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 1. Sam gave Burns "Pandemic" for Christmas. It's pretty great. Basically there are four different diseases that are spread throughout the world and everyone playing works as a team to eliminate them. Sometimes "outbreaks" occur and if you get up to eight "outbreaks" the game is over and you lose. It reminded me of the movie "Contagion". I recommend it.

2. A few weeks ago the sibs and their fams went tobogganing at Suicide Hill. Lita and I joined them and it was my first time there. I wish I had a toboggan but the crazy carpets were pretty great. I wish we had more time but the sun was going down so we left after going only a couple times down the hill.

3. On January 19th I went snowboarding at Nakiska with Haillee and her family. The snow was so compact so it killed when I fell...and I fell quite a lot. I wasn't really enjoying myself too much even though the weather was gorgeous! After lunch Haillee was fed up with my whining so she decided to try to teach me more about carving. She did a great job and we took the next few runs really slowly. By the end of the day I was almost carving (very slowly but still). I had so much fun! Thanks so much to the Litousky's for putting up with me.

4. Burns got a new shirt. Thanks Joe! Now if only Burns was allowed to wear it around his house without being seriously chastised...

5. Alex and her friend Leslie hosted a Favorite Things Party. They had all of their guests think of one favorite thing and bring five of that one thing. I brought Aveeno lotion and Nivea lip balm. We also brought our favorite treat to share with everyone. We all drew numbers and went in order to pick out one item at a time. We then drew numbers again and again until we all had five different items. Here is my stash:

Party bags, chocolate, cotton cosmetic rounds, hand sanitizer, cupcake liners, coconut oil, foaming soap, lip gloss, and nail polish.

There was a prize to be won so we all drew numbers again and put the numbers back into the jar. The prize winning number was drawn and ... I WON! YAY! I ate all of that chocolate in two days. I loved the party and I can't wait for the next one!

6. I got to make snowmen for my job the other day. I seriously can't get over how great my job is.

7. Speaking of jobs, I just started a part time job with the PREP Program. I'm basically doing the same thing as I am with the Cause and Effect Foundation. I'm having a great time with the little boy I'm working with even if it's from 6:45am until 8:00am every day. I'm glad it's really early in the morning because I love having my evenings with Burns and Kobe.

8. Last Friday after Burns was finally finished his final exam from last semester (he was sick on the actual day so he had to get it deferred to Friday) we went out to eat at Tango Bistro! He's heard me rave about it and we finally got to experience it together. He loved it! We then went to The House on Kensington for some hot chocolate and a little live music. I really would love to sing with Burns on the open mic night. While we were listening to some good ol' live country music, we doodled on our cups and had drawing competitions. I loved our little date night.

9. I invited Alex and Arianne to go dress shopping with me a few weekends ago and we had a lovely sister date. We should do that more often. I found my dress too! I can't wait to get it!

10. Remember when I did Bryanne's wedding makeup? Well I did Haillee's and Alyssa's too. Now Alyssa wants me to do her wedding makeup! Mostly because I won't be charging her for it, but at least I know she thinks I'm okay! Haha. I have a trial with her tomorrow. I hope I can make her happy and feel beautiful.