It seems like all I ever post about is Birthdays...

I definitely feel like I'm ALWAYS posting about birthdays...but what can I say our family loves to party. So be prepared for party updates and lots of pictures there were just too many cute ones to comment on...so let the update being!!

Jessica Turned SEVEN! I cannot believe that our little Jessica is seven already, next year she'll be eight and ready to be baptized. Jessica and I have a special connection I think because we've been together since her birth. She was my first neice born and we spent a lot of time together as she's grown up. I used to get to babysit her every friday when she was little. I also got to be one of the first people to hold her, which I think I earned since I had umbilical cord blood splashed on my white sweater. I know your probably all thinking who wears a white sweater to the delivery of a baby...well I do...it was like 4:ooam and it was the closet thing I could grab in all my excitement!! She has been a blessing in our lives ever since that day and she is so cute and so smart. She is an awesome little girl and I love her so so much. On to the party...

So we celebrated Jessica's birthday on her birthday...May 25th. It was a fun night of delicious Super Store Cake and ice cream...YUMMY! Jessica got so many thoughtful gifts she was very excited. This picture shows part of the gift that uncle brandon and I gave her...it's the soundtrack of High School Musical 2...the kids and I share a love of these movies so Jessica was hooked up this year by getting one of the movies and both sound tracks. We're going to go see the third one when it comes out in the theatres. I only wish Becca lived closer by so she could come too!!! Jessica even had a high school musical themed cake which not only looked good but it tasted soooo amazing!!! I definitely had two pieces. It was great to celebrate Jessica's birthday with all her family and friends around here. Here is a cute pictures of Jessica and her sister and cousins. I think they all must have color co-ordinated their outfits for the birthday festivities!! What was an even bigger hit at the party was the movie theatre pop corn machine that Kathy and Jeff had...man they know how to deliver a good party. We all ate popcorn like crazy people that night. I don't normally like movie popcorn but ohhh this was so good and so fresh...yummmm now I want popcorn!! Oh well!! So Happy Birthday to Jessica...I hope that she knows just how much we love her and just how blessed we are to have her in our lives!!

I don't have a picture to post with this next little post, but before Jessica's birthday party we had Cory and his adorable family over for a BBQ. They came over since Cory was advancing in the priesthood..woohoo for cory...we were all very proud of him. Cory comes from a large family there are eight kids...2 girls and 6 boys and they are all so adorable. I had a lot of fun playing with the little boys...Ben, Christopher and James...they are the cutest little guys...i hope they'll come visit again.

I have to mention too that Sarah Grace lost another tooth. She was very excited about it. She called me the day after it came out to pass on the good news. I didn't get to see her until the birthday party but she made sure to show me and her toothless smile looks GREAT!! She also got her hair cut the other day and she looks so adorable. They just trimmed it up and it looks great. I had to post this picture because she is just too cute with her new hair and lost tooth. Yeah for Sarah!! She's getting so grown up! Can you just tell how much I adore these kiddos!! haha!!

Kristi surprised us all this past month by coming for a visit and it's been so great to have her around. I got to sit by her and that cute son of hers on sunday and it was super nice. Isaiah is a total cutie and such a charmer. He kept leaning on me...it was adorable. I wish they lived here all the time. We had the opportunity to go to dinner with Kristi and the girls and it was such a fun night. Sonja picked me up and we headed to East Side Marios. Check out kathy's blog to see everyone that was there I haven't had the chance to steel her pictures yet, but they are really nice pictures. I hope Laura isn't counting my word usage again...I know I say nice and cute and awesome too much. It was a fun night and it was great to get to sit and chat with all the girls. What was especially enjoyable was that my sister and two sister-in-laws were there. I love when I can go to something and some family member is there. I love all my sisters and am so lucky to have them all in my life. Keah came up from bridgewater for the night so I had to get a pictures because she looked too cute with little hunter. Sadly my chicken Cesar salad did not agree with my tummy and i knew that as soon as I got home. So I ended up having to take a sick day the next day. Luckily Laura and Jeff were able to cover for me so that I could take the day to feel better. I was feeling better that evening so Brandon and I went over to the Bing Home to celebrate Lucy's Birthday...Lucy is Brittany's Beagle and part of our family. We had a delicious chicken pot pie which I have the recipe for and I can't wait to try to make...mom bing sure knows how to cook a great meal. We had ice cream cake for desert and they even had a little cake for lucy, which Brittany took pictures of her later eating it. We did some laundry there and watched the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks. I didn't think that it was going to be any good, but it was actually really cute. Brandon and I enjoyed remembering the past and the cartoon show we both used to watch. I also had the some Christmas Christmas by the chipmunks in my head the rest of the night. Check it out it was super adorable.


