Slice of Life - Day 256

Brendan bought my my anniversary gift today... he would have gotten it for me sooner but it just came out. I pre-ordered it at Clipper Street Scrapbooking Company in early August and it was supposed to be released at the end of August but it took longer to ship than expected I guess. It is a die cutting machine put out by Making Memories and is in a limited edition PINK color (for breast cancer). I'm excited to try it out... hopefully it will help motivate me to start scrapping again :)

Slice of Life - Day 255

We saw Dudley at the Dog Park today... he has grown so fast and so much, its crazy. He's only 7 months, already larger than Kalli and still growing. Also included in today's photos is a picture of the salad I made quickly today with some organic veggies that Christina bought us when we went to Eat! Fraser Valley on Friday. It was so yum!

Slice of Life - Day 253

Tonight we had the yummiest Mexican dinner... that I made at home!

We had a mix of soft tacos and hard tacos, filled with yummy chicken that was cooked in hot sauce and some of our new Blackberry Honey Dijon sauce... fresh avocado, grape tomatoes, sweet orange peppers, lettuce, jalapeno peppers, fresh cilantro, sour cream salsa and cheese and then had Spanish rice on the side. It was so delicious! It also made me remember how much I miss actually cooking dinner at home rather than eating out all the time.

Not the best photo but its all Ive got! :)

Slice if Life - Day 252

Tonight we finally made it back to our Friday Night Dogpark Party... we had missed a couple because I had been so sick and just not up to it but we had gotten in trouble from our friends so we promised to go tonight. Unfortunately I had a pretty busy day... and uh fell asleep after about a half hour... oops! :)

The only photo I got before snoozing was of the pizza and crazy bread that was our contribution to the menu. The little parties have gotten quite big now with lots and lots of food... from Krispy Kreme Donuts, homemade blueberry cheesecake, cheese and meat trays, pizza, spinach dip, etc etc etc. It is really so great!

Slice of Life - Day 250

This is what I came home to tonight...

Brendan bought me a dozen pink roses because today marks the 5th anniversary of my mom's death. He knows that I am feeling a little sad lately that shes not here to see me pregnant and that it makes me so sad to know that she will never have the chance to meet my baby.

Slice of Life - Day 246

Today at closing Leesa came into work and her, Carleigh, Elisa and I had some fun playing dress up... this is the three of them dressed as Batgirl, and Bucaneer babes :)

Slice of Life - Day 245

I went over to Leesa's after work today to help her decorate Batman cookies for Carson's 4th Birthday party on Sunday. Not being good at this sort of thing it was a little more difficult than we expected but after some thinking and a trip to the dollar store for a cake decorating kit we did all right. Carson thought they were pretty cool so that's all that really matters :)

I took a photo of the poster that Elisa drew for Leesa at work that was part Leesa's idea, part mine. Well really the idea of it was all Leesa but I made it better and Elisa listened to both of us and actually made it. It is for Carson's party and they will use it to "pin the bat symbol on batman" instead of pin the tail on the donkey. How fun is that?

Slice of Life - Day 241

A happy post today, today was the day of our very first prenatal appointment at the Maternity Clinic at Peace Arch Hospital. Although all we did is have a consult and fill out forms it was exciting! Somehow it made it all seem a little more "real"... which is nice.

Our doctor is a Russian dude who seems nice... but slightly odd :) He will only be my doctor for the few weeks as the doctor who usually sees patients on Tuesdays (our appt days) is currently on maternity leave herself and will be returning at the end of the month.

He prescribed me something to help with the constant nausea and vomiting as this much of both isn't good for the baby. I go back for a full physical in two weeks and am hoping that we might get to hear the heartbeat during that appointment :)

Slice of Life - Day 208

Today's photo is not actually a photo... it's a screen shot of a news story about the record breaking heat today. I thought to take a photo of a thermometer somewhere today to document how I felt today (HOT and SWEATY) but I didn't come across one anywhere so this at least documents the day.

Brendan came home from his conference tonight... its nice to have someone besides puppies for company :)

I would also like to wish my mom a Happy Birthday today... I love you, I'm thinking of you, I miss you.

Slice of Life - Day 207

So long time no posts... My computer is still broken, B doesnt seem inclined to fix it although he did something one day that has made it a little better. So instead of waiting even longer and getting more and more behind I thought I would at least keep up and add the old posts as I go.

So here is today's photo taken with my Blackberry. It is of Smoke learning to swim at the pond at Dogwood Park. Kalli went in to get a stick and he just followed her right in! The next photo is of them cuddling on the couch later in the afternoon.

Slice of Life - Day 205

Brendan went off to Vancouver today for three days to attend a Vendor Fair for work. He is staying at the Sheraton Wall Center on Burrard Street. He sent me this photo of the hotel so that I get to be nice and jealous :)

Slice of Life - Day 202

We got a call from one of my dad's friends in the US today to tell us that he found my dad unconcious on the bathroom floor. My sister and I braved the border without passports to go get him and brought him back home to Peace Arch Hospital. Never forgetting my photo of the day project I snuck a photo of him in with my camera phone while my sister and I giggled about what the nurses would think. It worked to lighten the mood anyway :)

Ooops!

