Wedding shower!

Nancy from work decided to throw us a wedding shower! She had a really cool idea about doing a pie bake off, which meant that she would have the pie crusts ready and she put all the ingredients that go into making an apple pie in the centre of the island. We split up into three teams. Barbie, Julie and I were on one team. Garth's wife Leighann, Amy, Connie and Nancy were on the other team. Lastly all the boys were on the last team...I know a co-ed wedding shower!?! It was great fun, Connie showed Julie and I how to properly roll out a pie crust onto a pie plate. We all had a bawl doing that, played around with the flour a bit. It was truly a great bonding experience and a great way to begin to celebrate Jesse and I getting married.

While we were waiting on the pies to bake we ate wieners, explored Nancy's house and property, which was gorgeous of course. Her house is beautiful, old country style with lots of antiques. It was cool to see what she had done with the place since we had been there last, she created a greenhouse and moved the firepit up the hill. Her husband created a pathway around their property and he made a scavenger hunt for the kids to go and explore. One of the greatest places in her house was her grandkids playrooms. She had antique toys, a foosball hockey table, air hockey, etc. It was fun. The boys had more fun in there with the toys there than with the actual adults. Mark and Jesse went against the kids and little did they know that Jesse don't let anyone win at all and that includes kids.

When the pies were done we all tried each others pie. Nancy's team had the most beautiful pie, my team's pie had the most gooeyist pie and Jesse's team won with the best pie! Out of all the people that could have won we couldn't have believed that it would be the boys! Everyone's pie had something unique about it! After that we opened presents and were showered with gifts in celebration of our love, which Jesse and I were not expecting.

We are truly grateful and appreciative out of everyone that came and for our hostess that put on this great fun time in celebration of our love! It was the best wedding shower I have ever attended! 

Levi's birthday party!

In August it was our friend Julie's son and husbands birthday! They both share the same birthday and Julie decided to throw levi a birthday party! She had rented a huge bouncy castle for him at her house and had a bbq. 

At the last minute a lot of kids cancelled but that didn't put a damper on his birthday! I think the adults had more fun in the bouncy castle than the kids! But man jumping on that castle took a lot of work! Even Jesse bounced in the bouncy castle! I couldn't believe it. Jesse and Mark their main goal for that bouncy castle was to deform it about as much as they could it drove Julie crazy but they didn't care they had too much fun! 

At one point in the day Mark and Jesse decided to deform the castle and give kids rides on the beam that held the top of the castle up. The kids completely loved that and had so much fun with that! Later on that evening they had put up Levi's big birthday present a pool! We had a massive water fight with that as well!

We really all had such a great time! 

Stag and doe!

Our friends Mark and Julie threw us a stag and doe in July, since our wedding is in september. They basically decided that they would throw a bbq for us and we would play some drinking games. The games that they decided on was Beersby - where you take three bottles on each side set them up on posts and you throw a frisby to get the bottles down - and heads up - a game on your phone. 

Julie had invited a few of her friends to come, whitney and josh a couple that had just recently gotten married and another couple Mitch and Michelle which were her friends for quite awhile. My boss Audrey also came and my coworker Nancy. At first the boys were outside already getting beersby set up and the girls were inside having a chat. The boys were playing beersby the proper way where if you knock a bottle down then you chug a whole beer so they were beginning to get drunk quite fast. When the girls started playing they changed the drinks of choice from beer to taking jello shots every time the other team knocked over a bottle. Which was fun but got you quite drunk fast. Nancy even got up later on during the evening and tried her shot at beersby! 

After other couples decided to leave and go home just Whitney and Josh were left and we decided to play heads up. It is a game on your phone where you place the phone facing your teammates while they act out the word that is displayed on the phone and the person holding the phone has to guess what the word is. This game was so hilarious it was boys against girls and the boys were so good at it. One of the words was a stripper and mark was the pole and Josh was the stripper it was so funny! 

But all in all it was a great night, a little bit fuzzy but a great way to spend our bachelor and bachlorette party! 

Another eventful weekend in Edmonton!

We have been trying to go up to Edmonton as much as possible because Jesse's mom is going to school there for 2 months. We decided to go up the weekend after I was on call to go see her again. This weekend was very eventful we did lots of things like mini golf, going to a movie and watching Jesse's mom weld.

The first night that we were there we decided to go do some mini golf to let Gord out so that Karen could study for her schooling. The golf place that we went to was Monster mini golf, it is attached to a bowling alley and an arcade. It was the coolest experience ever to go to this bowling alley, it is in the basement of the building, it is glow in a the dark, blaring music, it was basically like a night club but for all ages. There was so many teeny boppers there it was crazy! The arcade had a ton of games, some that were from when Gord was a kid. The few games that we did was they played old school pin ball, a shooting game and I decided to go into a tornado simulator! Jesse and I also had our first photobooth photos...awww.

After that we decided to go down to the mini golf, again it was glow in the dark. It was the coolest mini golf we ever saw too! It was all halloween/monster themed. They had these cool prosthetic monsters that did interactive things. The actual pars on the course had little themes for it, whether it was zombies, clowns or anything ghoulish! It was a great time! Gord was plastered as f*** Jesse and I were laughing there was really good loud music playing. It was so much fun! After we were finished playing a magician showed us a mini show. It was just a lot of fun altogether.

