A month in review...

Wow...I'm sorry guys...I haven't updated my blog in a month...yipes. We have been busy though...I have excuses lol....

This last month we had Dave and Char's wedding...Mucho fun! I don't have any pics though due to the fact that both Ike and I were a part of the wedding party....although I do have some of us girls getting ready...

Then we celebrated mine and my mother's birthdays at Pastry Castle....Very GOOD freshly made desserts!!!! In fact we ordered one piece of each of the 8 or 9 cakes that he had in the display case...lol....and they were ALL good!

Then we celebrated Canadian thanksgiving with a small family dinner and some gametime! (jr. trivial pursuit...we were actually able to answer the questions...lol).

And Then (can you hear that chinese lady from "Dude Where's My Car?" And then, and then, and then...lol) Ike and I celebrated our anniversary this last weekend. He took me to a beautiful bed and breakfast in Winnipeg (sorry I forgot my camera)...it was in one of those massive houses along the river just east of the Maryland Bridge. Beautiful character home complete with creaky hardwood and expensive crown moulding everywhere! We had dinner at Fude on Osborne (Delish), followed by a cheap theatre movie (All About Steve...hilarious), then we played some pool and pinball machine back at the bed and breakfast. The next morning the owner made us fresh fruit cups, banana pancakes, and sausages. Very nice and relaxing! The next day we went shopping and I am nearly done my Christmas shopping (gasp...yep I said it....and I'm almost done!).

Yesterday baby Charlie was born....8lbs 11oz and 19" long (with chubby cheeks according to my mom)....We haven't had a chance to go visit yet.

In between all of this we had to have our windshield replaced due to a boulder being thrown from a semi's tail wind....The thud was sooo loud we both jumped and thought it would come right through the window....The claim was FAST and easy though and the repair shop had it replaced within a couple of days...Good thing cause with the temperature changing those cracks get bigger pretty quickly. What great service....came and picked up and dropped off the van for us too!

Ooooh...I also recently discovered that we have a famous cousin! So I was watching CTV a few nights ago and a commercial came on for St. Boniface Hospital. I noticed a scene where there was a baby in one of those incubator things....and as they panned out you could see a nurse sitting there with her hands in the incubator....Erin?! Sure enough, Lynda confirmed what I saw...Erin is in a commercial for the hospital...crazy eh.

WARNING--GRAPHIC PICTURES NOT INTENDED FOR CHILDREN...OR PRUDES

On Saturday I (with Laura's help) threw a bachelorette party for Charlene...It was nothing extravagant, as a pregnant woman wouldn't really enjoy bar hopping or ugly male strippers, but I made sure that it was fun! Much like my own party none of Char's friends showed up...and for some reason some of the girls from the bridal party didn't show up either. Ah well it ended up being Laura & I, Char's mom and her sister Tanis, oh and her niece Chantel (who was thoroughly embarrassed by talk of penises and making whoopie). We made pizzas and nachos for supper...and I had a special dessert for the girls (pictured below are the cookies). I also planned some hilarious games which worked out all right despite the lack of guests. One of the games involved drawing a piece of paper from the scenario pile and reading it aloud (ex: When Dave & Char made whoopie in the coat closet at a party...Char's comment was...), then they draw a piece of paper from the slogan pile and read it aloud (ex: Nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven), then their team must guess where the slogan is from (Pillsbury)....Makes some famous slogans really dirty! We all had a good laugh! After the games we got comfy on the couches and watched "Bride Wars"(I love that movie). Of course while we were doing all of this the Boys were out for Dave's party...The original plan was for them to go paintballing but the old men (Dad, Char's Dad, and Uncle Brian) figured that they couldn't handle that...so they went go-karting instead...Afterwards they headed to where else but Hooters! Dave came home with a pair of boobs and a shirt signed by the Hooters Girls (how special is that!?LOL). They were home by 10pm and the drunken men scarffed down the rest of the snacks and harrassed us until we all gave in to our sleepiness.

Newly Acquired Stuff

So it seems that I've been on a shopping spree lately...Here are some of my goods...

