Event details slowly starting to squeek out...

Here is tip number one...

Big Event Coming Up

For some awesome reason, i have taken it upon myself to plan an awesome event this year that will rival all events I've ever hosted - even our super awesome wedding that I so frequently like to talk about.

There has been a lot of excitement from any of the people I have told (and to be honest, I've only told about four people!) Everyone that knows about it is almost as excited as me and they keep thinking it's going to take a lot work. What they don't realize is that when my brain gets working on an idea - I get working on it day and night.

Since I was enlightened to the idea from an old Ringette friend of mine on Facebook, I've been going gung ho. The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to do it. When she emailed me and told me the general rules of the event - I started to get more and more interested. Of course, as this is their third annual event, I have the ability to learn from their mistakes.

I cannot tell you what the event is.... yet... As I want to have a slight element of surprise. I'm just now thinking of how I can put it all together and get it out to the masses. I'd almost like to have packages put together for those included in the event. I don't want to do just a facebook group like everyone else seems to do (and do it well) even though I'm sure I will have one at some point for it.

Right now - all I can say is that it will be taking place on the Summer Solstice - June 21, 2008 - which to my luck falls on a Saturday.

Oh yes - this will be an awesome time for everyone that comes out.

To my Groom - a few months too late!

The night before my wedding I was up late in the hot tub with my sisters just talking and when I came back to my parents to go to sleep. I was overcome with the excitement of knowing that the next day I was marrying James and that he was - and still is - the most amazing person that I have ever met.

because I wasWhile lying in bed at my parents, I couldn't sleep overcome with this rush to write a poem for my husband to be that I wanted to read to him at our reception. I made it a mission to have it with me at the table and that I'd be able to read it. Somehow, the book was moved and it was put away where it didn't belong - and I wasn't able to find it. I agonized over it because it meant so much - the words were from my heart. I had one of my groomsmen go hunting for it, because he knew that it was bothering me - which also got one of my bridesmaids in the act. I'm sure people might have been wondering where they all were during speeches - as there is no way that everyone had to go to the bathroom at the same time.

They never find it, and it wasn't until a month or so later that I was able to find the book. Someone had put it in the box for our guest book pages. I would've never thought to look there - and I'm sure no one would have either. The good thing about finding it though was that I was able to finally read to James the poem that I had so lovingly written. I have decided that I should share it with you so you can also know what I was feeling that night - and every day and night since then.

TO MY GROOM

Standing here tonight
Thinking of your Love
It seems as if
you were sent from heaven above
You fill all my days
with laughter and with fun
You'll fill many more
Even after the honeymoon is done
You are the man of my dreams
The one that I want
Even if you do
Love to tease into taunt
You're always with me
Through laughter and through tears
My hearts yours forever
For years upon years
Today I became your wife
Believe me it's true
I wouldn't have it any other way

Because I love you!

Morphing credit Hedgehog

I’ve been trying to morph our photos together since my blog last week but now the computer is freezing any time that I’m on the screen. It’s driving me bonkers! I was finally able to upload all my pictures from my last computer so I have some photos to do it with! It’s so frustrating. Maybe I should try something other than www.morphthings.com.

In other news, I went and paid off two credit cards this week. Well, in reality I went and reallocated the money into a lower interest credit line. That makes me really happy. I now only have to focus on the credit line and one other thing and I’m on my way to getting everything in check. I think I felt like I was drowning because I had money in different spots. This should make things easy.

James used a gift card he got for his birthday and got Super Smash Brothers. He’s really excited. The game apparently has all the Mario characters and even Sonic the Hedge Hog. He’s plugging it in – so I suppose I will have to call this short. It’s go time. Ready to kick some James ass!

Getting older

I am a horrible aunt! Yesterday was my nephew's birthday. That much I knew - what I don't know is exactly how old he is! Isn't that awful??? I am usually known within the family for remembering birthdays, weights at birth and ages. I seem to have a mind like an elephant when it comes to these things. That is why it bothers me so much when they get it wrong or when I can't remember. I know that he was 11 pounds, 16 ounces at birth. I know that my sister likes to say she had a 14 pound baby, as I'm sure that's how it felt! I know that he was supposed to be a girl, according to 5 ultrasounds. I know that his big sister cried and got very mad when he was born a boy. I remember changing his diaper for the first time and was amazed that they got it wrong because he truly was ALL BOY! I know that he's a few days shy of six months from another one of my nephews. I can remember how my sister was the same size at five months, as my sister in law was at 9 months. He had red hair - right from the get go and there was no issue holding him right away as he wasn't tiny like a newborn - and never had the opportunity to wear newborn clothing or diapers. I remember that he was the easiest baby and toddler to look after as well, and that he was really well behaved. I know that all changed when he went to school and older kids started to pick on him because they thought he was in their class from his size. He didn't know how to defend himself and I remember him as being one of the only kids ever that was suspended from Junior Kindergarten.

It's killing me that I can't remember. I'm trying to wrap my head around when it was that he was born in my life. I'm pretty certain that it wasn't when I was in college... but then again it could be. I remember that when they were pregnant, my sister and sister-in-law used to tease my boyfriend at the time that they could get together and he wouldn't have any fears of getting them pregnant - to which he always blushed, laughed and made to look like he was thinking about it. (which he probably was!) I dated him from January 1997 to May 2000. It had to have happened sometime in there. This is agonizing! I can't believe that I can tell you the ages of all the others, but I cannot tell you the two in the middle!

Okay - so Kamryn used to get mad when I moved to Alberta because I left him and took a plane without him. He said "I'm not going to come to your house anymore because you are never there." That absolutely broke my heart when I was away and the two of us haven't had the same connection since. Anyhow, I was gone in 2001 and he was talking then. Makes him probably about 3. hmmm.....

So if he was about 3 in March 2001 - I would have probably left just after his birthday. That means that he was born in 1998. Hmmm.... that does fit in with the relationship I had during that time - and it means that both boys weren't even conceived when I started dating my boyfriend, which makes sense to the timeline.

Wow - that means that Kamryn is 10!

Man, I'm getting old!