Happy Birthday to Me?(!)

Well hello there. It's my birthday. SURPRISE!

It's been a little bit because... well basically because I didn't feel like blogging/didn't have the time. :D

So this past weekend was a fun one :) It all began Friday night with sushi at Kinjo with Holly and Tyler (Scott's cousin and his cousin's wife - I've mentioned them before but I'm too lazy to go find where). And it was delish! I love Kinjo now :D (But I always get the same things...and I likely always will). Afterwards we headed over to Starbucks and Chapters for a hot beverage and a wander and to chat. Then it was back to our place for a bit for even more chatting. :D
Thanks Holly and Tyler, we'll have to do it again soon!
(Sorry you couldn't come up Nani...next time!)

Saturday was a nice relaxing day in the morning... and then in the evening it was my birthday fiesta! Benifred and Francesca came and we made tacos and commenced the beginning of the murder mystery Francesca had created. Basically, we were all different characters and we had to find who had murdered Senor Sanchez! Francesca gave us each clues that we were able to use to question each other.
It was really fun - thank you!

And we got a kitty cake :D

And Sunday was the Calgary Temple dedication. Which was also good...though our broadcast cut off part of the way through...

Last night, was dinner with Scott's family. Thanks everyone! Nice to see you all again :)!

Which brings us to my actual birthday today! The double deuce. Nothing too exciting...but it's nice to hear from everyone. Thanks for all the birthday greetings ;)

So here's 22 things...
A) you may not know about me
B) are on my mind
C) are birthday related.
So here goes!

1. I actually haven't had many birthday parties that weren't family related. When I was 18, I had a little gathering of friends and when I was 21...I had another. But when I was young, I don't even remember!
2. I don't really remember my birthday's when I was younger at all. Am I senile? Can you remember yours??
3. I really like ice cream cake. We still have a quarter of the DQ ice cream cake seen above :3
4. I never thought I'd be married before I was 22...not at all!
5. I have so many scratches on my hands from George, but I still love him.
6. I'm hungry. You should NOT be allowed to be hungry on your birthday dang it!
7. You should actually probably not have to work or do anything on your birthday at all.
8. I find it crazy that I've been living in Calgary for 2 years now. It seems like it's been much longer.
9. I also find it crazy how much my life has changed in the past 2 years! Especially the last year.
10. I miss the 2 sisters that used to live in Calgary... that was always fun.
11. I still get up early to work out even though I don't have to...I just prefer to get it done.
12. Yes I even worked out today.
13. Lambie asked me if I've seen results. Answer: No, because I still eat what I want most of the time.
14. I still don't know what to do with my life :<
15. I no longer have any living grandparents.
16. I still love spending time with family and friends.
17. I bet no one's still reading this list ;)
18. I really love Turtle Pecan Cluster blizzards. I bring this up not because I think about ice cream all the time (I do), but because I just got an email for buy one get one free blizzards from DQ :D
19. The last clothing related purchase I made was a Tower of Terror t-shirt from Disneyland and I haven't even worn it...
20. Other than that, I don't remember the last time I bought clothes. It's likely time to change that.
21. At least I can still fit into all the same clothes I guess? Or is that a bad thing?
22. I'm getting old. You can see when I smile how wrinkly I'm going to be (around my eyelets)! You chose this Scott!

So celebrate for me, and for goodness sakes...have some dang ice cream.

Toodles for meow :)!

Devonian Gardens

Well, it's still snowy and cold. But I haven't seen as many shopping carts out and about.
Today was a little slippery out on the roads...good thing I left early so I could drive nice and slow.
I don't know about you, but when it snows (even a little bit), I just want to cuddle up and never leave the house (or my sweat pants).

So my weekend went pretty alright. I had to work Saturday, so that's never all that fun. 1 full day of weekend just isn't enough for my likings.
After work, Scott and I quickly went to pick up a few groceries and head home because Francesca and Benifred were on their way!
We got home just as they got there - perfect timing :)

Francesca told us that the Devonian Gardens had just recently reopened since being renovated...so that's where we went! Here's a few pictures...

Koi fish...they creep me right out. They're so big, and I'm pretty sure they wanted to eat us. Seriously...

Snazy. If only I couldn't see the koi fish over there!

Bubble trees! Made us think about bubble tea ;)

There were some nice views of downtown.

And here's the whole group :D

So that was a fun time :D There was even a little park to play on...though it was difficult (for us anyways). The kids were a little better... :P

Then we were all hungry...so to Peter's we went! (Sorry Benifred, for all our backseat driving...and sorry Francesca, hopefully you can get a Donair soon) ;) Milkshakes, fries and burgers...delish! Though I just had a milkshake, some fries and cereal when we got back to our place :D Then we hung out at our place for a bit and played The Game of Life. Either Benifred or myself won - let's just go with me ;)
Good times guys!
This weekend, we're having a birthday celebration for me! Hooray!

