Tuesday 1 December 2015

365 - December 2015

"It's beginning to look a lot like... a green Christmas."

Things to look forward to this month:
Getting enrolled as a Girl Guide leader
Spending holiday time with family & friends
More birthday's - best friend, uncle & cousin
The return of Operation Red Nose
My BIRTHDAY!!!
Seeing the new Star Wars movie on my birthday
Looking through a years worth of pictures to come up with a "photos of the year" list
Christmas cookies and carols, along with the New Years countdown and fireworks

December 01, 2015 - The 1st Collins Bay Girl Guides unit (missing two girls)
*EXTRA* December 01, 2015 - The 1st Collins Bay Girl Guides unit - how they really are
December 02, 2015 - Mom has started her Christmas baking
*EXTRA* December 02, 2015 - Bella checking out the toy that came with my photojojo purchase
December 03, 2015 - Mark Madeley stands by the counter in his new store, Competitive Edge Sports, on Thursday December 3, 2015. Madeley sells sports memorabilia like; jerseys, signed photos and replica rings at the Kingston Ont. store that opened its doors on November 14
*EXTRA* December 03, 2015 - Mark Madeley stands by the counter in his new store, Competitive Edge Sports, on Thursday December 3, 2015. Madeley sells sports memorabilia like; jerseys, signed photos and replica rings at the Kingston Ont. store
December 04, 2015 - Jack J Collins, 2015 Premiers Award winner, speaks to 100 civil engineering technology students at St. Lawrence College Kingston Campus on Friday December 4, 2015, about his career in building transit systems and the on-going mega project of the tunnelling under Toronto’s Eglinton Avenue for the Light Rail Transit expansion.
December 05, 2015 - office party at the Blu Martini
*EXTRA* December 05, 2015 - Strawberry daiquiri with Bailey's and candy cane topping
December 06, 2015 - Making up a batch of Christmas squares
*EXTRA* December 06, 2015 - One of my favourite holiday treats
*EXTRA* December 06, 2015 - One of my favourite holiday treats - Christmas squares
December 07, 2015 - Jackie Mills, left, and Lisa Cassidy, seen here with the menorah in the Beth Israel Synagogue in Kingston, Ont. on Monday December 7, 2015, are looking forward to seeing the community participate in the Kingston Jewish Council's annual Light Up the Night Hanukkah celebration on Wednesday, December 9
December 08, 2015 - Someone is investigating the recently put up tree
*EXTRA* December 08, 2015 - Someone has found her spot under the recently put up tree
December 09, 2015 - City hall is reflected in the puddles pooling on the skating rink, which is closed due, to the sunny December weather reaching a high of 8oC in Kingston, Ont.
*EXTRA* December 09, 2015 - Kingston Police and Kingston Fire and Rescue arrived on scene of a three car accident at the intersection of Centennial Drive and Princess Street, in Kingston's west-end, during the evening rush hour on Wednesday.
December 10, 2015 - getting ready to start wrapping presents
December 11, 2015 - It's so mild this month that the leaves are still soaking in curtsied puddles
*EXTRA* December 11, 2015 - The Operation Red Nose McKay family team
December 12, 2015 - My Red Nose hat shows the years that our family has been helping people get home safely over the holidays
December 13, 2015 - The munchkin is sniffing at her mother's recently baked holiday treats.
*EXTRA* December 13, 2015 - Helping make some no-sew snowmen gifts
December 14, 2015 - All lit up
December 15, 2015 - Beer is Here, available at local grocery stores.
December 16, 2015 - My little office tree
December 17, 2015 - The students in Jennifer Davis's Grade 5/6 class at Centennial Public School took their Project Impact, about food insecurity, to the next level by exceeding their $1,000 goal by 150% to help purchase food and toys for holiday hampers for eight local families in need. The class spent time on Thursday December 17, 2015 making up the hampers that will be delivered tomorrow.
*EXTRA* December 17, 2015 - The students in Jennifer Davis's Grade 5/6 class at Centennial Public School took their Project Impact, about food insecurity, to the next level by exceeding their $1,000 goal by 150% to help purchase food and toys for holiday hampers for eight local families in need.
December 18, 2015 - my drink came with a cute "ugly" sweater
*EXTRA* December 18, 2015 - Birthday present to myself
December 19, 2015 - Bella thinks she's helping me sort the laundry - she's really not
December 20, 2015 - Second viewing - different theatre - this time with my dad
December 21, 2015 - More than 140 volunteers help pack more than 2,000 Christmas hampers in record time for the Salvation Army Christmas hamper fund at the Portsmouth Olympic Harbour
December 22, 2015 - A random Christmas tree ornament is seen stuck in the mud in McBurney Park by the puddle covered basketball court due to daily temperatures in the mid to high single digits
*EXTRA* December 22, 2015 - The boards may be up in McBurney Park but with daily temperatures in the mid to high single digits the ice doesn't stick around at the community skating rink in Kingston, Ont.
December 23, 2015 - Volunteers finish decorating the St. Mary's Cathedral parish hall on Wednesday December 23, 2015 in preparation for the annual Christmas Day Dinner in Kingston, Ont.
December 24, 2015 - A walk through Lemoine Point on Christmas Eve, it's become almost a tradition
*EXTRA* December 24, 2015 - The first time I've ever fed a chickadee from my ungloved hand.  Kinda spooky and no one was injured in the process.
December 25, 2015 - A Neville / McKay Christmas family picture in Almonte (absent Mel & Sarah)
December 26, 2015 - It's very nice to have a professional baker in the family - homemade caramel eclairs
*EXTRA* December 26, 2015 - Boxing day dinner table
*EXTRA* December 26, 2015 - frost glittering in the sunlight
December 27, 2015 - Bella sniffing her new Mysterious Purr Padd Christmas gift and boy does she like it
December 28, 2015 - Jesse LeJeune, age 8, gets autographs from Kingston Frontenacs Ryan Cranford and Sam Field, who he says he's been a fan of for as long as he's known of them,  during the Kingston Causeway Classic hockey tournament at the Constantine Arena
*EXTRA* December 28, 2015 - New McKay family portrait (minus 3 cats and a ferret)
December 29, 2015 - Stepsisters Emma Hitchen and Chloe Burns, both eight-years old, look through the handle of a snow shovel while playing in the white stuff that fell overnight in Kingston
*EXTRA* December 29, 2015 - Ottawa 67's goaltender Leo Lazarev blocks a shot as players scramble in front of the 67's net during the first period of Ontario Hockey League action at the Rogers K-Rock Centre
December 30, 2015 - The family around the dinner table
December 31, 2015 - New Years Eve spent at Camp Carruthers with some awesome guiders doing cool crafts
*EXTRA* December 31, 2015 - New Years Eve spent at Camp Carruthers with some awesome guiders doing cool crafts
to be continued in 365 - January 2016

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