2010

I have seen a lot of bloggers either do this or a resolution post. Seeing as I don't make resolutions (largely based on the fact the my record for keeping a resolution stands at about 3 days) and that New Years Eve is tomorrow (!), I thought it would be fun to take this route and show you some of my favourite 2010 memories.

January

Celebrating the Bestest's 25th at Blue Suede Sue's

C's mardi Gras themed work Christmas party

February
Celebrated my sister's 34th


March
Celebrated 8 years with the love of my life

Celebrated St. Patty's Day with some good friends

Threw V a bridal shower
Saw Carrie Underwood in concert

April
Saw K perform "Disco Frog" for the first time

Celebrated K bringing home a gold medal for "Disco Frog"

Easter at the cottage with the family

V's bachelorette at Blue Suede Sues

S & V's rehearsal dinner

May
Watched S & V get married

Saw Taylor Swift in concert

Started watching these two full time

June
Watched K graduate from Kindergarten

Celebrated my brothers 22nd

July

Celebrating Canada Day

5 days at the cottage with great friends

Watched S & J get married

August
Wonderland with my two favourite little girls

Attended a surprise 20th B-Day party for my brother's girlfriend

Ex with C's family to celebrate our birthdays

Celebrated all three of our birthdays with family

September
Celebrated my 25th and C's 27th with friends at West 50

Celebrated B turning 2

October

Thanksgiving with family

Celebrated J's 25th

Watched D & C get married

Halloween Haunt at Wonderland

Halloween with Family

November
Went to T's photography exhibit

Celebrated K's 6th Birthday

Celebrated S's 25th (photo from J's B-day as I forgot my camera)

Went on my first big trip with C, in which I saw my first two live football games

December
Tree hunting with the family
Brought Brady home

It's been a great year, filled with awesome memories with all of the people I love most. Here's hoping 2011 brings the same!

Christmas!

I hope all of you had an awesome Christmas!

We had a very busy but fun Christmas weekend filled 3 full days of visiting and socializing. Unfortunately because I was so busy I don't have any pictures.

Santa was also very good.

I got C this guy

which I know you already knew, but I can't help posting pictures of his adorable face. Here's one more for good measure


My wonderful fiance spoiled me again this year. I got

Blue Uggs which I saw for the first time in Buffalo because the cheerleaders were wearing them. I mentioned to C that I liked them and he started the ball rolling on getting them for me that night. Love them.

Red Hunter Wellies which I have wanted for a while now. I'm actually very excited for rain so that I can wear them.

I also got a Costco membership which is a practical gift based on the amount of money I spend a year getting pictures printed. I also figure we can now start buying our groceries there and start saving some money for that wedding that isn't getting any further away.

My favourite gift this year actually wasn't given to me or by me.

My immediate family does a secret Santa every year to save money. This year my brother got my sister and shortly after we drew names I heard that Backstreet boys were coming to Toronto with New Kids on the Block. My sister was a HUGE NKOTB fan and I'm not going to lie, I was obsesses with BSB. When I heard that they were coming I did some recon to find out who had my sisters name and asked them if they were willing to buy the ticket for her as her gift and I would buy my own. That's what we did, and let me tell you it was torture keeping it a secret for over a month. Three of my good friends from highschool are also going with us so I had to recruit them to not put it on facebook and help me keep it a secret. We were successful and when my sister finally got to open the ticket on boxing day she completely freaked out, as expected. I have her reaction on video but I'm not going to embarrass her by putting it on here. For those of you who have me on facebook, expect to see it shortly.

I also did some boxing day shopping and spoiled myself. The deals were not as good as they were on Black Friday in the states but I still managed to spend a fortune by picking up


I would say I was pretty successful!

How was Christmas for everyone else? I would love to hear what Santa brought!

Christmas Traditions

I just realized that we are less then a week away from Christmas and I haven't done a Christmas post yet. Life has been absolutely crazy between drama at work that I'm really not going to get into and getting Brady settled at home. I figured I would get my favourite Christmas traditions post out of the way before Christmas is over and it becomes irrelevant.

Probably my favourite part of Christmas is getting our tree. We have cut down a real Christmas tree for as long as I can remember and it really doesn't feel like the season has started until it is up, making my house smell like pine. C has always had a fake tree, so this caused a bit of tension at the beginning of our relationship but I think I have finally won.

We always go the first weekend in December out to a tree farm somewhere in the country, we typically get lost, then spend some time running around in the snow until we find a tree and the boys cut it down. We then go into the lodge for hot apple cider or hot chocolate and cookies. It's so much fun and my whole family is always there, which is awesome because with the bust schedules that we all keep it's not very often that you will find us all in the same place. Here are some of my favourite pictures from this years trip:

Ready to go!

Our little tree

Cutting it down

Then of course we have to decorate the tree. I love decorating. We have so many decorations the my brother, sister and I made when we were younger and it's so fun to take them all out and look at them. C and I decorate several trees a year, here are some pictures from this year.

The decorating team at my house - Brother, his girlfriend, C and I

C in front of his parents tree

Our little tree that stays in C's room. We buy an ornament each year (there are only two on the tree because I keep losing them) so this is where we put them (when I don't lose them....)

We also have a girls baking day every year. My mom, sister, mom's best friend and I always pick two recipes each year and get together sometime in December to make them. We then divide them up evenly so everyone gets a good selection of goodies to take home. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures, the day is a bit busy to stop and take out my camera.

My final favourite tradition is something the bestest and I have been doing for a couple of years now. Instead of going out and agonizing over what to buy each other we pick a day and go out to the mall together. We get lunch, finish up some last minute shopping (that's normally me...this year I pretty much accomplished all of my shopping that day) and then we buy each other our gifts. The last few years we have been doing sweaters. We pay for each others and then swap them, this year we decided that we have enough sweaters so we bought each other season 1 of 90210. It's always fun, and good to hang out just us, something we really don't get to do often. It also makes the gift giving so easy. We guarantee that we get what we want, and we both spend the same amount. It's the perfect arrangement!

I'm a mommy!

Yes you did read that right.

Meet Brady

Brady is a 9 week old Rough Colllie/Sheppard mix and is technically C's early Christmas present but I'm in love after only one day. He is definitely going to be my baby

How can you not love that face???

This is a big step for us, it's the first thing we have bought together that we actually have to take care of. I told C it was like a test, if we can successfully care for a puppy then we can have a baby. I'm not sure he was too impressed with that comment.

Anyways, I know I still owe the Buffalo post but I wanted to introduce you to our baby, wish C a Merry Christmas and not so obviously inquire as to where my early Christmas present is?