the centerpiece

the centerpiece
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I just realized that it's been a very long time since I blogged. Let's see what's been new in the past few weeks...

The ladies' Christmas Tea went off really well. The dessert was great, the speaker funny, and the company superb. Plus, I looked amazing. Gotta love it when that happens. My tree turned out ok, lots of papercraft / kids craft stuff, so it was more 'cute' than anticipated. But it worked, and was a nice change from all the elegant trees around it. I'm still really happy with my centrepiece. And now that I mention the centerpiece, bah humbug. Because I forgot to pick it up this evening when I took down the tree and brought it home. I guess I'll just have to go back tomorrow.

I strung multicolored lights across the railing of our front deck, and am quite happy with the festive air it adds to the drive-by factor. I like it. We'll get around to putting up the Christmas tree one evening this week, and then we'll be all decked out (we don't have boughs of holly, though) for Christmas. Bravo.

Cade got his 6 month shots today, and took them incredibly well. He had two shots and only cried for one of them, for a minute or so. He then went back to being his happy self. He's such a fabulous little kid. We stayed in town after the shots to get some Christmas and birthday shopping done. I also bought new ink for our photo printer ($45, ouch!) and foam corners for our sharp coffee table, since Cade has already had one unfortunate bump to the head in our living room.

I'm heading out Thursday night to see Twilight with the girls for Jos' birthday, and we're going to eat out dinner as well - I always love girls' night out. Can't wait!

Guacamole gives great garlic breath

Cade loves playing with the mirror
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Cade has just fallen asleep in the jolly jumper. Again. I sort of feel bad for the poor kid, bobbing up and down in his sleep. At the same time, I also wish I had a video camera handy, since it's pretty fabulous at the same time.

Mom & dad were up last weekend, and we had a great & relaxing visit. A lot of reading got done, we fixed the dining room chair I hadn't felt good enough about fixing on my own, and Mom and I did some shopping. The 'rents also loved playing with Cade - he's chatty and interactive now, and a real pleasure to have around.

I'm decorating a tree for a Ladies' Christmas Tea production at our work, and have finally decided on a theme: the Starter Christmas. As in, first Christmas tree, dirt poor, and making all your own cheesy decorations. I'm going to cut some out of styrofoam, make some salt-dough ones to paint, and dig up Dad's spraypainted walnuts. It should be good. I'd like to do a berry garland - does anyone know which kind of berries to use for something like that? I'm assuming they have to be dried. Maybe Craisins?

I went to see Where the Wild Things Are with Meg and Jos this past Wednesday, and was quite disappointed. The overall feel of the movie was rather helpless and frightened, and I didn't get that feeling from the book. I also wish that the monsters (who were very well done) had 'monster' voices instead of standard human ones. It kept throwing me off!

I'm off to eat some dinner and get Cade ready - we're heading off to Clairmont this evening to see Craig & Ruthie's presentation (or whatever it is) on their move to Rwanda coming up. Should be exciting!

And Cade is awake. Gotta run!

The white dress

The white dress
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I finally ordered some prints for my modelling gig at Edmonton Fashion Week. Thought I'd share them with you. Pictures courtesy of Studio-e.ca

Survivor Party

Survivor Party
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Since my last blog post I have:

- had a Survivor party for my birthday. It was fabulous, the best party I've had in the last several years. Everyone was so involved, and watching the videos afterwards was a hoot. Great food too. Thanks for hosing, Britt!

- Skipped out on dinner with friends. Jer was home sick last weekend, and so wanted to stay home in case he had swine flu. No congregating for at least a week!

- Helped Joss paint her living room. I had to leave when it wasn't complete, and I can't wait to see it! She did a beachy/sandy white with some teal accent walls, and I can't wait to see how her living room looks now. Hooray for painting!

- Hung out with Britt and Eva. Eva was up visiting, and we had a grand ol' visit together. Eva also watched Cade twice: once when shopping for my party, and once during the party. I'm sad to see her go!

- went to a halloween carnival. I went sans costume and shocked everyone since I'm a costume queen. So I went home, put on my Incredibles suit, grabbed Cade and suited him up, and headed back.

- Saw Megan's new place. She's renting a bachelor suite in the basement of a home, and she put it together splendidly. It's so cozy - I'll definitely have to visit again. She also lent me a couple of seasons of Gilmore Girls to watch over the next few months, so that's just peachy as well

- taken photos for the church directory. Every year they do a print version of people's names/addresses/phone numbers with a photo of each family beside it. Guess who the photo taker is? I've only shot about 60 families, so definitely not everyone, but at least there will be a good bunch of names with pictures alongside

- tried eating a black olive. I was not a fan.