Once again I had an action packed weekend!

Friday night Jared and I joined Darcy on a trip to the city. We spent a little time looking at some dining room furniture that Raquel had looked at previously and then we went to the mall and ate and shopped around for a bit! After we decided to go to Timmy's! Jared and I were busy counting our change hoping to have enough to spare for a coffee and an ice-cap! I seemed to have enough for mine and Jared only could find $1. After he had found his precious looney it somehow got out of his hands and it was gone! Lost! We searched for about 10 minutes and eventually I had found it! The whole way to Timmy's he was flaunting his money in our face until I finally decided to knock it out of his hands once and for all! This time we knew it had fallen between the seats so ....... I dug my hand in to see if I could feel for it. Well let me tell you....... I sure did not feel money my first time going down.... rather I felt something sort of softer in a bag. I told Darcy, it feels like there is a bag with a piece of cake in it or something. He didn't think I could be right so he put his hand down between the seats for himself! Sure enough! He felt it as well! I think he was the one that ended up pulling out the mysterious parcel hiding out between his seats. It was probably close to one of the most disgusting things you imagine finding in your vehicle after who knows how long! I will tell you what it was.................. a zip-lock bag with a block of cheese inside!!! Darcy said he had remembered bringing cheese home from Raquels house one time and never knew where it had gone to! Thankfully for him, that bag was sealed nicely for the last few weeks or months! However long it had been there! So we threw the mouldy cheese onto Timmy's parking lot and retrieved Jared's precious looney which had obviosuly fallen beneath the bag of cheese! We then finally enjoyed our beverages!

Saturday night college and career was cancelled at my house since of our paint smell, but I still decided to invite a few people over, hoping they could bear the smell! Of course they all noticed it but at least they didn't smell the fish that my parents had made for supper that night! Probably one of the WORST smells!!
The time had finally come to take out the game of "Scruples". What a great game! You really get to know your friends through a game like this! It apparently doesn't help to be honest either!







After we all soaked it the hot tub for probably almost an hour and a half! We were all looking like prunes when we finally got out!


Sunday was a very long day! First we all enjoyed a lunch at church which was served by our youth group! Mmmmmmm!!! A few of us then headed off to Chad's for pretty much the WHOLE day. Kelsey and I had decided earlier to paint together at Chad's. The guys sat on the couches ALL afternoon and watched curling!! UGHH so boring for me to watch! Thankfully Kelsey and I had our little craft corner going on! I had brought a bulletin board along to paint and Kelsey had brought her paper along to paint on! She is such an amazing painter! She offered to give me a piece of her special painting paper to let me attempt at something. I tried copying exactly what she had painted but turned out just horrible. This is what my final product looked like:


I decided that it was better for me to stick to painting wood and not pictures!

We ordered Bill's pizza for supper and then watched Amazing Race! It was really disappointing seeing Rob and Amber be eliminated from the race.... now I have to pick a new favorite team!

Last weekend was a VERY long weekend for me! On Thursday I only worked until 10 am since I had no work to do and because the weather was so bad. (and that was my last day of work)

I had taken Friday off since I had a foot appointment in the city. Jared willingly let me come along with him since he was going to school anyway. The roads were HORRIBLE!!!! Never been on more icy roads in my life!! Everyone was basically fish tailing. My appointment was for 1pm and he dropped me off at around 12 since he had to be back at the U of M by 12:30. I went up to the office to see if I could get it done right away and I could! It took about 10 minutes and then I had to wait around until 3pm until Jared was done his classes! It felt like forever!! I brought quite a boring book along and I read in the lobby for about an hour and a half and then I headed over to Timmy's which was right across the parking lot and read there for about another 1 1/2!! Finally Jared showed up and off we went to eat supper! We ate around 4ish but we were SOOO hungry!! We of course headed to Applebees! Jared and Darcy arranged for us couples to meet at Silver City for 7ish to watch a movie. We watched "Wild Hogs". Very good movie I must say!! Quite funny! We were all satisfied with the selection! Later we went to Timmy's and spent almost an hour there. So all together on Friday I spent about 2 1/2 hours at Timmy's!! It's a good place! But never again!

I also just started my new job this past Monday.... the first day I can honestly say I went home with a major headache! Information overload!!! I have been there 3 days now and each day seems to be getting better! I think I also wasn't used to being at work for 8 1/2 hours straight!! I have always gone home for lunch for my 1 hour break. I can't wait until I totally feel comfortable with what I have to do!

Time to move on......

Today is officially my last day of work. I had a good time working at this job but there just wasn't enough work for me. On Monday morning I will be starting a new job at K-Tec!
It was kind of sad emptying out my drawer and throwing away old notes........ but the time has come I guess... to move on!

I guess I leave work in about 10 minutes or so, since I have no work to do and the weather is so horrible! So hopefully I make it home safe on my last drive home from this workplace!

Another Eventful Weekend!

This weekend I had the priviledge of being able to see ALL my nephews!! I hadn't seen Koen and Liam for probably almost 3 weeks I would have to say!! Too long!!!

Kai's pjamas were WAY too short on him!! It was quite funny!!

Koen has gotten so big since I have last seen him! He totally looks like Amy did when she was a baby! He has so much hair that it automatically styles into a mohawk as you can see!

Liam had quite an evening last night. Our family went to the rink for supper and Liam had such a good time! He got a rocket painted on his face, a balloon shaped into a dog, and a football!

As you can see below..... a party of some sort has begun!

Raquel and I decided to throw a suprise birthday party for Jared and Darcy last night! They were suprised when other people started comming but sure didn't show it! Oh well!! We tried!
Jared attempting the "crab walk limbo".

