The Adventurous Life

Friday, January 01, 2010

December update

Jamie and I have mostly been on the road for the past 10 days, visiting family in Burns Lake and in Penticton.

Pre-Christmas we had a few special gatherings. Here are are some pics from the brunch at Glyness' new condo. I found out just a few days ago that Ashley is ALSO expecting a baby shortly after ours is born!

This picture is taken just before Will and Dave's ugly Christmas Sweater Party--hopefully this becomes an annual tradition!

We drove for about 9-10 hours to visit Terry and Amanda (in Vanderhoof) and the Graham clan in Burns Lake. We also got to visit some good friends in BL as well. Lindy and Nathan are expecting a baby in February!! T and A are due in May. Lot's of babies!!!

Burns Lake was a lot colder than we are used to. It was about -26. Cold enough for me!!! My hair froze!!

Then the 11 hour journey to Penticton on December 24th. Unfortunately on our travels I encountered some morning sickness and I popped the blood vessels in both of my eyes.

It was a lovely Christmas--we were all home and we celebrated our Christmas on Boxing Day, since Keegan and Rachel both worked on Christmas Day.

Oliver, Rachel and Kris' dog was the centre of attention....he's so cute!

New Years Eve: Murder Mystery Party at our place

We had Karen, Hilary and Adrian (they JUST got back from Australia) and Lydia and Nathan over for a cozy gathering. Jamie and I adapted our own version of Mafia and we played it all night.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Our life lately

We had a fun and scandalous night with Erika on the night of her stagette party. We played truth or dare, wandered the streets of Granville and Robson, danced all night, ordered pizza at 2 am......it was fun! We even dressed Erika up into the "perfect" bride.

We've been to the island twice in the last few months top visit Sarah, John, Levi and Zoe. We are such a good auntie and uncle to these tots!!! On both trips we experienced the slow pace that life offers when you take 2 kids under the age of 3 for a walk. Zoe was ONLY interested in picking flowers.

Healthy eating lately with lot's of colours on our plate. I've been experimenting with new recipes and eating vegetables I haven't eaten too much before like squash, turnips, sweet potatoes ect. Notice the pickle? This is a staple in our house right now!

Halloween came and is now gone. the only person that dressed up here was TK. He's dressed up like a cowboy...."wrong" type of hat for the occasion.

Here's some belly shots from 16 or 17 weeks (can't remember)

Belly shots from 20 weeks

href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF8EnYpuMNAe-PzGI2D5o4n731GWQ1y7ynaFqkla6ApkP9lcS5J7oWVCtVPuf1qlCG0WTtZRR_kOryIoKjCCBel94fhB60zDGG3Pw6KQFm6gryxVqJatLDuTgKnL4c69TQ8JTl/s1600-h/PA200131.JPG">

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Seahawks game..VIP treatment!!

A couple weeks ago we got a phone call from our friend on a Saturday night asking us if we wanted free tickets to a seahawks game plus a complimentary tailgate party pre-game. We went for it and picked him and Jamie's brother, Will up at 7 am the next morning and headed for Seattle!!

Not your standard tailgate party. Nice couches, flat screen tv's broadcasting pre-game, all you can eat ribs/potato salad/various treat and all you can drink beer and soda.

Seat upgrade to the lower bowl. Amazing!!!!! Even though the hawks lost...

16 week pics

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Diary of a preggo woman

It's so fun telling people our wonderful news. Finally I don't have to keep this a secret anymore. At some points I wanted to tell strangers just so I could tell SOMEONE, I told my dentist, my neighbor..who are THEY going to tell anyways? We did tell our parents and siblings earlier too.

I even told my grade 3 class the news and this is what they had to say:
-Mrs. Graham, aren't you too OLD to have a baby?
-Mrs. Graham, can you bring your baby with you to school? (to which they ALL thought that after I have my baby, I'm going to bring my baby with me to class to continue to teach them. I had to tell them that I won't be coming back..that I need to be with my baby for awhile.)

Everyday I feel little hands touching my belly, commenting on how much the baby must be growing. There's just so much.....LOVE. It's such a good place to be in right now, surrounded by people who support me and the baby to be.

And my emotions. What a roller coaster. I can't read PEOPLE magazine without bursting into not tears..but SOBS. One time my husband had to console me by reassuring me that not ALL Hollywood couples are breaking up. "Look at this couple...and THAT couple. if they can make it work, anyone can!"