Birthday & Anniversary Week

29th Birthday - July 17

The weather was great. Hot and sunny. I wasn't feeling awesome, silly ole pregnancy. I wasn't feeling up to much, so we enjoyed a feast on the deck with the kiddie pool. Charlie loves that silly pool. He chased the little white ball from Bocce all afternoon.

I had a new dress that I had received for my birthday from both moms. It required a quick hem job, so while I was inside the boys hopped in the boat with beers. Almost the same as being out on the water.

Logan had to go to work for a night shift, but the rest of us headed over to Meagan and Jonathan's for a BBQ and a little King Kubb.

Anniversary Dinner

To celebrate our 6th Anniversary, a little early, mom took us out to dinner. Booker's BBQ and Crab Shack. An excellent meal.

6th Anniversary - July 23rd

Logan worked for our Anniversary, hey, someone's got to. But we were going to be together for supper - what to do. We had gone out for dinner on Thursday and are going out again Sunday. I could cook something nice. Logan loves lasagna, but we had that last night in Edmonton, steak but we are going to the Keg, had ribs at Booker's. No inspiration. So I proposed our classic meals; McDonald's or Pizza Hut. All of our early days of celebration were over these inexpensive meals - our comfort food. So we had Pizza Hut and DQ Ice Cream Cake!

Our work nearly complete

Our list of things to do in the yard (this year) has been completed.
The Garage was completed June 11. (we are just waiting on their return to clean/finish the areas that were dug up).
Logan completed the structure of the fence a while ago, but yesterday we finished all of the rails, the latch on the gate, cutting the posts down to size.

The yard is really starting to look nice too.

Hung some hooks on the fence for hanging baskets.

I love the cool flowers.

Bought an outdoor rug for the deck and some new potted plants.

Planted the front garden too.

And we bought a tree. Dropmore Linden.

And planted the vegetable garden.

The grass to the right of the garden is the space that we added to the yard by moving the fence to the property line.

Logan has spent much time organizing his space.

And our attic storage system. Logan demonstrating the pull down ladder.

And moved all of our camping stuff, Christmas stuff and winter tires upstairs.

We spent the rest of the afternoon hanging out on our deck, drinking Corona and getting a bit sun burned.

Bugs Bunny on Broadway

Yesterday Logan and I went to "Bugs Bunny on Broadway" with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. It was great. The orchestra sat on stage at the Jack Singer Concert Hall, above them was a screen that showed Bugs Bunny clips. The conductor wanted to make it clear that classical music was very important to Warner Brothers through the 30s and 40s. They had an orchestra on staff and had them play for all of their cartoons.

The list of clips included "Baton Bunny" (1959) where Bugs conducts the orchestra. I am sure we have all seen it. It was pretty powerful to hear the music live while watching the clip.
"The Rabbit of Seville"(1950) which is the play on the Barber of Seville. Bugs and Elmer Fudd go at it. Another classic.
"What's Opera Doc?" (1957) where Bugs and Elmer Fudd sing four different operas, they dance classical ballet. You know the one, where Bugs rides the really fat white horse.

In between their huge orchestral pieces they would show clips from other classic moments. Including "One Froggy Evening" where the frog is discovered in a time capsule but will only sing for the guy. And various other clips and music.

It was really great. And as an added bonus it was Logan that decided to check out what was going on in the city and bought the tickets for us. It was really nice!

4th Anniversary

Our 4th Wedding Anniversary was on the 23rd. We went out for a fantastic dinner at Red Water Rustic Grille. Great Steak!!!!

I don't even know what to say about a day that is so life changing. And here we are, four years later. It was a great day, full of special moments and loving people.

We are on our way to Regina tomorrow. A short visit, we will see you there.

Back yard developments

After the shed moving party we were left with a rather large hole in the ground.
So we cleaned up the crap, turned the dirt and moved the rocks and boards surrounding the currently garden.

A little action shot of Logan hauling the dirt from the current garden to the shed whole.

The strawberry plants were planted last year, so I needed to transplant them. Here they are awaiting their new home.

Almost ready.

So far my strawberries are in, the parsley was transplanted (we will see if it comes back) and I planted Sweet Pea flowers. The rest of the garden will go in any day.

A couple of days ago we picked up bedding plants from the Superstore garden center (much better than most of the garden centers we have visited).

We picked up Pink/Red Geraniums, Yellow/Purple Violas, Unknown Snap Dragons, Purple Petunias, White Assylum and Anouk (which ends up being a type of lavender, I just thought it was pretty).

I potted the plants in terra cotta pots. Some small ones spread through out the back yard and front steps.

I ended up picked up more flowers than could fit my pots because they came 8 in a pack. So I thought I would throw some in the front flower bed. We will see how they grow. There really isn't a lot of sun light and all of these plants ask for full sun with partial shade in the fine print. My tulips are up but no buds yet. I also planted Daffodil bulbs last year and they hadn't popped up yet. Being my first time I didn't mark where I planted them. So while planting today I dug some up, but quickly put them back in. They have started growing they just haven't broken the ground level yet.

We also bought a raspberry tree. Logan was reluctant because he didn't want it spreading. So we bought a big bucket and we will see how it goes. The tag says it will grow flowers the first year.