The next day Karen needed to practice her welds so we decided to go Gord's shop he was currently working at and watched her practice her welds. One thing I noticed right off the bat about welding is that you need a crap ton of patience, and a very steady hand. If you do not have either you get a very bad weld. They let me put on a mask and see what she was doing right up close, I never saw that before! Got some good photos of Jesse too *wink wink*

Later on that evening we decided to go to a movie, we went to go see Captain America. It was an ok movie. It was nice to go do something along with Karen instead of just hanging out with Gord or more babysitting Gord so that she could study and not have him distract her.

It was a great weekend and we haven''t had that much fun in a long time! Good drinks, good people and relaxation! What more could we have needed?

Future Mother in laws and Edmonton!

We went to go see Jesse's mom in Edmonton. She is currently going there for her last year of welding to become a Journeyman, just get her ticket and begin another trade. They decided to rent an apartment in Edmonton for the duration of her time there and Gord decided to work in town. We went up on the friday evening since we both missed him mom so much since she lives on the island and works in the oil field all the time. 

When we got there it was hard to find her apartment at first since it is located in something like a strip mall. There was a daycare, a dance studio and a convenient store that was attached to this apartment. We eventually did find it after Jesse's mom waved us down from the street! When we got there she was already gooned and wanted to party! She tried to get us going too, but we were so tired. She thinks we are 70 years old haha. 

The funny thing is that she had a good nest on the top of her apartment building and she kept on saying this kid would scream goose. I thought it was cute, but not really believing that there was a real goose nest on their roof. But there was a real goose nest there! Saturday morning we woke up to Geese just honking away like a rooster would, it was god awful! But again hilarious! Then we followed her around doing errands, she had to get slabs of metal to practice her welds for an midterm exam in her welding class. If she had failed those tests she would not have been able to continue her class. 

We ate out at Boston pizza and they decided to do VLTS between her and Gord they had won about 1000 dollars that day. I was feeling lucky too and tried my go at VLTS, but I didn't win anything. I just watched as Jesse's mom kept on winning 250 dollars at a time. It was nice though that they paid for our lunch for us. 

It was a great time bonding with my future mother in law and look forward to seeing her again! Maybe next time not so much eating out though..

Meeting Jesse's "Aunt"

We went down to Brook's one day to update our insurance and we decided to go visit Jesse's "aunt" at the same time. Holly is really good friends with his mom and Jesse has known her since he was about 5 years old, so basically she is his Aunt. It is really cool because she owns a tattoo/piercing/clothing/tanning salon.

 I was soooo excited about this because I love piercings. I have an obsession with them, after I got my nose pierced all I wanted was more piercings and it was my opportunity to get more piercings from a good piercer! She just asked me what I wanted done and she did it! I asked to get the top of my left ear done and my second hold piercings again. It was great because she let me choose where the piercing was supposed to be even though my second piercings were really close to the first ones, she still allowed me to do that. The first ear that was pierced hurt a little bit, then the second ear didn't hurt at all. When she went to pierce the top of my ear it hurt because of the earring I chose. The earring that I had chose was like a screw because it had a flat back and you could screw on a ball. She adviced this one because the flat back didn't hurt her ear. But to get that screw part on, hurt really bad. The actual piercing itself did not hurt but it stung more. 

After the piercings we talked about what we did especially about sterilization and the health board how indecisive they are about standards etc. It was great to talk to someone that knew what I was doing and what I knew about. I was super glad to meet her and cannot wait to see her again! 

New piercings love <3

GIRLS TRIP!

My cousin Sarah invited me up for a girls weekend in Edmonton sometime last month. It was nerve wrecking because it would be my first time driving to Edmonton by myself without Jesse driving. I really wanted to prove to myself that I could do it, because Jesse just might not always be around to drive me places etc. especially when we have children. The drive was great to Edmonton, I only missed 1 turn and in return it made my travel better. I was so proud that I was able to do the drive by myself. It was sweet because Jeremiah was worried about my driving, since he didn't know if I had driven by myself to Edmonton before, sarah was worried as well but I conquered it!

We decided to go over to my other cousin Brock's house and there I got to meet Angel his fiance. She is super nice and funny! We played a card game that was similar to cards against humanity and she gave us a little preview of what a Passion party would be like, the types of lotions, the toys, etc. (I even got to buy some stuff too) 

Sarah and I later went back to her house and we stayed up practically the whole night talking and watching girlie movies that our men would not want to watch with us. It was fun!

The next day we decided to go shopping, we went to South Common at forever 21, urban planet, etc. Sarah taught me this great trick at Sephora though, she told me to lie about my wedding being in a week and that my make up artist quit on me. They then will show you techniques for free! Sometimes I just love to work the system! It was great because I got to learn a new technique for my wedding and again it is for free. I used it back home in Red Deer too, it is a fantastic technique to learn new makeup skills! 

And that was our girls weekend! It was fabulous, it was fun and it was nice to get away for awhile and spend it with my cousins!