Dragon Fruit

So Monday night Chris and I went to Pete's Froutique in search of some strawberries for waffles today, since both of us were off. We bought a ton of fruit and also bought a "Dragon Fruit" to try... it was pretty yummy. It tastes like a kiwi but without that tarty kiwi taste.. it was pretty tasty and looks pretty cool too. Give it a try!!!!

Vegas Here we come!!!

So we are going back to Las Vegas for the second time in April :) we are really excited and can't wait to get away. The first time we visited we did the usual stuff.. went to The Grand Canyon, The Hoover dam and experienced the strip. This time we'll get to spend more time on the strip and take in a show and have really EXCELLENT FOOD.... I can't wait. Last time we were in Vegas the doctors didn't know what was wrong with my stomach, so I didn't get to enjoy the food, this time however things are different and I can't wait to taste all the yummy treats. I'll definatly take lots of pics. :) We are staying at the MGM grand Signature Hotel... it's very romantic :) Here's the link to the hotel.

http://www.signaturemgmgrand.com/

Before and After

So the weekend we painted the master bath.... here are a couple of pics, it's hard to get a pic of the whole room, but U get the picture of the colour. I guess I should of had the pictures in a different order..... obviously the white is before.

Happy Valentines Day

Hope everyone has a good Valentines Day... I already got my present from Chris this morning he had blown up 3 pictures from our trip to California, vegas and the grand canyon and framed them in black and white frames. I've been talking about it for a while and he did it for me.... he's such a sweet guy. I'm gonna hang them over my bed .. I think it will look really nice. Anyway, Have a good Valentines.

Don't Complain about snow

Here are 2 pics of the Trans Canada Highway in Labrador..... It will be July before the snow melts. Wow... Crazy!!!

Bath Time

Never Believe it!!!!

So the newest thing Cocoa has tryed is walking on the treadmill.... she's actually really good at it. It's pretty funny, we've been talking about trying it because it would be easy to exercise her.. well tonight off her and Chris went and she walked like crazy. It's hilarious, here are a few pics.

Tagged by Carly

So I had been tagged by Carly last week, but just finally got a chance to post this. It took a while to come up with 5 weird or unusal things about myself but I did it.. not that there aren't more then 5. LOL. Carly is way better at it then I am. Here they are....

1. If I wasn't a Network Technician for Aliant in Data Operations right now... I would of been a chef.
2. I have a major case of road rage when I'm in Bayers lake.
3. I love to garden and have been doing it since I was like 10 years old... or from what I can remember... I was a nerdy teenager..lol.
4. I'll eat mostly anything EXCEPT Green Peppers, but love cooking with them for their flavour.. WEIRD :)
5. I style my hair everytime I get out of the shower even if I'm going to bed or going for a workout on the treadmill. I'm a strange girl.

ok so I did what Carly asked, now I tag my good friend Patricia home in Newfoundland... Have fun.

Get Together in the New house

So saturday night a few people came over to see the new house. Sonja and Kevin, Carly, Rob, Ryan and steph... and Nick and his new girlfriend. For the rest of you that didn't show up.... we had lots of good food, wine and a very good time. I had made a hugh Cheese platter with 2 year old aged cheddar, havartti, brie and smoked gouda served with mixed nuts, dried apricots and bagette. I had also made home-made salsa, hummus with pita chips and of course HOT pepperoni. Red wine, Beer and the new Yellow Tail " bubbles" was also served... YUMMY. It was a nice night...... I'll probably do it again this summer which will be nice because you can go outside and overlook the lake and PARTY!!!! It was sooo good to see people I haven't seen in months we definatly need to get together more often and not for any special reason.... just because we want too. Oh and of course I have NO pics.. didn't even think about the camera.. maybe next time.

SICKY!!!!

So Since thursday night I've been in the bed and of course to the other place no-one wants to be @ 3am in the morning.... hugging the 0ld porcelain bowl. I've literaly had zero appetite, have had absolutly no engery and other things I didn't think were humanly possible ( but you definatly don't need to know details) I wouldn't wish this bug on anyone... I wanted to die on thursday evening when it first started. So of course like everything else, I get a call from Chris on Satursday from work... he's sick too, so both of us have had it, what a lovely weekend. Good news though, I've ate some food today so I should be good for work tomorrow and looking forward to this weekend.