Georgia is One!!! I cannot believe that it has been a year since little G joined our family. She is the sweetest, funniest, cutest little girl and again has been a big blessing in our family. We celebrated her birthday on Friday the 30th of May with a big family BBQ. I love the summer because I love BBQ's and Kathy and Jeff always know how to deliver on a stellar BBQ. I have so full, but it was just so hard to stop eating especially with Charlotte's Potato salad on the table. Georgia was so cute the whole day with all her giggle and smiles. It was great to have to whole family there that we took the opportunity to take lots of pictures. Laura came up with the idea to get this one of the O'Hearon girls and it turned out really cute. Laura was concerned that if I stoog between her and Kathy that we'd look like Christmas but I think it turned out alright...only Laura would worry about that!! hahha. I love all my sisters so much O'Hearon and Bings. Georgia didn't dig into her cake as much as I thought she would. She is usually into everything but not this day...she poked and picked at it and put her face into a few times but that was it...she preferred her ice cream cone. Gift opening was funny because she didn't quite get into the excitement. Luckily though she had a loving nanny and many eagar siblings t help out. She did get into playing with the toys. She got a little walker and she was jetting around the house with it...she may never learn how to walk alone now!!haha!! After the crowds had cleared out we got to test out the Wii Fit and it was soooo much fun...I did hoola hooping and set aerobics and it was so much fun, I can't wait to go over to Kathy and Jeff's to play it again. Here are few more of my favorite pictures from the Birthday party...

Cute cousins playing in the yard...abigail, jessica, jake, sarah and emily

Saying goodbye to Nanny Logan at the party...such a cute little birthday girl

Georgia's little friend Elle who came to share in the birthday festivities. She turned one a few days before G...she is a total cutie...especially in that little hat!!
So I named this picture before I saw it enlarged...I thought she was relaxing but I guess not...she looks like she's on a bit of a sugar high from all that cake!!
Jake hasn't quite figured out how to smile on demand...so this was what I got. Classic Jacob!
Me and My Big Brother...man I love this guy!! Don't you love Kathy's green wall such a great backdrop!
Three cute girls... Laura, Elle and Nicole enjoying the party!
Uncle Brandon having fun with one of his favorite girls...

Georgia and her first birthday cake...she is so cute with all her little teeth!

This was all the parents watching their kids play...i thought it was pretty cute!


Uncle Brandon and two of his other favorite girls...he's always up so lifting and swinging them around and they love that. He's such a great uncle it makes me love him even more!!!

Nursery is Going Great!!

Just thought I'd let everyone know that I've been having a great time in nursery. The kids have really settled into the new routine and we've had success every week. They are all such adorable kids and they always say the funniest things. This is a picture of them having snack a few weeks ago. I can't help taking pictures of them all because they are all just super adorable!!! I'll post more nursery updates soon!!

Hope you enjoyed the update I'm sure I'm forgetting something from this past week, but I have to go jump in the shower and get ready for work. I'm off Friday and can't wait to go to the travelling book store!! Oh and everyone my friend Jeff from work has joined the blogging family and Kathy and I couldn't be more excited about that. He's such an awesome guy and he's getting ready for a big move over to England so check out his blog and leave him lots of comments!!!

So Much To Post...Where to Begin!

So everyone I am back to blogging, life has been crazy busy lately but I really cannot complain because we have been having some fun times in the bing home. We've had birthdays and home comings and so much more. I've decided to just start from where we currently are and then work back in time...so I hope you all make it through this marathon and you enjoy all the pictures!!

