Oh Adventure!

Take a look at this beauty!!!
Wonderful isn't it?

 Well to start off this story I need to go back about oh... two months. I was home one lovely Wednesday when the weather up here was -50 and worse. So I took a cold day from school and stayed home and made some banana bread. My house starting smelling all wonderful. As the timer went off I stuck a toothpick in and it wasn't done. The outside was all nice and brown but the inside was gooey! so I left them in longer. But they just kept getting darker and darker and goeyier and goeyier. (how this happens is beyond me). Well to make a long story short I burnt the banana bread. Now if you know me well you know I happened to be a decent cook and don't normally have the pleasure of ruining anything I bake. So this was a first to me. I was quite upset and wondering how I could hide the mess so that Daniel would never know and so that I would not get mocked by him. Lets just admit it... he is a big tease. And this event had torture all over it. So I chucked the loaf of bread and left the muffins on the counter. oops. and Daniel came and asked why I had hockey pucks on the counter. (ingenious I know.) He had that little sparkle in his eye that let me know he was teasing me. So I told him that I quit and am never making banana anything again! The End.


The Second Story:
We are now back to about a week ago. Daniel was making dinner while I was getting some homework done. He took the last toblerone bar and was eating it. (Rude cause he got them for me. :) ) Well my friend Kari called and asked me to come help her with Luke for a minute. So I snuck into the kitchen and while his back was turned I took the toblerone back. (lets face it. It was rightly mine) As I grabbed this bar of goodness I heard a WOOOOSH. I gasped and jumped back checking over my arm and coat to make sure i wasn`t on fire. (i was paranoid) Well nothing looked to outta place so I skipped on over to Kari`s. Two minutes later i get this call from Daniel,
`RING RING RING RING RING
I:" Hey what do you want?"
D: " The Stove is on Fire."
I:" What?? on fire? What did you do? There is an extinguisher by the dryer"
D:" It's just on fire."
I;" Fire extingusher..."
D: " Ya i know."
I:"Well put it out. Turn the stove off."
(We have a gas stove. And keep in mind here Daniel is being really calm and I am just a little worried. And Kari is running around the background hunting for her extinguisher)
D;"Ya its out now. But the stove is smoking."
I;" I am on my way."
So i ran to the house which is literally a hop skip and a jump away from Kari's. As I ran i called Head Office to tell them. They put in a work order but that was all they could do till the following Day.)
I got inside and the stove was smoking. Not a ton but it smelt like something in the house that had burnt. We finsihed Dinner at Kari's.
The next day I was told we were getting a brand new stove but not until Monday. On Tuesday it was finally installed and ready to go. SO NICE! Do you need to see it again?

It's a beauty. and the other day i made these!!!! COMPLETELY PERFECT! No burns gooeyness. . . nothing. Just utter PERFECTION!

Oh yeah. Yum Yum. I think I might break that promise I made and continue making Banana flavored goodness. :)

Weekend Get-Away :)

Daniel and I have decided that we love vacations. One every six months is so not enough. Probably not realistic to go away every month but oh how I wish we could. Maybe once we retire :)

So anyway this weekend we went down to Uncle Tony's cabin. One of the best places in the world that's for sure. Who doesn't love the mountains and snow with the perfect cabin tucked away in all that? So relaxing.

We left Lloydminster on Thursday and spent the night with Dan's parents. Got up kinda early to go to the Magrath clinic for my final Hep B shot. (what a way to start the holiday hey?) After that quick stab we went to my parentals where Dan stayed while I went and visited the Doig's. Love that family. :)

We left for Montana only after we raided my parents fridge and pantry. We had no problems crossing through the border so we zipped on down only delayed partly by bad roads. But they really weren't bad by my standards.. just by the Texas driver in front of us.. I mean really... It's snow. Nothing to out of the ordinary.. (well maybe a little this winter)

                                              Who needs entertainment when Daniel is in the car??

