jingle bells

Christmas Pictures

Haylie - the most gorgeous Christmas baby ever...

(this might be the best picture I've ever taken - I need KAG's photoshop to take out my mom's hand and the yellow baby blanket!!!)

My bro - Phil,
Sis - Jenna,
Brother in Law - Kyle

On Christmas morning
(above) I'm confident enough to put pre-showered pictures of myself :) he he. I just had to show off my most luxurious-ever robe that Jeff gave me for Christmas. I LOVE LOVE IT.

And Haylie looks so cute too.

This was taken Christmas Eve.

Baby had enough celebrating.

(above) Jenna, my Mom, and I playing Cranium. We lost.

(below) Kyle, a very overexcited Matt, Phil, Kayden and a barely there pic of Dad.

(above) the only pic taken of Jeff and I, and it's blurry. And I'm doing the over-smiling thing. Taken on Dec 23, as Jeff went home on the 24th. He's wearing the sweater I bought him, and proudly displaying the gift certificate for the Fishing Hole, along with his stocking that was jammed packed full of fun stuff. Lynnel and I also went together and bought him a little golf package - hat, oilers ball marker and golf balls for his birthday which is on Christmas Eve. Yes Lynnel. She insisted on paying for part of it because she wanted to get him a gift! It was cute of her. And also great for me.
I am holding the teddy bear that came with my 14 k white gold necklace that I am wearing, an awesome electric blanket to keep me warm and cozy at night (it's incredible), and a gift certificate for La Senza. The little green box is a fishing hook that was actually a joke.
He also surprised me on Christmas morning with the robe in the picture above that I had been begging for since September.

Haylie and Kayden in the play thing I bought for Haylie for Christmas. Haylie's sleeper says "Baby's First Christmas" and it was pretty cute.

So all in all, Christmas was just wonderful. I went to bed last night thinking it had been a perfect day besides Jeff not being there. We opened gifts from the family and mom and dad had bought me this absolutely gorgeous glass jewelry box from the Bombay company, along with some beautiful jewelry to put in it (seems appropriate doesn't it?!). I think the tassle is going to have to come off soon :) The parents also got me one of the most fun-filled stockings ever, with lots of chocolates, Body Shop goodies, scrapbooking supplies, lotions and potions, etc, etc. Phil got me the Snow Patrol CD, Matt got me 3 very trendy picture frames from Twisted Goods, and Jenna bought me a NYC calender and a girly book to waste my time on which I love. I still have a gift coming from Jeff's mom and dad.

I feel a little bit spoiled rotten this year.

After presents we had a huge delicious brunch and spent the afternoon relaxing, napping and doing whatever. We went for Christmas dinner at the Hilton and it was amazing and lovely and elegant. Nobody minded that we didn't have supper at home one bit. Then we went through the Enchanted Forest, supposedly the biggest light show in Canada, which is always a good Christmas thing to do. After that we came home and watched "Miracle on 34th Street" which really puts a smile on anyones face :) Oh I'm being so cheezy.

But it really was a great Christmas! I think I'll spend my last day off cleaning my very messy room, trying to figure out You Tube to download a very funny little video of Kayden to share with you all, and eating leftovers. PERRRRRRFECT!

So maybe for the last time (this year anyway).... Merry Christmas everyone!

italics are all mine!

