Apr 18, 2010
Apr 8, 2010
Yup - it most definitely got the better of me...
Eating delicious carrot crap on our weekend trip to Banff
It's amazing I havn't had a heart attack yet.
Being married to this man has been one of the most freeing, wonderful, exciting and loving things I have ever experienced - but I ain't gonna lie. He DOES make me nervous sometimes...
Nate building our garage out back.
MARCH MADNESS
Wow! They grow up so quickly! As the weather begins to get warmer and the days start to get longer, (hallelujah) our little kitty Milo demonstrates that time doesn't stop for anyone. He's getting bigger and bigger and bigger everyday. With his physical size getting larger and his piggish eating habits get nastier, his confidence also gets stronger.
Milo loves his little Donkey Kong toy now. He grabs that poor stuffed toy with his two front paws, lays on his back, puts donkey kong's head in his mouth and with his hind legs repeatedly kicks the living daylights out of the tiny donkey. Oh well, he's stuffed and inanimate so it's all good.
Work has been out of control busy. Our gr. 11 PVA students participated in Kiwanis Music Festival with four different pieces - two of which were student directed scenes and the other two were musical theatre pieces directed and choreographed by yours truly. We have a really talented and determined assistant principal at our school who fully supported the notion to compete in the festival; however, having only ever done numerous Dance competitions in my lifetime, I had no clue what to expect or aim for. Our AP and my other two colleages were extremely gracious in their help and direction and assisted in leading the students to two Gold placements and two Superior placements within their classes. I was so proud of them.
Mar 14, 2010
Feb 22, 2010
Jan 29, 2010
Dislike of Donkey Kong
So, I bought a few little toys for Milo (who really is turning out to be great practice for Nate and I and our future offspring), and he absolutely loves all the balls, mice and fuzzy toys from Petcetera. However, he absolutely hates this one stuffed toy.
We nicknamed the toy 'Donkey Kong' because he's a tiny little gorilla on the end of a stretchy string, and the toy has a tiny little bell on the end of it; but for some reason, Milo hates him. He actually runs in the opposite direction when he sees him. But to Nate and I, Kong is cute -we can't figure it out. Strange... have a look.
Jan 26, 2010
Jan 23, 2010
Jan 22, 2010
then we went along, got a little kitty and called him:
DR. MILO BUTTS
Dr. Butts is a character from the Shakespearean play King Henry VIII - the drama major in me couldn't resist. The name Milo comes from a really cool old fat white dude that we met in the Bahamas. He sold bananas and mangos on the side of the road on the island of Great Guana Cay. Nate and I agreed that should we ever get a male kitty, we would name him after Milo.
Our little guy was found on the fabulous website KIJIJI after many days and nights of searching. We think he's a bit of a mix of ragdoll/ragamuffin and tabby mixed in there. He's 8 weeks old and just teeny tiny. I've almost stepped on him a few times and it's funny, he smells like fresh linen, cotton and dust combined. I have always been a cat lover, in fact my first love Kassy is still alive and well at my parents place. We didn't take her because she's treated like a princess with an extremely skitish personality and unfortunately, she never did love Nate. However; secretly I know it would break my Dad's heart if he didn't have Kassy around their house.
But back to Dr. BUTTS! How can you resist a face like this one? I mean - we knew we wanted a little sweetheart, but seriously, I didn't know they come in teddy bear. He's the cuddliest little animal that I've ever come across. So far, we've discovered that his likes include: Burts Bees Lipbalm off of my lips, water from the bottom of granola cereal bowl and long naps on Nate's warm cozy lap. His dislikes include: the air vents in the floor - he's scared of the air that comes out of them and being left alone for longer than three minutes. 
Jan 20, 2010
The Wonderful Wandlers
Saturday night fun with the Wandzies
One of the things that I miss most about my job at James Fowler High School is working with one of my best buddies - Alli Wandler nee Field.
Alli (a.k.a Magic Wandz, we gave each other nicknames) is an amazing woman for so many reasons. However, I'm especially excited to write about her in this post because she is due any day now!!! I couldn't be happier for her and her husband Dave because I know how badly they wanted to start a family. I also happen to know that they are going to have the most beautiful children in the world, but more importantly, there is no doubt in my mind that they will raise their gorgeous offspring to be the best behaved, respectful, loving and caring kids around - because Alli and Dave both are. We love you guys and can't wait to help you welcome pea pod into the world.
Beautiful Allison and Pea Pod. Month nine!!!
Jan 10, 2010
Chillaxin' in Mazatlan
What is it about a tropical vacation that gently leads a couple into the affections of falling in love all over again? Is it the warmth in a sunset, or possibly the work free days that give way to deep conversation over dinner? Possibly it's a little extra vino that nudges a bashful wife into saying a few words that don't always find their way out of her mouth in cold cowtown Calgary - 'Let's leave...now'. I don't know exactly what that key ingredient is but I do know that Nate and I got a little taste of it for the week that we were vacationing away.
It seems that we can't stray too far from the ocean for too long. We're both huge fans of warm weather, soft sand and sea salt spray - a wonderful trio; but when you add an all inclusive hotel set on the end of a beach, endless supplies of gourmet food and refreshments of any sort, it's heaven.
One of the first highlights of the trip was at the airport. Nate and I had checked our bags and were waiting in the line to be body scanned when this clerk came running up to us with two large white tickets. He walks right up to us, hands us the tickets and says: 'I upgraded you both' and walks away. Nothing else, no reasoning, no justification for doing it - just that. We looked at each other in shock and just started laughing. We'll take that!
The next surprise came when arrived at the hotel. Back in November when we booked our tickets, we were given the option to either go with a room with a 'garden' view or upgrade it to an ocean view for however much more money. Nate and I agreed that a garden view would be just as nice and we could spend that 'ocean view' money on something else. However, as we stepped into the room, both of our eyes were immediately struck by one of the most gorgeous views of the ocean I had ever seen. We had been upgraded yet again with no reasoning behind it, no justification for the hotel upgrading us, but just doing it. Saweet.
Another wonderful part of the trip was connecting with fellow Calgarians and making new friends. There were three or four other couples about our age who we would see from time to time walking around the resort. In the evenings, we would run into each other and we talked and laughed and began to develop new relationships. We even discovered that I went to elementary school with one of the other wives!!! Talk about a small world.
On the last day, we were incredibly sad to be leaving such a gorgeous and relaxing place, but we agreed that we would return to the hot and humid Mexico mucho pronto.
Jan 6, 2010
Christmas Shenanigans
Kassy (my kitty) is obsessed with the plastic ribbon on top of gifts and will eat it until she's sick
Paul was really really into it.
So in love. Dad bought her a gorgeous gold necklace and she was so happy she laughed until she cried.
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