Doggie Date

So on Saturday one of Chris's Co-workers Julian asked us to bring Cocoa over to his house for a playdate with his new puppy Ellie, she's 10 weeks old and also a lab with a little mix of collie. They both need a good ass kicking by a bigger dog!!!! They played for hours and still never got tired... but they did play well so that's good for us since we though Cocoa is a beast. The reason why I say that is because last week at Puppy School she was by far the worst puppy in class... but hopefully this week she'll be better, since she's been playing with other dogs more this week. Trying to train a really well behaved dog is a full time job!!! I know Carly's laughing cause she has 2 kids and I talk about the dog as if she's my baby..... lol, but she is for now. Anyway, here are a few of pics from Saturday afternoon.

28 Lbs

So Cocoa went to the Vet this morning and had her shots, she is now 28Lbs... very heavy. We start puppy school tomorrow night!!! Which will be good because for the most part were the ones going to school to learn.. not her. All those puppies in the same room, she'll be pretty tired tomorrow night :) it will be a good night sleep. Here's a couple of pics from this morning after we got back.

COLD

Today is the coldest day we've had all winter... and boy is it cold. This morning it was -20 outside with a windchill of -34 degrees, it was so cold that there was steam rising off the ocean when I wento over the bridge this morning to get to work. Right now it's warmed up a little... -18 with a windchill of -30 degrees.. the sun is out and it's a little warmer :)

SNOW in January

I can't believe that we finally had snow.. I'm not exactly over excited to see it, but it's kinda nice to be reminded that it's actually winter. It was a slippery night last night, went home from work @ around 5:30pm.. the traffic wasn't too bad, I got home @ 6pm, which surprised me because the way everyone was talking I thought I was gonna be stuck here at work. When I came back over the bridge @ 8 to pick Chris up from work... the roads weren't too bad and there weren't that many cars on the rd. 4 trips over the bridge yesterday, I think that's my limit. I think that most of the snow will be gone again today anyway... raining now!!!!

iPhone

I love the new iPhone that Apple released, it's awesome. I want one really bad!!!!! But Aliant's Network doesn't support the phone yet, so it might be awhile. I think it's really cool and convienent.. Music, Movies, Internet and phone.... Pretty Cool.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

New GPS

So Chris went out after Christmas and bought himself a GPS... he's been wanting it for a long time and since we travel a lot, the GPS would make life a little easier when were in bigger cities. I love it... it's really small and U can listen to music and everything on it. In fact since I'm new to the dartmouth area I use it for that..lol. It's the Mio C310X and it's the cutest GPS, very small, light weight, mountable on the car dash and very user friendly with all touch menus on the screen. I love it!!!! it's our newest toy.

http://www.miogps.com/US/products_c310xfeatures.htm

Congrats

So congratulations to one of my best friends home in Newfoundland... Dawn and Taylor are expecting their second baby!!! Due in June. Maybe it will be a boy this time.. Hannah Banana is the cutest, but she really needs a brother. It was pretty cute how she told her family, they made up t-shirts for Hannah with "I'm gonna be A BIG SISTER!!!" it was pretty funny. She sent me the pics with the Christmas card of Hannah in her shirt, I thought it was a pretty cool way to tell people.

Splash.... Splash

Splash, Splash I was taking a bath.... Here is a pic of Cocoa in the tub last night, she's a NUT when it comes to water. She barks to get in the tub... last night she went swiming in the tub. The pic is a little blurry, she wouldn't stay still and the batteries where dying in the camera.

Happy New Year

Hope everyone has a wonderful year!!! I'm sure a lot of people are tired from all that partying last night. Bring on 2007, I have a feeling it's gonna be a good year.

