Weekend Recap

This weekend was very busy!!! Friday night Matt's Parents came to Calgary and stayed at our house because they were flying out on Saturday Morning to Winnipeg to celebrate one of our relatives 40th wedding anniversary! His parents brought us dinner which was nice and then we watched a movie (the Proposal), Matt and I had already watched it but his parents had never seen it yet. Around 8:30pm I had just remembered that I was suppose to make a carrot cake for the Baby Shower the next day. So I got up and started making the cake. These last few weeks I have made 4 carrot cakes... I know whats with all the carrot cakes? Well I bought a bag of carrots from Costco, and it was super sized! Lesson learnt...... Don't buy such a big bag for 2 people. The only good thing is that carrots just seem to last for a really long time. So I'm almost done the bag now which is good because I was afraid I was going to turn orange!

Saturday I got to sleep in a bit till 8am YAY! Its better then my Monday to Friday waking up at 4:30am. This day was going to be pretty busy. At 10:30am my friend Katherine was going to pick me up because we were going to be setting up a Mary Kay booth at a convention center for the Bridal Fantasy show that they have every January. We set up the booth last year too so we figured we may as well volunteer for this year too since we know how to put it together. So I didn't take any pictures for it this year but I do have a few from last year, basically it looks very similar.

One main thing that was different was that the Mary Kay sign this year was hung over the table horizontally.

Also there were a few products that are different that we put out then last year too.

Once we finished setting up it was about 1pm (so about 2hrs to set it up) which is when the baby shower that I was going to next started at. So Katherine dropped me off at my house around 1:30pm and I raced in started my car (since it was sooooo cold!!!) changed and was out the door again. I was able to get to Doris's house (the mother to be) just before 2pm, its a good thing that we don't live too far away. I only snapped a few pictures at the shower and they were only of what I got her, so here they are.

This is a little sweater vest, when she opened it she asked if this was a away for Matt to show that he wants to take the baby golfing after he is born.

Onesie!

Mr. Popular, I'm pretty sure that he will be Mr. Popular at church, everyone just loves babies.

Also at the baby shower we played a game where we had to hold a paper plate on our heads and draw a "baby" in 30 seconds. Ya everyone had some interesting pictures. There was a lot of great food too, I can't believe how much I ate. I had a really nice time because I got to see a few people that I hadn't seen for a while. The baby shower was suppose to go until 4pm but most of the people didn't go yet, so I stayed until 5pm.
Once I got home I got a wave of being super tired, it felt like a really busy day. Plus Matt was watching sports on a couple of different channels so I knew there was no way I was going to get to watch what I wanted. So Instead I had a nap until 11pm and then Matt woke me up so then I could go to bed. It felt like a very long day.

On Sunday we went to church in the morning and right after church we went to go visit two families from the church. The first family they just had their second child, another little boy. He was sooo cute, and only a week old. I got to hold him too :). Then we went to another home and had lunch, it was really good. Then we went home for a bit to change and do a few things around the house and then went out again to go visit another couple of friends at their house. We left there place around 9:45pm and went quickly over to my parents house because they had made a big dinner and wanted to give us left overs. Once all said and done we didn't get home again until 10:45pm. That was a really long day but it was great to go and visit all of those that we did. I'm hoping next Sunday wont be as busy.

Renovation Wednesdays

So this weekend we got a bit more work done on our storage closets, if you want you can look back at last weeks post on where we ended up getting to if you don't remember. This weekend we got the insulation up and the poly (plastic sheet) up and sealed. I did all the red tape work (its called tuck tape) it is really sticky tape but helps seal off the over lapping sheets of plastic and any hole in the plastic from staples so that there wont be any cold air flowing through. It was pretty easy to do. I also did help with moving the insulation back to the rooms since it was moved out of the way when framing, I was a little bit itchy from it after ward but not too bad because I had long sleeves on and gloves. We probably wont get the dry wall up this weekend, so I'm planning on posting for next week our bathroom, I think I will do 2 posts on it (the before/ progress and then one for after ) So here is how it looks now with the insulation finished.

Renovation Wednesdays

So on Monday January 3rd, when most people had the day off for "New Years Day", I was one of the lucky ones that had to go into work. So when I got downtown I was walking my usual few blocks to the building that I work in and since it was a chilly-windy morning (at 6:40am) I was trying to get in a few buildings that conect with mine so I wouldnt have to walk out side anymore. Well you guessed it THEY WERE ALL LOCKED!!! I was freezing! When I finally got to the office building that I work in the doors were locked and the lights we out. So I had to go around the building to where the security door is and buzz myself in. That was such a pain. Then as I was walking in the building all the lights were on low for "energy saving" or what ever you want to call it, it was a bit creepy. Anyways I got to my office, did my work, made the calls, and only saw about 20max walking through the hall when usually there are hundreds of people walking by in an 8 hour day. So ya everyone seemed to still be on holidays.

While I was at work though my husband took the day off and my dad had the day off so they got working on our basement. YAY progress. So as I had mentioned before in one post that Matt started to tear down a wall in the basement where we want storage rooms to go, well they started to frame out the storage rooms!!!

So here is some pictures of how it went.

Before

First Storage room to be

Second Storage room to be

I'm hoping to get somemore work done in the basement this weekend wish me luck that I can convince my husband its a good idea.

"We're off to see the Wizard the Wonderful Wizard of Oz"

So as Christmas gifts for my Mom and Rachel this year I decided it would be a fun idea to get tickets to go to a show. Well it just so happened that the Wizard of Oz came to our city over the Christmas/ New Years break and I thought that that would be a great show to go see and it was close to Christmas so they wouldn't have to wait too long to "use" their gifts. So I booked the tickets for January 1 2011 at 1pm main floor center! These were awesome seats.( I chose the afternoon show rather then the evening show because Rachel is preggers and I wanted to make sure she wouldn't be too tired and fall asleep. Success she stayed awake!) With it being the afternoon show there were a lot of kids there too, and some of them dressed up in Dorthy costumes it was so cute!
The performance was amazing! All the characters were fantastic, they looked good, sounded good, and acted out key characteristics from the movie characters. Also they had a REAL Toto!!! Ya this dog was amazing, so well trained and did what it was suppose to do when it was suppose to do it. I was wondering what they were going to do for Toto at the beginning of the show and thought that there was no way they would have a real dog.... but they did! It was really cool it may sound silly but I totally felt like one of the kids in the audience, I was so entranced by the performance and excited to be there! It was a great way to bring in the new year!