We had a lovely time

We are back. 10 day holiday in Palm Dessert and Vegas. It was lovely. I was going to write a nice post about it right now (I still might) but spent the last two hours getting caught up on the internet. Email takes forever to go through when you haven't checked it in ten days. But I did post photos on Facebook. Check them out for now. I am going to make some popcorn and relax. This girl is tired!

Valentine's Day

Both Logan and I worked on Saturday and really didn't get to see each other. Stef and I went out for supper at Earl's with two of her friends from work and Jen. And then Stef and I went back to Auntie Shelley's and we watched "The Holiday".

Yesterday Logan and I decided would be our Valentine's Day. Logan slept in (as he worked until 7am) but got up around noon. We put in the BlueRay "Earth the Biography" (so good!!!) which allowed Logan to grab a bit more sleep on the couch. Then we headed out to Golf Town. We looked at Golf clubs for Logan. Then went out for a nice dinner. We tried to Keg (mostly for sentimental reasons, we always went to the Keg for special dinners in Regina). It had a huge wait. So we walked across the parking lot to The Red Water. It was far superior to the Keg. The cost went up as we walked in door but it was worth it. We had a great bottle of wine (though how do they get away with marking up the price of a bottle of wine when I know you can buy it for a third of the price). I ordered the steak special which was a prime cut of meat in a "two different kinds of mushroom that I have never heard of" cream sauce with crispy leeks, buttermilk mashed potatoes and green beans. Logan had the tenderloin with rosemary fingerling potatoes and green beans. It was fantastic!

I had made an angel food cake with dream whip and strawberries and raspberries. So we didn't need to add to our already huge dinner bill and because it is Logan's favorite.

We had a lovely evening!

Happy Valentine's Day to you all!

Unemployed Again

Today was my last day at the Home Depot. Yipee. That place was sucking the life out of me...and gave me the flu (currently) and bronchitis when I first started there, not to mention the other particulate I have inhaled. Oh I can only imagine what that place has done to my immune and respiratory systems.

I start at Theatre Calgary for Christmas Carol on Thursday!

Planning a big Halloween party for the 31st. Very excited. Have a spider theme for decorations and all of the food on the menu has creepy names. Should be fun.

And a cute picture to close. My boys napping.

Sunday Surprise

We both had Sunday off. That doesn't happen anymore, at all. Sunday is a very different day than any other in the week. As it was Sunday Auntie Shelley and Uncle Gord invited us over for dinner. We headed over shortly before 4:00. We started a drink, chatted a bit and then their phone rang. The caller ID said ADT (I felt that I knew what it was about), Auntie Shelley answered anticipating that they were soliciting. They asked for Gord, Auntie Shelley joked "he is watching the Rider game right now, it might be tough to pull him away." They said okay and that was the end of the call.

Shortly after that Logan's cell phone rang, it was Jason. "Hey, ADT just called, your front door sensor is going off. Where are you? Can you get home?"

We hit every red light - but made it quickly - passing (at high speeds) a cop car parked just outside our circle. He followed us to the house - where the front door was open.

The single cop and Logan checked out the exterior of the house - just the front door was breached. The cop checked out the front door and saw that there was damage - he yelled in to make his presence know and there was no movement inside. We waited outside the house for the Sergeant to arrive so he and the responding officer could clear the house. It was at that moment that I realized that this could be more serious then I thought. The two officers entered our house with guns drawn. They cleared the house and there was no one there and no signs that anyone entered the house.

Poor Charlie. We pen him in the kitchen when we leave the house. From our front yard you can see through the window beside the door to the kitchen. Little puppy was sitting/crouching at the gate with his ears back, shaking.

In the end we have no idea why it happened, nothing was taken. We have had a detective to the house to checks on members events like this. But I think it was just a weird, flukey thing.

(oh, on a side note, ADT performed very poorly. The only thing that happened according to the plan they outlined was that the alarm went off. From that point on every step has something I need complain about. Including that I called to reset the system and told them it was a false alarm. They heard an earful.)

Birthday and Anniversary

July 17th I turned 26 years old

Charlie and I spent the day together as I had the day off and everyone else was at work. At 4:00 Stef and Raveigh picked me up and were taking me to a secret location. It ended up being a nail salon for pedicures - my first.

Then we picked up Logan and went for dinner to Moxie's (with a gift certificate from our realtor).

Friday we decided to have a BBQ to celebrate my birthday as well as Jenn's and Raveigh's (which we didn't do anything for the week before).
The weather didn't co-operate with my BBQ plans, so I did the roast in the oven and everyone else brought something to complete the meal; Stef the potatoes, Jen the salad, Tyler the garlic bread, and Raveigh brought the dessert.

Dessert was chocolate cupcakes with blue whip cream icing and teddy grahams on the beach.

Teddy Grahams by the fire, with their fruit roll-ups towels close by.

Teddy Grahams lounging under an umbrella with the treasure they discovered.

This Teddy is drowning in the waves, and the other teddy is swimming out to save him with his rescue tube.
Teddy bloating in an inner tube with an umbrella.

And this is the bridesmaid dress that I bought for Kendra's Wedding.

July 23rd was our 3rd Anniversary

I worked until 4pm. We had a glamorous dinner of McDonalds, watched our Wedding video and then wanted to have a fire in our new pit. The problem was that it started to rain almost as soon as we got the fire going. But we were troopers and stuck out the light right for a little while. It was when it started to pick up that we packed it in.

As an anniversary gift Logan bought Wii Mario Cart. So after our rained out fire we played our new game. Nice.