I just wanted to check in tonight and let everyone know that the blog isnt done... its just um... on delay! As some of you may know I have been feeling quite exhausted by all the hours I have been working so that has played a part in the non posting. But I have also been having computer issues for the last couple weeks and although B keeps saying he will get around to fixing them he hasnt yet. He says it is an internet explorer issue that causes the internet to crash repeatedly resulting in having to manually turn the computer off to reboot and I honestly havent had the patience to try and upload photos and blog only to have it crash at that point (this has happened a couple of the nights that I have tried to catch up). I have however been taking photos each day though and am hoping to be back to regular posting soon!

Slice of Life - Day 167

Today we had a "party" at the dog park... So often while we are hanging out at the picnic tables people have jokingly said that one night someone needs to bring alcohol... of course that never happens. However about a week ago we decided to do it tonight... I wasn't sure it would actually happen but sure enough Dave (the cop!) and Sue showed up with a cooler full of all the mixin's for drinks. Vodka, Scotch, Tequila, Rum, limes and lemons, all the stuff to make Ceasar's including the stuff for the rim of the glass... ice... little plastic cups etc. It was so fun and silly and goofy! We did get a few weird looks from people... and strangely a lot of strangers came up and talked to us... probably hoping to be invited!

I took a few photos with my blackberry but only got a handful of people who were there...

The park police came to lock the doors around twenty after nine and as we were all driving away we noticed an undercover cop driving toward the park... we laughed thinking someone probably called the cops on us!

Oh how I enjoy our dog park buddies!

Slice of Life - Day 166

I pinches these peonies from the yard of the house that is getting built across the street. The pile of discarded building materials/garbage has been creeping closer and closer to the peony bush so finally I decided to "rescue" these blooms before they got squished. They are so beautiful and smell just divine!

Slice of Life - Day 165

Okay so this post is going to have tons of photos... but I just couldnt narrow them down because the subject matter was so stinkin cute! This is my dad's new dog... meet Smoke! He is a 9 week old Anatolian Shepherd pup. Can you imagine how big he will be when he is already this huge at 9 weeks!! He is a total cuddle pup and snuggles right into you when you hold him... I adored him the second I met him :)

Even though I was having a super busy day I asked my dad to take me over to Future Shop to show him off to Brendan... and toured him around Deal's to meet Brea and all the staff... even the customers loved him!

Slice of Life - Day 164

We went into Vancouver today to pick up some dog and cat food at Sysko's Supper. When we got there Lisa kept telling me to come in because she had something to show me... I had been hanging back by the door waiting for her to come out so that Kalli would not pee on the floor when she saw her. After getting the excitement pee out of the way I went inside and Lisa thrust a tiny little ball of fur at me... oh so sweet!

Meet Smudge!

Slice of Life - Day 163

Stay tuned for photos on Thursday!

Slice of Life - Day 162

Stay tuned for photos on Thursday!

Slice of Life - Day 161

Stay tuned for photos on Thursday!

Slice of Life - Day 160

I am off to Shuswap Lake today with Becca, Mike, Mandeep, Christine, Courtenay and her boyfriend for Becca's 25th birthday celebration. I think the actual area we are going to is called Tappen. Brendan will be joining us tomorrow because he needed to be at work tomorrow due to the grand opening of his new store. I think there are some other people joining us late as well.

Posts will probably have to wait until I get home because blogger doesnt like my blackberry or my blackberry doesnt like blogger... :)

Today's photo is of my hippo all belted into the front seat of the Passat... I need someone to cuddle with seeing as B will be late!

Slice of Life - Day 159

So I forgot to take a photo yesterday... it makes me sad but Im not going to dwell on it. The photos I took today are nothing to write home about... it was super sunny at the park and as we all know full sun is not exactly ideal when taking photos. I took them anyway though because I have talked a lot about Jewel the dog lately so I thought I would snap some photos of her to show you all. She is washed out in the photos due to the sun but you get the idea :) The dog Kalli is playing with in some of the photos is Roxy... a pug/chihuahua cross that they think has Boston Terrier in there as well. She is cute and fun and her and Kalli love each other. In case anyone needs a refresher Jewel is a Greyhound/Husky cross and was bred up North for sled racing but she didnt meet the standards because although she has the correct build she doesnt have the Husky coat which is needed for warmth up there. She is an amazing dog and I just love her so much. The man in the photo with a bunch of dogs is Alec, he is Jewels owner and always has treats for all the dogs so they all go up to him and sit pretty for treats.

There was a dog at the park today that liked to dive in the pond for objects. He would walk around feeling with his feet for things and then dive under the water to dog them up with his mouth. Sometimes he would be deep enough that you couldnt even see him until he would pop back up with some old ball or stick in his mouth and his face covered in sludge. He could stay under really long too! He was a Bernese Mountain Dog cross with a Golden Retreiver and was quite huge! I didnt think to snap a photo of him which is too bad cause we all really enjoyed watching him. He did it over and over again for about 30 minutes and only stopped when his owner was leaving. The funny thing was that when he would find something he would bring it about 4-5 feet from the shore and then just drop it back in the lake :) He had no interest in playing with the things he found, just liked to dive I guess!