I think spring maybe here

The past 3 days it has been in the plus temperatures by mid morning.  This has been really nice, the morning and evenings still dip down below zero.  Today and tomorrow however is suppose to be up to 7 degrees.   This should put a kicking to the snow that remains.   Kev is really waiting for the spring since he wants to get out on the bike once again.  His mechanic emailed him to let him know his bike is really.

Things around here have been moving quite slow.  I have done a few puzzles and started putting the invites together.  I am waiting on some wax to be delivered to see if it is the right color that I am looking for.  Once that has been determined, I can get them all created and it will be just a matter of addressing them.

My birthday was last month and the crew at work wanted to surprise me so they did two cakes and a potluck the week before.   I also ended up with two cards and a new hat that is made out of a hockey sock so when you hold it upside down it looks like hockey pants.  Then after my birthday the senior staff and my manager managed to get me a Marlies jersey signed by all the players.  Of course I bawled.

Before my birthday Kev gave me two option a Marlies Jersey that he was trying to get my favour player to sign or a netbook of my choice.  When Kev realized Claire at work already was getting me the jersey he took me to get my netbook.  So I am sitting here on my couch tying on my shiny new red netbook.

How time flys!!

Well time since Cuba time has flown and now it is New Years Day/Tena’s Birthday.  Christmas was good as usual.  We didn’t get home this year however we spent Christmas with our adopted family, the Brown’s.   Big turkey with all the trimmings including yorkies.  They are pastry type of thing that is cooked in oil that you load up with gravy and enjoy.  It is a english thing which Louise is.

Kev was nice enough and got me a replacement DS.  I killed my last one by using it soo much that I can’t play Mario any more or it will turn itself off if you press the super run key combination.  It is still good for all other games so if some one visits or if Kev wants to play they can.  PJ’s are always a big thing for me.  Mom bought me two pairs, Ellen bought me a pair and I went to old navy and go two more pairs on boxing day with my gift cards.  We got three sets of lovely towels.  Some how every remembers that I like toblerone bars for I ended up with 3 large and 6 small ones.  Mom even remembered to get them in White Chocolate.  I found mail delivery in Toronto to be horrible this year so my present from Tena is still in the mail.  Parcels appear to be the primary item from them so regular mail letters are all delayed.  A card sent on Monday didn’t delivery on until Friday when it is usually there the next or Wednesday at the latest.

The wedding plans are coming along.  There are details of each that have to be determine.  What songs are to be sung-what our ceremony is going to be include-what poises for the cameraman-cake design-finalize on the invites-finalize the guest list. (sorry for the – my comma keys only works when it wants)  This will all come with time.

That was pretty much somes up what has been going on here in the last month. I hope everyone had a good Christmas.

We are going to Cuba

We have been talking about actually taking a vacation and we have decided to go to Cuba.  This is our xmas presents to ourselves.   Neither one of us have been on a real vacation.  All other vacations we to visit family so this will be our first trip with out family.  We are excited.  So we will have our butts at the airport crow piss on Nov 13.

Our wedding plans haven’t go any further, we did register at Sears and went in for our free engagement session at the photo studio.  The picture is suppose to be ready tomorrow so likely go pick that up tomorrow evening.

The end of September

Well the weather has finally turned.   It is not too cold yet but Thunder Bay has a possiblity of snow for tonight.  I hope that doesn’t come too soon for I still have green tomatoes as well as other veggies still in the garden.  It has been raining more recently.  Which the weather man said  we are going to have a dry fall…my butt!!

The wedding plans are not much further along.  We decided on the center pieces which Karla is going to pickup the piece from the dollar store soon.  The tins we were initially thinking for favours is falling through,  I am unable to get them under 1.10 each so came across some small jars that we will likely go with instead.

I am waiting on the cake people, so Karla can do some cake testing for us.  Both companies are around the same price so whatever one she likes better is whom we will be using.

Photographers are still up in the air, I thought we had it narrowed down until a new company came into view.  They offer video and photos so I am now leaning more that way.  Waiting to see if the new one is available for that date.

