I thought it was time ..........

Yesturday morning the Dueck clan, Justin and I headed to Winnipeg around 6:15 to watch and participate in the Manitoba Marathon. It was rough gettting up that early since I had only fallen asleep around 1:30 and was up already at 5:30 to start my day! Jared, Shannon, Tyler, Greg, and Justin were all a part of a relay team together. Greg ran their first leg of the relay and then continued on running doing the full marathon! We arrived at Jared's station and the adventure began! Tracy and I got to see all the relay exchanges and this time we made it to the stadium on time to see the finish! Shortly after we arrived at the stadium, Greg came running in ....... he got THIRD place!!!! I could never imagine running 26 miles AND getting in third place doing it! He did an amazing job!!! Congratulations Greg!! A little while later Tyler came across the finish, completing the relay for the team. According to the Winnipeg Free Press they were ranked as being in 6th place! All the guys did such a great job running! Maybe you'll see me out there next year ......... ummmmm YEAH RIGHT!

Below are some pics of the marathon:

Greg handing off to Jared at the first relay exchange

Jared exhausted after finishing his leg of the race

......... Greg still running

Shannon handing off to Justin at the third relay exchange

Tyler on his way finishing up the last leg!

Hope you enjoyed!! Who knows when the next post will be!!!

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What a night!

It's been over a week since this video was shot but I thought I had to show this lovely video to you all!

Has he got the moves or what!!!!

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Last Friday night, five of us friends got together to celebrate Shane's birthday as well as mine. Going to Alpine Bowling Lanes was the first thing to do on our list! When we got there they told us that our reserved lane for 7:30 wasn't working and that we would have to wait until about 8:30. That was a bit annoying for us since we were wanting to go for supper afterwards and that would've been a VERY late supper! Thankfully while we were all thinking about what to do they told us that our lane was now working. We didn't have to pay until after just in case the lane stopped working again. The shoes ........ there was a father/daughter bowling event going on so there were no shoes in the range from size 9-12 (the guys were VERY uncomfortable) and I had to wear a size too big since they had no size 5's! We were in the 8th frame and I was up ....... STOPPED working!!! The guys working there told us that the people beside us would be done in about 15 minutes and that we could come and get some free drinks while we waited. So we all got HUGE drinks and waited oh so paitiently.


We tried setting them up as bowling pins!

Jared showing off his size 12 shoes!!! (he stuffed them with kleenex)

The time had finally come!!! We got our right shoe sizes and a new lane! We were all ready for our second game. As we were about to start they brought us 2 free baskets of popcorn! They felt really bad for all the problems we had to face! They even gave us a discount on our bowling. We eventually got started and had no more problems!!

Finally Legal!

Yesturday when I showed up for work, Phyllis had tied an arrangement of 6 helium birthday balloons to my computer! Talk about feeling special the first hour you are awake on your birthday!
They even took me out to the cafe for lunch! They are such awesome people to work with!

Here are my lovely balloons I received!

Kelsey even came to my workplace in the afternoon and brought me some flowers! What an awesome friend!

In the evening Jared took me out to celebrate! We went to the IMAX to see "Dinosaurs". To be honest I was a little scared, lol. I closed my eyes when the T-Rex came on. It seemed so close I thought it was going to chop my head off!!!! None the less, we had a great time!

Happy 3 Years!!!!

It has officially been 3 years today since Jared and I have been dating!!
I love you Jared!!!!!

Congratulations Darcy & Raquel !!!

Here are just a few pictures from Darcy and Raquels wedding yesturday.

They had two cool backdrops for taking all the guests pictures.

Night out with the girls!

Yesturday evening we took Raquel out for her stagette! It's hard to believe she is getting married in just exactly ONE more week! I am so excited to be able to share that special day with her and Darcy!


We started off our evening by making her go on a little treasure hunt. Each treasure she found had another clue as well as a few small gifts that she could use in her new home! We made it to Winnipeg just in time to make our 7:30 reservation at "Mona Lisa". It's a nice place despite the fact that you wait FOREVER to get your order taken as well as your food. I mean they had it written in the menu that their food takes awhile to prepare since they make it fresh or something. But still, the wait was a bit ridiculous. None the less, we enjoyed our almost 2 hour supper!




Our bowling reservations were for 9 but we only made it to the lanes by 9:30 because of our "long" supper. We had to wait 20 minutes in order to get in since we had not been on time for our reservations. We eventually laced up our bowling shoes and were ready to go! But wait ..... the evening couldn't go on without a bit more waiting involved. It took them FOREVER to put our names into the system so that we could start. They had accused Lisa of not paying so they hadn't put them up yet. So we started our game FINALLY! Well wouldn't you know...... our pins started to have issues in the middle of the game and then our screen froze. I love it how many times we had little issues here and there, it made for an eventful evening!

Very nice Raquel!

We headed to Timmy's afterwards since we didn't make it on time for the ice-cream place we wanted to go to. That's okay though since Raquel loves Timmy's! We then all headed home and Raquel went to uncover her last clue at their soon to be home.


It was a lot of fun getting to hang out with just girls! Raquel I wish you all the best as you finish up planning in your one week of single life left! I can't wait until April.21!!!!!!!!