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New Happenings

>> Monday, January 09, 2012

The year started off with my happiest hobby, photography.  Except I wasn't the photographer but more like the subject of the photograph.  But that's okay because we took our larger family photographs.  I'm glad we did it on New Years Day because it's an easy date to remember.

And the year is already just flying by.  I'm trying to enjoy every last bit of my maternity leave as well as get ready for the birthday extravaganza week.  January 7th was a birthday party, my nieces bday is on the 10th, followed by my big day on the 12th, followed by my nephew on the 13th..

It's been harder to even get on the computer as Cammie is now a hold onto mom kind of walker or a pick me up kind of gal, followed by a I don't need to nap kind of attitude.  It's all good practice for next month and day care!

Then we just wait until March which gives me a month to adjust to my new back to work schedule..

Here are a sampling of our portraits we took.  It's our first one done as a family and we love them!


The cousins are so cute together!

Our family of 3!


Our cute crawler

All smiles, what she does best!
Next stop, MIL leaves and my parents arrive.  I've gotta soak up all of this time I have off before back to work!

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A busy Month

>> Wednesday, December 21, 2011

It's been a fairly busy month for us already, so I thought I'd write about a few of the things going on.  Cammie's grandmother from Quebec arrived.  They had some great times together and will have many more as this is the first time that the entire family (on P's side) will be together.  It will be fun for Cammie to finally have her two cousins here for Christmas so that she can learn and grow with them.


With her big cousin who loves to babysit.

The three cousins

On the 9th, I wrote my Canadian Citizenship test.  Ended up receiving my response on the 19th that I will be taking the oath for Citizenship early next year, the day before my birthday.   P will attend the ceremony with me and hopefully I'll have a photo to show for it.

On the 10th, we brought her to see the only stranger she is supposed to talk to.  She cried.  Oh well, we were hoping our anniversary would be a bit more thrilling than that.

On the 16th, Cammie turned 9 months old already.  That means, I'm less than 2 months away from going back to work, boo! :-( Where does the time fly?  She's busy crawling like she belongs in the army.  We are still working on the normal crawling but in the mean time, she sure is getting some swimmer lats on her as a result of all of that pulling.  She's also learned how to play chase and is starting to learn how fun it is to ride on her new car.

We finally replaced our not so kid friendly furniture with pieces we both really like.  We aren't convinced it's much safer but at least it looks great in the house.  P and I have been eating healthier, a lot healthier I should say.  Enough that my mother  in law complained that we were on a diet.  We aren't, we've just switched our eating habits to include no processed carbs of any kind.  It's made a huge difference already.



I'm getting this crawling thing

I just woke up for what???

Oh this nice looking guy made me cry!

Wishing everyone a happy winter solstice and happy Christmas holidays.

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Our Anniversary

>> Tuesday, December 13, 2011

On December 10th, we celebrated 6 years of marriage.  It's hard to believe that I've been blogging longer than that!  Even harder to believe that I've been in Canada some 7 plus years already!  No we didn't take any interesting photos or do anything exciting that day.  I really can't remember all that we did but we did have one visitor, Grandma from Quebec...

One thing I'm hoping to do is curb my addiction to these evil games I keep playing so that I have more time to enjoy what I love more, photography and blogging..

Since I haven't taken that many photos lately, I figured, I'd try to post a photo from our wedding..


We haven't changed all too much!

Next on the agenda, a family photo!


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All Things Swiss

>> Thursday, December 01, 2011

With my love for all things Swiss, I was reminded at how much I love this feature on their Swiss Post site.  They've got some great postcards which in my mind you can design for super cheap.



Check these postcards out from the Swiss Post.

I only have a slight huge itch to visit right now!

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Citizenship Update

>> Tuesday, November 29, 2011

So I finally received my letter to go take the citizenship test!  Yippie.  Timeline was April 20, 2010, to Nov 25, 2011.  Roughly 17 months waiting..  The better news I'm pretty sure I don't have to renew my perm residence too as it was up to expire soon.  More updates to come.

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