So even though he missed his regular shower day, George still got showered on Sunday. He still didn't like it so much...but he wasn't as bad as last week. And we had a nice fluffy, clean George again :D Scott had the day off because it was too wet out...so we were both able to go to church and then have a nice relaxing evening in :)
Though I wasn't able to have a good sleep last night sadly...I kept tossing and turning which is never fun.
Hopefully tonight is better. 

This morning, still got up early to workout and then consider hibernating. But going to work won out...this time...

Ta ta for meow :)!

PS. What did you get up to this weekend? Any excitement??

PPS. A little trivia for you (because Scott did this to us) - Do any of you know WHY the Devonian Gardens are thus named? Hmmm??

Long Weekends are nice...

Don't you agree??

This past weekend has been decently filled with things...but not TOO busy.

Saturday and Sunday was General Conference of course, which is a bi-annual conference that happens in my church where we get to hear from the leaders of the church. You can read the recaps here if you wish.
The sessions I caught were good. ;)

Saturday evening, Scott and I were trying to be productive and pick pictures for our wedding album and also start working to get out our Thank You cards, but well...sometimes things just don't go according to plan. It was a frustrating evening.

Sunday, out to Strathmore for the Thanksgiving feast! Thanks so much guys...it was SO DELISH! It was nice to see the family and eat delicious food. My sister even had made these cute little 'turkey's' out of treats.

Use your imagination...it's cute!

George also got lots of attention from the nieces and nephew.

But can you blame them?? He's getting big, but he's still cute! (Though he doesn't always love all that crazy attention...haha).

And then Monday... Benifred and Francesca joined Scott and I on an adventure to the dinosaur town - Drumheller!

If you didn't know, Drumheller is the home of the Royal Tyrell Museum, and is a completely dinosaur themed town as a result. The picture above is of the main grocery store - IGA. Scott was excited to show us all ;)

Here's a few more pictures...

Tree hugging dino :D

Francesca in front of the snazy bubbles.

The badlands of Drumheller.

The giant T-rex in the town.

It was a good time! 

After that, it was drive back home and find some food! We eventually decided upon a nice Thanksgiving (late) lunch at Boogies Burgers and it was delish! Then it was hanging out for a bit at our place before they had to head to their second family Thanksgiving dinner (their first was on Sunday as well). 
Thanks for the fun time Benifred and Francesca...we'll have to do it again sometime soon ;)

This morning Scott and I were up early because it was back to work for Scott (and I worked out as he got ready). It was nice to be able to spend the long weekend with him...but I miss him already!

How was your long weekend? What did you get up to?

Toodles for meow :)!

Any day now.

It'll snow. ANY DAY! ...it's a frightening thought. Although we've been having some beautiful transitionary (yes...totally a word) weather as it's been turning from summer to fall. The leaves have all mostly changed color and are beginning to fall EVERYWHERE. But it's made for some nice, sunny fall days.

As for today, we've got some rain. And jeez...it's been a long time! A good long time ;)

My update for lately... well...still working out? haha. Still eating food. Still sleeping and breathing and such.  I don't know! If you want to know something, then you ask me ;l.
What've you been up to?

This past weekend. Scott and I hung out a bit with the Benifred and Francesca and then we did absolutely nothing productive (wow, we kind of fail). But it was a nice weekend :D

So Saturday, we went out to Kinjo for sushi with B and F and it was delish! Of course I only eat a few, not really sushi-ish type things...but it was fun. The last thing B, F and Scott ordered was this crazy looking Dragon roll.

You see what I'm saying? Scary.

What we got afterwards however, was not so scary... ;)

We choose you DQ Pikachu! Choose to eat you that is :D And you were delicious, thank you.

And then we played some Super Smash Bros until I got tired at 9:30. Haha. Yes, I am that lame.
I've become so so old. But at least I get delightfulsome sleep ;).
I just don't enjoy staying up late anymore.

How was your weekend??

Of course my weekend was also delightfully George filled (as it should be). And now your day can be George filled as well :D

Pretty soon he'll be too big for his favorite hiding spot...

He thinks he's so sneaky...

Mid whine...(oh wait, that's all the time)

Happy Tuesday for meow :)!

PS. Here's what I was talking about last year around this time in regards to fall.
BYE!

Hell-o

Update! Alright, things have been a liiiiittttle busy lately. But it's a little more calm right now, just a little. 

SO, besides getting a terrible cold sore (not as bad as my first one...but really ANY coldsore is bad...), moving out to Strathmore (which is going alright, by the way), this past weekend...Benifred and Francesca got married! Ah crazy...but ah yay! It was fun :)

Scott and I also managed to go see MIB3. It was really good! Now I want to watch the old ones again... but I would highly recommend it if you're at all interested ;)

So yes, Strathmore, things are pretty relaxed there...the only unfortunate thing is all the driving. But tis alright, I can take it!

