Dallas Green??

As some of you know my big plans for this weekend was to see Dallas Green play on Friday night! He was awesome. Sounded better live then on his CD actually. He has such an amazing voice. There was a few things wrong about the night though. I totally felt like I was in high school again. There were so many young ones there. Also we waited outside in the cold for an hour and a half before they let us in the doors. The doors opened at 8 and Dallas didn't play until 10!! and was off by 11. I was sad about that. Stupid people kept talking while he was playing and yelling it was really annoying and Dallas was annoyed and it showed.

There was about 500 people there and when we were waiting some girls cut in line in front of us. Not cool. We ended up sitting behing them and they were so annoying. They kept talking and the one girl was texting the whole time. I don't know why she bothered to even come. The most annoying part was they had the biggest dumbest looking hair ever! Sara and I had to keep moving our heads to try and see around it!

I tried to get a picture but as you will see was unable to. Although you get a good view of the heads!

Saturday I felt really sick. I am not sure if it had to do with standing in the cold Friday night. I have been fighting something for a few weeks now. Anyway my throat was so sore and swollen and my ear hurt. I was rough. I spent 5 hours cleaning my place from top to bottom but by Sunday it is a mess again. Really how does that happen?!

Went to shoppers and got some meds to make me feel better. They worked wonders. Then I took Kenny out for dinner and a movie for his birthday. Dinner was yummy and the movie sucked. We saw Scary movie 4 because there really wasnt anything else worth watching. We were hoping to have a few laughs but honestly I maybe laughed once. So if anyone is thinking of seeing save your money because it is not worth it.


Went to Aleshias house after. Played a little bit of phase 10 until I beat Aleshia and she gave up because she is a sore loser. Watched some t.v and just hung out. Was good seeing her though.

Sunday woke up early. Had a nice breakfast and then went shopping with Sara. Got some new clothes that actually fit. Picked up some groceries. Went to her parents for a visit and then we made hamburgers for dinner. Jen has just showed up and we are going to have some coffee and play cards now.

Yeah for cards!

and ya I know that last picture of me is cheesey but I wanted to show off my new pants.

Happy Birthday Kenny!

Well another Birthday done. Kenny turned the big 28 today. He is such an old man! hehehe I keep teasing him about how old he is and how close to 30 he is getting. Not very nice of me I know. But whoever said I was nice.

Last night we had dinner at his Dad and stepmoms house. Was a nice pizza dinner with chocolate cake. Yummy it was rich. Played a short dice game which was fun but it was late by that timce since we didn't eat until 9 and I had to drive home. He lives in 20 mins from town.

Had him over for dinner tonight. He was pretty bummed out because he got layed off from work today. Poor Kenny. Also he had to but close to $1000 into his car that is worth nothing. I feel for him I really do. He says 1 step forward and 2 steps back. I can really see that happening to him and it doesn't seem fair.

Hopefully since we are going to see Dallas Green tomorrow it will help the cheer him up so more. WOOT WOOT! I love Dallas Green! It is going to be sooo much fun. Sara and her cousin are coming too and I am really excited.

Anyway off to bed for me!

R & R

So tonight I spent mostly to myself. Other than a quick shopping trip right after work with Matt. I watched a girly movie. (Here on Earth) I am such a sap. Really I am. All my friends know it. I cried. For anyone who hasn't seen this movie it is a tear jerker. Atleast I found it that way but also we know I am going through an emotional mid-mid-life crisis. Don't worry I am sure it will blow over soon. Maybe watch a few more tear jerkers and I will be back to my normal never crying self. Or maybe, (now this thought just came to me) this is all part of becoming a woman! Crying!! OMG I think I have it. I think this is a moment. I may be a woman now!

It does feel good just to be able to relax and I need to make a point of having time to myself in the future. No more three months of not a single day to myself! Atleast for a while anyway cause we all know I am going to be super busy with Aprils wedding coming up and I am sure that will eat up my time!

