It was my birthday yesterday, and Crystal (with some help from Doug, Bea and Elizabeth) got me a Nintendo Wii. YAY! I was so excited, I had no idea that that is what Crystal had been planning to get me. Avie got me some accessories for it too, what a sweet little baby.

We ended up over at Crystal’s parents house and had some beer and a barbecue, on the new barbecue that I put together that afternoon, I’ve started to really love barbecued food since I’ve been in Canada, makes me wonder why barbecuing is not as popular back home. We played some Wii Sports later in the night too which was so much fun!

Avie didn’t miss out on the fun of opening presents and LOVED the book that auntie Karen sent her, she loved seeing herself in the mirrors, and when that got old, she just chewed on the wrapping paper. So thank you to Karen, Shane, David, Carl and Jodie from Avie!

Thank you to all my family for the gifts sent in the box, the jumper is a perfect fit and I have been wanting a new book to read for a while. You all make me and Crystal feel really guilty as we are always so bad and sending our packages, we will send one soon though, we are working on it already.

Back in April we took a trip to Sydney, on Cape Breton island, Nova Scotia. Where much of Crystal’s family live. We drove down there, a good 7+ hour journey, Avie was, as usual, the perfect little traveller and made little fuss on the long drive. We stayed with Melanie, Crystal’s cousin. Melanie’s youngest, Alex, had not long since turned 1, when we were down and he was running around all over the place. It was fun to see a toddler and imagine what Avie will be like at that age. Avie was mesmerised by him! She was also mesmerised by the hockey that weekend, as we watched the crucial NHL game between the New York Islanders and the New Jersey Devils. The Islanders won, meaning that The Toronto Maple Leafs missed out on a playoff spot! Avie was not impressed after sitting watching 2 whole periods.

It was quite a while ago now that we were down there but one of the things I remember most was the drive through beer store! Yes, that’s right drive through alcohol…

Just drive up…

Pick out your poison…

Then, Pick it up at the window and drive away! Hahaha I thought it was so funny, I’ve never seen anything like that before. Only in Cape Breton eh?

While we were there too we got some photos taken of Avie and her second cousins, Alex and Becca. Here is the pic of Avie looking cute as ever.

It was a good trip, and since then we have been down there again, but more about that in a later post.

End of catch up part 1 (April)

I figured it was high time for a blog post. It’s not like I set out intending to be so slack with the blogging, but the majority of my time on the computer is spent working on the T-Shirt site, or working on my immigration situation. But after a couple of productive days on all that kind of stuff, tonight I decided to have some Blog time. So I opened up Blogger and here I am a good 4 hours later, finally starting to write a post.

So where have I been you ask? Well distraction took it’s merciless grip! I actually, yet again, set off working on redesigning my Website/Blog, you know, the one that I never post to anyway. If I spent half the time writing Blogs that I spend trying to redesign my website I’d have quite the biography right here.

It’s pretty funny to look back at my Blogs and see how many times I’ve stated how I am going to start writing more regularly, what makes it funnier is the fact that I’m going to say it again right here… My plan is to write about what I’ve been up to since March over the next few days, 2 trips to Sydney, 3 weeks in England, my best man speech and of course watching my little girl being way too cute.

So stay tuned for my first update tomorrow!