****'s mean YES I HAVE. (Thanks to Heather for the survey!)

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink **** (it doesn't ask how many people were in the bar)
02. Swam with wild dolphins (i did this at canada's wonderland but they were hardly wild)
03. Climbed a mountain ****
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone ****
08. Said “I love you” and meant it ****
09. Hugged a tree ****
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea (i'm pretty sure this is just as cool on the prairies, in which case, ****!)
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise ****
14. Seen the Northern Lights ****
15. Gone to a huge sports game ****
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables **** (okay so my mom did the actual growing!)
18. Touched an iceberg ****
19. Slept under the stars ****
20. Changed a baby’s diaper ****
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity ****
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope ****
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment ****
27. Had a food fight ****
28. Bet on a winning horse ****
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight ****
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can ****
32. Held a lamb ****
33. Seen a total eclipse ****
34. Ridden a roller coaster ****
35. Hit a home run **** (don't laugh. it's true!)
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking ****
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day ****(well part of a day. more like an hour).
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment **** (definitely!)
39. Had two hard drives for your computer (i need another one though)
40. Visited all 50 states (it's on my list of things to do!)
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk ****
42. Had amazing friends ****
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales ****
45. Stolen a sign ****
46. Backpacked in Europe (another wish on the list)
47. Taken a road-trip ****
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach ****
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Greece
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them **** (a married man bought me dinner and a drink in the minneapolis airport at TGI Fridays!)
54. Visited Belgium (why aren't any of these about places i HAVE visited?!)
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs ****
57. Pretended to be a superhero ****
58. Sung karaoke **** (for the first time this last weekend!!)
59. Lounged around in bed all day ****
60. Played touch football ****
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain ****
63. Played in the mud ****
64. Played in the rain ****
65. Gone to a drive-in theater ****
66. Visited the San Marco
67. Started a business (just the lemonade stand when i was a kid)
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites ****
70. Taken a martial arts class ****
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party ****
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch ****
78. Won first prize in a costume contest **** (this halloween for my paper-bag princess costume!)
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Tyrol River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason ****
84. Performed on stage ****
85. Been to Las Vegas ****
86. Recorded music ****
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date ****
89. Gone to Thailand ****
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone **** (ha ha, in Israel someone hit me with a rock, so I like to say i was involved in the war there) (this maybe isn't funny to some...)
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship ****
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge (seen it, not walked it)
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking ****
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray ****
110. Broken someone’s heart ****
111. Helped an animal give birth (i watched a calf being born once though)
112. Won money on a radio show **** (in the form of gift certificates!)
113. Broken a bone **** (i was six, broke the femer bone!)
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears ****
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol ****
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse ****
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon **** (modification - part way around the rim!)
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states (i just counted, i've been to 20 states and 10 foreign countries)
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper ****
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about ****
130. Gone back to school ****
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey (just parts of them - but they are on my list of books to read)
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read ****
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (do fish count?!)
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language ****
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream ****
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts (as if)
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair ***
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life
and

151. Participated in stupid online survey's because I was bored. ****

blogging is my christmas gift to you

many have commented, both on my blog and in person, of the extreme joy they are receiving because of the amount of blogging i have done recently. you're all welcome. think of it as my christmas gift to you, hence the title of this post!

this is the first Monday since august that i have worked and it was very difficult to get up this morning. you see, all semester i had a seminar class from 12:30 - 3:30, so i usually got to have a leisurely Monday morning. it was AWESOME. today is NOT AWESOME. it SUCKS getting up at 7. I've got this weird thing going on where i feel extremely faint and nauseous in the morning for about the first hour after i wake up. it's happened a few times over the last 6 months or so and again this morning. so i waste 20 minutes of my already very crammed morning (i'm late for work every freaking morning) lying on the bathroom floor. very strange. i don't know if its a dehydrated thing or a sugar thing or what, but well, a blog is not the place to talk medical things :)
soooooooo ANYWAYS!

it's CHRISTMAS in case you hadn't noticed! i love it. it's such a lovely time of year. i just wish that it would stop snowing in saskatchewan. i mean seriously HOW much snow do we need? it's very lovely but we don't need 18 feet of it. 2 would be sufficient. it's just annoying driving around on these bloody streets and brushing all the snow off every morning, afternoon and evening. back to happy thoughts. i am THIS close to being done christmas shopping. i just have to pick up something for my parents and for jeff, but i know exactly what i am getting for all of them so i can do it quickly on one of my lunch breaks this week. and i LOOOOOOOOOOVVVE wrapping christmas presents, just like tanys mosher, so i get to do that this week. SO FUN.

