Happy Birthday Uncle Dave !

 For Uncle Dave's birthday, the Grinch himself came to sing!

Kelden made the big cookie himself. Happy Birthday Uncle Dave !!

Happy Birthday Jordan!

 Kelden wanted to renew with our tradition to make cakes for everyone's birthday. So today, we celebrated Jordan's 17th birthday. 

The kids said we should decorate it with a Red Cross as Jordie's First Aid experience is something they really liked and learnt from. 

Happy Birthday !

Exam Week

 Last week was the first exam week for Kelden and Julia as they had been cancelled during the pandemic. They studied pretty hard. Kelden usually goes downstairs at his desk and Julia in her bedroom, but once, I caught them in the kitchen.

It went OK. Not great. Kelden got stuck by a science question and Julia's French teacher gave them different question numbers than was on their review papers and so she got very confused. Last week was also walking week for Zack and Ryan as their schoolbus was cancelled (and Keld was away for work). Since exams are only a few hours in the morning, Kelden or Julia and the dog would come get us (I'm working in a kindergarten class this month.)

Fortunately, it was a short week as Friday was a pdday (teachers get to mark those exams and write the report cards) so we got to relax. 

We are ready for the next semester! 

First Annual Dame Tartine Competition

I started this blog in 2011 and in December of that year I explained how I have been combining the Saint-Nicolas, the ginger bread and the Dame Tartine traditions into the making of a culinary creation during the month of December. I haven't posted last year's yet because we made it a competition with my sisters and one of them was so late she forfeited...

For this first year of the competition, we decided to keep the original theme of a house (like seen above.) The only other rule was that everything was to be edible. Carole made hers first as she wanted it for her ward Christmas party. Unfortunately, her house collapsed but she combined it with the Christmas log she was also making for the party and it turned out ok!

Stéphanie built a cute Alsatian house. She definitely wins the most points for following the tradition. Her house resembles the most the original Dame Tartine! 

I did try to make a canopy/awning for the wood in our house too but I couldn't find anything light enough..I now have ideas..Anyway, for ours, we built Keld's dream home: a cottage with a red roof.

It was pretty good!

Happy Birthday Evan !

 I didn't go to Evan's birthday as I wasn't feeling good (althoug I did get some cake - thank you Special!) so here's all the pictures and video they took for me.

Happy 10th birthday Evan !

King's Day

 Last week-end was the epiphany. Knowing we would be gone, we celebrated earlier!

 It was good :) 

First Temple Trip

 We had our first temple trip of the year this past week-end. It was also Zack and Bruce's first time performing baptisms for the dead. Zack was finally able to get past the bathrooms!!

Zack was ordained last Sunday!

He is proud to be part of the Young Men organization now!