So the first thing I want to say is

Congratulations to Nathan and Caverly Smith...They were married this past Saturday in Ontario and from the few pictures I've seen from Kristiane it looked like an amazing and beautiful day. I cannot wait until the reception in June to see them and Cav's dress in person...she looked stunning!!! Thanks Kristiane for the pictures and i hope you don't mind that I stole one. I can't wait for the Smith's to be here living in Halifax, I love Nathan and Caverly...she is the sweetest girl and I can't wait to get to know her better...they'll be in Halifax ward...woohoo!!!!

The next thing to mention is that my brother-in-law is HOME FROM HIS MISSION!! Elder Jaccob Ryan Bing got home last Wednesday night and we couldn't have been more exciting. He's been in Nevada the past two years and it's really great to have him home and to have the family all together. It had been a busy week with Jay coming home. Wednesday was the airport he got in a little after ten and was greeted by so many friends it was awesome...of course laureen had first dibs on him and it was too cute...as soon as he was coming down the escalator she was inching closer. Everyone did a nice slow clap for Jay as he walked out the doors.Then Peter and the rest of the family followed. He looked great and of course they lost his luggage...but it was returned to him on Saturday. I didn't really get too many good pictures from the homecoming weekend...none with Jaccob's face in them... so the picture from above is one he sent us from his mission. It was really cute to see Brandon see his brother again, he was playing it cool but he was definitely excited to have his little brother home. Jaccob has been over twice since he's been home. The boys played their game Axis and Allies for hours the other night...it's great though to have him over to hangout!! It's been great to hear about him being home and adjusting back into everyday life and hearing about his mission. I hope that we'll see him lots now that he's home!! The festivities didn't end there because us Bings we like to celebrate, haha!!

So Friday night we headed over to Meaghan and Jason's for a big Bing Family dinner. This was my first time seeing the Stewarts home and it's super cute, Meaghan has done a great job turning the once Bachelor home into a family home. Buddy and Lucy as always had a great reunion running around the big back yard, which did include hopping in the little pond...ohhh they were both so wet. Meaghan and Jason were great hosts and fed us soooooo well. Jason is the BBQ master and we had shish-kabobs....I know that's not spelt right...but i'm too tired to actually figure it out, but you can see from the photo what I'm talking about...they were delicious! We had them with pasta salad and baked potatoes...YUM!! Oh just think about it makes me hungry all over again for them. I was surprised with a super yummy blizzard cake and the singing of Happy Birthday by everyone which was super sweet. The cake was DELICIOUS!!! I definitely felt special for this birthday that was my fourth cake...YUM!!! After we finished up dinner the boys all headed off to the movies and all the ladies had a girlie night where we ate fruit and watched 27 dresses which was predictable but still cute. It was super nice to hang out with my mother and sister-in-laws...they are all such amazing women and i'm so lucky to be a part of their family. It was a late night for us but we were getting used to them last week. I don't think I was in bed before 12:40 am once last week.

Saturday was an open house for Jaccob and boy does Laureen know how to put together a delicious spread of food. Brandon was able to get off early that night and so we headed over! The house was packed with everyone welcoming Jaccob home. I don't know how much he got to eat but I think he appreciate everyone coming out. We left full and tired!!

Sunday I headed over to hear Jaccob speak and he did an amazing job. It was cute I was sitting with Kathy and the kids and I guess they were all excited to go to church to hear Brandon's brother Jaccob speak!! I think we were all very proud of Jaccob that day. What was great was I was able to see my mom and brandon's mom on mothers day, and was able to give them the little something we had for them. We feel very blessed to have two amazing mothers...we definitely are two lucky kids!!

Brandon and I waiting for Jaccob to get off his flight. Taken by my father-in-law Peter.