jeff the little bum has a birthday on christmas eve, so i have to do double duty this time of year. its hard to separate birthday and christmas, and the poor guy has been sacrificing birthday his entire life, so i try to do something. i think this year we are just going for dinner somewhere nice. i'm copping out a bit, but he has a wicked stocking. see, i can't help but combine bday and christmas. sucka.

i went to Bad Ass Jacks for lunch and it was superb. i was annoyed cuz right before i got there, 4 boys beat me in line and they took FOREVER. arrrrrg. i was so hungry and just wanted my wrap right now. but i had to wait. and then it was so hot i burned the roof of my mouth. brutal! but soooooooooooo tasty. i love it there.

this weekend i went to a fabulous party at the redekopp's farm near dalmeny. they had made soooooo much food and there was tons left over cuz the roads were so bad that a lot of people didn't end up coming. and they had karaoke and dance dance revolution. if awesome food, karaoke and DDR don't make a party, then I DON'T KNOW WHAT DOES. it was really fun. then lynnel and i went home and watched....

MEAN GIRLS! yes i bought it! no more whining. it is so funny. it was totally worth staying up till 3 am to watch.

saturday lynnel and i did some christmas shopping, and we just ventured out to the circle mall. lynnel thinks that only old people call it the circle mall. she calls it the center mall. everytime i say circle mall she bursts out laughing and calls me an old lady. Well I never. i blame it on all the old people i talk to everyday (who by the way, are ALL traveling to Arizona for the winter, which makes me sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo jealous). anyway my whole point is that we did not even dare attempt to conquer midtown. no siree. i bet its even worse than walmart there. walmart is like a whole other culture - everyone there is so rude and so grumpy! i watched two ladies purposly hit each other with their carts the other day because neither one of them wanted to wait and let the other one go by in the aisle! i'm serious! it was insane.

sunday i went and bought a pair of pants for work. at smart set. they are way way way too long. so i go to 'stitch it' to get them hemmed. they can't do it till FRIDAY! HOW RIDICULOUS!!!! so i am pissed off and am wearing them long. it's my new style i guess. does anyone know anyone who can hem my pants for me??!!! like come on now stitch it, pick up the pace.

yes so i think that is about all for now. my cell phone is broken in literally two pieces so don't try to call me on that. i'll get a new one after christmas. or maybe i'll get a loaner for a week? we'll see. i love how this blog has brought me through the day. it's already 2:03. okay bu-bye.

love, me ;)

one year ago today...

sigh...................

analysis of poll

2 responses will do. (see last post if you don't know what i'm talking about.)

so the reason i was thinking about it. i've been writing a few christmas cards lately and i like to end it, "love me" if it's someone like my sister or lynnel or jeff, or just someone close. but everytime i do it i completely hesitate BECAUSE...

hahahaha... hope it's okay to write about this on a BLOG for pete's sake... when i dated this guy a long while back, like seven/six years ago, we used to write little notes and one day i ended it "love me".

well i thought i was so cute. but when the next time i got a letter from him, it ended,

love me kristin. (completely serious too) (parenthesis mine) (hahaha.)
love you-know-who.

(i'm sure most of you know who, hehe, but i'm pretty sure he doesn't even have access to the internet.... i'm hoping not anyway... not like he'd google me first if he did.... anyway, i don't even care.)

ahhhhhh i was like oh that is NOT what i meant when i wrote it!!!! i TOTALLY have a complex about it!!! so i've been wondering all these years if i am completely crazy or if HE was completely insecure and basically wrote please love me kristin, oh please do. oh dear oh dear. so i feel better that at least jenn and leah are okay with the love me. thing.

maybe i should've added a comma? love, me. perhaps?

