Anyways. We had a great week at the coast. Got to see Leah from Pluckymama and her gorgeous boys. It was a great stop off time for Emily to run around before we had to get back on the road again. Then we hd a great time with the “out-laws”. We took Emily shoe shopping, to which her silly mother was ever so picky. I cant just put any shoe on Em. They have to be thin soled and not to chunky. We found the cutest pair at one of those kiosks in the mall, but the sole was thicker than my shoes. Why do they make kids shoes like that seriously. Robbeez are still the best, but expensive. oh well.

We left the munchkin with her Nanny and headed to Ikea!! It was fun to imagine what our “no expense to high” house could be like. Both of us picked kitchens to get done first. That would be uber cool. Then we went for a walk down to Steveston. It was a really long walk, but so nice just to talk and walk and not worry about the screamer.

The week zipped by and now were are back at home in the grind of things. Next week will hopefully be alot slower. We have been spreading ourselves way to thin and that is going to have to stop if my schooling ever gets figured out. I have another appointment next week to get everything figured out. Tedious process.

The awakening was awesome! I got to throw a stack of records off the bell tower at our church. Don’t tell me that isn’t cool. I think its on film so I’ll try to youtube that asap. The weekend was an awesome time of being challenged and drawing close to Jesus. I think I’m still just trying to process it all.

Well I think skweeker is up. Dinner time here we come!

I’m most of the way through my school application. Here’s hoping that all goes well. I’ve been reading alot about the Speech Language Pathologist Assistant program and I find is crazy interesting. I’m hoping to start as soon as possible, but we’ll see. I’ve already missed the deadline for October, but if things go smooth , I could make it in for November. I don’t think I’d start until January otherwise. December is always so crazy. Cant believe I’m planning into December. I think I will do well with online schooling. I’m pretty good at self motivating. I’ll have to use my time better, but at this point I can do what I need to when I need to.

Roxy is moving home today!! I’m all excited. That kid can make me laugh…seriously. She starts her new jorb on the weekend. I think it will be neat for her to be around Emily more, because Em loves her “Auntie Roxy Pirate YAARRR!” so much. I have her picture on our fridge. Emily waves and says goo morning to it. Its cute. Its amazing how her little mind works.

We have a 24 hour worship thing on Saturday – Sunday. I’m looking forward to it. I was supposed to play for alot of it, but I think I’m only play a few hours now. I don’t think I could have lasted that long. haha. oops that reminds me I need to phone my babysitter and confirm stuff.

I put all my Loon like pix up on my Facebook. It just uploads better than WordPress and has unlimited space. Then I dont have to shrink the pics either. Here is a couple though for you.

Out on the Lake

Last year we took the same picture, but Emily was only a couple months old.

Emily riding her rocking Harley with Bubba

We had an awesome anniversary weekend at the Lake. I got a couple of clips for you to watch. I took them with my still camera so they aren’t great, but I’m sure you’ll love them. I’m trying to get more clips of the things Emily says, cause its so stinkin cute. This weekend she learned “(s)Tove is Hot”. Today she started Shhhh-ing people. I guess Morgan must do that cause I don’t think I do. Could be wrong. I taught her “Just a sec” without even knowing it.

Emily got some new clothes from Grandpa and Nanny. There is even a onsie that says “Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of Milk.” Its got a baby pirate on it. I love it. Just 2 days late for international Talk like a Pirate day. Sad Sad.

Season Premiere of Heroes tonight!!! Its Tivo-ing right now. I cant handle the suspense. Its driving me crazy. Emily is sleeping right now too so I could be watching it, but I’m waiting so Morgan and I can watch it together. Secretly hoping I don’t forget to tell him to wait until tomorrow to watch it with me. Its going to be great I just know it. How could it not be.

I had my appointment with the Counselor today. I have to wait and see if I’m eligible for the school program or not. It hasn’t even been 24 hours and the suspense is killing me. Then I have an appointment to see what funding there is for me and then I can apply to the school. I hate waiting. If I’m going to go to school I just want it to start tomorrow. Ok Im pretty patient. I can wait. I’m just doing more research on the course online instead.

Without further adieu here, for you very much ocular enjoyment…the clips and the pix.

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We did it! Coco and I beat Lego Star Wars. NERDY I know, but its super awesome. There are still tons of secret things to find and stuff to do, but I loved it.

