The perfect date ............

So tonight nath and I went out for dinner to Sammy j peppers, which is always great. Well once it was not but that was only because someone had taken one of their ketchup bottles and poured a bottle of their habanero sauce into it. So I ate french fries dipped in this special sauce thinking it was ketchup and just about earned myself the Heimlich maneuver from my hubby because he thought I was choking. I was actually gasping because my throat was on fire and i wasn't quite sure what had happened. Yes drama queen i know, but when you are eating ketchup and fries with fish you do not expect to have watering eyes and a burning throat, it was weird and nath thought I was crazy until i made him try everything on my plate so he would know i was not and a few minutes later i was all happy because his eyes were watering and he was trying to cough up a lung! We drank a ton of water and milk and the restaurant paid for dinner that night. Tonight was great though, their lobster rolls are so good and the jerk chicken chowder is great too.
At dinner we were trying to decide where we wanted to go for our 6th anniversary and what the ideal date would be and they are very different. Nate would like to go squamish and hike up up to Shannon falls, pack lunch and spend the day outside, it is really beautiful up there but it is still so cold out and our anniversary is only 2 weeks away I have a feeling the weather isn't going to change much in that time. I would like to go to a monster truck rally drink lots of coffee and eat hot dogs, so I have no idea what we should do to celebrate but I am sure we will come up with something, 6 years yay!
We might get a chance to go away but were not sure yet, he doesn't have that much work left so he is taking anything he can right now. Maybe Easter weekend we can take off for a bit, we will have to see.
I figure 6 years is pretty good, so far so good, it has been a lot of fun and I can't wait to see what happens next and hopefully it will be as good as the last 6 ! Hopefully!

shopping for the perfect dress.............

This weekend was a lot of fun, Stephanie was over and on Saturday we went to see if we could find her a wedding dress.

First of all we chose the dress shops on HASTINGS, yes , I know what your thinking , why!!!!!! we should have known better but we had heard so many things about the great dress shops there. Now truth be told that was when I was getting married so that would be about 7 years ago now.So needless to say we should have stayed away and listened to Lalaina when she mentioned that New West had the most beautiful dress shops, but we didn't , we got in the car with no maps or directions of any kind so we headed off to the only ones we new of. That is why we got a cramped little store with only one person on staff when we arrived and she was not that happy to see us at all , now I am sure she was tired and over worked but it just wasn't quite the experience we were hoping to have . They have that no shoes in the store rule which isn't so bad in most places but this was not a pretty carpet it looked something pulled from the shed in someones backyard,soooo not pretty at all. I really hope my feet don't come down with something because I had no socks on that day, my poor flintstone feet. Steph's sister sharlene met up with us and saved the day she mentioned there was a bridal store in brentwood mall, called Bryon's Bridal. It was exactly what a dress shop should be , beautiful with tons of dresses and you met with a consultant who helped you thru the process and at the end they gave us complimentary bottled water with a picture of a bride on it and the stores name, might sound cheesy but we like the perks! Steph picked the most beautiful dress I have ever seen, it is perfect . It was the first dress she tried on and then she was done, she didn't want to try anymore on, she had found the one she wanted, it is really beautiful. We had fun and it was great to dress her up in all the princess dresses. Soooooo much fun to be a girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This Wedding is going to lovely.

I have to say I am also excited for all of the parties, bridal showers and torturing along the way!!!!!!!! Let the scheming begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay!

Yay for me , i finally did it today i went to the gym! I was not there for very long because it got very busy and that is too many people for me, but it was nice to get out and use my muscles. I think tomorrow i will go earlier and hopefully it will stay nice and quiet. I think i will pack a bigger bag with some books and hang out in the library afterwards or maybe sit in the hot tub tomorrow. It is a very nice community centre it has a huge pool with crazy slides, gymnasium to play sports in, gym to work out in, a coffee shop a clothing shop and a library. I hope I get comfortable there very fast. I ate well so far today, tons of veggies, little bit of protein and I made myself a sugar free vanilla latte with cinnamon, so it tastes exactly like a cinnamon dolce latte at starbucks and costs way less with a lot less carbs! So i am happy girl , i am a sleepy girl now but I i did get most of my house work done and dinner is on it's way to being almost ready, laundry is just about caught up and I accomplished my break the cycle goal. Nath is reading some psychology book on choice and one of things he got out of his book , at least I think it was this book he reads a lot, sooo break the cycle, everyday you do one thing different than you would usually do to keep your life moving and more enjoyable, so yesterday i got a gym membership and today i used it, tomorrow maybe I will go swimming, maybe.But maybe I will do something else, not sure yet. But it does help me push myself a little bit everyday I don't have to be a new person overnight but one little thing at a time and slowly but surely I will accomplish some goals i have for myself. So on with today................

mmm....more protein

What a fun night...hanging out after church with some great friends , new and old, i love that God knows who we need and what we need, I had a blast tonight and I am so excited for the next couple of months, new adventures, new possibilities, discovering new things about myself and those around me.