me and brandon after breakfast on my birthday

So I'm now 25... another birthday has come and gone and I can honestly say this was a really great one. I cannot believe that I'm 25...half of 50...wow!!! My actual birthday was pretty quiet...Brandon took me out to Cora's for breakfast which was delicious we left stuffed. He had a cake for me and a really thoughtful card...we're ordering my gift so that will come later on. He had to work in the evening so he slept in the afternoon and I sat and watched season 4 of one tree hill for hours. I haven't had a day where I just sit and do nothing, so it was a great afternoon I got through 4 of the 6 disks and am realizing how awesome season four was...it truly is the best show ever!! My FAVORITE!! We had a family friend pass away a few days before my birthday so I headed out to the funeral home with my parents that night. Jenny will be missed a lot by everyone who knows here. I wasn't able to make it to the funeral so I was glad to be there that night so see the family and visit with them. After mom and dad took me out for dinner to Montana's which was super yummy I had baked chicken Penne, Cesar salad and corn bread...dad even got me an extra piece since I love it so much. It was really nice to just eat and visit with mom and dad. Laura and our friend Nicole stopped in to hangout with me for a bit that night which was really sweet of them...I was alone that night which I didn't mind but i appreciated the visit a lot...thanks girls.

I got a BABY for my BIRTHDAY! so I always like when babies are born on my birthday...Our friends Don and Jodi Pinsent had their little girl Olivia a few years back on my birthday and this year I got another baby on my birthday. My friend Laura since grade primary has an older sister kelly and she wasn't due to have the baby until mid may but she went into labour naturally and little Alexander Robert was born on my birthday which I thought was super cool since Laura has been one of my closest friends since we were little.

The Thursday after my birthday was survivor night for everyone that knows me...it was super exciting to see the girl's new apartment...which is smaller then their old one but i think so much nicer. We had a super relaxing night watching our shows. We got pizza for dinner which was so yummy we all smelt like garlic fingers...haha!! I finally got to give Natalie her gift and her picture card and she loved the new format which I was glad was successful...it was well worth all the work. They all gave me such thoughtful gifts. Laura had made me this little book of our wedding pictures that had the words of our first dance throughout it...she put so much love and work into, it's something I'll cherish forever. Kerry and Natalie did up a cute idea of things for me home...they gave me this awesome stationary set for my craft room...candles and a holder for my living room and a pie plate (red of course) for the kitchen as well as some cute storage baskets. What especially surprised me was when they brought out a birthday cheese cake for me...Nat works at scanway and hooked me up big time...it was such a Delicious creamy cheesecake...YUMMMMMMM!!!! I was not expecting that at all...I am so lucky to have such awesome friends. I am one lucky girl!! I was surprised on Wednesday as well at work by an adorable card, cake and flowers. Maria my flowers are still looking awesome. I feel very lucky to work with the people I do...they all wrote such sweet messages in my card and Jeff took a lot of time to find an awesome card and he did. It was so beautiful and crafty... it was by the company papyrus which is one of my favorite card companies. Way to go Jeff you ROCK!!!!!!

For any of you who don't know we have a Birthday Week in our family...well it's more like two weeks...Kathy and Michael celebrate their birthday on April 26th, followed by Laura on May second and I end us on May 6th...so by my birthday we are all sick of cake but not this year since mom and dad were away! So when they returned home we had a big birthday dinner for all of us. It was so great to have everyone together and it was a night of laughter...it always is when all of my siblings are together. Mom had a big cake for all of us...and there was a sucker with each of our ages on it and Kathy goes.. "who's 29"...hahha she IS!!!! she thought she was 30...good job sister!!!hahha!! Laura out did herself with her cards for mike and kathy...kathy's as you can see is a pair of jeans that said bootylicious on the pocket and inside was a pair of under ware with a picture of President Eyring on them....so classic laura we all died of laughter. Mike got a note on a piece of paper from the paper scraps bin in our computer room which basically said she used this used paper because if she had of used a new piece dad would have killed her. Too funny...i don't know if Laura is ready for card making nights quite yet but she needs them...!hahha just teasing. Here are a few pictures from that night!

How sad is this picture...I'm a little pale ghost next to Laura!!hahha

Kathy and her "special" card... gotta love the little undies and dad's laughter in the background!

Mike, Keah, Jake and Mallory. Jake is Keah's cousin and him and Mallory are getting married this summer so they were up in the city doing some wedding stuff and were able to join in the festivities!!

Finally this is laura getting her gift opening turn. She gave me a really cute card that played the twilight zone music which was perfect since we rode that ride every year together in Disney!!

The Birthday Siblings...I Love these people soooo much...I am just so lucky to have these amazing people as my siblings. Mike is 31, Kathy is 29, I'm 25 and Laura is 19!!

