My new LOVE! His name is Junior!

So I have developed a love which I never thought I would! That love is of Pit Bulls.... random I know!! I have always wanted a little dog, a cute little dog that will follow me around and cuddle on my lap. I still want a little dog, but I may be willing to reconsider some day if I could find a dog like the little grey one in this picture. His name is Junior and he belongs to Ceasar Millan, The Dog Whisperer and I LOVE THIS DOG! I think from his site that he is a Blue Pit Bull and I LOVE THIS DOG! The other dog in this picture is Daddy the pit bull and I also think this dog is amazing too... but junior has my heart. He is grey with white feet and grey blue eyes... he is awesome. Although pit bulls can be worrisome, as Ceaser says it's not the breed it's the humans that are around them... we need to be calm and assertive, which I think it a good way to live in life.

My mother-in-law introduced me to the show, I had seen Ceasar on Oprah, but that was it. So one night she mentioned she liked the show and watched it sometimes, so we checked it out. A free preview one month built my love of the show, and I now have the channel in my own home so that I can watch the Dog Whisperer whenever I can. I totally recommend this show is you have a dog, love dogs or just want to watch an amazing show. He has such a talent and is amazing to watch.

I just have watched it for the past two hours and I'm not going to like I cried in some of the stories... it is just an amazing show and I just needed to share my love of this show and my new love and want of a Blue Pit Bull. 
So I figured I should mention some other things that we have been up to. Last week Brandon and I got to go to my grade six class graduation. They are finished elementary school and moving onto junior high. The ceremony was wonderful, and the students deserved it! I wish that I could post more of the pictures from that night because I want to tell the world about these wonderful children, but I can't, so you just have to trust me, these students are amazing and will do great things. I send my congratulations out to all of them!!!! This is a shot of my teacher Margo, she is an amazing teacher and is so dedicated to her students and to teaching. I have learned so much from her and hope that I can be a teacher like her someday! I cannot thank her enough for such an amazing first teaching experience.

After the ceremony Brandon and I went to Il Mercato for dinner and it was AMAZING! I had a pasta dish that is was penne, broccoli, pine nuts and raisins in a honey glaze... It is like my new favorite meal... I could have had two dishes of it. We got free dessert that night because I was brought the wrong dish first, which I wasn't going to let fly since I was wanting that meal so so much. The waitress was so sweet and apologized, and brought my meal out so fast, I didn't mind at all, but did appreciate the free dessert, I had cheesecake and is was so yummy! Brandon and I had such a wonderful night out just getting to relax and chat!
The kiddies were over for dinner one night when the bigger kids went to the movies with kathy and jeff, so of course I had to take pictures, Georgia and Cooper are just too cute and Brandon is not so bad himself...hahhaa, love that guy! He is so great with the kids and such a good uncle. This week he actually helped Kathy out and took the big girls to a birthday party, I think they had fun with their uncle B. I got to have some one on one time with jake that night. We walked to the mall to go to the dollar store and had a cinnabon treat together, with a stop to the playground. It was  fun to just have the quiet time to talk with jakie!
Brandon and I have been busy, we've just finished out first summer course, which was wonderful, we both learned and enjoyed the course. I will post pic's from our presentations as soon as I get them on the computer. We have a week off before our next course. We are enjoying being in class together, but will be excited to have some time off. We've also been watching the Planet Earth series that the BBC put out, and wow, what an amazing program we've watched 6 of the 11 episodes so far and have learned so much!

School has been taking up most of our time, but we are enjoying life and staying busy. The gym has been going great, I've been going 4-5 times a week and have been enjoying the activity so much... I definitely plan to keep this activity up, it feels great and I'm feeling awesome!

I'm off to keep relaxing and to get ready to watch Merlin, it's on channel nine, it's a mini serious about Merlin and the future King Arthur when they are younger... I don't know why I like it so much but I have been and wouldn't mind reading books (novels) relating to these people.

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the summer!! More things to post but will wait to have the pictures to go along with them!!

Return to the Blogging World...

I know, I've been gone for a while, but life has been busy and has final settled down to a normal pace again. Practicum is over and was very successful and we have recovered from the lack of sleep those five weeks brought, I'm not going to lie though I miss my kids so much and I am excited to see them next week! We've had the past three weeks off and it's been super enjoyable.

What have I been up to these three weeks, not too much and enjoying it oh so much. Brandon got me a gym membership for my birthday, to the women's Nubody's and I love it so much more then the mount gym. I've been hitting it up 5 times a week and loving it, no big change in my appearance yet, but I'm working on it hard! I found I put weight on being back in school and had just been lazy since I've had so much school work to do, so I am changing that and loving it! So I've been doing that, attending birthday parties, and baptisms. Making movies for special occasions and getting a brand new camera, which is my baby... I love it and the amazing pictures it takes. I still have lots to learn about it, but that will happen over time!

