Gearing Up

Today is my last shift and then I have 20-

YES 20! days off. I couldn't be more

excited to have some time off to move and

settle into our new house.

Our furniture-less new house. HA!

I am just really looking forward to getting

into a routine which I know will be short lived

with the summer coming. 

We've been out of our house for 8 months.

Without our dogs for 6 of them.

It's been a long haul, but we are so close now.

Very exciting new chapter. 

Anniversary Number Three

Every year we head to Emerald Lake Lodge for our

anniversary but unfortunately it was not in 

the budget this year. Our house is almost 

built and there is nothing about home building 

that is easy and stress free including the build up

to close. That being said, we did end up both 

taking the day off work and heading to Banff in the 

early afternoon. It was a quick trip but it 

was nice to spend the day together. Our schedules have 

not matched in almost 6 weeks, so we haven't

had a day off together in that long!

We decided to go up to gondola, as neither of us

had been up there before. Not worth the money 

if you spend any sort of time in the mountains. If you 

don't spend time in the mountains, the gondola

would probably be amazing. The views

are pretty spectacular. After that we hit

up Beavertails and had a delicious fried feast. 

Glad we headed home after that though. Fried food

is not so easy on the tummy!

Overall it was an okay day. I think the disappointment

of not being at Emerald Lake ended up bumming

both of us out more than we thought. Oh well.

Hopefully we have many more anniversaries 

to spend out at the lodge. 

Living Close

About a month or so ago,

I read an article that listed {my fav- lists} things

that make people feel happier in life. 

Well some of them were pretty usual

-eat well, exercise blah blah blah

One of them though was the relationship to 

commute time and how close you live to work. 

Well I can attest that this is true!

I've never been so willing to head to work as I 

have the last couple of months. 

Now that could be for extra cash, it could

be because it's been a great distraction BUT 

what I do know is that knowing you're 10

min from work, makes a HUGE difference. 

Maybe next time, we won't buy in the burbs!

Some Days

Yesterday was pretty draining. So this is what I did today.

All day. I seriously jumped from Facebook, to tv shows, to 

Instagram alllll damn day.

And then I went for coffee. Which was also needed

and quite delightful! 

Thanks for the date Paige!... and for getting

me out of bed.

Whirlwind Week

We are currently in our 4th "home" for the 

week. It has probably been the longest week of my 

life. It feels like an eternity since last weekend. 

We had planned on staying between

my parents and Rhys' parents until our

house was built but because our house

got delayed, it is time to reevaluate our options.

We certainly needed a bit of space to just breathe

and do our own thing so this week we uprooted

and moved to a hotel. After 2 days there, it wasn't working

so off to a different hotel which was really nice.

The Acclaim hotel near the airport was 

delightful. Lucky for us, our friends Shandell

and Kent were off to Maui for a week so 

they offered us their house which

came to crash this morning. It's 

definitely been a weird week, we've been 

hauling our own bedding around which has been a 

lifesaver. I'm not exactly the best sleeper in the 

world so having our own sheets, pillows, and duvet,

has been much easier to adjust to all the different 

"homes" we've had. 

I sure feel lucky to have friends that help me out

when I'm in a pinch! 

Why you so nasty?

I definitely needed a good laugh yesterday

and thanks to Instagram- I got my

laugh. For whatever reason this was the funniest

thing I had seen in so long. 

Ahhhh. 

No Fizz February

Since we've been bunking with other people,

our pop consumption has been 

OUTRAGEOUS.

I decided that I needed to do something 

drastic to kick off a little detox.

No pop for February includes juice and

sports drinks. That basically leaves tea, coffee, 

and water. I have a feeling I'm going to need 

to take out stocks on Perrier. 

Gratitude

It always amazes me that life naturally

gives you a boost when you least expect it.

On Tuesday morning @ 0400, I 

REALLY did not want to drive 

to my parents but by the time I reached 

Lethbridge, the sky was opening up into the 

most beautiful sunrise. When I turned down the road

the leads to the farm, I actually had to stop.

I felt so grateful to have the sight that some

aren't so fortunate to have in order

 to witness such a wonderful morning.

Book 1- The Dovekeepers

I'm being challenged to write what I thought about 

this novel. While I enjoyed the read, I think all 

the chatter about how amazing this

book was, left me disappointed- 

which is AWFUL!

I hate when the book itself wasn't the 

let down, it was the anticipation that ended up 

getting me. I have to say, this book didn't

"grab" me right from the get go. It wasn't a story 

I just couldn't put down. It certainly didn't captivate me. 

BUT, as I'm thinking about a review, I'm thinking 

of all the parts I loved and how brilliant the 

writing was. Each lady had their own story and each

perspective was written just a tad differently which

made the storytelling even that much better.

I loved all of the women and the stories they told.

I just wanted MORE of each of them. Each of

women brought a different dynamic to the story,

and as I'm trying right now to think of who I liked the

best, I actually can't name one. 

Anyways, I can't say it was my favorite book I've 

read recently but it

certainly wasn't bad! 

Keep On

Sometimes I don't know if I even want

to keep this blog going. It actually isn't that 

much work, but to be honest... I don't have many

exciting things to chit chat about.

Maybe the blog isn't the issue!!!

I need some hobbies. 

I am really looking forward to being in

our new house come March/April. 

Then I will have lots of things to share!- well

decorating wise anyways!

In the meantime, prepare for rambling because

I'm going  to keep on, keeping on this blog thing.

Christmas 2014

 I was working the Night shift straight though

Christmas this year which if I had to work, nights

 are the best shift over the holidays.  

I got off around 0630 and headed home. 

The roads were empty and the drive was easy peasy. 

When I got home, Rhys was already up and at it 

{of course} and shortly after Earl was up as well. We

has some chit chat and around 0900 Edie was up and 

we were onto gift opening. For the 4 of us, we sure

had a ton of gifts under the tree- although

the Williams will tell you this was a small Christmas. 

HAHAHAHA! 

We were all spoiled and I had with the little sleep and plenty

of Bailey's, I probably wouldn't have minded had

I gotten nothing. After gifts it was onto Mimosas, which

are def going to be a Christmas morning tradition from

now on and waffles. YUM! 

Then it was off to bed for me and Rhys and his folks

played with their new toys while I got some ZZZ's.