Weekend Update

Well another weekend to be blogged about! Quite a bit going on which is always exciting!! Friday I was off work at 12:30 to see the girls and get ready to drive to Calgary for RUSSELL PETERS 20th anniversary tour at the Saddledome! WEEHOO! It was great so funny, and pretty much all new jokes since the last time we saw him! We were directly across the building from him... so we didn't have to move our head just look forward and we could see him on the two big screens and just a little Russell on the stage! But it was awesome!!! We did have a crazy lady across from us who CLEARLY was pre-drinking before she came and still drinking because her laugh was sooo annoying and she would yell out odd things during the show... we also had a man on the other side of us who unfortunately had a huge muscle spasm in the middle of the show and couldn't walk or stand to leave... eventually he did go and get it looked at... That was Friday!

On to Saturday! I had a shopping day with MUM!!! and Chris had another concert to go to Saturday night and he was off with his brothers around 1ish. Jaime was working and Dad is in Chili until July 5th! So my mum and I did a quick trip to the mall found a sale at the Gap and the went down to Kennsignton street and it was great fun! We found a cool store that made vintage inspired clothes and I got this funky tank top and a sweet necklace... I need to take photos of them... *note to self*... we also found another place that had super expensive fashionable things but also some reasonably priced items and my mum bought me this super cute dress that I can just throw on and it has pockets in the front... CUTE! I just need to accessorise it... with my new necklace! SHABAM! and perhaps get some sun because I am so pasty white it is scary... oooo and I saw the most amazing shoes there... I didn't even try them on for fear of wanting to buy them... but

ANOTHER cool place can't remember what it is called... I do believe I grabbed a business card from... but my mum found green shoes there that she bought and it had cool bags, shoes and accessories as well. TOO FUN! we did go to Crave Cupcakes at the end of our trip and they only had a few flavours left ... and there was a line up... so we did not get any and CLEARLY they are no where near Ms. Sarah's Cuppitycakes Cupcakery! Here we are waiting for the train.

Now you can kinda see my new necklace! it is the bobble thing around my neck...

Okay so back at the rents house we had the three dogs and Lily fresh off of her spay and nose job. Now the vet told us to limit her activity because she did just have major surgery... well that is way to hard to do with crazy Jasper who they say is three... but acts like a little puppy ... so they played... and then you pulled them apart to make them stop playing then they played again and again and again... It's so hard to tell a puppy to stop playing... so we just made sure it wasn't near her tummy or to much on her face! Gabby is still a little witch and doesn't like when Jasper plays with Lily... so she barks... bah! I do not want a yappy dog! and we forgot our spray bottle that we use to spray them to stop barking... or eating the wrong food... so it was a noise weekend of crazy doggies! But it was still GREAT!

Okay this isn't the best close up picture of Lily... but if you look super close you can see she has stitches on her nose from her nose job... and I haven't taken a picture of her belly but she has stitches all up her belly too. Notice there is no cone head! She didn't have to get one, she has been a good girl and hasn't been scratching or licking her tummy! She has however managed to get one of her little stitch things insider her nose and she keeps sneezing it out... we tried to get in out with tweezers and Chris got it out once but then it went right back in her nose... so hopefully it doesn't bother her too much. She gets the stitches out July 6th I think...

So do you notice the wire in the picture... well Miss GABBY has to wear a lead when she it outside in my parents backyard... and so does Lily (she got out too but I caught her right away)... but my rents have a picket fence... but it kinda over laps and I thought it would be safe and Gabby wouldn't be able to get through it.... I was wrong! Saturday morning she busted out and was running around!! BAH dog! I was running after her in my PJ's and dads backyard gardening crock's! I thought I lost her for a bit and started to freak out... I saw her and she was starting to go up the road to the busy section and and I was running after her screaming nicely... mean while a OLD SENILE MAN says as I run past him... ' you should put a leash on that thing' well HONESTLY!!.... so I said as polite as possible 'she got out thanks!' and then another man was walking his dog and Gabby went to go smell the dog and I grabbed her! WHY must she bolt!!! She needs to go to obedience school and so does Lily for her constant barking at all noises and people when they enter the home! any rant.... we had a wonderful weekend and here are a few more pictures!