Jared recieved this game "Chicken Limbo" from Shannon and Tracy for his birthday, so we thought we would pull it out and give it a try! It seemed to be quite the entertaining game! Quite amusing to watch I really must say!!

Darcy also attempting the "crab walk limbo". I think they both made it!

Raquel and I made them a "Hot Dog and Fries" cake! We were so excited to show them our creation! It looked quite disgusting though because it looked so real!! Tasted good tho!

They didn't seem to want to share with anyone else! Does it look real?!?!

It was an eventful evening but a lot of fun!! We played Buzz Word and then we sat in the hot tub. Jon showed up also and was quite excited to sit in the hot tub. Most of us were already in and then Jon came............
He pulled up a chair and was ready to climb on in.... he had a coke in one hand as well... he already had one leg on the ledge and then all of a sudden we heard a crash and looked over at Jon. The chair had slipped away from under his one foot left on the chair. Meanwhile his other leg stayed put on the ledge! Lucky for him he has long legs.. if that would've been me I would've been all other that floor!! Oh Jon.... only you!

Dueck Family Outing

Yesturday the Dueck family and I headed out to Winnipeg to celebrate Jared's birthday. We were to meet at Dakota Bowling Lanes by 4:45 ........ at least that's what MOST of us thought. Tyler was no where to be seen. Wouldn't you know.... he had gone to Academy Bowling Lanes!!! We did start without him since he was basically at the other end of the city! lol. He did arrive eventually and the evening went on. When you are bowling with the Duecks .... be prepared for some good compeition. They pretty much all seem to be amazing bowlers ..... even you Dana!!!

We headed off to Applebees for supper and Tyler almost didn't make the turn off (at least from what we saw, lol). It almost seemed as though he wanted to go bowling and out for supper by himself!!! Jared basically just got games for his birthday. From Tracy and Shannon he got a game called "Chicken Limbo"!!! lol and yes..... it requires you to do the limbo!!! It was awesome!! I can't wait to play that game!! It actually has a chicken on it and it sings a limbo song!!! He got a few funny cards as well .. but apparently it takes me awhile to catch on to such humor! Well the time had come for the talented group of Applebees singers. Our waiter had asked what the birthday boys name was and he replied ..... "Jared." She then got everyones attention at the restaurant and announced.. "Dan is celebrating his 2oth birthday". She had told us earlier while she was serving our drinks that she had short term memory ... but this was pretty bad since he had JUST told her his name!! We corrected her and she announced his real name. I must say..... the Duecks sure are a fun group of people to hang out with!!! Never a dull moment!!!! ( in a good way)!!!

Jared and I made sure we would make it home by 10 to watch the first episode of Amazing Race: All-Stars! I guess Sunday nights will be filled television watching once again!!

Valentines / Birthday

Last night I took Jared out for his 20th birthday! I was a week late...... oh well!
First of all we headed down to the Olive Garden on Portage.... it was PACKED!!! We had to wait for 45 minutes!! When we finally got to sit down we enjoyed our salad, soup, and bread sticks. Jared ordered spaghetti and meatballs ................... HUGEST meatballs I have ever seen!!! Plain old me ordered a pepperoni pizza since I am not a fan of the place!

We managed then to make it to the Golf Dome at around 9:00. We hit the driving range for about 40 minutes only since it was $.40 per minute! I only swung and missed about 5 times so that was good!!! I am really really looking forward to golfing with Jared this summer!!! I have never ever been to a golf course so it should be interesting none the less.




We stopped at Tim Horton's on our way back home for some Ice Caps. In Jared's words ...."the worst Ice Cap I have ever had." Oh well, at least I enjoyed mine!!!

I had totally forgotten that I had a birthday present for him until he reminded me! lol. I had bought him a brown t-shirt from New Orleans.

We also gave eachother our Valentines Day gifts yesturday since we didn't have them ready on Wednesday!

Here is what we gave........


So it was Thursday afternoon and I stil had not figured out what to get for Jared. I was feeling a little stressed since I knew he was hard at work making something for me and I didn't want to show up on Friday with nothing!! So I searched around for a few ideas and the idea of making hard candy came to me! I got an old jam jar up and painted it with hearts. I thought the hard candy would go perfect in it!! So in the evening I started to attempt to make hard candy....... without a candy thermometer! BIG MISTAKE!!!! Friday morning I had checked on my creation and it still was not one bit hard!! Once again I was stressed out Friday morning at work. What in the world was I going to put in my painted jar that would still make it special??? I had to think hard since I had to have something by the evening!! Thankfully Tracy and I started emailing eachother that morning..... she had asked me about if I had found something to give to Jared yet. I told her about my idea and how everything turned into a disaster. She gave me the idea of trying again during my lunch hour and she would even lend me her candy thermometer! So I quickly rushed home for lunch break and started once again............ was I ever relieved!!!! I had 10 minutes until I had to be back at work and my candy was hard!!! It even tasted AMAZING!! I never got to eat lunch yesturday but it was sooo worth it! So I put my candy in my painted jar and went from there! Jared had told me that at first he was thinking to himself...... hmmm I guess she painted the jar... so I guess that is special. But when I had told him that I had made the candy himself he was MUCH more pleased and loved it!!! So thank you Tracy for making this all possible!!!! lol


This was Jared's creation................. message in a bottle!!! I was very impressed! He had gotton an old wine bottle, stuck a picture of us in it, filled it with rose petals and then stuck a rolled up note inside. He even burnt the edges of the paper to give it an old look!! Creative I tell you! I appreciate getting something like this instead of the typical roses given on Valentines. Don't get me wrong, I love getting roses, but this was a nice change in between, a lot more thought seems to go into something like this!

...And that concludes our date!!

Some people told me they were having a hard time reading my blog because of my colors. Let me know if this color is better!