Nerdier still…I won my reading contest! I’m not sure how many people were in it. I think I’d feel awful silly if it was just me. Weirder things have happened before. I don’t know what I won yet, but I get to find out on the weekend. Yay! I am so nerdy, yet cool. haha.I want to know the total of the books I read. The contest was by pages though so no loop holes there. Couldn’t just read 100 kids books. I’m not sure why my mind works that way, but it does. Human nature I suppose.

K. Now to tell you about my grand adventure! It all started on a rainy Sunday morning. Last Sunday morning to be precise. I woke up with a lovely sinus cold and a cranky baby. Hold on!! you need to be picturing one of those old black and white movies with the detective in the office and the sweet trench coat and Indiana Jones hat. Ok. You tracking with me..

Where was I… ok. While hurriedly getting ready for church I got Morgan to get me a sinus pill from the Medicine Mirror.I took the handed pill and downed it in one fowl (foul) swoop(who makes these sayings??).By the time I got to church I noticed my head was feeling pretty fuzzy. I was having a hard time focusing on playing the drums. When the worship was over I went and sat down.

That was when it hit me! Pseudoephedrine!!!!! Morgan gave me one of his sinus pills. not mine. I’m allergic to Pseudoephedrine. It makes my brain all fuzzy and I cant think. If I take it at night I don’t sleep. Grrr.This just sets the tone for the rest of my day. Having to let the big P wears off, I felt dozy and fuzzy headed all day. We had a nice afternoon with friends and a relaxing evening. Whats so bad about that you say?

At precisely 8:36 pm we get a collect call from a damsel in distress. She’ll kill me for saying that, just so you know what happens if I never blog again. My friends car broke down in Lytton. A.K.A Middle of nowhere with a gas station. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. We’ll just call her Elisha. She’ll kill me for saying that, just so you know what happens if I never blog again.haha. By about 9:30, when all the Dtails were figured out, I headed out on my grand adventure.

Having planned on going to bed when I put Emily to bed, I was in need of caffeine! For the most part the drive was uneventful, but foggy and with low visibility. My Jetta cruises. I love that it has spunk. Instead of the Jet I would have named her Zippy, but its not cool to double name after dead vehicles. I realize sometimes I get going a little fast, so I looked down at my speedometer to check my speed for a millisecond and thats when it hit me!

Or just missed me. The hugest bear I’d ever seen! Come on I’m in a Volkswagen. All bears are big to VW’s. I missed hitting Winny the Pooh by about a foot. Once my heart stopped leaping around the car and I’d thanked Jesus multiple times, I decided to stop in Cache Creek and go pee. I didn’t think I could handle another scare like that and not just pee my pants. Picked up a couple of munchies at the gas station and stood in a lineup to pay. When I got up to the girl at the cache register I noticed something very peculiar about her. Her mullet looked like it wore her, not the other way around! Freaky!

Here is what she said to me.”Hi, Are you a female trucker?”. I was like “Um no”. I started looking at my clothes for stains or at my pile of junk food for tell tale trucker food. Nothing…I couldn’t figure it out. I was not looking stereotypically trucker-ey. It was weird. Then I said “My friends car broke down and I’m going to rescue her. AAANND I almost hit a bear.” Mullet Girl was like” Wow you just made my night! Awesome!”. Glad I made someones night.

Carried on through to Lytton. Picked up a random stranded girl I knew whose car broke down and headed home.

Monday was particularly Anticlimactic after a day like Sunday. Except that I made an Apple pie Pizza and that was a good Idea!

I think the bear looked like this.

Heres the recap cause Im not writing it again:

Em went mud bogging and we ended up staying at the lake an extra day

Congrats to Cara and Chad for finishing Cadet Camp

It was awesome to reconnect with Kayla and Chad after so long.

Hers the pics. Maybe if I have some patience later I’ll come fix this story, but maybe not!!! grr.

Chad and me

The four of us

There are like four rainbows in that pic.

We had a great weekend in the Vancity. On Saturday we drove down and out trip was really good. Such a nice day and Em did good. Some of organs family from Calgary was out visiting too. I got to meet one of Morgans cousins for the first time. She and I hit it off right away. She has a little girl a bit younger than Emily and so they hit it off too. We left our kidlets with the grandmas and went the the finale of the celebration of light. I love fireworks.It was a great show. I felt like quite the tard though because I kept saying things like “Look Look.”  And “Did you see that. Wow”. Like as if they weren’t watching. Riiight. Geek award right here please.