My work has season tickets to leafs/raptor’s and tend to give the unused tickets to staff, well Leafs were not an option this year so Kev and I are going to take in a Raptor’s came on the 18th of October.  We have never been to a game so should be interesting.

The marlies first season game is on Sunday so there goes our weekends until May again.

Garden is still growing

The garden is still producing veggies.  I have soo many tomatoes  that we have given some to the neighbours.  We are thinking we will make some salsa to use up some of the tomatoes.   I am awaiting on grams chow recipe from uncle Ronnie.. This has been a slow process since Dad/Ronnie do not remember stuff that well   Lucky enough I have lots of green tomatoes still so there shouldn’t be too much of an issue.

The weather for the past 2 weeks has been more like summer weather then fall.  It is suppose to be 30 with humidex tomorrow.

Tomorrow Kev and I have a meet and greet with the Marlies.  It is the start of the busy hockey season!!!

This time next year I will be Mrs. Kevin Millman.  The down deposit has been paid on the wedding package.  The minister has been booked.  I have a photographer and a cake maker in mind…just waiting for kev’s approval.  The girls have decided on a dress.  Tena is going to pick them up next spring once Baby Wallace arrives, so we can get Karla’s sizes.

The usual going on here

As usually been eating, sleeping, working and repeating.  I haven’t accompished much around the house.  We have been looking at different wedding invitation and trying to find one the meets are taste and pricing.  As a way of saving money we are trying to see if we can make them instead of ordering them.  Checked out a couple different styles…now it is coming down to the accent color.  We are going with brown for the main color and white for printing on but I have been testing with different shades for the accent but Kev it is to much accent color…Oh well will figure something out.

My friend Jules is starting working with me on Tuesday.  She is going to be on a different shift but will be cool to work with her.  Also if she works out my office benefits and I get a referal bonus!!

We are currently in the process of painting the dining room set we received second hand from Tim and Heather.  We couldn’t remove the white stain so we decided to go with my kitchen colors so we are painting in black.  Been wet here so been a slow process.  We only have a shed so we paint them outside then move them into the shed to dry over night…unfortunately that means the lawnmower is outside.

So that is what has been going on  with me recently.

Another week gone by

Well it is friday once again.  Tena and Michael are arriving tonight.  I just checked the status and it is delayed by 30 mins so I have a little bit of time on my hands to get the laundry finished up and put away.

Had to tidy up the house some, have be neglecting in due to the heat.  On Monday the heat wave started so we tried the AC…no go.  So called the landlord so she came in on tuesday to confirm what we told her on Monday so she called the AC man.  He came on Wednesday, topped up the freon and said the blower on the furnace was not working so he couldn’t do anything more until that was fixed.  So landlord had the furnace man in last night and he had to order the part so he came back today to fix up the furnace.  While checking everything out he seen what the AC man done so he did not recommend turning on the AC.. The AC man apparently put triple the amount of freon in on Wednesday now he will need to bleed it off before we can use the AC.   This really sucks for the bedrooms in the house is about 35degrees and I doubt Tena/mike will be comfortable so may put them up in the living room for the night.  We are hoping the AC man will come tomorrow so we can get a good night sleep and they don’t have to be in the living room.

We have most of our time maped out for there visit. We are going to the baseball game, window shopping, pickle barrel restaurant tomorrow.  Sunday we are going to Canada’s Wonderland.  Then Monday they jump on a plane to PEI for 4 days before flying back to Thunder Bay on Friday.

TGIF

Things here are the same.  Work, sleep, eat and repeat.  I have planted everything that I wanted in the garden.  Unfortunately, I don’t think anything is actually growing.  My tomato plants are no bigger then they were when I took them outside.  I did plant already started strawberry plants last week and I have 4 strawberries on them already.  Not sure what they will be like, won’t be long before I will be into them either way.

