Waaay Back Tuesday

As I was making my recent photo book, I came across soo many pictures that  reminded me of soo many memories, so I figured I would share those with you today!!

This is one of my favorite pics taken at our first wedding as married guests:

It is also the last time I had blonde highlights!!! Almost 5 years ago!!

Oh and our CRAPPY engagement pics... I soo wish I had of done them with an actual photographer instead of a studio:

We got a whole bunch and mike's smile looks silly in this one... but this is the only one that popped up on my cd!

Our Christmas card in 2008:

This took a lot of patience on both M and I's part. Half the pics ended up with the cats looking miserable, or Diamond's ears back. M had to catch the cats as they tried to escape, luckily motion was slowed down with those hanker chief's around their necks! No one was injured during this picture! lol

And then I came across this one, which just made me laugh... Jazz is such a loving cat:

No one was injured... they were just playing. This is how Jazz plays!!

I got a new iPhone and I am just now trying to figure it all out!!!

Happy Tuesday!

4 Years!!!

My sweet sweet Lily is 4 today!! Hard to believe it! On January 22, 2008, our lives changed for the better and we gained a new best friend! I'm not saying that as a puppy she didn't find trouble... a few remote controls, my old camera, shoes, books, coffee table, kitchen floor, kennel liner and several dog toys may have been chewed and she can pretty much get out of anyway you contain her, including a kennel. Luckily those days were short lived and now I can say we have a "pretty" perfect dog and to be honest, I would do it all over again!

1 out of 11 siblings:

Shes the one in the front right with her nose burrowed down (still does that)

Her mom (Molly) and dad (Rocky) - she is a spitting image of her dad!

5 weeks

7 weeks - first nap at home!!

Getting acquainted at home with her toys - gather them all and lay in the middle of them all!

Learning from and copying Diamond!

4 months!

First swim - 6 months!

8 months

9 months - she LOVES swimming!!

10 months

1 1/2 and Gracie - 9 weeks

I would be lost without the 2 of them!!

Happy Birthday Lily!!! Here is to many more years of love and excitement!!

A Trip Down Old Christmas Photos Lane

Soo today I found this super old pic of M and I during one for our first few years of dating at Christmas time:

Look how young we look!!

I also found this one:

This one was from M's commencement - so this one would have been a year into our relationship! Look how tint M looks! Haha! I look tiny too... too tiny! This would have been taken the year before the first photo, a couple weeks before Christmas!

Another old one!

2007 Christmas card picture:

Look how tiny Jewish looks!! I miss Diamond and Copper!

Ripper and Diamond opening their presents in 2008 - They sure did love opening presents!!

H's First Christmas 2009:

First Christmas Family Photo:

Binx's First Christmas/my Christmas present from M:

Our First Year Hosting Christmas Morning:

Gracie's First Christmas:

(7 Months)

I don't have access to 2010 right now... and I will be sure to get some for 2011!!

I hope you enjoyed a trip down Christmas memory lane!

Rain, Rain, Go Away - Come Again Another Day

Wow we are getting a TON of rain, but I am more than happy it is rain!!! Snow and I don't get along. Although I heard we may get some of that tonight :(

Sorry I missed blogging again yesterday, I ended up doing some typography for a client! They ended up looking something like this:

via Pinterest

This was the first typography project I did and it was a lot of fun!!! I will try to remember to post the ones I did!!

I also ended up getting my new phone:

via

It is sooo cute!!!

And last night ended up being bath night for the dogs!!!

Let me think back to what my weekend was like...

Friday - M and I chilled at home. With him working Saturdays it kind of kills the social life lol, but that is okay!

Saturday - I went shopping with my mom and H. We tackled my sisters 3 page grocery list.... yes 3 pages... with a toddler.... in Walmart!!! I think we are crazy!!! H was totally done by the end of it! I will admit I was shopped out too!! Have I ever mentioned how much I hate shopping at this time of the year? Mini rant: People need to be patient and less rammy! Don't park your cart in the middle of an isle so no one can get around you! Don't ram your cart into the back of my heels! Okay, I will stop there.... you probably all know what I am talking about!!

M attempted to make the same dinner I made last Friday and FAILED...

I watched Marley and Me Saturday night, which only stirred up soo many emotions!!! Why do I do this to myself?! I LOVE the movie, but it had me in tears. I can relate to that movie sooo much!! Not to mention Diamond looked like Marley, especially in the end!!

Man I miss her!!! M had come up to bed by the end of the movie and we were both in tears!!! We laid in bed and reminisced about her!!

She was such a good sport!!!

She came to the wedding... okay the pictures portion!!!

Loved boating and had mastered the I can sleep sitting up!!

Although we had rescued her and didn't have a destructive dog, I think Lily's puppy stage made up for that... and Dimey had to put up with her....

Miss you Dimey!!!

Sunday - we headed to KW and hit up Costco and Henry's! I am trying to choose between the Canon T2i and the Nikon 3100!!

That was pretty much our weekend....

I hope everyone had a great weekend!! I will hopefully get caught up on blog reading soon!!!

So What I'm Loving Pinterest

Great title eh?

Can you guess what this post is about to blend?

A little bit of this:

which you can check out here

With some of this:

and you can find the link up here

and last but not least:

found HERE

So let's get started shall we?

So What If:

• I've started to use my heated seats in my new car. It is chilly in the mornings
• I had an OMG moment in the Tim Horton's drive through when I noticed they started carrying my Apple Cider again!! Fall really is here!!
• So what if I just had to double check the spelling for Drive Through, which by the way can be spelt Thru or Through.
• I am still addicted to playing Sims Social on Facebook - my sim is demanding?
• after changing the great room around, I come home from work and feel welcomed... I welcome change I suppose?
• I took waaay to long organizing my pin boards on Pinterest?
• I was writing up tomorrow's movie review at work yesterday and got "caught up in the moment" of writing that I almost stayed late? It's a good review - make sure you check it out!
• if I miss these two:

(Ripper and Diamond)

I am Loving:

• That fall is sneaking up on us, although the weather this week is chilly, I am welcoming fall!!!
• I am loving all the TV shows coming out this fall!! I have too sooo many to watch!! I am really looking forward to Hart of Dixie!! It looks fantastic and I am a fan of Rachel Bilson!

• I am loving how excited Lily gets when you mention W, Walk, Going, What?. She instantly picks those words up in a conversation and runs around the room jumping and huffing and puffing. I am going to have to video it one day. Priceless!!
• I love that I wore cords for the first time this season yesterday!!

Oh How Pinteresting

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I Am Back & Tail Wagging Tuesday!

Okay, I think I just caught myself up on yesterday's blog posts, however I did not comment on very many! Forgive me!

So what did I do yesterday that I was absent from 8 AM to 11:00 PM? Well here in Canada it was voting day! And I was working the polls! It was a very long and tiring day, but I survived!

Conservative party has won a majority government!!!!

Shall we move on to Tail Wagging Tuesday?

Okay.

Topic: The Looks

Head on over here to link up!

And here comes the picture overload!! I have included past and present pics of our pets and their expressions!

"So tired... I can't even keep my eyes open!!"

"How is this for a picture Mom? I am soo silly!"

"Your Boring me!"

"What are you looking at?"

This is the "seriously Mom... I have had enough... I am trying to sleep!"

This is the "I refuse to make eye contact with you... I swear I didn't do it look"

"Come on Mom... let's play!!!"

"I love my live" look...

"Don't do it... save me... "

Those are just a few of the expressions that we get in the house pretty much on a daily basis!!

P.S: Happy National Pet Week!!!

Have a great Tuesday!