Oh and can you believe the Oxi-Clean man passed away yesterday... my gosh! I really enjoyed how he yelled through all his commercials...

Well tomorrow is Canada Day! Happy day off and celebrate Canada's Bday! I should make strawberry french toast... mmm

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Cupcakes on the Brain...

Well it is mid-afternoon and I've been looking at CUPCAKE blogs since 1pm... and what I really want right know is a CUPCAKE... o boy do I ever! It is amazing at how many CUPCAKE blogs there are... I could look for hours at work... at CUPCAKES! and I mean I could probably look at cupcake blogs for eight hours... with a one hour lunch break to let the dogs out... every day of the week! and not to mention that they are blogs so most of them update everyday with new pictures and recipe's and give-a-ways and fun new ways to make CUPCAKES! I YI YI!!! I'm not even a CUPCAKE baker... but Ms. Sarah is the best CUPCAKE baker ever (CUPPITYCAKES CUPCAKERY) and I hope she doesn't mind but ... I continually find fab sites and forward them to her so she can check them out! Now Sarah is always make new creations just recently she sent me a picture VIA text message of a cake that looks like a Pizza! I do love pizza and cake! TOO COOL! Can't wait too see what she comes up with next! I really do hope she starts her own blog so she can share all of her cupcake adventures!!!!!!!

Okay... in other news... I just heard on the radio that Michael Jackson has died... o dear could be a rumor other sources are saying he is just hospitalized.

I also heard Farrah Fawcett has passed away this morning as well...

well, we will eat a cupcake for them. Cheers.

Until Next Time - ... I still want a CUPCAKE

IT's Mulch TIME

Finally we mulched! So after a couple weeks of having a load of mulch in old blue it was nice enough and we had the time to put down our landscaping fabric and then mulch our flower beds... more like weed beds... in the backyard! HAZZA! so pics of BEFORE and AFTER :o)

before the corner tree

after - with mulch and tree trimming

before - corner by the ally

after with beautiful mulch

before - other corner sans mulch

after - photo taken in the morning because I remembered I forgot to take this corner picture!I do have a tendency to not take enough before pictures because I just want to get started and forget about the camera... ah well!

On to the Front Yard! My rents were here last weekend and we did a quick trip to Home Depot and they bought us some pretty plants/flowers for our front :o) But it was raining Sunday so we did not plant them then. Although, then it worked out and Teresa was at the house last night helping us mulch and she had bought us a nice little bush for the front as well. So here we go!

before - right side of the house

after- with the mulch... little messy but what a pretty flower bush from Teresa and then a petunia beside the big rock! The other side will be getting the same pretty flower bush they are perennials!
now... I did not really get a good before picture of the left side of the house...

So you can kinda see the dirt in the front bed there... Mr. Chris looks thrilled, he was digging the holes for the flowers and we are placing and planting the flowers!

after- the left side of the house! Woohoo!

we had lots of fun and it didn't take too long. Now we just have to work on our backyard grass... that is pretty much just dirt piles with weeds on it and grassy patches! woohoo! one thing at a time!

And here is Mr. Chris watering our new plants with our cooler... time to invest in a large watering can or even a hose... we had one... but had to cut it and use it to drain our water tank this one time when it was leaking... we did ride it out for the whole winter and in the spring it burst... now we have a new one.

Well in case you were worried or wondering Mr. Chris got a call from the vet today saying Lily is doing fine with her surgery and we can phone tomorrow around 10:00 to book a time to pick her up. They like to give them a bath and feed them breakfast in the morning. Woohoo a bath for Lily! Miss her and its just been one night! Gabby was looking out the front window all night... I was telling myself it is because she is looking for Lily...

