YAH!!!

Hello, Krystin!

Your fig-sized fetus now measures 1 1/2 inches from head to bottom and weighs in at a quarter-ounce. He finally looks like a baby, with tiny but fully formed fingers and toes. As his body grows and becomes more developed and functional, he'll start twisting and turning like an acrobat, cushioned and protected by your amniotic fluid. You, on the other hand, are probably feeling less like a gymnast every day. Heartburn (caused by pregnancy hormones that relax the valve separating your esophagus from your stomach) and indigestion may be annoying you during the day and keeping you up at night. Just remember, all this suffering is for a good cause — you're having a baby!

i think a bird just flew into the window...
i'm not sure...
but i heard a sound that would indicate the wondow being struck...then as i looked out there was a bird (or a bat, perhaps) kinda flying wobbly and side to side...not really sure where to go...
i'm thinking it flew into the window...
it's kinda like those windex commericials...a crow flies intoa window cause it is so clean from windex he can't see it there...
that wouldn't be why it flew into our window, though...
lol

so, a couple of nights ago i had a dream that i had a baby boy...
that would make two dreams now...
i wonder if they mean anything???
maybe i just need to have twins...fraternal, of course...i would love identical, will, not so much...
but back to fraternal twins...
will and i each have a hunch it is a boy...but that's all we really have is just a hunch...
will's sister is quite SURE it's a girl...and has gone as far as calling her by name...lol
(which i think is totally cute)
so, like i said...fraternal twins :)
that would be the cure-all...then we could both be right...
but i guess only time will tell...

this is amazing:
your pregnancy at 9 weeks:
How your baby's growing: Your new resident is nearly an inch long — barely the size of a grape — and weighs just a fraction of an ounce, but he's poised for rapid weight gain now that his basic physical structure is in place. He's also starting to look more and more human. His embryonic "tail" is now completely gone and his body parts — including organs, muscles, and nerves — are kicking into gear.

His eyelids are fused shut and won't open until 27 weeks. He has earlobes, and by week's end, the inner workings of his ears will be complete. His upper lip is fully formed, too, and his mouth, nose, and nostrils are more distinct. The tips of his fingers are slightly enlarged where his touch pads are developing. All major joints — his shoulders, elbows, wrists, knees, and ankles — are working, enabling your baby to move his limbs. As for his heart, it has divided into four chambers now, and the valves have started to develop. External sex organs are there, but won't be distinguishable as male or female for another few weeks.

how lame...
i totally blogged yesterday and, apparently, it never showed up on my blog...that is so lame...and the worst part is that i can't even remember what i blogged about...so i can't even tell you now what i said yesterday...
HOW LAME!!!
:)
oh, well...well, do you do...
i do recall being shocked that it had been so long since i had last blogged...time flew by fast, i guess...
i am currenlt working on some recipe cards for a recipe swap i am doing for scrapbookeronline.com
they were supposed to be sent out yesterday, and, yeah, i am working on them today...trying to finish them so i can have them out tomorrow...
this is the first time i have been late on a swap...
oops...my bad...
sometime this week i should be getting lesley's and patti's journal so i have to do them fast and send them to nicole...
as of tomorrow i will be 9 weeks pregnant...how exciting...i am going in for an ultrasound on ma 23...my first one :)
i am very excited that things are going well...i have my fears, don't get me wrong...but will feels good about this pregnancy and so far it is looking good...so, YAH!!!
well, i gotta go work on those recipes...

highlight of the week...

well, here it is...my highlight of the week...
for those of you who have never watched Kim Possible cannot appreciate this like those of us who have, but...
i was at work this week, and some guy had the Kim Possible cell phone ring on his cell phone...
you know, now that i think about it, it most like the ring that plays on Kim's phone/help monitor thing whenever there is a problem in he world she has to go to...but, hey...it's all the same thing...
it was her ringtone on his cellphone...
that was my highlight...i thought it was hilarious...lol

i sure do love guessing games...lol
nikki had this on her blog so i thought i would give it a try...she is disappointed in her score (the same as mine) and i am ecstatic about my score...my eighth grade teacher would be so proud...i guessed 5 of the 6 i got right...lol

You Passed 8th Grade Science

Congratulations, you got 6/8 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?