Tomorrow night I am going to atempt to bake a cake for Kennys 28th BIRTHDAY!! HAH I said atempt. I am no baker so who knows how this is going to turn out or if it is even going to turn out at all. Wish me luck because I am sure going to need it. The sad thing is I am baking a cake out of a box. The way I am going on makes it sound like I am doing it from scratch. I did bake a cake in March for my step-dads birthday and it turned out really great, but I had Evelynn help me and she wont be here tomorrow. So I will be going solo.

Now another try at an early night so I will leave this as a short post.
Sweet dreams

HAPPY BIRTHDAY APRIL!!!

Earth day was April 22nd. Otherwise known as Aprils Birthday. April is one of my best friends and I know I have wrote about her many times on here in the past.

Aprils birthday was also on Saturday. She watched Evelynn for a few hours for me while I looked at houses with Matt and his parents. Funny she babysat on her birthday. It is great that her and Evelynn have such a bond. Evelynn just loves her. At the end of the night April told me it was her best birthday ever even though it was low key compared to her past birthdays.

To start the day Evelynn had me up at the early hour at 5 am. I was able to keep her in bed with me until a little after 7. I am so glad I have a small t.v. in my room. Put TVO on and she is happy for a little bit.

Came down for breakfast and we played and got dressed. Yadda yadda. April came at 11 and Matt picked me. We saw some great places. There is one we are considering because it does have so much income potential. Will have to see what happens from here. Will keep looking forsure. Maybe make an offer on this place. It does need some TLC and really they are asking far too much for it.



Came back a little after two to find Evelynn and April snuggled on the couch together. Evelynn full of paint. Head to toe. (I am sure April was at one point too but had the sense to wash her face before I came home hehehe)


Evelynn went over for another sleep over at Grandma and Granpas. I know again. I feel horrible but she does have so much fun over there I know she wasn't sad about it. As soon as breakfast was done on Saturday she was packing her bag to go and couldn't wait to leave for Grandma and Granpas house.

The girls (Sara, Aleshia, Alicia, April and I) Hit the casino for Aprils birthday. No luck there. Thought forsure we would leave winners since it was Aprils birthday and we were playing the Elvis slot. Elvis pays out just not on that night.

Sunday went I spent at my parents house with Evelynn. Didn't get to play outside because of the rain. Josh was there and it is always cute to see the two of them playing together. Running around and chasing each other. I love it. Didn't go so well with my brother but thats not new.

Evening at home was relaxing with Evelyy. We drew and read some books. Had a bath of course and now she is sleeping. Aww bless her.

Glad I was able to catch everyone up.

The Clown Has IT

This should have been posted earlier in the week. To be honest I was too lazy to take the pictures off of my camera.

Evelynn can be such a clown! True story hehehe! (Sorry Erica) On Monday night when I was cooking dinner she was playing with her stickers and her Easter bag. She came running into the Kitchen telling me she was a clown. She had her stickers stuck all over her face.It was very amusing! I just had to take a picture. She makes me laugh so hard.



After that she climbed into her Easter bag saying hop-hop-hop. What a kid! I love it!

Penny for your thoughts

I know that I am not doing a very good job at keeping my blog updated. At the start I tried to write everynight, then it became every other and now maybe once a week. I don't know if my life is less exciting now or maybe I have just wrote everything that I have to write.

I am not done my blog by any means, just fining it harder to think of things to write about.

So tonight I went tanning after work. Trying to bring some colour into my life. I don't tan like I used to. When I was younger I used to be dark all year long, now I don't get dark at all. I am thinking this is the year to change that. Hopefully next week I can go tanning again. Maybe Tuesday and Wednesday. Throw in a workout on Wednesday as I feel i have been slipping there. I have been eating a bit too much junk the last few weeks and have to start watching myself again. Slipping back into my old habits of bringing chips to work and drinking ice caps. (They are soo cool and refreshing on a hot day!!)

Tonight went grocery shopping with Jen and made sure I didn't buy any chips or junk. Not even pop! Either juice or water for this girl. Well and coffee, can't forget about coffee.

Played Skip-Bo with Jen and Sara. I won. Also watched and talked through 10 things I hate about you. One of my all time fave movies I could watch over and over. (Thanks April)

Thats about it. See not so exciting. Was it even worth it to write about. I need to start living a more exciting life or maybe just start making stuff up. The good thing is I am not bored so I find what I do fun just maybe not so fun to read about.

