Halloween and the Freezing Cold

 I feel bad for the kids in Canada when it's Halloween. Yes, they do dress up. Yes, they do go trick or treating and get lots of candy. However, they must do all of this in the freezing cold and snow. Mark told me that he was always hopeful that it wouldn't be like that one year, but pretty much every year it was and this year was just the same.

Rocky and Crew came over to get bigger candies from Grandma's house. For some reason Crew took off some of his ninja costume, but I got Rocky in his spiderman. He's actually more puffy than normal in it because they put him in warm clothes underneath his costume. Most kids that came to out door had on winter coats and snow boots over their costumes.

 (On the right, Rocky is "webbing" and he totally did this pose and the serious face...he's not just dressed up as spiderman...he IS spiderman!)

 Doxy was a skeleton for Halloween.

 Then we decided to make Blue try on Doxy's costume.

This past week on Thursday, I think, it started snowing again...A LOT...again! It never stopped snowing that whole day. Then it snowed some more the next day. This time I actually took some pictures of all the beauty...well, except for the bottom right photo of our car's CA license plate...that just ain't right!!

Calgary Temple Celebration

A couple weeks back Mark and I got to help in the Calgary Temple Celebration. I'd been going to practices every Wednesday night and a couple Saturdays, too, for about two months previous to the performance. I was working with some of the youth (boys and girls ages 12 to about 18). Mark worked with six youth from our stake who were our hockey team (the green team) and they played six youth from another stake (the yellow team). 

It was performed at the Stampede Corral where they have lots of different events, but it's most famous for the Calgary Stampede which is the largest rodeo in North America.

In all, there were over 1,000 youth (1300-1400ish? I can't remember the exact number) that were performing. Somehow it all came together after all that hard work! Those youth are so amazing! It was such a great experience to work with them and see them perform and hear them sing.

Mark's younger sisters, Tanessa and Mercedez got to perform in it. The scenes that they were in and I was helping with were the Calgary Stampede, the line dancing, and the hockey game.

You can watch the whole thing here if you want, but it's okay if you skip around too.

39:48-Calgary Stampede scene

48:02-line dance scene

1:20:05-hockey scene

30:46-one of my fave scenes, the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounty Police)