Happy Birthday to US!!

So my parents and sister went to Hawaii the lucky ducks we don't talk about it much because we all wanted to go too...but anyway they got home just over a week ago and they had a great arrival at the airport. During that day we had some fun with the girls at work. Spring Garden was doing a big spring weekend event and Roots did a little 5 minute fashion show type presentation. Jessica and Sarah came down to be in it and to show off the cute kids clothing with Jeff and Laura...they came last minute so I didn't have a good camera but luckily Laura took this with her cell phone. The girls looked adorable and did a great job. While Laura talked Jeff and the girls twirled and walked around I was so proud. I thought the girls might be too shy but they did really awesome. I cheered for them so much and they talked about it the rest of the day. I treated them to ice cream afterwards since I ended up taking a sick day the rest of the day due to a yucky cold. They came over for a little bit in the afternoon before I had a little rest. They helped me mop the floors at mom and dads too!! Jessica and Sarah made a great welcome home poster for the family. It was too cute to see them standing there with it in the airport! They all got off the airplane looking nice and tanned. Mom and Dad brought me home a really cute dress for my birthday from Hawaii- it looked super cute!!

A traditional stopping place for pictures in the airport


The girls with their sign...isn't it so cute...man I love these girls.

Wow this is a marathon blog...i need to get it printed someday since it'll be my journal. Since mom and dad were away I was able to borrow a card from them....YES!!! So on my day off I was able to head over to hangout with Kathy and the Kids. I had a super fun day playing Mario Kart on the Wii...eating Enchilada's and Bacon bruschetta (my favorite) and especially making cards with Kathy and Lesley while chatting with Becca on MSN. Kathy has a web-cam so becca could see us and hear is, so we all just made cards and chatted with Becca...she now has a web-cam so next time we'll be able to see her and hear here too. We all made some cute cards and had some good laughs. I was making a birthday card for laura, but the last thing I had to do was write her name on it...and what do I write Lesley...so I made her a new one later on...hahha!!! We watched Idol together too which was way fun!! I took so many fun pictures of the kids which will eventually get posted on Facebook but here are a few from that night...

My adorable Nieces and Nephew...could Jake look any prouder of himself in his glasses...sooo funny...these kids always make me laugh...I love them so much!!

Kathy and I with the enchilada's they were delicious!!!! It looks like me made them together but I was totally just hanging out with the kids and watching...but we took this picture for Becca since she sent Kathy the Enchilada powder...thanks Becca you are AWESOME!!!


Jacob Paul Nelson in his glasses...he's too cute!! Those used to be Kathy's glasses they just popped the glass out and he wears them all the time. Check out the back drop...Kathy's new green wall sooooooo cool!!!

Happpy Birthday Sonja... the final thing to mention in my marathon blog is that I got to celebrate Sonja's 26th Birthday with her this year and we had a really fun night. Nancy, Madison and I hungout with sonja's mum, sonja and ethan. We got to watch Greys and Survivor and much on yummy treats. Sonja's mum brought this yummy dip for bread I could have eaten it all. It was great to see little Madison she's getting so much bigger and still has so much hair although I think it's going to lighten up. I think sonja had a fun night...phil surprised her with a cute necklace, earring set and her own Jeff Gordon t-shirt...both Phil and Ethan have one I think they need a little family picture in them, how cute would that be!!!! I love that idea...I think you should for me sonja!!!! Her baby bump is really growing a lot too. I'd just seen her on Sunday and by Thursday she'd totally popped more Thursday. I'm super excited for them to find out what baby nelson will be this time...I think they find out in June. I can't wait to hold the baby...I love holding babies and this one will be my stand in for the next little while since we are going back to school. Can't wait!!!!! I was really glad to hangout with the girls tonight and hopefully we'll get to do it again soon. Sonja and I have been friends since grade twelve and we've been through a lot together. She's a great friend and I love her lots. I hope she felt how much we all loved her on her special day because she deserved a great day!! Happy Birthday!!!

