A Little Piece of Our Life

Wow...what a crazy few weeks it has been...who knew gaining an extra 10 hours of work in a week would change life so much. I definitely wasn't expecting to be so busy, but I have been. I'm almost done my second full week of being assistant manager and so far so good. I've had crazy days, where I feel like I just haven't stopped moving. I'm feeling comfortable in my role, although at times frustrated because my sales goals have gone up quite a bit. I've been super tired at the end of the day, which makes posting the last thing on my list...but I'm back with another marathon post for you... so here we go!


First of all last week my wedding dress arrived, much to my relief and Karlees. I have to give her a big THANK YOU for helping us get my dress here!!! It's a beautiful dress and it fits perfectly! Now I just have to keep it that way. It is even prettier then I had thought. The train is pretty big so I have to look into solving that issue, but I think I know what to do. So now my dress is just hanging in my room calling for me to try it on again like everyday, but I can't get too carried away because I don't want anything to happen to it. Everyones been asking to see pictures of the dress, but I don't really have any right now, I kinda want to keep it somewhat of a surprise...so for now this is as much of the dress as anyone will see on-line...but don't worry I will post pictures from the big day!!




The same day that my dress arrived was the same day that Julia called to see if I wanted to go over and visit the baby with her...and of course the answer was YES! We had a fun night visiting with the kids and kathy. Julia was so great with the kids...especially jessica, not only did she get to brush jessica's tangled mess of hair but she also convinced her to let me put her to bed. Julia has baby fever for sure...I think she'd be an awesome mom!!! It was really great to see the kids and hold Georgia. I try to hold her as much as I can now, because I know that they do grow so quickly! Even if it means changing her bum twice I'll do it because it means some extra georgia time. While we were there Jessica was working on a project for school about herself and she had this great poster of pictures from our big disney vacation it was so fun helping her write captions underneath each picture. When I talked to her the next day she said that her presentation went really well. I was a very proud auntie!!

For those who don't know my mom is retiring this year from teaching and she is pretty excited! They've been doing a lot of celebrating! So last week we all got to go to a special party being held in my mom and her job-sharing partner Kathi's honor. It was held as a little restaurant downtown called Tribeca, which didn't look like much from the outside, but from in side it was quite cool. We got to visit with the people my mom works with as well as some of my old teachers. I was known as the getting married daughter. Although a few people saw me holding Georgia and said I looked great for just having a baby...I quickly corrected them on that one. I'm not too sure how to take that comment!!hahha!!! Anyway it was great to go and support mom and to see Kathi's two son's Drew(24) and Neil(20?). I don't think I'd seen them in over a year so we all hungout in the corner and acted like the good children that we are. We had some fun laughs over trying to figure out whose mother would cry first and tasting the "delicious" cake they had! Being the loving auntie that I am, when Laura came over and said Georgia needed to be changed I stepped right in. I had to take her into the restaurant bathroom to change her and I wasn't thrilled. The counter space in the bathroom didn't exist, so I had to lay one of her blankets on the dirty nasty washroom floor and change my week old niece. It was not cool at all. I think I changed her in record time just to get her off the floor. Yes I know they probably keep the bathroom clean and yes she was on a blanket not touching anything dirty but it was just the principal of having to change her on the floor. What a story to tell her when she gets older! After the party kathy and I went out to Bayers Lake to do some shopping and get some burger king...for fast food they were not so fast!!! But oh well it filled the craving! The picture of Georgia was taken after the bathroom trauma, she doesn't looked too traumatized from the whole ordeal!!

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The next day was my Pier 21 adventure with mom's third grade class. I drove and chaperoned a great group of girls...Charlotte, Andrea, Claire and Peyton. I couldn't have asked for a better group. We had a blast together. Pier 21 was really cool, there was so much to see and explore and learn about! It's crazy what people went through to make it into Canada. One woman gave birth to twins in Pier 21! There were amazing displays to look at, eventually I'm going to post the pic's on facebook so look forward to those! They have a cool theatre that is inside a boat, and it is so well done. I recommend going because it was so cool. They also have a train that you can go on and watch different testimonials from people who came through Pier 21, when you are on the train it feels like you are actually driving across the country. I think the kids learned a lot I know I sure did. Here are just a few pictures from my Pier 21 adventure!!! I forgot to mention as well, while I was looking through Pier 21, I look up and who do I see but Gil and Ann Smith. So I snuck away and said a quick hello. It was so random but fun to see someone else that I knew in Pier 21!

This is the boat that you go onto to view the film

This is a shot of my group in a train car- from L-R Claire, Andrea, Peyton and Charlotte

Throughout the exhibit they had these cool little people and when you look really closely you can see that they are entirely made out of paper. It's quite amazing so I took many pictures!! I think they are soo cute!

Each of the kids got their own passport and they each had to go through customs like the immigrants would have back in the day, they had to answer similar questions that would have been posed back then. This is Charlotte and Andrea waiting for their turn with their passports to see if they'll make it into Canada.

Those are the main things that have happened the past little while. Other then that I've just been working and planning the wedding and trying to see Brandon.

We actually had a great date night on Monday. Brandon picked me up from work which was awesome since it was pouring rain and I couldn't find my raincoat anywhere this morning. We swung by my house so I could change and then we headed down to the mall to find Brandon a wedding band, and we actually found a really awesome one. So we placed the order and I got my ring cleaned, so nice an sparkly! We went out and got a bite to eat after that, although I wouldn't recommend Applebee's, it was not good at all- we don't know what we were thinking but we won't be going back there anytime! After eating we headed out and saw Oceans 13 which we both really enjoyed. I love when we go to movies that we both like, it just makes the night that much better! I actually want to get all three Oceans movies because they are that good!! It was just so great to see Brandon because it's really been a challenge to get sometime together between our work schedules, I cannot wait until we are married so we will actually see each other more frequently!! Oh well we are surviving!!

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Wedding plans are great, all the invites are pretty much out aside from a few that I am waiting on mailing addresses for...now it's up to all those who got them to RSVP...even if you can't make it, go to the web-site and RSVP and SIGN THE GUESTBOOK!!!!! Here is the address in case you don't have the invite close by... www.mywedding.com/BrandonandKaren. We have our rings and we are going to get a marriage license next Tuesday as well I'm getting my ring sized- I don't want to be without it but I need to get both my wedding band and engagement ring sized before the big day so we are going to be doing that as well. I'm actually going to end this for now since there is some wedding things I should be doing right now. One more favour though...if anyone has any cool table center pieces they can share with me-pass it on I need all the suggestions I can get!!!

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I wanted to wish Melissa and Nate a VERY HAPPY WEDDING DAY since today is their big day- I so wish I could have been there because i'm sure melissa will be a beautiful bride and i cannot wait to see pictures. I hope you guys have a great day and all goes well! Congratulations!!!!!!!