Post-Partum

I cannot believe how wheepy I have been the last week or so. Kenny actually saw me cry this weekend and I never let anyone see me cry. You know I am so strong and everything and can really hold it together. (Well thats what I like to believe or kid myself into thinking)It wasn't full blown crying or anything. Just my eyes filling up and some sniffs. All over a little Easter card my Mom had got for me on behlaf of Evelynn. She had Evelynn colour in it and try to write her name. The part that got to me was 'To the best mommy in the whole wide world' I know I am not the best mommy, but right now I know that Evelynn thinks so. I am her only Mommy and will be forever..so forever I will be her Best Mommy in the Whole Wide world. That got me. Still does.


I just feel like Evelynn is growing up so fast on me now. I can't stop it. Yesterday she was my baby girl and she will always be my baby but now she is a girl. She does things to make me laugh. She is so independent. She is really her own little person now.

The thought that she will be three this summer really blows my mind away. I can remember taking her home from the hospital thinking..'what am I supposed to do now?' (I am sure that is the first thoughts of any mother)

Is it possible to have post-partum when they are three?


I just look at her and am full of so much pride and aww. How did she come from me? How did she get to be so smart? How is she so pretty?


I wrote this a few weeks ago just in my notebook. A random thought really; It scares me when I look at your baby pictures. To see how far you have come and to know that I had no idea what I was doing!
I am proud of you. I am proud of myself. Thank you for letting us grow together.

I know how young I was when I had her. There are younger mothers out there. I guess I mean I know how much I have grown since I had her. I never knew what it meant to be a mother and I know I still don't. Every age and every stage it will change. Honestly I had no idea you could love someone so much. (i don't know why I am so emotional right now?!?!)I am crying as I write this..



I can remember when she was a newborn. How small she was. Holding her in my arms, burping her, waiting for that first smile. I can remember people telling me it goes by so quick but not really having any idea what they meant when a sleepless night lasted forever. It does though. It did. I just want to hold onto the last of this baby before she will be gone. I will never have the newborn back, or the waddler or my toddler. I want to hold this moment for all its worth! The tears, the frustration, the joy and laughter. I don't want to let it go. I don't want her to grow so quick.

Square Root of Kenny

What a fun weekend and it is not over yet! Well it almost is but still one..no two more things to look forward to.

Very soon I will be leaving to go watch Kenny's Band (The cause...if anything) play again for the second time this weekend. I watched them play on Friday night in the big W town. Was a very good show. Kenny drummed like an animal. I felt very old there though. April went with me and other than the band we were the oldest people there.

After the show we went to the casino th throw our money away. Could have been worst. I don't know how some people can play for hours on the same $20 cause mine does not last at all.

Saturday I spent cleaning. Erica was down this weekend so we played cards and went for ice cream. Erica wont be working here this summer. Last summer we went for ice cream once a week. It was awesome and I am going to miss her so much this summer. She is such a fun person to be around and such a sweet heart. Hopefully she can visit sometimes and we can visit her. She is only an hour away so thats not too bad. Not the same as a weekly ice cream trip though.

We all went to the Nest Saturday night. One of my fave bands were playing. Square root. It was such a nice surprise! I just love thos guys! (of course my favourite band is The cause if anything hehehe) and Kenny is my #1 drummer!! hehehe

Almost forgot about Friday day with Evelynn. Well she woke up early as usual it seems. She loved the egg hunt and was very excited. Didn't take her very long to figure out she could eat them and she loves chocolate. She will tell you that herself! She got a couple of outfits and some craft things. That Easter bunny was good to her! The bunny forgot about Mommy though. Actually Evelynn did give me an Easter card and it was very sweet. Saying I was the best Mommy in the whole wide world! made me cry (three times!) Thanks Grandma I mean Evelynn hehehe

Well better get ready to leave now. Sara should be here soon.

Happy Easter

Since this is a Daddy weekend for Evelynn we did the Easter thing tonight and will do the egg hunt in the morning. Tonight when I was cooking dinner Evelynn and Kenny painted Easter eggs together. It made quite the mess! I was a bit worried that my kitchen table was going to be pink and purple for the next few years. Luckily it came out ok. The eggs look great and Evelynn had such a good time making them. It was so cute.