Weeeelllll today is day 3 of sticking to this precious diet, perfectly, well almost perfectly I had more fat in my food today than I probably should have and I have not been counting my fat just enjoying red meat!! I cannot handle chicken for a few more days for sure so I am sticking to the beautiful steak cooked perfectly by my amazing hubby, I really like medium rare but i don't like to look at it, so i eat it in the dark basically but it tastes soooo yummy. A few grilled mushrooms and onions and I am a happy girl!!! Thank goodness to day the cravings for all the other foods are gone it usually takes 3 days of low carbing and it did so now I feel great, with a very clear mind. Add sugar and I get so foggy brained! But it is still fun to add the sugar sometimes! Especially when I am in the mood to bake! I wish Nath wasn't so health conscious sometimes, I know that sounds dumb but only because it would be so much more fun to cook and bake for him if he didn't want all of that good stuff to be soo good for you! He is so happy with steamed vegetables and chicken. Booooring, and with low carb my menu is even worse. But if I do it properly I should n have to eat this way for the rest of my life, six more months maybe eight at the most. The cost of feeling sooo much better is boring food and tons of water, but the clarity really is great. Plus it is nice to have a little more fun shopping for clothes than I have had in the last few years, I have all of these clothes I was waiting to wear, and I waited too long, Somehow I missed it and now they are too big, nath just laughed when i tried them on and told me to toss them, most still had the tags on them, and there were some very cute summer dresses i looked very hard for, kinda sad but at the same time not sad, bittersweet i suppose. I am just cheap though I don't want to spend money on clothes right now, i want to wait and buy summer clothes in bright colors, I own a lot of black and I can never find anything because it is ALL black , my bedroom floor is really the black hole, I find my clothes best by putting my hand into the pit of clothing and feeling for specific materials, way faster than trying to see what is what.

So cute purses, cute shoes, good food, lots of water, green tea, good books, great friends new and old, incredible husband and best bud. Amazing creator, who gives me my purpose. Family I love, nieces and nephews I adore and so much more i am very thankful. I love being a girl as well, i would not want to be a guy, i really am thankful to be this girl.

So off to bed i go or I am thinking about possibly reading, i should go to sleep but I am not sure how tired I actually am...guess we'll see.

Party weekend...

well today is back to reality, we had a really good weekend away, but I am glad to be home. the first thing I managed to do as I trudged up the snow hill to the chalet was stumble in the snow and throw my back out! So frustrating! It is still out!So i spent the entire time indoors this trip which was unfortunate but what can you do? I could barely walk around the chalet so there was no way i was heading out to see what other damage I could do. On Friday night we were able to attend the family engagement party for Steph and Jon and that was a ton of fun, i miss everyone so much it was nice to get together and be very loud for awhile. I am looking forward to the bridal showers and parties that will be thrown in the next year, I think it will be so much fun. I know there will points of stress too, as there was already one incident but you know what we will all live and go on and as the waitress said this weekend, weddings and funerals bring out the worst and the best in people. I believe that to be true, so I am going to relax and stick to my rules.

#1 fun, fun,fun!!!! You will probably only do this once, so lets celebrate like crazy!

#2 the bride and groom always pick the guest list at which ever party I am throwing, that takes the pressure off me and they get to be embarrassed and tortured in front of the people of their choosing.

#3 never go into any type of party planning without great amounts of coffee, sugar and back up plans.

#4 Always have great music on hand it can cure any terrible silence and then bring on #3 sugar and coffee, great combo.

#5 have my hubby close by whenever I can, even just a text away he brings a wonderful kind of peace fullness to my thinking, and he makes me laugh which is a direct killer of Trina tension.

The family dinner/party went very well, the room could only hold so many so Jon and Steph had both of their families and a few close friends. They were very cute to watch. We had bridal magazines on the tables and a few little booklets everyone could fill out, one for wedding ideas, one for marriage advice and one to predict Jon and Steph's future, it was great to see what everyone wrote and it kept us all busy while we waited for the food! The bubbles helped to keep us entertained as well.

So now I am going to get back on the wagon and eat healthy and exercise, it is hard to do through such a party week , but I did eat tons of veggies and dip and tons of trail mix, so the rest

was not as bad as it could have been. Today is about the Pilates and the Greek salad, and I am sure i will enjoy it very much.