Still trying to work things out wedding wise, and find a place before July 1st (and ideally before Scott goes back to work) D:

But other than that, all is reasonably well!

Anything else you wish to know?

What's going on out there?

Hope all is well!

PHOTO BOMB ;)

Bye bye for meow :)!

Jeez.

It's actually difficult to get on here after being gone for a bit. Where do you start back up? Do people even want me to post?

I guess what it all comes down to is...I don't care :D It's my bloggy and I'll do what I want to!

Alright, so I went up to Lethbridge and there were a few things I wanted to share from there. One I'll share in it's own post (for ease of putting up pictures). SO! (Oh my stomach just gurgled...breaky time! I brought a yogurt and berry bowl - delish~!). Back to Lethbridge. I was down there for a few days. Visited some family, got wedding invitations out (thank goodness), and got some help from my aunt on my wedding dress (oh and ran a few errands).

Anyways, I've needed to go down there for a bit...so it was nice to get that taken care of. Though I, unfortunately, didn't get to see W this time around as she was busy with work. Next time!

Other than that...still getting wedding planning done (PS. that's happening in like a month and a half hey *.*). And still looking for apartments! We decided (I think?) that it may be a little too difficult, time wise, to buy a house this year. So I've been searching and setting up appointments and seeing a lot of rental properties. Needlesstosay, we've basically run out of time for finding something (decent) for the beginning of June and are more looking for the beginning of July.

Problem with that? Well... my lease is up in the next couple days here at my present apartment. So measures needed to be taken; 80% of my stuff is now in a storage locker (waiting patiently to be moved into a home). The rest of my stuff (food) will need to go to someones home. Other than that, it's basically just my mattress and clothing which I will be taking out to Strathmore for a month to live with my sister and her family!

So I'm Strathmore bound tomorrow night! The rest of my time has been taken up, for the most part, by cleaning the apartment for moving out. It looks so empty and clean. I'll miss it in some ways.

The last thing I'm going to say about myself...I did one of the 'Insanity' workouts (by Beachbody) this morning. Have you done them? There's no other way of putting it...they're INSANE. I did the 'Plyometric Cardio Circuit', and I was dying....sweating, panting, collapsing, dying. Dying. It was difficult. But I was so proud of myself in the end :D Go me!

Other things worthy of mention, wouldn't be in regards to me...

1. Scott is coming home tonight! He's been gone for 2 weeks and goodness it'll be good to see him again...

2. Francesca and Benifred get married this Friday... AH! That's also INSANE. But exciting :) Congratulations.

So the summary of this post? Things are going pretty alright...they're moving forward and life is still good.

Hope all is well with you :)

Anything new? What did I miss?

Toodles for meow :)!

(now to my yogurt and berries...)

It's a beautiful day...

...the sun is shining! The tank is clean! (moooovviiie...you know it??)

Annnndddd it's FRIDAY :D!

 

I loves me some Friday (well mainly weekend...)

 

I also just love looking at the sun from in the office... (not!)

ESCAPE!

Sooooo what could I talk about...OH! Francesca is back from school in BC and have I mentioned she's engaged? I don't know... well, she's engaged! And I don't know if I've introduced her fiance as a character in my story yet, but he's been around for a while and he's awesome. Definitely worthy of all of our companionship ;) For lack of creativity (and hopefully he doesn't mind), I shall just refer to him as Benifred. 

SO, the past couple Wednesday's, Scott and I have gotten ourselves back into cheap swimming for the last hour (except now it's $3 as opposed to $2 *tear*). And I have missed it! This past Wednesday, Francesca, Benifred, Scott and myself all went and it was a lot of fun. Nice to have you back Francesca ;)

One thing I noticed while swimming, Francesca kept on her engagement ring whereas I, took it off. What do you do? Do you keep it on all the time? Sleep and everything? Or are there certain things you take it off for? I'm just curious!

I'll keep mine on for showering and washing dishes...I take it off for swimming because I'm afraid it'll slide right off and sink to the deepest depths of no return. I don't work out nor sleep in mine because I get all hot and bothered with puffy fingers.

And you??

Any jewelry you keep on all the time? 

I keep my white gold chain (that I got from W a couple years back) on ALL the time. I also never take my toe ring off. 

Moving on.

So yesterday I went to get groceries (because Francesca and Benifred are joining Scott and I for dinner tonight), and since I was at the mall...I HAD to make a quick stop at Petland. 

Kitty!!

She's so cute...

  

And on my way out, I spotted something furry...

What is it?

 

One of the most hideous creatures I've ever seen.

(But it's also a bunny...an extremely hairy and demon filled bunny...)

This rabbit, will forever haunt my dreams...

Or do you think it's the sweetest thing ever?

Well you're insane.

Have a good weekend! 

Toodles for meow :)!

Over and out.