She was really tired tonight though. A mother knows. She had her bath after dinner and went straight to bed. Well with two stories of course. I cannot believe how much she loves books. She could spend hours looking at books herself or being read to. She is a lot like me in that way. I know I was like that as a child.

On the car ride home tonight she was saying how she would be so happy in England. Made me a little sad to hear that. Of course it is a good thing that she has such a good time there but it did make me sad hearing she would be so Happy there. I asked her if she was happy in Canada and she agreed that she was but not with the same conviction.

Hopefully my fears are wrong. Some of you know maybe not everyone, but I do have a fear that when she is older she will want to go and live in England. I can see this happening. I know it is not much use worrying about it now. It would be a good opportunity for her and I will be happy with whatever she does (well unless it is breaking the law or hurting people or doing drugs etc.) But I do worry.

Anyway...back to Easter. I must be sneaky and hide some Easter eggs now. Go to bed because I know she will have me up early. Hopefully I will remember to take some pictures tomorrow of the event. This is the first year I am hiding eggs for her. It is going to be so much fun!

Wedding Singer

Another busy weekend as usual. Busy is good though. Let me catch up as I haven't posted in a while.

Thursday was Roberts 2nd Birthday. I took Evelynn to his birthday party and she was perfect there. The two of them play so well together. I had a lot of fun too. Saras family is the funniest family I know and I always have a good time with them. They really make you feel like you are one of the family.

Friday night Mark came over and played cards. Sara and I tried to teach him how to play Skip-Bo. I really don't think he caught on to it though. I don't think he found it as fun as Sara and I do. I am sure he was wondering what all the hype is about it. I still love the game and hope Sara comes home soon so we can play it. My guess is she is at another Hockey game.

Saturday night I had a wedding to go to about an hour from here. My mom picked Evelynn up in the morning as they were watching her over night for me. Her first sleep over. I was worried about how it would go but it went amazing. Evelynn was a doll for them and they had a lot of fun. Evelynn did too and wants to do a sleep over again. I actually think my parents will too. My mom was asking Evelynn if she wanted to come back for another sleep over soon. That is so awesome! I think it will be good memories for Evelynn sleeping over and her grandparents house.There is a lot more freedom for her there. She can just run around and wear herself out. It is great.
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Kennys mom and stepdad picked me up and I went to the wedding with them. Kenny was in the wedding party so he had been there since Thursday. I had a good time with Penny and Bill. They really make you feel comfortable and it was good getting to know them better and having them get to know me too

They wedding was wonderful. Everything about it. The church was amazing and old and really something I had never seen before. I have seen a church before but not like this one. It was little and had the most beautiful stain glass windows. The location was neat too. It had such a special feel about it. The day was pretty (a little chilled though and I especially felt it as I was wearing a dress!)

The reception was lovely and all of the speeches were funny. It was just an awesome good time. I was glad I got to be there.

There is a lot of weddings coming up. Between the one I am going to and the ones Kenny has been invited too. I think there is one every month until September. I guess we are at that age now.


Sunday I spent at my parents. Got to see Josh. Let Evelynn and Josh play outside for a long time. Was a lot of fun watching them play together. Really sweet seeing Josh hug Evelynn. He really loves her and she loves him too. So sweet. Evelynn was really good. Listened well to me had a nice bath at home and read some stories. I wasn't frustrated by her at all this weekend. Whew. Hopefully Monday night can be as ice too.

Kenny is here and you know later we will be watching Greys. It is what we do. I can't wait and as usual hope it is a new one.

So I think that is all my news for now.
Have a nice Monday everyone.

Time after Time

Sometimes I do find it hard to write a post. Especially when I think I have nothing of interest to write about. I do a lot of the same things everyday. I go to work 9-5. I either have Evelynn or not. Play cards with Sara and whoever is over in the evenings. Thats about as exciting as I get.