Got to the cabin and Daniel proceeded to get Stanley the wonderful Honda Civic stuck. Oh well we had a truck and a quad to pull him out. The snow was perfect there. Snowman perfect. (we'll get to that later)
We met my parents at Famous Dave's to devour an "entire chicken". It is that delicious!

We played scrabble and down the river. (we played up the river later).

Saturday. The Snow Day. Oh Yeah!
Remember that perfect snow I was talking about?

                                              Quite A Work Out For Them.

                                                                Our Perfect Snowman
As I said. PERFECT snow. weather. weekend. LOVELY! It was nice and warm out. we even played a little on the quad and took it for a spin.

Unfortunately I didn't get pictures of everything. We went down to the lake as in the picture above. And then went crusing and did a drive by. :) haha ya know. Then we went shopping. Oh the haul you can get in the states.

Sunday came way to quickly. We woke up to another foot of snow. haha thats right. You thought we had a lot to begin with down there... oh no.. there was more to come.

 This is right outside the door. Yeah can't really open it...

The snow added over night to our snowman

So we made breakfast. YUMMM!!!
Went to church (obviously in the truck though Dan wanted to take the quad) came backed and cleaned but left time to play in the new powder.

 oh yeah. sledding behind the quad. (a few bruises later.)

 right after mom single handedly pushed out the quad.

 Greg firing the snowballs at us driving. How considerate.

 Yes. There was a wipeout. Or two or three or four...or more. :)

Gotta get some snowboarding in of course.. haha I am that skilled.

It was a blast. Makes me wanna go somewhere more often!!! :)

So crossing back through the border I had to pick up something for Greg that was wrapped in a box. I left it in the box and went to the border where the guard ask us the usual questions. Then asked what was in the box. I said "I dunno. It's my step dad's"
Guard " you need to claim it in your cash value."
Me " I did. It was a hundred dollars ish"
Guard " Oh okay. What is it?|
Me " I don't know. My Dad told me but I don't remember. Want us to open it?"
Guard "Yeah lets do that."
So Daniel proceeded to open the box. Once it was open the object was covered in that brown packing paper. The suspense was on.
Guard says..." .... and its a....... hand gun?!?!"
Daniel " I hope not"
opens it and pulls out the volt reader hidden in the box and shows it to the guard.
Guard " oh well thats allowed."
gives us our passports and lets us through.  Kinda funny, though you never know if you're suppose to laugh at them when they say that stuff. (I did.)

haha there is our weekend in a nutshell. sorry for the overload.

Cinnamon Buns GALORE! :)

So today we decided to have an adventure and make cinnamon buns! :)

We started out using a mixer we have but then realized it was to small. So we went up a size and just used a mixing bowl and I ended up having to knead while Dan added flour and washed dishes. Yeah he's talented I know. :) Then we let the dough rise. We brought the table into the kitchen to use for roll out the dough. Good thing too!

 the ENTIRE TABLE! AWESOME!

It was quite fun. Definitely made one big MESS!!!!!

 Huge right?

 yummmmm!!!

The End.
You know you're jealous!

January's End

Oh January, How fast you went.

I remember someone once telling me that the older you got the faster the years go by. I hate to say it but who ever you are you're right! I mean really. I have been graduated for almost 3 years. I have been married for 7 months. It's like I blinked and life went 4 years into the future. but I wouldn't change a thing. I might have thought that once but now many years of wisdom later (hahahahahahahahaha) I wouldn't. Those circumstances and events make me who I am today!

But really? we're 2 months into 2012? who saw that coming? I mean wasn't the world suppose to end in 2012? :P Yeah right. I still have so much to do and accomplish that I have no time for the world to end.
I need to finish school
Get Daniel into the RCMP
Get me a job
Get a house/nice car
Start my own family.

Really my list can go on and on.( and it does) With each ending of the month I think "here's to a new month of trying better, being better, learning more, be kinder, and achieving all the goals I have.
So January has ended:
Bring on the 4 weeks left of school! Bring on the 5 weeks of Practicum! Bring on the new trials and frustrating life events! Bring on February! and Every other Day, Week, Month, and Year. Yeah it's never too easy (face it that'd be boring) But it sure is fun to look back and see how far you've come and grown!