LAZY

Some Chirstmas Pictures

A Leak

So on wednesday afternoon we packed up and went to Chris's parents house in the valley for the night. Cocoa included. We had a great dinner and spent some time with his brother as well... it was very nice, even had a few flakes of snow. We headed back home yesterday, only to find a puddle of water in the middle of the kitchen, with water also dripping out of the kitchen light... Oh god I thought, where in the hell is that coming from. After thinking for a minute I realized the washer and dryer is above it... so I went running up over the stairs, of course the intake on the back of the washer that is always on for hot/cold water was loose and was dripping just enough to make the floor wet and start dripping downstairs. We took off the light, everything is drying out and the hardwood isn't damaged too bad... in fact today it's started to dry out so it's settling backdown. Thank god we never stayed for another night, god only knows what we would of come home too. Everything is almost back to normal and between Chris and I... the Crisis was diverted :) I never had the landlord to call this time!!!!!! Had to fix it ourselves :)

Christmas Day

So I think this is very Blog worthy, Christmas Day I got off @ 3:30pm from work and rushed on home to Chris so we could open our presents.. since I was working all day. Santa was good to me this year even though I thought the house was my present!!!! I got my Japanese Santoku Knife, it's a chef's knife, a mandoline for slicing thinly and a red crock pot for baking stews and roasts. Well after we had all the presents opened.... we needed to find a place for supper, I thought maybe some places would still be open.... NOTHING, we ended up at the Irving Big Stop in Enfield for supper...lol. Today however I cooked turkey dinner in my new oven for the first time and it was awesome, I used the Convection option. Anyway, hope everyone is enjoying their holidays, I actually right now at work... working backshift tonight, then off for a couple of days.

Merry Christmas

Hope Everyone has an awesome Christmas. I'll be working all Christmas so not too much going on with me. Being the junior person in the group... I got the lucky opportunity to work Christmas. I guess I've been pretty lucky, this is actually the first Christmas I've had to work since I've been with Aliant (5 Christmas's)... and the $$$$$$ will be very good. Infact it will probably pay for Christmas no problem. I have Boxing day off, so Chris and I will have our turkey dinner then, Christmas supper will probably be take out..lol. We will be going to the valley to see Chris's parents on the 27th in the afternoon, since I'm working backshift the night before and need some sleep first. Well hope everyone has a great holiday and I hope to see you all in the New Year for a visit to our new house.

Our Christmas Tree

Now I just have to finish baking, shopping & wrapping.... and everything else!!!!!!!!

Cocoa Playing Around

Here is Cocoa playing with Chris's Basket ball... she really is silly, she sits on the ball... to the point her back paws lift off the ground. Lol.

Close To Christmas

So it's really close to Christmas, I can't believe it's almost here. I'm actually not that excited this year, I'm working most of the holidays... which kinda sucks, first house and working, but on the brightside Christmas pay is good $$$$. I'm at work today until midnight, I haven't been here in a few days, I've been sick with a cheast/lung infection. Lucky ME!!! Anyway, I've got lots of time tonight, so I think I'll finish up my Christmas Cards.. so I can get them in the mail on monday, I've already got a bunch sent last week. I've also got all my supplies for cookies this year and plan to make them this week, I'm off mon-wed so I'll finish shopping and baking. Also have a few Christmas presents to make.. Centerpieces for the table made with real boughs, they are pretty nice and make the house smell nice. I haven't got all my Christmas shopping finished!!! How about U guys????? I've been pretty busy. Anyway, Hope everyone has an excellent Chirstmas, I'll update with some tree house pics in the next few days.

46 ColdStream Run

Here are some pics of the New House!!!! I will have a PARTY when I get things all ready :)

Finally

Finally We are in our new house @ 46 Coldstream Run. We are very tired and exhausted from yesterday ..long day even though the movers did all the work, just a lot of running around to do. Anyway, Just wanted to tell everyone we are in... pictures will be coming soon. I'm on vacation until the 13th of December and my parents will be here sunday with Cocoa. I promise I'll have pictures soon.

Cocoa's First PhotoShoot

Here is a pic from Cocoa's first photoshoot with my sister who is a photographer, I think this picture is adorable. I can't wait to get her this weekend when my parents come. This picture came about because the puppy started lying in my mothers antique bowl on the bottom shelf of the Island in the kitchen.... fearing the safety of the bowl my mother removed the bowl, now Cocoa lies on the shelf and takes naps while mom is cooking. My parents have her soooo spoiled. I think the pic would look nice in the kitchen.. lol.

Almost There!!!!

