"MO-vember"

After an 8 week sabattical leave from the blog - I'm back. Much has happened since my last postings. Alexander has been on the ice about 60 times this season so far, Hanna Rose is doing Highland dance every Monday and playing Nepean Girls Hockey a couple of scattered times per week, Calli is still doing Canskate every Thursday, Cathy goes to Greco Lean and Fit a couple of times per week, and I play hockey every Thursday and the odd Sunday morning. Other than that, school / work for all of us.

I signed up to participate in a Prostate Cancer fundraiser for the month of November. November started off as "Govember" (goatee) and ended as Movember (moustache). The fundraiser is in support of a guy I played hockey against for a few years who is currently fighting Prostate Cancer. November is Prostate Cancer awareness month and many of us raised money for research. Here is a picture of Alexander and I while I was sporting the "Go".


After I was done with the go, we introduced the Mo! Yikes. The only one in the family that liked it was Calli. She wanted to touch it one last time before it was eliminated. Today is the last day of Movember and it will become a funny memory after today.

A close-up of the Mo. Contrary to what you might be thinking, no, I did not appear in any feature films of the 1980's....... especially those that had a lot of music with little dialogue!

Several of my male co-workers at St. Joe's also did Mo's. It was fun laughing at each other at school for the month of November and overall was a worthwhile experience.

Hopefully I can hit you back soon with some more updates. That's it for now.

Cheers, Duey.

Hockey and Halloween

2008-2009 Minor Atom River Rats. Here is a pic of the team I am coaching this year. To date, we have played 31 games (including pre-season, league and tournaments). As per a previous posting our website is http://www.hockeysite.biz/riverratsminoratom/. To access our team info you have to sign in (upper right corner). The id is: rats and the password is 1234. Here you can find pictures, our roster - at the bottom of our roster page is a link for player stats, etc. If you want to know how we are doing in the Ottawa league check out this link: http://www.ottawaminorhockey.com/home.php. From here click on Links, then B league, then Minor Atom East. From here you can see standing, schedule, stats, etc.




Here is a picture of Alexander sneeking one in past the goalie. We were playing the Ottawa Sting. Thanks to Keith DeCoste who took this picture.

Scary, scary! Halloween was a big hit as usual. Here is Alexander (on the left) and his friend Kyle.

Little Pumpkin Calli, Alien Troll Alec, and Hanna Rose the witch. Here it is one month later and they are still eating Halloween candy out of their treat bags.

Fall in Ottawa

Hanna Rose, Dad, Alexander and Calli took some time this day to play hockey in the basement. Despite my best efforts, Hanna Rose was stoning me regularly! As you can see, she is the perfect height for this net.



October 23, 2008. Hanna Rose is officially an 8 year old! She had 10 of her friends over for a sleepover. The birthday party had a halloween theme. Lots of fun.

Alexander took part in the Ottawa Catholic Schools cross country run. The run was 2.8km in length and included running on grass, pavement, trails, up and down a couple of hills and then finished on the track you can see in the pic. He participated in the under 10 boys division at the Terry Fox Sports Centre. In total there were 114 runners in his category. Alexander can be seen here finishing in 14th place. He was happy with his placement and looks forward to next year!

Here is a pic of Alexander and his cross country teammates. Antonio, Bryce, Eric, Austin, and Alexander. They were representing St. Mary Catholic School.