Fun Times in the Bing Home

This is the post that goes along with the above slide show...couldn't get them to work together!!!

So nothing too crazy has been going on in the Bing home as of late, but I have a few things to recap on our blog today. You guys are all probably wondering what my slide show is all about. Well a few years ago my friend Nicole introduced me to a show called One Tree Hill, they don't play it here so for year my sisters and I had been watching it online, which has been a bit of a pain. Finally living on my own, I was able to get the channel and One Tree Hill night was born. We get together every Tuesday night and watch our show which has been jammed pack with excitement this season. If there is anyone who watches or loves the show, Tuesday nights at 10pm it's on...all are welcome. Recently the show celebrated it's 100th episode and we felt it was a BIG night, so we had a delicious Potluck, with way too much food, but it was all so good! The 100th episode didn't disappoint. The only bad thing was that now the show is on a break until April 14th. Tuesday nights are not the same right now!!

HappyEaster

Everyone!!

I hope that everyone had a great Easter Season. Brandon and I didn't get to see each other too much since he was working, but the time we had together was great! We relaxed on good friday...we were planning on heading to the temple with his parents, but didn't end up making it since we heard it was crazy busy and that people were not able to get into sessions. Which is awesome for the temple and we were so excited about that...but bummed that we couldn't go. I was lucky enough to go on Thursday when Kristiane went through the temple for the first time. It was a really exciting night to have another friend there. Kristiane, Kristine, Davis, Jessica, Kelly, Rob, Dee were all there along with all sorts of other friends. It was a great night and I was so glad I was able to be with her on this great day! Back to Easter...Brandon and I had a delicious Easter dinner Friday night at the Bings, it was really wonderful to be together as a family...and Laureen never fails to produce an amazing dinner!! We're excited that on the next holiday the entire family will be back together as Jaccob returns from his misson on May 7th! We're all VERY excited about that!! On Easter, Brandon had to work, so I went to my parents for dinner and my mom delivered a super easter dinner too!! We had 15 people there... mom, dad, laura, cory, me, four missionaries and the Nelson 6. The dinner was full of laughter and fun times! Jessica, Sarah and I had a blast watching High School Musical 2 clips on the computer after dinner!! The picture is of the cards I made this Easter season...I think they turned out pretty dang cute!!

Jacob is FOUR years old now!!

So our Jacob turned four years old this past friday!!! It's really crazy how big Jake has gotten, because he was just born shortly after Brandon and I started dating....and now he's 4!!! I called him earlier on in the day to wish him a Happy birthday but he was getting a hair cut, so they called me back and I think I was more excited about his birthday then he was. TV and Baby donuts were too distracting. So on a snowy Friday night Brandon and I headed over to Kathy and Jeff's for Jake's Birthday party. We picked up our enlarged wedding pictures on the way and I'm excited to finally get the larger ones up...although I do need to pick up some new frames for them before they can go up. It was a really fun night filled with fun and family...everyone ventured out in the weather and it was well worth it. Jake really wanted to open presents first, so we all gathered around to watch the little guy in all his glory. He was too cute, he had to remove every piece of paper off the box or every piece of tissue from the bag before he could get to the gift. But then before he could get to the gift he needed to put all the garbage away in the bag, such a neat and tidy little guy!! He got some great gifts for his Birthday...lots of cars, clothes, books and even some money for his Bank from nanny and pops. Jake moved onto the cake next...it was a transformer cake!! We all sang to him and he went for the candles before we could get to taking the pictures. As soon as the singing and candles were done, Jake went right for the toy on the cake...it was pretty funny!! The cake was DELICIOUS... it was a super store cake and that is the way to go...the cake is great and the icing is amazing...just ask Laura and Sonja...they both enjoy eating just the icing...those crazy girls. There were chips, fruit, veggies and punch too...kathy never fails to deliver a great spread of food when we come over to her house!! Everyone left the party filled to the brim with yummy treats!!

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Brandon and I Love these family events because we get to see all our nieces and nephews...so I always take advantage off this time to get some new pictures of the kids and Brandon and I went the opportunity comes along. Brandon thinks I take way too many pictures, but I look at them more as memories. The kids have all gotten so big it's really fun to look back at all my pictures and see how much they've all grown! It's crazy to think that Georgia will be One in May...it feels like just yesterday that she was born and now she is crawling around like crazy and is just super funny and entertaining. To see more pictures from the party check out facebook because there are way more posted on there..well there will be soon after I finish my update!

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I want to send my Congratulations out to Julia and JoLynn on the

exciting announcements that they posted this week...it's a girl for the Blakeneys and a Boy for the Taylors...I'm super excited for you both, and can't wait your little babies!!! Also a Congratulations goes out to Phil and Sonja who are expecting baby number 2. It's funny at Jake's 2nd birthday we took a picture of us and Sonja was quite pregnant with Ethan and now at Jakes 4th birthday we take a picture of us and she's just pregnant with baby number two...ohh how time flies!!! I'm excited to see what Baby Nelson number two will be. I've totalled it up the other day and I know 19 people who are expecting Babies...how Crazy is that...and then on top of that there are like nine people who have recently had babies...WOW!!! That's all I can say to that!!

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Brandon Got Accepted to the MOUNT!

I don't know if I had mentioned this but I thought I would mention it again. Brandon and i have both been accepted to the mount here in Halifax and fingers crossed we will be staying here. Brandon is still waiting to hear from the school in Ontario, since it is a one year program but we'll see. I was also accepted to St.FX which is exciting to find out, I thought my interview went really well, so it's nice to find out that it did go well and I was accepted...it's not an option anymore but it felt good!!!

The last thing to post is just a funny picture for you all to enjoy.Kathy and I have a friend Becca in Utah and some nights we all get on MSN and have a three way conversation, which is always full of laughter. This past conversation we married off Georgia and Cameron...they'd be an adorable couple...hahha!! Anyway I finally experimented with my Scanner that night and got it to work!! So I sent them both some pictures and this is one of my favorites...Kathy and I one winter with our little snowy friend. Hopefully Spring is on it's way soon though and winter will be gone until next season!! Hope you all enjoyed this little blast from the past and my weekly update!! Can't wait to read all your posts!! Have a GREAT week!! Love you all!!

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!!!!