well, now...where to start...
i just dropped will off at the airport this morning...he's been here since the 9th...it has been so good to be with him for the past while...the time went by so fast...as per usual...
we went and looked at modular homes yesterday...we saw some really nice floor plans...but my favorie is still the one down in california...i am in love with that house...
we went out to Docherty's fish and chips for lunch, too...i haven't been there in years...they have the old style fish and chips that are wrapped in newspaper when you take it home...will had an order of haggis and chips and i had fish and chips...i kinda made mum and laurenne eat off my plate...will even commented that this haggis was the best he's had...i told him it would be...i love being right :)
i got to go buy some new clothes yesterday, too...i have two pairs of pants that fit me right now, so i was desperate...i got 2 pairs of pants and 2 shirts...the nice thing is i got them a tiny bit big so that i can grow into them before i can really start wearing pregger clothes...
which by the way is going well, relatively speaking...i am not someone who gets nauseous, but apparently, being pregnant can change that...i have yet to actually throw up, but, man alive, eating anything makes me want to...i am beginning to think that i will be living off of ginerale and soda crackers...
my doctor is watching this pregnany closely and all my levels are rising accordingly...so that is a big bonus...of course, anything can still happen, but at least this time, it is not a blighted ovum...this time a baby is actualy developing...so, as of right now, everything is looking good...pray for us...
we are very excited about this...
i can't think of much more to say at this time...i am really tired and just emotionally kinda drained...what can i say??? it's been a rough morning...
well, i am off to go back to bed...i promise to write again soon

happy belated easter...
cause i totally suck and didn't even think to blog about it, until i was told i should have...hee hee
and now it it like almost the very end of it...
but in my defence, will has been here the past 1.5 weeks and i am trying to not be on te comp while he is here...which i am doing right now anyways...
i will blog more tomorrow about all that has been going on...

so, kari-lynn is a rather good photographer, so i decided, that maybe with her skills and my lack of photogenicness, she could get a few nice pics of me...well, this is what we came up with...




so, yeah, sorry those are BIG!!! i thought they were gonna be smaller...hee hee hee oops!!!

is it a sign???
i was just goofing off on ebay last night while i was on the phone with Will...shocking, that i was on the phone with him, i know, but back to my last thought...goofing off, blah blah blah, and i decided to look for the stroller that i want when we have a baby...and that is the Jeep Cherokee stroller...i have wanted one for a couple of years now...it is so great...lots of room, fun toys for the baby, cup holders...oops...off track again...
so, i find one that i want...gorgeous...only a couple of hours away from our house in CA, so we could go pick it up if we bought it...and i showed will...and i can't remember what he thoughtof it, but i loved it!!!
anyways...the only think i told him, though, was that it was not the original colour that i wanted...i wanted the green one, but the colour didn't really matter, it's just the concept...
well, i walk into the house this afternoon, here in canada, and sitting right by the door is the Jepp Cherokee stoller in...can you guess which colour??? GREEN!!! right in the living room...first thing i saw when i walked in...
i mean...what is this??? can i be??? am i pregnant and not know it??? lol...i know that last one is not true...
kari-lynn's friend is having twins right away and can't use it anymore, so asked if she wanted it...richard said yes, so they got it!!! she said she would sell it to me if i would like...lol
would i like???? heck no, i would LOVE!!!
i covet that stroller...
i should be wary of that, though...one of the ten commandments is "Thou shalt not covet..."
dang commandments...hee hee

WOW!!!
so, it's been awhile since i've blogged, huh??? not as long as it took heather, though, i might add...lol
so i have this funny song in my head..."Under Pressure" by David Bowie...now in an of itself, the song is not funny, per say, it's just that all i can think about as i hum this song in my head is David Bowie as the Goblin King in Labyrinth...and i guess that is what makes it so gosh-darn funny...with his skinny little self, with the mullet of all mullets...dancing around in leotards, i do believe, but i could be remembering that part wrong...i hope i am...lol...i'll just take heather's advice..."Don't think about David Bowie in leotards. Don't think about David Bowie in leotards"...ARGHHH!!! all i can think about is David Bowie in leotards...
what a freakin' funny movie...
DANG!!! i just realized i never watched A Night at the Roxbury last night...someone had it playing on the tv in the back of the store yesterday and it made me want to watch it, and then i never did...i actually ended up going out looking for a birthday present for Solomon whose birthday is in a matter of days...hey, it's better late than never...right, Michelle???
i promise to get on that...i was actually thinking about it today, to be honest...
by the way...i saw the CUTEST baby item today, that i so would have gotten you, if i knew if you were having a boy or girl...so, if you would like to find that out for my information, i would greatly appreciate it...cause it's really hard to buy stuff for a sex-less baby...ha ha ha...i am so funny...
well, anyways...kari-lynn and aubryn are home now, dinner may be cold on the stove...
oh, but i may as well add, that if i didn't think it would come back to haunt me, i woulda lied to ups today...if they don't find the tiara that mysteriously went missing from my package, i am plum out of luck...unless the package was a gift...and i would a said it was, except that on the original invoice it clearly states 'personal item'...dang...i want them to compensate me...cause, let's think about this...they lost something that was in a zipped bag, in a sealed box, and somehow, this is not their fault and they are not responsible...now that is customer service!!!
but it is as Nikki said, "Just think, you have made some gay guy very happy at UPS as he is dancing around with your tiara on his head, singing, 'I'm a princess'"
well, if that doesn't make it ok, then i don't know what would...lol
oh, yeah...and i held a funeral for 2 of my credit cards today...i cut them up...2 of them!!! i feel so liberated...lol
i decided to put them all on 1 card with lower interest, in hopes that i can pay them off sooner...here's to hoping that works...I hope it works!!! I hope it works!!! DANG IT!!! IT BETTER WORK!!!

