Home decor, weddings and birthdays....Our week in Review!!

So Brandon and I have been married just over Five weeks...i cannot even believe that it's been over one month...wow how time flies!!! I couldn't be happier. We are getting more stuff for the apartment and the place is really feeling like home. We have a few more things to do this week...including getting new couches...which i think we might do tomorrow night. We had a busy week but it was good, hope you enjoy the photo's and the recap!!!


Monday... was labour day...which meant the day off for both brandon and myself. We heard that a bunch of people from the ward were going to the beach and we really wanted to go along, but we'd already planned to go over to the Bing's to visit since we hadn't been over in a few weeks! So I spent the morning getting a few things done around the house and then we headed over in the afternoon...we had to make a stop at Canadian Tire luckily it was open because I blew a fuse in our apartment. It's an older building so we have to actually change the fuse which I'd never done before. We needed light in the apartment so it was a needed stop!! I picked up some extra just in case it happens again! Brandon and I also had a little lunch date, it was only at McDonalds...but it was fun...we don't do fast food often! We had a great afternoon showing Laureen the wedding pictures and watching the wedding video which was awesome. We had a super delicious supper...i want to get the recipe...what was the BEST was dessert was the peach pie that my mother-in-law made...I'd never had peach pie but i think it is one of my favorites now...I could have eaten it all. They sent us home with some cheese and peach jelly from their trip to PEI...delicious!! Little Lucy isn't quite so little anymore Brandon and I were blown away with how big she has gotten...here ears are still so big but she's growing into them.

Wednesday... after a day at work on Tuesday another day off was awesome. Brandon and I spent the morning running some errands. I went to the craft store to pick up some supplies for my thank you cards and for sarah's birthday. Brandon went to the home stores across the parking lot to look for some things we needed for the apartment...I searched both stores for him and finally found him in the first one. Turns out he was there the whole time...but he was sitting in a massage chair so i walked right past him. He made me sit in it and I didn't want to get up it was amazing!!! We bought a new bathroom cupboard and a hook for our bathroom door and since the clerk made us wait to make a correction she gave us 20% off...greatly appreciated!! I wanted to get a dark brown shelf for the bathroom to kinda tie the bathroom all together. Our bathroom is an interesting color- white with greenish yellow tiles so it was going to be a challenge to make it work, but I couldn't be more pleased with it...the shower curtain has the greens and browns and tans in it, and the towels and accessories are brown so it's looking awesome...more apartment pictures to come eventually when it's all set up. After that we headed out to lunch. We went to Montana's for lunch which was super yummy- kinda a mini celebration of our one month anniversary. Montana's was the very first place we hung out. We went there after institute one night to celebrate Melissa's birthday with Phil, Ryan and Meaghan. It wasn't really our first date but it was after that night that things started happening between Brandon and myself. So it was a fun and special place to go out for dinner. After that we went to home depot to grab some paint for our bathroom and we also picked up a new carpet for our living room. Our carpet is a weird purple color so it makes it a decor challenge, but the neutral color carpet kinda hides the purple and makes things flow a bit more. It looks super good! We grabbed some groceries and then headed home to relax for the rest of the evening. We had another visitor to our new home. Meaghan Mingo came for a little visit and brought us a beautiful wedding gift. It was fun to hangout and chat and also show her the new place. When we get our new furniture i want to have a little get together...but until then we love visitors so message us, give us a call or just stop on over!!! We had a late night building our new bathroom cupboard but it's done and amazing looking!

Thursday... I had to work 1-9:30 which sucks on a Thursday since it's girls night. Luckily I was able to head over afterwards and catch Big Brother with the girls. It was super fun and hilarious as always. I didn't get to stay too long but going there is always a good time. On my way out though nicole pointed out that next Thursday will be her last Thursday living in the apartment. She's moving out west with her boyfriend matt and I'm going to miss her so much. Survivor nights are not going to be the same at all without her. Natalie is moving into the apartment so we'll still have girls nights, the three of us...Natalie, Kerry and Me...but it won't be the same without nicole. Our little groups is slowly shrinking and I hate it!!