It was Nanny and E.K.’s birthday party on Sunday. We had such a nice time with all the family out. Emily loves playing with her cousins. At one point there were four little kiddos in the pool. It was fun to watch/stop the hitting. Haha. By the end of the night the lot of them were so tired. Em slept really good. She didnt sleep in, but thats ok with me. We had church anyways.

I got a couple of good Ideas at Grandmas church. I’m hoping some of them will work out for this fall. Might find myself doing some paining again here real soon. I’ve already roped Auntie Go Go into helping me.  Em is waking up. I’ll try an attach some of the pics from the weekend on here later.

As for my daughters cuteness factor… She’s 15 months now and chatty like a choo choo. Her favy thing to say right now is “Rock-a-bye-Be”. So she misses it a bit, its still sooo cute. She grabs her doll and rocks it back and forth. Everything is a baby to her. Its the most common word she uses. “bye bye baby ducky” “bye baby daddy”"baby baby up rock baby daddy”. You get the picture. Morgan taught her to go “ho ha he ha ho” when he says “What does Yoko Ono say? So I taught her to go “uh huh” and put her lip up when I say “What does Elvis say?”. Some times she gets them all confused and when we ask her what daddy says she does Elvis or Yoko. She makes me laugh so hard.

She is just waking up right now. Singing and chatting to herself. She has been teething so badly. We have had several days of endless screaming. Nothing helps. Not Tylenol, not the ice cube in the cloth trick, not gin, nothing. You can even see her teeth. They are so close to the surface. It looks like she has rice stuck to her gums. Man teething would hurt. I am so sick of it and Em only has 2 teeth. grr. Today she was eating peas, but she kept saying poop. She gets things mixed up. haha.

Morgans shift changed this week. His weekends got cut so he started working regular week. It sucks. We are used to having daddy home so much more. Its a big change for us and its only been a few days. Last summer we traveled for 6 weeks. We didnt realize how awesome that was until now. Although it is nice to be in our own house for more than 2 days in a row. We are really hoping to make it out to the lake for a few weekends in August. We were just out there with Nathan and Danielle. We had such a fun time. It was so relaxing. Only the second time We’ve brought friends out to the lake with us. We were stoked that their schedule matched up enough with ours that they could come.

I think she’s up now. Dinner time.

Emily loves her Pasta

Nathan and Danielle at the Falls.

Daddy carrying Emily

Today we went out to Surrey to meet our friend Karyn for lunch at Whitespot. Emily proceeded to eat half a crayon and throw chicken at passersby while smiling at them and saying hi. It was cute. We cam back to Richmond to drop off Em and are headed back out and to Langley to meet our Cousins for Dinnah. Lots of driving, but its oh-so-nice to drop off the kidlet and be out past turn-into-a-grumpy-pumpkin hour. So we are killing time until Larry gets home and Em can stay here. I think she’s waking up so Id better go.

Emily is yelling in the background. Nanny has taken over bath time while we are here. Fine with me thats for sure. Bath time isnt always the most enjoyable expiriance with Em. Especially because she is usually pretty tired by the time we get home to give her her bath. Overtired baby in bath means much screaming and a soaked mommy.

I’m finding the idea of Parenting more and more daunting as Emily gets older. I want so much for her. I want her to have such a good childhood like I did. Its hard not to want to be selfish though and want to do life as usual too. I’m learning to find that balance between adult life and mommy life. It’s quite the challenge. How does one carry on with previous commitments and still maintain a schedule and order with a kid? I dont know. One day at a time I guess. Thats all I’ll get for now. Sometimes I miss the freedom immensly.

Tonight at dinner everyine ran out of the house and got in the car. Gramma even had the door locked. There I was still inside trying to rush around packing a diaper bag and hoping my hair doesnt look like a tornado went off. If someone could just catch that it would be nice once in a while to have a second for me to not look like a shmoe that would be awesome. Getting two people ready take extra time, maybe not double time, but at least more time. Im quick too. I can’t imagine if I was one of those people who won’t leave the house without doing their makeup. I’d die. Or I’d end of being one of those people who everyone is frustrated with because they take so long doing their makeup that they are constantly late for everything. Thats who I’d be.  Lucky my family hey? No slow poke am I.