Until Next Time -

Meeting Mr. Jasper!

Lily and Jasper had such a great time playing together this weekend! It was quite funny watching Jasper this big dog flopping around and going into play pose with Lily... who just barks when she gets excited... which is a pain in the butt... so she get sprayed with a water bottle... but a few minutes later she just does it again... ANYWAY it was super cute watching these two chasing each other and Jasper's huge mouth playfully biting at Lily!
Promise this is just playing! Jasper is such a gentle dog! It is funny because that is what Lily does to Gabby... bites her elbows!

Gabby wasn't really in the playing mood... she would bark when Chris an I would pay too much attention to Jasper and she just wanted to chew on the bone and didn't want Lily and Jasper to get in her way.... what a princess... we did not raise her to be a little witch!

Jasper plays just like a puppy!!

See Jasper's ear...the tip of it was bitten off by another dog when he was a puppy :o( My rents got him from a shelter that takes in stray dogs from Native Reserves and Mr. Jasper they think is three years old... and is part German Shepherd and perhaps wolf... he has great teeth!

Too Cute! Well we are off to Calgary next weekend and the girls will reunite with Mr. Jasper. Also in other news. Miss Lilypad is off to the vet today... she is getting spayed... and getting nose surgery to get her little nose holes opened for her airways... Chris is dropping her off... I just didn't think I could do it... She has to stay at the vet TWO NIGHTS! we do not get her back until Thursday... well pictures of her with cone on her head will for surely be posted!

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Weekend UPdate!

GOLF PRO'S and TENNIS HOE'S

The theme for my brother in-laws 26th bday bash, hosted by none other than Mr. Chris and Ms. Julia Lawrence - co-hosted by Miss. Gabby and Miss. Lily - !

What a fun theme, and everyone dressed up and played the part! - except for the RANDOMS that I did not know that came later in the evening... (they were kinda friends of the bday boy) who did jump on our trampoline... with out asking... but they left with everyone else to go to the bar soon after arriving... so that was good...

ANYWAY! it was great and I have some fab fab pictures to share!

The HOSTESSES! P.s we did let the Bday Boy take this... so its a bit blurry! OUR BAD! BAHAHA

THE ORIGINAL GOLF PRO's

Mr. Chris - Darren (Friend) - Cody (Bday Boy) - Justin (Brother of Cody and Chris)

THE ORIGINAL TENNIS HO's

Camellia (Cody's Fiance) - Ms. Julia PS I have a badminton racket... so technically I am a 'Badminton Ho' ... something about the shuttle cock thing...

We even had a Putt Putt Golf Game!! Too Fun!

I used my funky button on my camera and made the green putt putt grass POP! It's blurry... should have used the TRIPOD!

More GOLF PRO's

More TENNIS HO's and One Badminton HO!

Now... you see those manly moustaches those men are sporting.... guess what they are made of... well well well... story goes... Justin that man in the picture below...

He came into the house asking for a marker for a moustache... and we thought maybe a mascara mustache would be better then black permanent marker... so I dig through my makeup bag and find an older brown mascara and leave him to it in the washroom... well minutes later he comes out with... a great moustache... and says ... as every one ooos and ahhhs over it.... that he didn't use the mascara it wouldn't layer right... he just found an eyeliner and used it...... GASP! OMG! DON"T WORRY JUST BREATH... DON"T OVER REACT .... I run into the bathroom hoping it is not my good black mascara... that I don't wear very much but its good and it was expensive and and and I hope he didn't use it please please please.... LUCKY DUCK! He didn't use it! he used my cheep older brown one... close call!!! So as you can see from previous pictures the rest of the guys decided a eyeliner moustache was a GREAT idea for a GOLF PRO!
Egads! running out of time! I have another great weekend adventure about Jasper that I will share with you tomorrow!

Until Next Time -