So In less than a week the house will be finished, we met with the builder today and went throught the house. It was so nice to finally see the inside, we haven't been inside since the frame and everything was roughed in. Everything was to our liking, we are now excited again to be moving into our new house. The builder says he should be able to turn the house over to us on Tuesday end of the day, I'm so excited to finally have the house. 1 more week and Cocoa will finally be here along with my parents. Well that's all for now, lots of packing ... actually way too much packing. I can't belive we are almost there!!!!!!

Delays, Delays, Delays.......

So, our house is not going to be completed on time as previous quoted by the builder.. we definatly will not be in the house on Friday the 24th as planned. The new date is Nov 30th.... which has put us in a kaotic and frustrating position. My parents were coming on Sat the 25th with the new puppy, both Chris and I had our vacation booked, and we had so many companies delivering to the house it's not funny. I'm pretty upset and pissed at the same time. I guess I shouldn't of been so nieve, but our builder never gave us any indication that he needed more time until friday. We now have the Crisis diverted, we have changed my parents flights, which means one more week without Cocoa. Tomorrow morning I'll sleep after backshift.. then change all the dates tomorrow with EVERYONE!!!! Then I have to go and beg my manager to change my vacation AGAIN.... Oh, well I guess when we are finally in this all will be a distant memory of the past. Things will work out and we will be on our way to Christmas. Wish us luck!!!

Christmas is coming!!!

Before you know it Christmas will be here, last night was the Holiday Christmas Parade of Lights, we weren't really ready in time to go down cause I wasn't feeling well after backshift yesterday morning, so I slept all afternoon... and had a late supper/breakfast. But hearing the music and watching the parade from the balcony still got me in the Christmas mood. Here is a slideshow that the Herald put on their site for people to see. Check it out.

http://herald.ns.ca/photo_news/parade/index.html

Tired

So it's almost time for me to go home.. thank god, I can't wait to go to sleep in my own bed. Last night was the start of my 7 backshifts in a row.... and a 11 day stretch I'm starting with no days off in between. But when it's all over... I'll be on vacation and in my house with our new puppy. I'm so excited I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!! Here are a few new pics of Cocoa, she's soooooo adorable. My Parents got her yesterday, the 2 week stretch is here... the countdown starts :)

Happy Birthday To ME

So today is my Birthday!!!! I'm 26 :) It's been a good weekend, last night Chris and I went to his aunt's house in Dartmouth and had dinner, cake and a PARTY. Lots of wine and Beer. This morning I slept in and Chris got up early.. he went out and got strawberries, blackberries and flowers to go with the breakfast he cooked for me. Breakfast consisted of Bacon, pancakes, lots of fresh berries and coffee.. it was awesome. Oh, and the flowers were a big bouquet of orange lilies. It was a very nice day. I've added a few pics including my baby b-day cake we got today, I was craving cup-cakes with butter cream icing, so the closet we could find was a baby b-day cake with butter cream icing. YUM. Hope everyone is having a great long weekend :) I sure am.

No more Fish

So, it's official my fish are now gone. I spent my day off on monday taking the tank apart and cleaning it out. Wasn't that fun, the big fish were hard to catch.... very fast. Anyway, it's all done now and they are living in their new house @ Patrick's. It will be one last thing I'll have to take care of when we finally move into the new house... I'm betting the dog will be enough for me to handle. Anyone with kids right now is defintly laughing at me.. lol. :) I'll miss the little creatures and my planted tank, but not the weekly water changes.

Halloween

Here is a pic of Storm @ Halloween... it's one of our Friends dog's. I think he looks pretty cute!!!!!

Just Packing & Relaxing

The only thing I did this weekend that was exciting was pack... lol. We started packing up boxes of stuff in the apartment, the time to the house closing is getting closer then we think. They are painting this week, so as far as we know things are on schedule. The fish tank is being taken apart tomorrow and the plants and fish are going to their new home at Patrick's.. since I'm off tomorrow and should probably take advantage of the day for packing and getting ready for the move. Will have more updated pictures of Cocoa soon. My parents get her on the 13th of Nov and then she will be here with Chris and I in our new house on the 25th. We are very excited and can't wait for everything to be over with. Tonight is the Patriots vs. Colts game... should be very interesting... go Patriots. Hope everyone had a good weekend it was cold out but nice.