I'm Back

The horrible blogger is back again!

See the thing is, I rarely have anything interesting to say! Life goes on, its all routine! Although the past few weeks have been a crazy whirlwind for me... which I will get into detail at a later date:)

But currently Im excited about my two new toys:)

So I turned a quarter of a century a week and a half ago. It was a great birthday:) Ben and I spent the Saturday night in Fantasyland Hotel (located in West Edmonton Mall) - And no we did not get a theme room! We got a regular room which was really nice:) Anyway, I had been dropping hints for quite awhile that I want an IPhone. The issue was that I was only a year into my contract... on a three year. So it would be expensive. Well I had made myselft not expect it... and the gift I opened was a picture... of an IPhone... it was amazing! Ben had found out it would be way cheaper than we had originally thought.

Well... I absolutely love it! And my plan is the same price which is awesome! I'm amazed at how much stuff you can do on it! One of my favorite Apps is IMDB (internet movie database) I am always curious about actors and where I have seen them before... and now I have it at my fingertips!

But anyway, there are so many Apps to choose from its crazy!!

And....

I bought one (Canon T2I) of these in November of last year... and at Christmas an error popped up! A normal error that just says to clean the lens connection. Well.... I tried... and it didnt work.... So I sent it in... It took 6 weeks... it came back... I was so busy and it was winter so it was dark out every day! Anyway, after a week I turned it on, snapped a few pics and BAM same error message... So i immediatly took it in...

5 weeks later it was back again... we go home and Im thinking "it has to be fixed!" Turn it on... take about 10 pictures right off the bat... then BAM error... so Im frustrated... its almost summer, I dont want to miss anything... So I go in to Black's Photography... I explain that this is a lemon, cant they see that! There were a few tears... especially when they said they cant do anything. I was so frustrated... I went to Black's Photography for their customer service... AND NOTHING!!! I really do wish I had gotten my camera at Costco because they would have replaced it immediatly when they saw it was a lemon!

Anyway, I got a call about 3 weeks later (on my birthday) that they had a brand new camera sitting there for me... I was so excited! FINALLY!!!! Anyway, Ive used it here and there (as Im still so busy!) and it is great! I asked when I went to pick it up if Canon said anything about it being a lemon & they said No, they just tried it out when it came back and the same issue happened immediatly. But I have a new camera now... and I will NEVER buy anything from Black's Photography EVER AGAIN!

To end things off... last night I had a dream... that I was here....

Glasgow West End... sigh. I miss it a lot sometimes.

Nothing To Tell

Its amazing how so much time can go by with nothing extremely interesting happening... there really isnt much to say!

Life is going by... still newly married... still working... still living in Calgary... still lots of things! Most of our days consist of getting up... going to work... coming home... making/eating dinner... maybe going to the gym or watching TV... that is it!

Even with my new camera I havent even had time to go out with it. It gets dark the moment I get home from work. PLUS it was broken at Christmas... then would randomly work... then all of a sudden it doesnt anymore! So I had to send it in to get fixed, which is very unfortunate!

I do have news that I am going be having a fourth niece join the world at the end of July! My sister has two boys... and wanted to keep it that way... but God had a different plan... and she is expecting the first Stewart Girl:) Im so excited (ive already bought 2 outfits!)

The longer I live in Calgary... the more I realize that the main topic of conversation is... drumroll... The Weather! mixed in with some Flames talk. But I cannot get over how much people talk about the weather here. Mind you, it does a lot of things to make it worth talking about. For instance... yesterday it was -34C which for you Americanos is -29F... so that was all yesterday... there is snow everywhere, I can barely see any roads... and the snow is frozen... so when you drive you are constantly sliding all over the place (which i like:)). Then today... oh look a Chinook is coming... weather people are saying! +4C!!! (39.2F) How crazy is that! No wonder I have a really really bad headache! Although it hasnt even reach -10C yet... so maybe they are wrong about this so called Chinook:)

At least it gives people something actually interesting about the weather to talk about!

To make this post at least a little bit interesting...

Ben and his new car, it is so amazing! Such a blessing to have, his old car was so horrible... it never heated up one bit... whenever i would drive it to work, I wouldnt be able to feel my feet when I got there!

This is what it has looked like since November! Quite pretty though!

Hanging out with the little girls in Edmonton!

Decided

I did it! I found a great design that I love!

Today it was FINALLY light out as I drove to work, we are out of the dark ages! I got to watch the beautiful sunrise during my commute this morning, stunning! I do miss my commute from the South though. I had to drive up this massive hill which over looked the city. Seeing the sunrise behind the city skyline was just breathtaking. With my new commute I only get glimses of the sunrise here and there. Oh well! I love where we are living so much more now so I guess I will get over it.

On the radio all they were talking about was Balzac Billy the Groundhog... and if he was going to show is shadow or not! (Balzac is a small town just North of Calgary) I have never actually heard of waiting for Groundhogs telling us when spring is coming!! I know about it from the movie "Groundhog Day" but I have never experience people actually waiting to find out when Spring will end from a Groundhog! I guess that is what happens when you have severe winters and you want to know if the end is near!

I even found a lovely picture of Balzac Billy:

Oh and it is official! I just found on 660 News that Billy DID see his shadow... that means we are in for 6 more weeks of winter! The 3 Groundhogs on the East Coast of Canada all DIDNT see their shadow... so I guess the West gets endure more winter... Interesting as right now Eastern Canada is buried in snow.

This past weekend we were up in Edmonton... We stayed with the Timmermans! It was a lot of fun to see them and play with the girls. Kyla is almost 2 (the picture below) and she is turning into quite the hilarious character! While I was up there I got my hair cut! Chopped it all off... finally! It had been long for way too long! It feels so much better and no more dead ends!

On the trip up there was a pretty bad snow storm... so it took us an extra hour to get there! And my arm was hurt from being tensed while driving for part of it! But we made it!

It looks longer than it actually is in this picture... it sits above my shoulders... but in this picture I was VERY cold (in the -28C) so I was scrunched into my scarf waiting for the car to heat up!

Ben n I have been slowly decorating our new place. It is coming together... I will post new pics soon!

So I'm having issues... I can't find a background I like for my blog...

I would like some feedback on this background... thanks!! (I will post soon! I have a great idea!)