Ice Fun

Last weekend Dan and I went on an Adventure to the Edmonton Ice Festival! It was so cool! We left around ten and went to West Ed first. We were trying to go to the Apple Store to fix Dan's phone but found it was a 4 hour wait. So we went to the Kingsgate Mall and got my ring cleaned. It was BEAUTIFUL! I should clean my ring more often! Well then we went to the ice Festival. Talk about TALENT!

 A Sweet Awesome Goose!

 Apparently I looked like the Mouse???

 Climbing the highest tower. :P There were Slides on the other side of this one!

 TIGER! Holy DETAIL!

 Some Dinosaurs for ya

And then just a picture of my Typical Husband. isn't he cute???

All in all it was quite a fun weekend! We met up with Lyle and Heather and went to the Olive Garden. YUMMY! Best thing EVER! On our way home is when all this nasty weather started... Yuck! At least we got to enjoy the Ice while it was warm! WOOT!

Technology

So I don't know if it's something in my blood or if I just have a knack for technology to fail while I just happen to be around it.
1st my computer

Looks like a nice piece of technology but don't let it fool you. Take about 20 mins to start up. 20 mins to open the program you want. And must remain plugged into the wall at all times or it will die on you. lovely thing. Thank goodness Daniel's works! :)

2nd The Washer

Isn't this one a Beauty???? Seriously this washer has become my best friend. We had 2 previous but none of them came with a 2 year warranty. But really what do you expect from Kijiji? The first one we bought never had the chance to do its job. It just died. (probably when it saw all the clothes it would wash.) The second one was really a beauty. I mean front loader NICE! but sadly after only a month and a half it too decided it was done being a part of this Fyfe Family. So two days ago we bought this one. With warranties. I do believe it will last!

3rd Thelma- The car
Sadly I have no picture of this one. Knowing our luck with that car it would probably just die right away. Yes Thelma is the one that took us home for Christmas and then persisted on causing us much grief and pain. Even when we got back to Lloydminster. Even after a $104 repair bill the signal lights don't want to always work, the horn not one beep and the window washer fluid pump... nothing. Oh and she would probably like a new windshield sometime too. What can ya do? At least we have Stanley. My lovely Honda Civic! Now that's a good car! :)

4th the Microwave

Lovely Christmas gift. After 3 1/2 months of not having a microwave in the house we got one for Christmas..Well really we had to return the 1st one because you plugged it in and shut the door and it would turn on and start cooking. But we got another one that WORKS! :) :) Let me tell you. I LOVE IT! reheating food has never been quicker! Defrosting food never been easier. and Popcorn... well it's never tasted better!

So even though its a fight with technology for Daniel and I. We still keep trying to have it around. Go figure.

Happy New Year!

As fun as 2011 was 2012 is going to be so much better!
Lets see what happened in 2011:

• met Daniel
• He somehow managed to con me into dating him :P
• spent lots of nights skating and playing and staying up until 5 AM
• I got a niece and two nephews! 
• got engaged
• got married
• got 8 other nieces and nephews! (i'm the favorite Aunt to them all! :) )
• So many friends got married!!!!!! :)
• moved to Lloydminster
• Started school which I actually enjoy and love

Those are just some of the things that made 2011 so much fun! the best I would have to say was meeting Daniel and taking a whole new journey together forever with him! I know everyone says they have the best man out there but really I do. He is so good to me! I mean in all honest truth we get on each others nerves sometimes but I wouldn't have my life any other way! He works so hard and is definitely my best friend.
So really 2012 can only get better as he is in my life for the rest of it and we get to plan and make goals and dreams together!

Yay to 6 months of marriage and many many many many more to follow! Each month just keeps getting better and better!
Never thought I would be here a year ago but.... I wouldn't change any of it!