We bought these last month and I love love love my front load...It's kind of ridiculous how excited I was to do laundry for the first time...we sat in front of the dumb thing for an hour watching the laundry go round and round and round. At least for now I somewhat enjoy doing laundry and I no longer need to run up and down the stairs to re-start the cycle on the machine because it stalled.

This beauty I ordered on e-bay or should I say I won the bid! It's an "antique" Italian cappuccino machine! Mine went capootskies...spews hot water out of places that shouldn't have water coming out of. So I searched everywhere for months, to find an affordable replacement...I finally checked out e-bay and found this marvelous machine which is still in great working order. It works like an old fashioned coffee perk but also has the milk steamer...and is made of chrome! I was soooo happy to receive it that I promptly made myself a cup of cappuccino...mmmm, mmmm...oh and it cost me waaaaaay less than any other machine out there. :)

A few weeks ago I received an e-mail asking me to do a survey (from a recent hotel stay)...they promised me a $15 amazon gift card...so I did the survey...I do love free stuff...I was however a little leary about the gift card as most of the time it ends up being a "ok thanks for doing the survey, now subscribe to one of our sponsors for your free gift" gimick. A couple hours later I received the code for my gift card...it worked with no gimick....but really what can you buy for $15 on Amazon when shipping is a minimum $12....A week later they sent me another survey promising another $10 gift card...sweeeet....so with my $25 I purchased "The best of Sherah"...don't laugh...I LOVED that cartoon when I was little....She was my hero... :)....I am still however awaiting it's arrival.

Garden

My tomatoes are MASSIVE! LOL....I've picked many and there are still a ton on the plants waiting for ripening. My hot pepper plants are also doing marvelous...we like to roast the Anaheim peppers (large meaty medium heat) and put them on our burgers. I think that my onions got in a bit late as they are still quite small but I needed some of them for my salsa which worked just fine! Green peppers (Jacks' favorite ;) are also a bit slow but showing great potential...also used a few of the smaller ones for my salsa.

INFATUATION: Canning...Once a year or once every other year I get the urge to can everything! This last weekend I made delicious salsa using fresh ingredients from my very own garden....Seeing as I had soooo many tomatoes I also decided to make spaghetti sauce.

Char's Shower

On saturday we had a great bridal shower for Char. The turnout was good and she got a lot of cool stuff! Auntie Barb had a game for Char to play and somehow I ended up with 4 pieces of bubble gum in my mouth...lol (Char had 14 in hers--don't really know how she fit them all in there). All in all it was a nice relaxing evening!

Even Laura enjoyed herself :)

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Wowee folks, do I have a good one for you!!! Try to follow along, sorry if it gets complicate with the so and so's friend stuff but this is a hilarious story I heard today!
Sometime last week (when I wasn't at work), two ladies came in for lunch. One is a regular and a friend of Cindy's sister (Cindy is my boss/friend) her name is Jackie, and the other lady was Jackie's friend from Plum Coulee. These ladies were having a disagreement of some sort and asked Cindy if she could help them end it. Apparently the disagreement was....that Jackie's friend was convinced that Ike and I owned the restaurant....and a second house in Plum Coulee....and that we're filthy rich...and that Kerry and Cindy work for US. LMAO....Her neighbour in Plum Coulee told her this juicy bit of gossip and claimed that we told her this to her face. Oh my lanta!
First of all, NO I never want to own a restaurant and have stated this to several people several times....Second of all, I don't know anyone in Plum Coulee why would I talk to any of them.....Yes we are fixing up my in-laws rental property so they can put it up for sale but it is not my house....And NO we are by far not rich...comfortable yes...but not rich....LOL Aren't you just so jealous that you don't live in a small community!?!

Dress

I brought home my dress for the wedding a couple of weeks ago and just recently took pictures for you to see....I was able to choose a different dress than the other girls because I'm the maid of honor and I had to order in June and didn't know if I'd be pregnant or not. So I chose this gorgeous dress! Now I need help choosing shoes....Which ones do you think? (if any).