Speed Demons

Angie and Darrel were here visiting Jennifer and Chris last week, all the way from Iqaluit, Nunavut. The boys decided they wanted to go to the indoor race track on Saturday night. Jamie was quite excited since he had been there once before with the guys from his work and knew how much fun it was. Big guy + tiny little go-cart = very tight squeeze. lol :) Crazy boys, they were whipping around the track like mad men...one guy looked like he was getting pretty upset at Jamie for not letting him pass. I could just picture the go-carts turning into bumper cars...eeek!

Here are a few pics. Us girls have definitely got to try it next time. Spectating and taking pics not quite as fun but still good. Got a couple of shots but mostly they're fuzzy (hard to capture the zooming cars on the race track) not to mention we were trying to take pics through the glass upstairs.
The Boyz

Jamie

Dark Fuzzy Racetrack

Christa and ME

Jen & Angie

Cuba here we come!

It's official! Jamie and I are going to Cuba! Yay! This is so exciting!

We decided to go on April 9th (a Sunday) and will stay until the following Sunday, the 16th. This is the week before Christa & Kristen, Jen & Chris are going so we've all worked it out perfectly to overlap the weekend so we can spend it together in Cuba. See, It's impossible for us all to vacation together because Jen and I can't have the same time off at work. But this is the next best thing and I am so happy that it's all falling into place. At first we thought it was going to be impossible for us to stay at the same resort but last night it all worked out. We had called the travel agent and there was nothing. Online, there was nothing. But then, all of a sudden the right dates in the SAME resort appeared at selloffvacations.com and we booked it up. Kristen really loved the look of this resort and had heard good things about Iberostar as a chain and the reviews online are great! So we're all going with it. They (our friends) will be booking on Monday to fly the Friday, April 14th giving us the whole weekend to spend together and have fun. I just can't wait!

Olivia's First Restaurant Visit

Here are a few pics of our dinner at "Casey's" with Mom on Monday night before she left to fly back to Newfoundland. Olivia slept almost the whole time but Isabella made up for it by trying to escape to run around the tables. lol :)

My Mama and Erykah


Remember skinny scrawny little Darren - well now he's 214lbs...here with Bella.


Tracey and Olivia who as of today is 9 lbs 6 oz.

The Case of the Missing Mug

Just went for my mid-morning snack and a hot chocolate and my missing MUG has re-appeared. And it was all dirty and dusty...like it had been left out in the maintenance office or somewhere for the last 2 months since I last saw it.

Ok, some background info:
When I started working here, I brought my own mug. It is white with cartoon cows on it frolicking in the flowers. Yup, no company logo for confusion...just cows!

And I have used this same mug every day for the past 9 years and something. Just like I use the SAME water glass and the SAME fork.

It's not that I am a germ-o-phobe or anything. I just really like the monotony of using the same stuff. I have been like this with glasses and utensils since I was a child. Remember those glasses you would get free at the gas station with a fill-up? Remember the ones with the Care bears on them? Well that was my glass as a kid. I used it every day until it broke. And then I started using a new cup. The same one. Every day.

And I am like it at home too. I use the same glass (Jamie calls it the ugly brown glass). And that's just how it is. Perhaps a little obsessive compulsive but whatever.

And now after finally coming to terms with my cow mug being gone forever, it has returned. I am so happy about it. I really am at the level of being ridiculous enough to be happy about the return of my cow mug.

Oh, and Christa...your teddy bear mug has returned too!! Not that you'll be needing it since you LEFT US!...but we could always fed-ex it.

Ages

That's how long it seems since I last posted in my blog. Lots of stuff on the go with the new baby and my mom being here to visit and all of that.

Olivia is doing wonderfully. She's so cute when she's all curled up and her hair is all stuck up in a mohawk on top of her head. She's different than Erykah and Isabella were when they were babies, she's probably a LITTLE more like Erykah with some of her features. But her HAIR...it's hilarious...and it's thick and STRAIGHT! But God only knows what it'll look like down the road, they change so much and so quickly.

My mom went back home yesterday morning. She was really a lot of help to my sister. So great of her to fly up to help out with the baby and the 2 girls. And now my sister may have her hands full. But she'll be okay with a little added patience. Erykah is pretty self-sufficient and quite helpful. Isabella is good too, don't get me wrong, but she's so rough and really "extra"! I feel bad that I don't get to help as much now that I live out of town. It was so easy with Erykah and Isabella when I lived in the same apartment building. We were all together and I could go up and visit or they could come down and visit anytime. It's weird. It's hard. I don't like it. That's the only thing I hate about our moving.

And now that Jamie and I are thinking about having our own baby, I believe I have FINALLY convinced him that we need a vacation. This could be our last opportunity to go away together and I really feel it's important to do that before we start a family. Last week after the reality set in that the friends (Jennifer and Chris, Christa and Kristen) are definitely going away, I think he realizes how great it would be. And I am so so so happy about that! We have scheduled off the week of April 10th and have applied for our passports. Haven't officially booked anything yet but it looks like CUBA here we come!! And if anyone has any hotel/resort recommendations, PLEASE share!

And so now comes the urgent need for some weight loss. I swear, I am the heaviest I have ever been and I hate it, I feel crappy. It's been really packing on and I don't quite understand it. But anyways, I've been trying to "Be good" on my own and thought I was doing ok but the weight scale says differently. So it's back to Weight Watchers I go. Sometime this week. I will start to be accountable for my food intake. And start trying to exercise more. And now to convince my dear hubby to walk with me or eat healthy with me. He's the worse! I mean it...such a picky eater...and hates to go for walks....continues to talk about us needing to lose weight but doesn't actually want to do anything about it. Let me share a list:

Jamie's List - "I can't walk tonight because...."

- Too tired
- Too late
- Too early
- Too cold
- Too hot
- Not enough time
- Too lazy
- Don't feel like it
- I can't keep up to your fast walking (bologne!)
- Ate too much supper
- Too rainy
- Too foggy
- Too snowy
- Feet hurt
- Legs hurt
- Head hurts

...and the list goes on and one, etc, etc. Kinda frustrating. Any suggestions to get our asses in gear?

And today is:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTA!!!

and to my little cousin HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY CAILEIGH!!!

Don't forget to share those resort recommendations! So exciting,...I just can't wait!!

This one was taken today on my visit at lunchtime. Eyes finally open for a second!

My first cuddle with the new baby

The Family

Baby Feet

Olivia (9lbs of her) being weighed...the scale reminds me of how they weigh fish back home...ha ha!