Thanksgiving.....2008 *shrug*

I am now officially a year behind! Perhaps my New Year's Resolution next month will be to blog more (of course, at the rate I'm going, I won't make resolutions until sometime in September). Anyways, please sit back and enjoy Ali's trip home for Thanksgiving.....from last year :)

Brooks Penguin and I started celebrating Christmas and the winter season a little early -- enjoy!!

On the way to Virginia...

Brooks Penguin and my sister had to stop and get in a game of checkers...

Brooks took awhile to decide on his next move...

Santa!!!

Brooks really wanted to take a little bite out of this HUGE gingerbread house, but we held him back. haha.

With a deer in the winter woodlands. :)

Brooks, Santa, and I all posed for a picture together. :)

Wooden Soldier & Brooks... excellent.

Brooks and a HUGE Christmas tree -- you can't really see him, but he's on top of the gifts under the tree...

Looking up at the tree... see how freakin' huge it is??? Wow.

It was skate time!!!

Checking out the rink before it was time to go out and skate...

It was time to get up close and personal with the ice... haha... Brooks probably should have been giving ME lessons...

Skating = so much fun!

Well -- I guess the final countdown to Christmas is right upon us... haha... I hope you have a great December!!

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Sidney Penguin and I ate waaaaaaaay too much and we took in a Stars game over the weekend (don't tell anyone, but S.P. does love the Stars).

Until next time....keep on Roamin'!

Roamers Go To Camp!

Pens training camp started last weekend and the Big Pens weren't the only ones in the house!

Lexie and her mom got up early and were first in line to get into the Mellon. That wake-up call reaped great benefits:

Brooksie waiting for the boys to arrive

Kris makes sure all the water bottles are ready

Max is finally seeing a little movement on the ice!

Let training camp begin!!

"Ok, boys, we need to see a little more hustle out there..."

Lexie and little Tanger

Little Tang and Big Tang

Kris is waiting his turn to hit the ice...

Lexie, Kris Penguin and some dude :)

Another autographed Roamer :)

Thanks so much to Lexie (and her mom, Tiffany) for these great photos! Seeing Roamers in the hands of the players is absolutely unreal to me. This is Kris Letang's second Roamer encounter (first one was back in February), so, according to Lexie, "he already knew about them" :) Ummmm. Wow. I'm all vklempt just thinking about it!!

Less than two weeks til the season starts.....GO PENS!!!!