Friday... I worked, but rushed to my parents home afterwards because we had to go to a wedding reception. Ariel and Norm were married out west a week before and they were having their reception at Saint Mary's Boat club that night. While I was rushing around getting ready Brandon was being a great husband and he was doing the laundry. Kathy and the kids were over which is always fun! Bran went down to the basement and didn't turn the light on since he was just throwing a load in...Jake followed a few minutes later. Someone upstairs turned on the light and Brandon stood up and said "Who's There" and is scared Jake sooooo much, he let out this GIANT scream because he didn't know Brandon was there. He took off screaming running upstairs. I expected to see blood when he came upstairs that's how loud he yelled. But when he got upstairs tears were on his cheeks and he was so worked up it was hard to understand him. Mom finally got him to talk and in his cute little voice he said "Monster in Basement". It was so cute, it took him a few more minutes to calm down and he eventually understood that there was no monster, just uncle brandon. It was too cute. I guess it didn't help that Brandon always jokes around with them that we have a monster named Eddie that lives at my parents house...Oh Brandon!!

Back to the reception...it was a beautiful night so everyone was gathered on the deck at the boat club mingling and talking. We had a great chat with Adam, which was great since I don't get to see him too often. Brandon learned that Nathan did Dove Releases tonight and he was really bummed that we didn't do that at our wedding. So I told him that we can do it for our first anniversary. Nathan had done a dove release earlier in the day, and he had two leftover, so he brought them down and ariel and norm got to do a a release it was too cool! They looked so beautiful tonight, ariel was stunning and her dress was so pretty. I love how the back of it went. We had a delicious dinner, we sat with Rob, Kelly and cutie pie Morgan. It was great hanging out and chatting with them. They are a cute couple and Morgan is a total doll!! The couple was toasted, and a slide show was shown from they're wedding, which was really cute! The cake was delicious and their first dance was really sweet. They had these two guys playing the guitar, and the violin/maybe fiddle...it was neat kinda maritime, really cool. While they were dancing Ariels little sister Tara, danced around them throwing rose petals...as she would go around them she would stop and twirl...really sweet. We had a great night hangout and just visiting with all our friends there. Here are a few pictures...more on facebook!!!

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Saturday... my second niece Sarah Grace turned five...I cannot believe that she is FIVE already and in school. In case everyone was wondering she had a good first day of school, Kathy said that she was excited to go and there were no tears which surprised me a little, but I am so proud of my little sare-bear!!! The party tonight was really nice...not all the family could make it so the number of kids wasn't as high. Jessica had a birthday party to go to and Jake was fast asleep downstairs. Since Jessica will be at Sarah's kid party next week it was okay for her to miss it and we've learned that there is not waking jake up when he's sleeping!! So all the attention was on Sarah, because Georgia and Ethan don't really understand present opening yet. She got some really awesome gifts and was super excited about the money she got to put in her new wallet that's going to go into her bank account for her disney trip. Her cake was awesome....it was a yummy super store cake and it was a Barbie fairy princess cake...so cool!!! Ethan was too cute tonight...he kept hugging Georgia and Sarah...such an affectionate little guy...no hugs for auntie karen but we'll work on that!!hahha!!! It was suoer fun hanging out with my family. I only wish Brandon could have made it, but he was at work...he was bummed to miss it because he loves those kids so much. I took a bunch of pictures for him to see...here are a few of the...the rest are on Facebook!

So it was another busy but great week in the Bing Home!! We had a lot of fun mixed in with work. We want to send out our Congratulations to Chantal and Joel St.Aubin on the birth of their little girl...and another Big Congratulations to Matt and Kristi Drennan on the early birth of their son...I found out on facebook this morning and was so surprised. I think that Kristi had maybe one more week? so I was super happy for them. I cannot wait to see pictures of both babies born one day apart!! So Congratulations guys!!!

This week will be another busy one since we both will be working...i think we're going to go out looking for a new couch which we need. I also have Meaghan's bridal shower this week which should be a lot of fun...I'm super excited for my sister-in-laws upcoming wedding- it's going to be so much fun. The search for a dress begins this week hopefully!! Anyway hope everyone has a had a great week, I look forward to all your new blog updates that better be coming along this week...i check everyday!!!!