FHE- Gingerbread houses

Can I just say that I love the people in Edmonton! They really make living here worth it. Cam and I have been so lucky to make such good friends up here- we really have so much fun. In December we got together with some friends and made some gingerbread houses!

Just getting started

Kenzie & Braden

McKenzie & Ben

Our Gingerbread "Club"house- Cam Decided to make a putting green beside our house, so we turned it into a clubhouse, complete with a tee box

and a patio in the back!

Chocolate making

This year me and my sister in law Suzanne went over to my Grandma Bennions to learn how to make chocolates!

We both learnt a lot and had tons of fun with Grandma!

We got lots of chocolates too :)

Dance Party

This Saturday I got to have a play date with my two super cute nephews! We went to this indoor play ground thing, and video arcade! (we had to choose something indoors, as it was FREEZING that day) After playing all morning- I decided it was time for lunch, when I asked my nephew what he wanted to eat- he responded with "Candy".... I told him we were going to have some "Candy Fries" and "Candy Nuggets" and some yummy "Candy Pop" for lunch... he thought that was a good idea! When we were at Wendy's eating our Candy for lunch, the boys and I had a little dance party!

Before & After

Cam has been quite busy around the apartment. Our recent (meaning September....) project was adding a back splash to our kitchen! here are the pictures.

Before

During

After

As you can see from these photo's we haven't finished putting the molding on top and below the cabinets. It is almost finished now! It feels like these last reno projects are taking the longest!

The bathroom is almost 100% finished, Cam just needs to build me a medicine cabinet and then some touch up painting!

Welcome to the world of employment

I got a real job!!!!

I started today! I got a position as a sales coordinater at a marketing/branding company. So basically all those mugs/pens/t-shirts/calculaters with companies logos that they hand out? I sell that. Basically anything you can think of, they can put a logo on!!

I am pretty excited about it all, I really like all the people I'll be working with it. It's a bit of a smaller company so it's important that I get along with my co-workers.

It was a really hard decision to make as I had always envisioned myself in the financial industry, so going into marketing and sales was unexpected. However i'm ready to join the world of employment!

Get a haircut, and get a real job

Those are the wise words that my older sister spoke to me on the phone today while I was telling her my frustrations about trying to find a job.

Just to clarify i'm not having any difficulties finding a 'job' those $12-$15/hr jobs seem to find me just fine, i've had plenty of those opportunities.... but a girl has gotta have some standards right?

As a recent university grad yeah maybe I did have a slightly skewed vision of what it would be like trying to find a job after I graduated. but honestly is it to much to ask for a full time job, that requires a little thought.... I mean, i'm not looking for a job that a high school drop out could do. I want one that challenges me, that I can use my skills and develop new ones.

Anyway this week has been a little depressing as my temp job for September ended and I thought i'd have a permanent position lined up by now.

On the plus side I do have a couple interviews lined up this week that I am really looking forward to... hopefully by next week I will re-enter the work force and once again be a contributing member of society!!!

So Grateful!

I just have to say how grateful I am for my husband, and for my mom. I honestly don't know what I would've done without them this week.

Earlier this week i've been having troubles sleeping... on Wednesday I woke up in the middle of the night with stomach pain.... Cam took care of me all morning while I was throwing up. I thought I just had the stomach flu and sent him to school... a few hours later I thought I was going to die.. I had the worst pains in my lower abdomen.. i've honestly never felt anything like it, I couldn't breath through it I was just crying from pain. Since Cam is at school I call my Mom, she looks up my symptoms and sets me up with Health Link. They suggest that I go into the hospital immediately as my symptoms look like I may have an ectopic pregnancy. I text Cameron and tell him he needs to leave class now and take me to the hospital....

the whole drive over to the hospital I was just praying that this pain would stop, and that it wasn't an ectopic pregnancy. We get to the ER and while the Nurse was assessing me I started throwing up again (I gave her some warning so she got me the garbage can just in time) My pain was in my lower abdomen on the left side which also made the triage nurse think it was a ectopic pregnancy.

While I was waiting in the ER to get admitted I was in so much pain... I kept going up to the nurses and asking them how long it would be. They were probably so annoyed with me. When I finally got admitted then stuck in an IV and gave me some Morphine..... that was the best thing to ever happen to me.

They loaded me up with fluids and then took me to get an ultra sound.... I was so worried and kept thinking about the worst that it could be. During the ultra sound the technician wasn't allowed to say anything.. so I had to wait for the doctor to come in... as soon as he came in I asked him to tell me what was wrong with me... turns out it was my appendix!! I was so relieved.. so most peoples appendix is on the right side of their body... mine was in my pelvis on the lower left side... apparently they can move around a bit because they are only attached on one side, but mine was in a pretty odd spot.

Anyway they scheduled me for an emergency appendectomy, and I went into surgery at about 10:30 (a little less than 12 hours after I was admitted) they told me that if they had waited any longer my appendix would've burst.... so I'm grateful I didn't have to feel that pain!

When I got out of surgery at midnight my Mom had driven up from calgary to be with me.. I was a little loopy from the anesthetic so my mom and Cam came back thursday morning. Cam has class all day on thursday (from 8-3) so my mom stayed with me all day. The hospital was at full capacity so I wasn't even in a room, I was in the broom closet (no joke, I'll get the pics from my mom) Cam hung up a sheet on the wall so I had a little privacy.

Anyway I had to stay in the hospital for 24 hours, but they don't really discharge in the middle of the night so I had to stay till morning. but i'm back home now and I have the 2 best helpers a girl could ever ask for!

I am so grateful to have a mom who will just drop everything when I call to drive up to Edmonton to take care of me. I am also so lucky to have a husband who will stay by my bedside all night.

Sorry if this post was a little too much information. I'm going to start blogging more so that I can remember these times of my life. Especially since this was my very first hospital visit!