YAH!!!
my dress is here...in my posession!!! and that's the happy news...
the not so happy news is that somehow...still trying to figure out how...ups lost the tiara that was packed in with it...you ask me, someone at ups stole it...
but YAH!!! i have my dress...
i am so excited...
life is going pretty alright up here, overall...
solomon's birthday is in a week(ish), so i am just about to get him a present...
i sold some stuff on ebay and have had to threaten negative feedback on people cause they have yet to pay, snow is starting to melt cause it was a very sunny day today, was not feeling so hot today, so the ladies at work have decided i must be prego (meanwhile, i sit there insisting it's not possible), and spencer (my boss) pulled 2 prank calls on me today...i knew it was him on the second, though)...i wasn't so nice to him *ahem*, i mean, 'the customer' ;) ;) nudge nudge, on the first one...lol
so, i guess that is about all that is going on right now...i got a really nice clock for our house down i CA...i saw it and thought it was nice, wondered if will would like it, then he came up and saw it on his own and told me he liked it, so i bought it :)
well, i guess that is it, that is all...

HOLY SNOW!!!
so, the weather forecast called for 10 cm...now i do know the difference between 10 cm and 10 in...and that looks like 10 in...you know why??? because it IS 10 in...that would be 25 cm...and they are calling for another 10 cm tonight...so, does that mean another 25 cm???

this is some nice guys helping push a lady so she could cross the intersection...just to, of course, get stuck when she gets to the other side...this could be a good joke...
why did 3 guys push a ladies car across the street??? so she could get stuck on the other side and have another guy help her...
HA HA HA...knee slapper :)
fyi, kari-lynn and i did go to help too, but just as we started to go across the street, she got out...compliments of the guy who pushed her...
but in all seriousness, it was great to see so many people out there helping others get unstuck...we even had help getting unstucka few times...a few other times i had to do it myself...

and this is someone who decided they just didn't want to take ALL the snow off their roof...i guess they figured after taking off half, they had had enough...

have a happy saturday...and i will be staying in the house now til spring...

planning, planning, and more planning...
will and i have decided to do a small vow renewal type thing when i go back down to the usa...
the plan is that it will be just him, me. a bishop, a photographer and maybe his sister and her bf...
so, yeah, small...
this way i can wear my original dress, and we can renew our vows to each other...
the time apart has been really hard and we thought this would be a really nice way to end it...
i have been looking at photographers, though...yeah, we can't afford one...they are WAY too pricey...the cheapest we found was $650...and that would only give us 48 pics...which, really, isn't more than we would need, but it seems a lot to pay..but, who knows...
if we decide we just can't affford a photograper, will said he would do the pics...he studied photography in school, and has a fancy slr camera (just have to fix the lens)...if he just lines up the shot, we can either use a timer on the camera, or if his sister is there, she can just snap the pic...or, heck, is she knows anything about photography, she could just take the pics...or if janna happens to be good at photography, maybe she would come down and do the pics...lol
it would be a good excuse to hang out and see each other, if nothing else...hee hee
so, yeah, as i mentioned, ups found my dress...it only took 4 months...now i am in a battle with them about getting my money back for shipment...and i'm not just figting it to be mean...i mean, i really do deserve to get it back...and i know i may lose this battle, but i will not go down without a fight...and i shouldn't lose the abttle, cause i am right...ups LOST the package...that is their fault...they did not call kari-lynn OR me, to get a correct return to sender address, when they had written it down wrong, and they did not call either of us to get a return to sender authroization...that's not anybody else's fault but their own...and i know it was turned away at customs, and that is not ups's fault...and if they had returned it to kari-lynn, i would not have a valid point...but the lost it after it was turned away at customs...they did not deliever back to canada...they lost it...so, what this means, if that it is ups's fault that it got lost and was not returned, and so i deserve the money for shipment back!!!
and that is all i have to say about that...lol
have a happy day :)

