A little catch up…

I definitely didn’t mean to stay away from blogging that long after Christmas, but my computer was acting up and I think it’s finally gotten out of it’s rebellious teenager stage

On Christmas Eve, I had to work until 12pm, which was lots of fun. After work, we packed everything up and headed to a Christmas celebration with Mr.D’s side of the family. His mom’s cousin hosts the party every year at her log cabin right on the lake…it’s so gorgeous! And every year there are carols to be sung  
My FIL and niece

On Christmas morning, we went to my BIL’s house for breakfast and to watch our niece open up her first Christmas presents. She loved every minute of it and was definitely spoiled!  After breakfast, we headed back to my in-law’s house and I helped make Christmas dinner. All of the family came over around 4ish and in total there were 14 of us total.
Mr.D and I. I looked really dazed, but I was just really tired as Harley was too excited the night before about Santa coming
Mr.D and our niece

Our first family picture

While we were home for Christmas, it was our niece’s first birthday so we were able to go to her party. She was so happy all day and I think she enjoyed the spotlight.

I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas and wish you a happy new year!

Merry Christmas everyone!

 

I have to work a half day today and then we are off to spend time with our family. I must say though, it doesn’t quite feel like Christmas to me yet…please tell me I’m not the only one!

I doubt that I will be blogging this weekend, so I hope that everyone has a very Merry Christmas and enjoys the holiday season with their family and friends

A look back…

I’ve seen this done on a few blogs and I thought it would be fun to do. This year has been full of new and exciting things and I can’t wait to see what 2011 brings! (babies perhaps?! haha)

{January}: Celebrated the birth of our niece

{February}: took a trip to Emerald Lake Lodge to celebrate our anniversary

{March}: my mom came for a visit and we took her to Banff

{April}: spent time with our family and niece

{May}: Bought our first house!

{June}: Celebrated our friend’s wedding

{July}: made a trip to Ontario for my bridal shower and our stag & doe

{August}: Our wedding! The best day of my life so far

{September}: went hiking in Kananaskis

{October}: celebrated my birthday and carved fun pumpkins!

{November}: we got Harley!

{December}: celebrated Mr.D’s birthday and spent time watching Harley grow too fast!

We definitely had a wonderful year with many big events! I can’t wait to see what next year brings

That silly dog…

So every night Mr.D and I go into our basement to watch tv as that’s where our tv is. There is a door at the first set of stairs that lead to and from the basement, which we keep shut so Harley doesn’t run upstairs and pee before we can make it up there. For some reason, there are nights where he wants nothing to do with being downstairs so he will sit on the stairs.

This is how I found him tonight when I came around the corner:

I don’t have a clue how that is comfortable for him, but it seriously made me laugh!

On another note, I did this work out on Sunday and my abs, legs and arms hurt sooo bad the next day! It took me 10 minutes and 48 seconds to do. So a really fast work out, but it’s killer!

Happy Tuesday everyone!

{weekend recap}

Can someone please invent the trick to make the weekend last longer and the week go by faster?! I still can’t believe that next weekend is Christmas…I’m just not in that spirit yet.

On Friday night, Mr.D and I went out to celebrate his birthday to a restaurant called Charcut, which is in the downtown area. We had heard really good things about the restaurant from friends, but overall neither of us were really super impressed by it. The food was good, but for the price it wasn’t worth it to us.  I think the atmosphere really put us off too..there was a table of 4 ladies close to us who were really loud and we couldn’t quite hear our own thoughts over them. And our server was kind of weird and took forever to get us stuff. Oh well, you win some you lose some.

On Saturday, Mr.D’s parent’s came down for a visit. My MIL and I made perogies…they are quite the work, but so good! We ended up making about 6 dozen. Later that night, we went out for dinner to celebrate Mr.D’s birthday again, but with his parent’s this time

Yesterday, we had brunch and then Mr.D’s parent’s headed home. Just a quick visit, but it was nice to see them. I spent the rest of the day making Christmas cookies (so hard not to eat them!).

How was your weekend? What did you do?

{happy friday}

Happy Friday everyone! It’s crazy that a week from now it will be Christmas (well Christmas eve). It doesn’t quite feel like Christmas to me yet.

Sorry for the lack of posting for the past two days. On Wednesday, my work flew us up to Edmonton (to our main office) for our Christmas party. Unfortunately, Edmonton got a HUGE snowstorm the same day, so my flight home was delayed for over 4 hours. I was supposed to be home around 7, but didn’t get home until 11:15pm. I had a great time, but it was a super long day so I had no energy to blog last night.  I can’t imagine travelling on a constant basis for work in this weather!

This weekend, we are:

• going out for dinner tonight in celebration of Mr.D’s birthday (happy belated birthday Mr.D!)
• Mr.D’s parent’s are coming to visit on Saturday
• my MIL and I might make perogies on Saturday…I’ve never made them so it should be fun!

Happy Friday everyone and I hope you have a fabulous weekend!