Our friend Tim/heather are getting rid of their kitchen table and chairs so we are going down tomorrow to pick them up.  It is a pedistal table with 6 chairs.  They painted them so we are going to strip the paint and bring it back to the original solid wood and varnish it.  It will take some time but I am sure it will be work it.

Since we didn’t have a truck, we are renting a van.  We have to pickup the van before lunch so we are going down to home depot to pickup the stripper and such.  Since the depot is beside walmart, I think I will pick up a couple other veggies to start else where in the back yard.  I am determine to get some veggies out of this garden.

After we get the table back home, Kev is going out to his friends Chris’ for the night and I think I will meet up with Jules.  We don’t have any plans yet but will figure it later on tonight or tomorrow afternoon.

Wedding plans have not gone any further then my last post.  Something triggered Kev this week that he wants to start finalize on things.  Which makes sense, it has to happen soon for places/catareres/photographers are starting to book up.   Wendall is going to head out to Caseley’s locations weather permitting to get some pictures.  (Thanks Dad) Once we get the pictures and get some additional information for PeiWeddings we will pick a location when ininvertently will pick the wedding cordinator.

How time travels

Well things here are the same, work and sleep.  I managed to put my self in a garden in the back yard.  Now it is just a matter if anything will grow it in.  The soil up there is very clayee so mixed it with some sand to break it up and mixed in manure and peat moss.   I had started the tomatoes, onions and a couple string beans inside so planted them up and planted carrots, cucumbers and more onions and string beans.  Dad says to spread out the string beans so we will have some ready through out the summer.

The wedding plans haven’t gone much further then the last post.  I am just more confused and anything right now.  Just wish we could mix and match from the different companies.  I would take Caseley’s organization and reputation, with PeiWedding’s pricing and options.   We will be making up a list of items from PeiWedding’s likely latter on today to send so she could provide a quote.  Pei Weddings do not include flowers and caterer’s which is fine since we want a bbq dinner and I want to possibly pick my own flowers.  Caseley’s only include flowers for some of the party so I would need to purchase additional flowers on top of their initial quote.

Work is the same, up to our ears in playing catchup.

Oh ya…

Well I have been reminded that I haven’t updated my site in a while.  Well let’s see what has been happening….Have been attending alot of Marlies hockey games(baby leafs).  We made it into the playoff unlike the real leafs.  We are playing the Manitoba Moose.  The Moose’s are the top in the league however our regular season stats are 6 wins, 1 lose and 0 ties.  So it should be a good playoff.  Game 3 and 4 are Sunday and Tuesday and depeding on the first 4 games if needed game 5 is on Thursday.

The wedding plans are coming slowly… We believe we have the concept already figured out however now it is a matter of finding the location/company we want to do the whole shebang.   Caseley’s have a package that is for the “Lake of Shining Waters”  the pictures look really pretty.  I have emailed them and filled out the form on their site to see what it would cost to substitute the roast chicken for BBQ chicken.  I haven’t heard back from them.   Caseley’s also offer the opportunity to have the ceremony at a location of our choice.   Since we have friends coming down for the wedding we are thinking if we just rent a sucluded location they could have the cottages and we can do the wedding on the lot.  There have been a couple of locations that we are considering but nothing has been sent to further inquire.

Kev was planning on doing some calling around last week however our friend Tim’s father passed away so it got put off once again.

Kev’s birthday is coming up next weekend and I have no clue what to get him.  I know he want his kevlar pants but I don’t have the funds for them let alone have a clue where to purchase them in TO.  Our friend Chris’s birthday is this week so kev and chris are going to celebrate their bday’s together next Saturday at an expensive restaurant that brings your food on swords, it is all you can eat.  I will have to not eat for the day so I will get my money’s worth of food.

Next Saturday day is my works tentative game day.  Since we just finished merging 3 companies into one and starting to get our feet under us, the boss has offered to rent projectors have a game/pig out day at the office.  This is only for our team and our guests.   There is alot of details to be determined yet so once we get a little closer we will know for sure if we are on or not.