seller on ebay...
i feel so cool...
i started selling some stuff on ebay...last week...and my first item listed is going to be sold tonight...
i am so excited...
it is a company's coming coolbook and the bid is currently at $6.50 usd...which is higher than when i looked this morning :)
it will be done in just under 2.5 hrs, so, who knows...maybe the price will even jump from that...
i figure i may as well make back some of the money i have spent on ebay...ha ha ha

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!!!
so, happy news...
UPS found my wedding dress...in MONTREAL!!!
of all places...
of course it's in Montreal...why didn't i think of that???
it's in the lost and found there...
so, we will do wedding pictures in my dress when i go back down to the USA...
i am so excited...i was almost crying when i called and told will...
i got the call just as i got out the shower...
they are going to ship it to work, so that someone will be there to sign for it and it is due to be there either tomorrow or friday...
and it better get there...or i will be MAD as heck!!!
hee hee
well, that is my happy news... :)

WINTER WONDERLAND...
it makes me want to start singing at the top of my lungs for all of Edmonton to hear...
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening??? In the lane, snow is glistening. A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight, walking in a winter wonderland...
i mean, it only took til the middle of march to get this much snow up here (ok...FINE!!! mke me a liar for a few days...march 9)...it's still crazy!!!
but i must say, IT IS BEAUTIFUL!!!
not so beautiful to drive in (when the car you get to drive doesn't have the best for winter tires)...but, hey, it's a car and it's better than the bus :)
so, i thought i would share a couple pics of our wonderful winter wonderland...

EBAY.COM
so, i decided to try to hand out at ebay...will and i have been talkinga obut this for awhile, and now it is time to put it into action...i have a few different items that i have bought and am going to list...
well, i managed to list 1 item successfully, YAH!!! but now i can't seem to add any other items...
how irritating...
i guess i will have to try again tomorrow...
as for other news...
we have the receipt from our first set of immigration paperwork...that means we can now send in the next set...once that is sent in, immigration will send me a letter with date/time of my interview with the US Consulate down in calgary...we are guessing that i will be able to go back to california probably mid-late may...
will has just chosen his schedule for the next year...kinda, anyways...he will be working 12am-8am at the airport...and because he has the most seniority of the night shift officers, he will get to choose which one he wants before they do...he will take whichever shift gets him all or most major holidays off...with that schedule, we should have few problems with being up here in canada for christmas!!!
i am supposed to be going to When a Stranger Calls tongiht with my friend...i have only seen her once in the last month that i have been here, so it will be really nice to hang out with her...
life is good, overall...
snow is coming down like there is no tomorrow and like it is making up for lost time :)
it really is beautiful...we have had some beautiful weather here, even with the snow...
all is well...things are working out great!!!

it's the BIG DAY!!!
will is arriving today is just under 5 hours...but who's counting??? lol
he is only going to be up for a few days, but it will be so nice to see him...
as i look back on the month, it's funny that each day seemed to go by slowly, but overall, it went by fast...which is, of course, exactly what we want...
i can hardly believe a month has already gone by...the sad part is, though, that the paperwork is already taking longer than expected...so, we are hoping that it will pick up the pace in the final process...
hopefully, when he gets home, the 2nd set of paperwork will be able to be sent in...he can't send the 2nd set in, until he gets a receipt saying he sent in the 1st one....and he is still waiting for that...
so, hopefully, it will be there when he gets home...and then he can send it off...
well, that is it for now...
i know i have been horrible about blogging this past week...i guess there was just nothing interesting to say...
well, have a good one and i will see you again later...
p.s. i'm sure i'm the only one that notices this, but, i didn't really post this at 7:31...it was 8:31...for whatever reason i can't set the correct time according to where i am...so, it was 7:31 in california, but 8:31 here in edmonton...so, my point being, that he arrives in just under 5 hours from 8:31 :)