DIY Holiday Wreath

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a while, so I apologize!  Back in November when Christmas projects began to have a presence in the blogsphere, I was inspired by Lacey's carnation wreath. She made her wreath using carnations found at Wal-mart but I had zero luck finding any. I decided that I could make a similar wreath but using my tutorial to make tissue paper pomanders.

I started and finished the project over the course of a few nights, which was great. The worst part of the project is definitely making each tissue paper ‘flower’.

Here is how it turned out:

Don’t mind me in the mirror

It adds the perfect amount of ‘holiday cheer’ to our entranceway and it only cost me about $10 to make!

Do you have any fast and easy holiday projects?

{weekend recap}

Another weekend has come and gone too fast! I can’t believe that one more weekend Christmas will be here! Just craziness.

On Friday night, we went to Mr.D’s work party. It was pretty low key, but still fun. They do a Chinese gift grab and it is hilarious to watch everyone fight over certain gifts.

Saturday was a pretty low key morning. We tricked Harley to sleep until 9 am, which was fabulous! Later in the afternoon Mr.D, Harley and I went to Alison’s house to hang out with her, Justin and Cruz. Harley and Cruz had a great time playing together for a solid 3 hours!  We all couldn’t believe that neither gave up that entire time. It was great to finally meet Justin after reading about him on their blog  Harley slept for the drive home and basically that whole evening after their puppy play date, it was hilarious! Thanks again Alison for having us over

Yesterday we had to run a few errands, but basically spent the day at home. It was quite nice because this week is super busy for me at work and then this weekend, Mr.D’s parent’s are coming down for the weekend.

How was your weekend? What were you up to?

{happy friday}

Happy Friday everyone! This week has been busy again at work, so I am so ready for Friday!

Yesterday, the fabulous Alison tagged me in a fun game called “List of Fours”. Make sure you check out her blog

List of Fours

1. Four tv shows that you watch:
-House
-Lie to Me
-Grey’s Anatomy
-Raising Hope (so funny!)

2. Four things you are passionate about:
-my family
-my friends
-my wonderful, sweet and caring husband

-my cute and energetic puppy Harley

3. Four words/phrases you say a lot:
-NO! Leave it! (of course to Harley! )
-I can’t think of anymore!

4. Four things you’ve learned from the past:
-there are two sides to every story
- Treat others as you would like to be treated
-sometimes you just gave to smile and pretend to be nice to those that are your enemies and could make your life hell
-there are caring and sweet men in the world. You just have to travel to Mexico to find them

5. Four places you would like to go:
-Australia
-Greece
-London
-South Carolina

6. Four things you did yesterday:
-baked sugar cookies and ginger snaps for Mr.D’s work party tonight
-level one of Jillian Michael’s 6 Week Six Pack
-woke up at 5am with Mr Harley who decided that it was a good time to get up and bark like crazy (good thing he’s cute!)
-hugged and kissed Mr.D

7. Four things you are looking forward to:
- A week and a bit off at Christmas time (I need a vacation!)
-my half marathon in May
-the above zero weather we are supposed to have this weekend
-going for a run this weekend

8. Four things you love about winter:
-fleece pj’s
-Christmas time!
-fireplaces
-warm and cuddly blankets

9. Tag four people to play along:
-Crystal at Newlywed to not so Newlywed
-Brittany at My Daily Randomness
-Brittany at Confessions of a Newlywed
-Kaylee at Devil Dog Darling

Hope you have a fantastic weekend everyone!

{what i’m loving}

As always, I am doing the {what i’m loving} Wednesday post on Thursday. But as of next week, my {wedding wednesday} posts are all done, so I’ll be doing it on Wednesday. Make sure you check out Jamie's fabulous blog!

This week, I am loving:

{one} I won my first giveaway! I seriously have the worst luck ever, and never win anything. I entered a giveaway on a whim and it was my lucky day! Thanks again Danica!

{two} Nice people. Yesterday, I went to the post office to mail two packages for my family for Christmas. The lady behind the counter gave me her discount for small businesses which saved me money! It was definitely appreciated and totally unexpected.

{three} It’s almost Friday! The past week and a half have been really busy at work, so I am looking forward to the weekend.

{four} My lovely blog followers! Thank each and every one of you who leaves me sweet comments day in and day out. I definitely appreciate them!

Happy Thursday everyone!

{wedding wednesday} day after shoot

Well, I’ve finally come to the end of our wedding recap posts and it makes me sad It really feels like yesterday that we were finishing up the planning and celebrating our wedding day. 

With our wedding photography package, it included a ‘day after’ shoot. I know not many people have heard of these, but it’s basically an hour or so with your photographer dressed in your wedding day outfits. It’s a great opportunity to take more pictures and you are of course more relaxed than on the wedding day. We did ours about a month and a half after our wedding and it was fun to put on my wedding dress again. Thank goodness it still fit! We met with our photographer pretty early in the morning and went to a camp ground/beach about 30 minutes outside of Edmonton. It was a little chilly that day, but definitely worth it for the pictures!

WARNING: Lots of pictures ahead!


 
Haha our photographer told us to run across the beach…it was so hard in my heavy dress! 



Happy Wednesday everyone!