Edmonton Oilers

There are certain perks to working in an oil field office...you get free tickets to NHL games! And not just any tickets I got sky box seats to last night's game against Phoenix! Even though we were so high up, the view was amazing!
Rachel, I know how much you're missing hockey so I thought I'd bring the Oilers to you...
Here are some pictures of the game.

Now let me tell you about what it's like to have a sky box. We had our own entrance with an elevator taking us right to the sky box. When we opened the door, there was an all you can eat buffet and our own waitress to bring us non stop drinks! (don’t worry mine were all juice and pop) After grabbing a plate of yummy food, we then sat in our seats overlooking the whole arena. It was an amazing view! In between the 2nd and 3rd period a group of us went exploring and we found out that we could go downstairs right by the dressing room. It was crazy! I felt like a little kid at Christmas time. I was taking pictures like crazy. Here is one of Staios and Lupul to prove that I was actually there!

And to top it all off, the Oiler's won the game! The final score was 5-2 as you can see from the scoreboard!

It was so much fun. We didn't get in till 1:00 in the morning but it was all worth it! I wish I could have taken Josh with me, but it was only for the employees of our company. I'm sure he'll have a chance to see them sometime this year. I have other pictures, but the computer is being silly. I'll try and post them later. Go Oilers Go!

Our First Snow Fall

Josh and I woke up this morning to white street, and icy roads. I'm surprised that we haven't had snow yet, since we live in Northern Alberta. I'm sure it won't stay for long because we didn't get too much...we I'm at least hoping it won't stay. I remember when I was younger, and I would be so excited to wake up to a fresh snow fall but now that I have to drive in it, it's not as fun. There definitely is beauty to everything being white. So I guess I don't hate snow too much :)
Josh and I are heading to Edmonton for the weekend to see my youth group from Vernon and visit with my mom. I'm really excited to see everyone again. Here's some pictures of our small little town covered with it's first snow fall.

These were taken outside of our apartment before going to work and outside my office window.

Thanksgiving

Josh and I had a great Thanksgiving weekend in Alberta. Josh's brother Jared and his cousin Amanda and her boyfriend came up for the weekend from PRBI. We had a lot of laughs playing games and visiting till the wee hours of the morning. It was great to spend a weekend with family and friends. God is so so good!

Josh's little cousins also came to visit on Saturday. They are all such cute kids. The oldest two were our flowergirl and ringbearer. These are the younger two, Alex and Sabrina. So cute!

Josh had a lot of fun playing on the trampoline with the boys. We also brought out a big box of lego for the kids...well by kids I mean Josh and Jared who were digging around and building lego houses and cars and having more fun building then the kids were! I'm starting to learn that Phillips boys are all kids at heart. I see this in John, Josh's dad. Almost 50, but he's just like a big kid :)

Here is a picture of Amanda and her boyfriend, Ryan. It was great to visit with him and get to know him a little better. He's a great guy and they are so cute together!

Josh was in charge of making a dessert for Thanksgiving dinner. So this year, along with pumpking pie, we had the pleasure of eating "Death by Chocolate". It was soooo good. You have a layer of chocolate cake, a layer of chocolate pudding, then whip cream and pieces of Score bar. Repeat each layer and voila, you have a 300 calorie per serving dessert. Not that anybody was counting :)