Last night I took Evelynn to Walmart after work. Went there to pick up a Birthday present for Robert. She can be difficult to shop with. April and Matt came too and by the end of our shopping trip I had more than enough. Evelynn is two though and maybe i do expect too much from her. I know she cannot be a carbon copy of my or who I was. That is so true because she is so different from me and how I was as a child. Thats not a bad thing but maybe I find it hard to understand where she is coming from sometimes.

I do feel like I am not a very good mom sometimes. Ok most of the time. I just think other people do a better job then me or make it look so much easier that I wonder why I am having such difficulties with it.I know not all days can be happy fun care free days. I know that. I just wish it could be that way. I guess I just need to take the fun moments with the...not so fun moments.

For example I had a really nice morning with Evelynn. We laid in bed for a little bit before getting up making silly faces and each other and talking. It was nice. It was sweet. She was sweet. Breakfast went well too. We talked about her day and what she will do. Talked about her up-coming sleep over at Grandma and Grandpas. I enjoyed breakfast with her. The not so good part came when we were leaving. I wanted her to wear boots she wanted shoes. Was a battle over that. She wanted to clean my car I wanted her in the car. Another battle. Dropping her off was sweet though. She gave me a big hug and kiss and before I left ran back for another one. I think I need to stop focusing so much on what I want to change and the negitive stuff and start to focus on the things about her I enjoy. I feel like the worst parent in the workd saying that I don't enjoy my child every minute I am with her. Somedays though...she can be a real handful.

Anyway...didn't have Evelynn tonight. Played Skip-Bo with Kenny and Sara. I won. I am really liking that game as I seem to be winning it a lot more than I ever did with Phase 10. Sara was really silly which made me laugh and lifted my mood. She can always do that.

Now I think I will unwind and head off to bed. After I wrap Roberts Birthday present of course.

April Fools Yo!

I can hardly believe it is now April. Feels like it should be some sort of April Fools joke. This year is going by so fast. I was just speaking to Barb on Friday how I am finding as I get older the time goes by faster and faster. When I was younger a year seemed like a life time. I really wish time wasn't so cruel and would slow down.

This is an Evelynn free weekend. So I could do anything I wanted. I hate to say this but I do look forward to my weekends without her sometimes. I also look forward to my weekends with her but it is nice to have a little break and a little me time. What I can get of it anyway.

Friday I played Euchre. I played so poorly and I now know that I am not as good at Euchre as I once thought. I came in second last. If I had come in last atleast I could have won a prize for lowest score. I didn't win a thing. Matt played too and he got second best. So way to go MATT! You are a far better euchre player then me.

After Euchre we went to my Fave pub (the Nest) another Mat from work was playing there and I always have a good time when he is playing. I like the song selection he has. So some of my old friends there too. Mat (another one hehehe) and Adam. I got to meet Linda who Matt from work is seeing. She was very pretty and nice. I am really happy for Matt because he deserves a nice girl He is a really nice guy. Hopefully that will work out. Although in his drunken state he called her parents home at 1 am and woke her dad up. Silly Matt.

Saturday I took my mom to get her hair done and spend a girly day together just the two of us. Was nice. I like my hair (took out the red and added more blonde)It is different but I think I like it. My mom likes her hair. It is styled with highlights. She looks pretty. She is feeling very low about herself so I was trying to give her a pick-me-up. Hopefully it worked. Maybe one weekend soon I can go clothes shopping with her cause she needs some stuff to fit her better then she will feel a bit better about herself. That will be fun.

Saturday night we played cards for a bit. Sara, Kenny and I. Played Phase 10 of course and then kenny went to Walmart and bought another card game called Skip-bo. It was alot of fun. We didn't get to finish our game though because we went to the movies.

Saw V for Vendetta. It was so AWESOME!!! I loved that movie. To be honest I wasn't thrilled about going to see it but I had told Kenny he could pick and there really wasn't anything I wanted to see anyway. I really really loved it though. It was an awesome movie and you have to go and see it.

Sunday..well I like to clean on Sundays. So I spent a few hours cleaning things. I did scrub the floors on Saturday. Now with the time change I think I better start dinner. It is almost 6 and I haven't even started it. I am making a meatloaf. So now that everyone is caught up in my interesting life I will go.