So I hope you all survived this massive post I wasn't sure I'd get it done but I did...Go Me!! It took me all of top model, all of Idol and all of Ned's Declassified School Zone but I have reached the end!! I'm slowly catching back up on all the sleep I lost last week and it feels nice. I work tomorrow night so I'm totally sleeping in tomorrow. We're getting new wall units in the store so I'm excited to have stuff to do tomorrow at work and then I have the day off on Friday! Can't wait!! Another day to sleep in!!

Brandon and I have been working hard as always...we are both looking forward to be back in school so we won't be working at our jobs too much. We both totally deserve the break and are looking forward to being back in school. I went to a baby shower last night for Gillian Chalmers...there were 10 babies (kids) there and three pregnany mommies to be. It was a lot of fun and Gillian got a lot of cute things for her little boy who is due on July 5th. Can't wait for the girls night this weekend that Sonja and Amber are hosting for brooke before her little girls arrives soon!!

One last thing to mention...I have a new calling at church in the nursery, I don't know if I'd mentioned that...I've been in there four weeks now and I couldn't be happier...I've gotten the room in really good shape and have the kids on an awesome schedule... Hopefully it'll keep going this well. The kids are adorable, and I'm actually having a blast. I think it's really good preparation for when I'm a teacher!! I want to take soem pictures in there soon too!

Anyway hope everyone has enjoyed this post...especially, Keah and Sonja who read them on slower moments at work and Kathy and Becca who are my chatting msn buddies who have been telling me to update forever and for my work friend Jeff who although he doesn't have a blog account so he can comment checks out my blog...hopefully he'll have his own someday soon!!!

Hope everyone is having a GREAT week!!!

Customer Appreciation Weekend at ROOTS!!

Hey All My Blogger Friends...I just wanted to let you all know that starting Thursday April 24th- Sunday April 27th all the Roots stores in the city will be an extra 25% off!!! It's our customer appreciation weekend and you can get some great stuff at 25% off. It includes sale items so come on in if you've seen anything at Roots that has caught you eyes!!!!

Come visit me on Spring Garden!!

Baby shower FUN!

Well I thought I would do a quick update since I had some pictures to share! Tonight Kathy and I headed down the street to Melese's home for a joint Baby Shower for Julia and JoLynn...both due this summer!! It was a really fun night of hanging out with all the girls and watching the girls open some really cute gifts. Everyone out did themselves and these two babies will be two stylin' cuties from tonight's festivities!! The food tonight was delicious...I went right from work so it was greatly appreciated! Both mommies to be are looking adorable with there baby bumps...and there was an abundance of adorable babies there too. Everywhere you looked was cuteness! I cannot wait to meet Baby Taylor and Baby Blakeney!!

I was also super excited tonight because I was able to see miss Kailey Podeszwa and her awesome mommy Kristine!! I hadn't seen them since Kaileys arrival and boy has she changed...she is so long and tiny...soooo adorable!!! So that just made the night that much better.

I've decided that all of the girls need to have a craft night, because Melese made the cutest little scrapbooks for Jo and Julia out if paper bags...there were amazing! She is one talented lady!!

Just wanted to share one picture from my Saturday night. Kathy and Jeff dropped the kids off to hangout with auntie Karen for awhile and we had some fun and of course I took some pictures. This is one of my favorites because all the kids are looking...the only downfall is Jake's juice mustache...kid needed his face scrubbed to get rid of it!!!hahha!! Jessica's smile is much better now too...so glad that sideways tooth came out!!!

Anyway hope everyone is having a GREAT week... Mines been busy but good...I finished Volunteering this past Tuesday and it was kinda a sad day because my kids were all saying how much they'd miss me and I'll totally miss them. We're going to have a picnic towards the end of school and I told Wanda to make sure to let me know when it is! It's OFFICIAL...we are going to the mount...all results are in and the Mount is our BEST option and we couldn't be more excited!!! I'm glad we'll be staying in the city!! I'm excited we are going out to dinner with Brandon's parents tomorrow night...we haven't hung out with them in a little while so it should be a fun night!!!

Hope everyone has a GREAT weekend!!! Love you all lots and keep those posts coming!!!

One Tree Hill Night...see blog update below

So I couldn't get my blog and my slide show to work together so please read below to see my update that goes along with this slide show!!! Enjoy!!

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!!