the new time waster in our house....

the NeoCube....

baby's first free dessert

went to montana's for dinner tonight. at the end of my meal the waitress asked if i would like some ice cream. she said it wasn't for me it was for the baby. so i got the kids dessert for free. what a nice treat! ...and yes, i shared with steve.

look at him move

the baby's movements have been getting stronger. the first video has more movements captured but the second one has a pretty intense movement at the beginning. it's really hard to get this stuff on tape. sorry if this is lame to you, but to me it's absolutely crazy.

the second half of each video has nothing so don't bother watching to the end. and in the second video....please excuse the squeaky couch....steve gets on and off the couch while i was filming

"excessive debt"...WHAT???

do you see the words "excessive debt"?? yesterday i grabbed our mail and when i opened this letter from ICBC i was SHOCKED to see those words. it was a letter claiming that we can't re-insure our car in may until we have paid this "excessive debt" for crossing the golden ears bridge. what?? i can't even remember the last time i crossed the bridge. steve has crossed twice in the last month but there is no way that we could be getting a letter saying that we have unpaid fees already. i immediately called the number on the paper and of course they were closed. so this morning steve called and apparently they have been sending us letters to the wrong address (even though this letter came to our house) and we owed $32. THIRTY TWO DOLLARS. how is that excessive debt?? this must have been from a long time ago since we haven't crossed the bridge in over a year until this past month. i was feeling so stressed about this thinking that we owed thousands somehow and our credit would be ruined....yes, i "catastrophize" everything (as steve would say). but all is solved now. phew.

oh my...slight sinking feeling

8:45am. lying in bed enjoying my last sleep-in morning of spring break. i started thinking about how exciting this next season of life will be with this baby. then i sort of had an "oh my" thought where it sunk in that steve and i won't be alone for a loooonnnnngggg time. we are going to have a baby by our side for quite a while. no more going out for appetizers at 9pm. no more going to late showings of movies. no more "no scheduled" days. nope. there will be a baby. a baby who needs routine. a baby who need to have the comfort of home and not be out all the time being over-stimulated. a baby that will depend on us for EVERYTHING. wow. life will sure be different. steve and i will have had 4 years of it just being us by the time this babe arrives. are we going to be able to easily change to life as a family? don't get me wrong, we are SO excited. we can't wait to have a family and i can't wait to be home, taking care of this little one. but i also don't want to feel like we have lost our identity as a couple. another 6+ weeks of it being 2 and then there will be 3. crazy thought.

day with the husband

yesterday i had one of the best days i have had in a long time. first of all i woke up to amazing sunshine, which always makes me feel great. steve had to run to work and open the store so i threw breakfast in the oven (which i had prepped the night before, GO ME!!) and he picked up timmy's coffee for himself and a hot chocolate for me on the way back home. we had sticky buns and fruit for breakfast.

next we hopped in the car and headed for granville island. i love walking around the market. by the time we got there (true to pregnant form) i was hungry again and ready to have lunch. we each found some food that we were interested in and found a bench outside to sit on while enjoying our lunch. everything tastes better when eaten outside.

the sun was shining and we spent a while just sitting in the sun and people watching. there was a girl (maybe around 10 years old) who saw someone busking. so she put her hat on the ground and started singing twinkle twinkle little star and hoping to get some cash. haha. unfortunately she wasn't any good and she was right by someone else who was actually busking.....awkward.

next up....PAPER YA! love this store. i always spend lots of time in this store. i usually want everything i see. i love their vera wang cards sets, super classy, but CRAZY expensive. i bought a couple cards for some upcoming events and then i bought some big pieces of paper. i decided that framing the paper would be a nice and cheap way of having some art in my basement. the hydrangea paper is for my bathroom, the purple flower paper is for my guestroom and the other paper...not sure. i might do a smaller frame with this paper that i can put on the book shelf in the baby's room. we shall see.

i also love getting some fresh flowers while at the market. i usually buy individual stems and make my own bouquet but yesterday i really enjoyed this pre-made pink bouquet. i put it in my bedroom and waking up to these flowers was nice this morning.

after leaving granville island we headed to coquitlam and picked up some frames at ikea so i could bring my ideas to life. then we had a lovely dinner at cactus club before heading home to put together the frames and watch a movie. great, great day!! my kind of day for sure. :D

yay or nay?

slowly working on the guestroom. bought these frames today from ikea after falling in love with the paper at Paper Ya on Granville Island. yay or nay? i am really not sure how i feel about it. is it too blah? is it too much? i haven't painted this room yet but the paint colour is fairly neutral for now. tell me what you think, i can't decide.