Poll

What do you think when you see something (i.e. a letter, or the end of a blog for instance) signed,

"Love Me."

Do you think it is a cry for love? like i am asking you to love me more?

or do you think of it as "love from me" ????

i must know. i'll explain after i hear from a few of you.

(i have my last final exam in 1.5 hours, and this is what is weighing on my mind? strange, i know.)

You Are Miss Piggy

A total princess and diva, you're totally in charge - even if people don't know it.You want to be loved, adored, and worshiped. And you won't settle for anything less.You're going to be a total star, and you won't let any of the "little people" get in your way.Just remember, piggy, never eat more than you can lift!

The Muppet Personality Test

ai ai ya yai, in china they never grow chilly

LAST DAY OF CLASSES TODAY!!!!

you guys i'm seriously thinking i might actually make it through! i don't know how many times i told lynnel i was going to drop out of school and she would just laugh oh haha haha ha. ha. ha. not. so. funny. when. i'm. half. serious. (do the periods emphasize that sentence or are they just distracting???) (i like them).

i have one more paper to write... by midnight tonight...that i haven't started...but you know what, THAT IS OKAY! i don't care. it might be a teensy bit late. but still okay.

so i'm soooooooooooooooooooo looking forward to just going to work and coming home AND GET A DECENT PAYCHECK, and not having stuff to worry about! school stuff stays with me day after day after day. i dream about it. it comes with me on my weekends. books lay piled up on my bed and on my desk. the computer never shuts off. papers are everywhere. i LOATHE this.

work on the other hand, ends at 5 pm SHARP.

i am so excited. i'm going to watch all my girl movies over the holidays. my chick flick movie collection includes:

The Notebook
In Her Shoes
Bridget Jones' Diary
Bridget Jones' DiarY: The Edge of Reason
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days

I'm going to watch them all over the holidays. I'm so mad at myself, i was at walmart on saturday and "Mean Girls" was $12 and i didn't buy it..... and there were only 2 copies left, so i'm sure its gone by now. biggest mistake of my weekend. that'd be a great christmas present if anyone wants to buy me it. hehe. i love that movie. i loved the old lindsay lohan. now she is one of my favorite people to see on "go fug yourself". her and mary-kate olson. J'ADORE that funny little website! go check out the one today its laugh out loud. LOL!

k so i have exams coming up but i am at peace with exams. i like them better than mad paper writing. and guess what i have the BEST day ever planned for next monday. i'm getting a massage in the morning. at 1 i'm off to the spa for THREE glorious hours, for a pedicure, spa manicure and aromatherapy massage (my birthday present from jeff). now, 2 massages in one day seems a little crazy but i wanted the real deal cuz my back feels like bricks, so a real one is in order here. i'll definitely be relaxed for studying. i was thinking about getting an eyebrow wax that day too. then i should finish off with getting my hair done. but thats a little overboard since it doesn't really need a cut yet. and i usually only get highlights when i'm absolutely dying over my roots and i'm not there yet. january i will be there. mmm can't wait for monday.

kayden got his little teeth fixed today and he was at the hospital in regina and he told kyle "i like these pajamas daddy, i didn't know i got to wear pajamas here!" regarding the hospital scrubs they put you in. he came through the surgery a little groggy but he just thought it was a fun family trip to regina, which is so cute. he couldn't wait to go watersliding. imagine if he wrecked his teeth the same night? oh dear. don't tell jenna i said that.

can't wait for the weekend to watch the christmas presentation and hang with alison and leon. and lynnel and i are dying for some quality time, although we did have some on friday night at Moxies with 2 bad-girl desserts and some fancy girly drinks. then chad and aaron came to intrude on girl time. but i can't really blame them. i suppose we did call them. can't get too mad.

my christmas wish list (besides 'mean girls') - shopping spree. and that super soft baby pink robe from la senza. pure luxery. please jeff come through for me. a calander. slippers. love. trip to jamaica. is that really too much to ask?

love to all.