is playing his very first hockey game this afternoon! He'll be playing at the Canadian Tire Centre, home of the NHL's Ottawa Senators. Hopefully, we'll have some good pictures to share later.

Parc Omega

These pictures are from another excursion we made this summer. Marilu and Lucas were flying out of Montreal to go to Newfoundland back in August, and on the way, we decided to stop at Parc Omega, a drive-through animal park in Quebec. It's similar to Lion Country Safari (for those of you familiar with that), but for obvious reasons, the types of animals are more suited for the cold. Otherwise, all the lions and antelope would die during the first Canadian winter.

The pictures speak for themselves so I'll keep the commentary to a minimum.

It was a nice day so there were quite a few visitors. Fortunately, we didn't have too many traffic jams like the one below.

"Well, hello there!"

There was a parking area that had a few trails connected to it. Lucas made a friend during our walk.

At the end of the trail, there was a surprisingly large activity area, complete with petting zoo.

As you can see in this picture, not all animals were free to roam. A few of them had fences to keep them away from other animals and presumably Darwin award idiots who leave their cars.

See ya later, Bullwinkle!

Canadian War Museum

From a trip to the Canadian War Museum this past summer. These were from the same trip that we got this picture of Psycho Lucas.

FYI, we visited Santa at the mall last night so we have our "official" Christmas pictures. I'm planning to do a year-in-review post over the holidays so I'll probably include a Santa photo in that post.