November

The month of November didn't start out too well.

Mike and I were both quite sick, first Mike and then myself. The week I was sick Mike was at a bachelor party for a friend of ours in Montreal. I was home with the doggies. We both think that we must have had H1N1 given our symptoms. We both received tamiflu when we were seen at the clinic as well. That is definitely the sickest I've been in years! I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

In the middle of the month, we went to a friend's wedding. It was held at the Point Grey Yaught Club in Vancouver and there was a very nice view of the ocean and the marina from the room. The food and drinks were very nice as well.















We also went to a friend's birthday party. They had this homemade cake that was pretty amazing with 6 layers and yummy food to eat. There were quite a few people there from the East Coast who all knew each other so it was nice to chat with them. NB, NS and Nfld were all covered.
Also this month, Kim came to visit us with Daxton. I went to meet her a the Canada Line when they arrived at the airport.

I'd taken a few days off to hang out with her while she was here with him.

He is a very sweet little baby and this was the first time Mike got to meet him. However, it really opened my eyes to what you can do when you have a small baby like that.

You can only leave him for about an hour at the most and they will cry for you and can't be comforted by anyone else. We didn't have his car seat and typical Vancouver weather it rained almost every day so we had to cozy up inside for most of Kim's trip so I felt kind of bad that it wasn't very exciting for her. She seemed fine with it though and it was very nice to see them both. We did manage to take them out for lunch/dinner a few times and we took the ferry across to Granville Island and we watched some movies.

Kim was also hesitant to take him into public too much because of H1N1. He is too young to have the shot and people are prone to try and touch small babies.
Kim looks amazing for just having a baby (only 2 months ago). I can't just can't get over how tiny she is. I hope I'm as lucky as her when I have kids. She is doing great and is a really good Mom. I always thought she would be.

It has been raining like crazy here! It gets me a little down because it is dark when I get up, dark when I leave work and bleak and dreary most of the day. But it has been very mild so that is nice. I've been preparing for Christmas. I'm nearly done all my shopping and now I need to start boxing things up and getting them in the mail. My birthday is coming up on Wednesday. To be honest, I am not looking forward to this one. 29! uch, I still fell like I'm 24. Mike and I went out for a nice dinner yesterday evening and I think that will be it. Mom and Dad sent me a very nice package. Thank you! I am going to be good and save it for Wednesday. I also got some nice cards, so thanks everyone for those too. For my birthday, Mike got me a kindle. It is an electronic book that is made by Amazon. You can download pretty much any book and read it. I absolutely love it! I am a big reader, I read every night and this will save a few trees and eventually save us a few dollars as the books are cheaper.

To finish, I'd like to send out birthday wishes to Grampie and Emily. Happy Birthday! Hope you have a lovely day. I'm lucky enough to share a birthday Grampie.