This past week I've been relaxing since my summer class starts Monday, 6 weeks of science with my husband, should be a blast!! We haven't had a class together since we went to SMU so it should be interesting, but fun! I'm not looking forward to being back in school, but it has to be done! Brandon and I had a great date night this week, we went out and saw Night at the Museum 2 and it was AWESOME! I loved every minute of it and laughed out loud so so much! 

Friday I was able to go and hangout with Sonja and the kiddies. I took more pictures which will be posted on facebook after this update. We had fun playing cars and going to the playground. I hadn't been to the playground in awhile so it was a lot of fun, and I got an arm workout pushing Ethan in the swings. I love that he likes to be my little buddy now, when I walked into the apartment Sonja told him to come say hi to me, so he did and then took my hand and took me right to his room to play cars... it was great! He also loves to sit and read with me, which as a future teacher I LOVE!!! Karington is a little cutie and sits quietly and smiles, she doesn't love Brandon yet, but we're working on that. It was a nice hangout with Sonja too, we get our chats in over the kiddies playing! 

I also went to the dentist that afternoon- and guess what no cavities!! Go ME! I stopped by my parents place and to my amazement all the big kiddies were riding their bikes without training wheels- they were all very proud and we were all very proud of them! 

That night I ran some errands with Kathy and the kids, I got to experience cloths shopping with an eight year old. Oh my!! Jessica loves trying on clothes, but feels she never gets a chance to try them on and since she had a gift card Kathy took her out to Old Navy. She was too funny, we are pretty sure she looked at herself in the mirror for awhile before she came out of the room because it took her forever... she was such a little woman shopping, asking me to run and get her another color or put the clothes on the hanger for her...I laughed so much!

Thursday I headed over to Kathy's for the afternoon for some organizing fun, we tackled Jake and Georgia's room and made quite the change for the good. Kathy took apart Georgia's crib and we cleaned and organized and it created so much more room in their bed room. I of course took my camera and just had to snap pictures of my favorite kids. Kathy drove me back to mom's and we got to participate in the bike riding without training wheels. Sarah was the first to master it, Jake had no interest that night and Jessica wanted "one more day with my training wheels". After much persuasion she decided to try again... and eventually wanted to do it by herself... she didn't quite master it that night, but worked super hard and had made great progress, riding for a few seconds by herself! Check out more of the pictures on facebook! Brandon and I love spending time with the kids, he is such a great uncle, I love seeing him playing with kids, he'll be a great dad someday- don't get any ideas people!!

Nanny Jackie helping Jessica learn to ride, minus the training wheels

Miss Georgia being her cute self while we were cleaning her room

Jake riding his bike, last day with training wheels

Cute baby boy, Cooper just chilling with auntie

Sarah Grace, the first Nelson to master the art of riding a two wheeler, we were so proud of her and the hard work she put into bike riding- go girl!!

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So that's what we've been up to this week, just taking it easy and enjoying life. I forgot to mention that we had a nice night out to dinner with Brandon's parents at Swiss Chalet- delicious and then we went curtain material shopping with Laureen, my mother-in-law, who is the cutest and is making us new curtains for our bedroom, they are going to be chocolate brown and will block out the light which will be great for when Brandon comes home in the morning from work, and has to sleep during the day!

I know I've said this before, but I'm hoping to catch up on my month off from blogging, and I'm hoping to be a better blogger from now on, I really enjoy all your comments and your posts and I need to stop being a comment slacker!!

Hope this finds you all well and enjoying June!!! I will post again soon!!!

New Moon Trailer... awesome

Okay so I know I owe everyone a good post, but I don't have the time right this second, but I will soon. Why I am posting this quick little message is to let everyone know that the official New Moon trailer has been released on Stephanie Meyer's website, and can i just say IT LOOKS AMAZING!!!! I've watched it like 5 times so far and November won't come fast enough. I think the quality of the movie looks 100% more realistic to the books, for example, Bella's birthday party, although not as white as I pictured the room, very close... the piano is in the room, along with all the candles, silver wrapped gifts, everything!!!! Also it seems as if the Cullen's are much better dressed then they were in the last movie... Bella has a bit more color in the preview and dreamy Edward is looking much paler which he should!!! Jacob has shorter hair and looks much hotter then he did in Twilight! I just had to share my excitement with everyone. Check it out and let me know what you think about the next movie. I'M EXCITED can you tell???

http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/