What a week...and a bit...

So it's been a week and a bit since my last blog and quite a bit has been happening around the Bing home since then. The most exciting thing is that we got our new couches...they are amazing and everything that I pictured them to be in my head. It was super exciting to come home and see them set up in my living room. They make the apartment feel so much more like home and I love that feeling. Now we just need to get the rest of our furniture into the apartment...the pieces are stained they just need varnish put on them...hopefully they'll be done soon...then our living room will feel complete!! Brandon is a bit overprotective of the furniture...he wants to keep them looking clean and neat. He even suggested getting gloves for the kids for when they come visit so that their sticky fingers won't get over everything... hahha don't worry he was just joking!!! We do need to get new curtains for the room...my amazing mother-in-law said that she would make them for us once we decide what we want them to look like...which I'm not quite sure...any suggestions would be great!! The furniture was delivered on Thursday and that night sonja and ethan came over to go to girls night with me so they good to see the new furniture. We had a fun night with the girls...Ethan was a little charmer as always flirting with Nicole and Natalie. We watched my wedding video that night, which was a lot of fun, I love having the opportunity to watch it. Ethan was hilarious, he was making the funniest faces that night. This is my all time favorite face from that night. This face is just saying "Watch Out I'm coming to Get you!" hahaha!! It's too funny, you hold up a camera and this boy makes the funniest faces. Nicole got some good ones, hopefully she'll post them on facebook when she's done moving out west. But that is another thing to come in the blog. Nicole and I stayed the latest and watched Big Brother together which was so good and exciting. I don't know what I'll do without Nicole to watch these exciting shows with, because we both get so super excited about things. Luckily Natalie and Kerry will still be in the city and Laura will be returning soon, but the night will definitely have a little hole in it without Nicole to tell us to be quite when the shows are on.

Friday the end of my work week arrived and it was sooooo nice to know that I was going to have a nice long weekend. It was needed after a hectic week of getting the stores visual done. Kathy and Jeff picked me up on Friday night and I squeezed in the back seat between the girls and we sang Disney songs the whole way home to my apartment. Jessica, Sarah and Jake stayed to play with me tonight while Kathy and Jeff with Georgia went to run some errands. Uncle Brandon was out volunteering at the film festival but he ducked out early because he knew the kids would be over. We ordered pizza and had a fun time hanging out eating pizza and watching Cinderella Three. Uncle Brandon built the kids a tent in the middle of the living room which they loved, until Jake and jessica somehow both got themselves stuck under a chair. Kinda scary but also pretty funny to see them both squeezed under there. We of course had to take some pictures from the night and here are some of my favorites...I also love taking pictures of everyone who comes to visit our place for the first time!!

Saturday was my first full day off in a week and I couldn't have been happier. The day was a busy one though with a search for a pin the tail on the donkey. You'd think the traditional party game would be easy to find, but NOPE. I searched for almost a half an hour but finally found it and then rushed my way over to the birthday party. Sarah turned five last Saturday and this Saturday was her kid party which was a huge success. I went over to help her out and had a blast. I was in charge of games...so Kathy had set up for us, hot potato, musical dots and pin the tail on the donkey. The kids were super cute! One of the little girls Hannah was telling me how her neighbor calls her princess so I asked her who her favorite princess was thinking she'd name some Disney princess but nope she said that she was her favorite princess...too cute. We had hot dogs and cake after that and the party was ended with the Disney Princess Pinata...that's probably not spelt right but you get the drift. The kids didn't have too much success with breaking it open so in the end they all grabbed a string and pulled it open- lets just say there was A LOT of candy in it, the kids left with sooooooo much candy it was wild, they filled their zip lock bags. Sarah had a great time and got a lot of great presents. She deserved a fun time, she is such a sweet little girl and I love her so much!

I drove home in the pouring rain which I HATE and got some things done around the apartment and on the computer, had a little nap and then got ready to head back over to Dartmouth for my sister-in-law's Meaghan's Bridal Shower. It was at her friend Elysse's home and it was a super fun time. Chelsey and Brittany planned some good games and we learned a lot about Jason. I'm looking at my future brother-in-law in a whole new light..hahhaha!! I was quite proud that I got every answer right on one of the games!! The food was delicious and our hostess was great. Meaghan got a lot of awesome presents and had a fun time. I'm sure Jason will be quite excited to see them all. It was also nice to just spend sometime with all the girls and chat and visit. Georgia was a star tonight and was super well behaved. We think she's going to start getting some teeth soon because she is drooling like crazy. Her poor little bib was soaking wet. Here are a few pictures of my sister-in-laws from the fun night. Meaghan had the cutest t-shirt on as you can see. I cannot wait for the wedding by the sounds of things it's going to be an amazing day, and don't worry there will be loads of pictures. I have to start searching for a dress for the big day. I have a picture in my mind of what I want, hopefully I'll be able to track something cute down. I'm hoping to get my hair cut then too, because it is definitely in need of it!!!

This week had been a crazy one...I'm working 48 hours this week in order to get extra time off for Meaghan's wedding. We're all going rafting the day before the wedding it should be a blast!! It seems like every time my manager Terri goes away and I'm in charge there turns out to be a million things to do in the store, and this time was no exception, I have not stopped moving this week! I was furious today, I hadn't even been at work for five minutes when I get a phone call from this guy who works at our store, well used to, saying he has a new job and won't be in tomorrow...I was soooo mad that I said Thank you and hung up on him. There was more to the conversation but I won't go into it because it makes me sooooo mad!

Thursday Night was the first Official Survivor night of the season which was super exciting...we've of course been getting together when survivor wasn't on, but tonight Season 15 Survivor China started and we were super excited. It looks like it's going to be an awesome season. We were already starting to cheer for favorite people. Just like last season when I had Yau Man as my favorite, right night James is my favorite...or as I like to call him "Gravedigger" because that is his profession. Not only does he have a hot bod, and is a cutie...he is also a very soft spoken and quiet person. He likes his job as a grave digger because he doesn't have to deal with a whole lot of other people...awwww! Anyway, as of right now he's in the lead for the one I'll be cheering for, he helped lead his team to immunity...so hopefully he'll keep doing well!!! Thursday was also a sad night because it was Nicole's last survivor night with the girls before she moves which is so crazy to think about. Survivor night and Nicole are two things that just go together. So I had picked up a little fisherman magnet for her to remember NS which she really liked. Ker and Nat had bought a cake for Nicole and Matt...it's called a Martha Cake from Scanway and it's Nicole's favorite and she was totally surprised. Nicole even mentioned during the night how much she wanted cake so it was an awesome surprise. We of course took pictures, Kerry came up with the fun cake saying and that's Nicole and Matt with their cake. The cake was super delicious too...Nat and Ker out did themselves!! Matt took off early and he came over to me since I won't see him again before they move and he was like "come her Mrs.Bing and give me a hug" so I gave matt a hug and the water works started. I knew they would, and he looked at me, and I said right back "you were at my wedding you know I'm a crier." It just really made it real saying bye to matt and I don't think it really hit until then. The girls were like what's going on and when Nic saw me tearing up she started a little bit. We were good the rest of the evening watching our shows and having fun. Nicole is going to stop by on Sunday for our real good-byes. That will be a hard day, I'm going to miss her a lot. She's been my friend since grade primary, it'll be so strange not to have her around. I should go, that's another week in review...Brandon's made us dinner again and it smells delicious. He's really taken to cooking which is awesome and he really enjoys it! I can't wait until we get our new oven so then I can do some more baking and cooking too, it'll be great!!! I feel very lucky to have a great husband who is willing to help out so much around the house, he is the BEST!!!