sunday adventures: big hill springs

For our Sunday adventure Marshie picked Big Hill Springs. I always forget how amazingly gorgeous it is there. I highly recommend this place to anyone!

While people were taking pictures of Marshie and Carol, I snuck a pic of Boonie.

If Burns and I had a baby, this is what we would look like (except for our babe being blonde and blue-eyed with a rad tan):

This would be a perfect engagement picture. The lighting is so heavenly:

Alex, Burns, and I decided to run up this hill:

We're so hard core.

I think these two just got confused. I mean, people say I have similar features to Alex, and Burns is really skinny like Joe.... We'll just give them the benefit of the doubt.

Pole meditation:

Arianne taking her fan-freakin-tastic pics:

Nitty being her darling little self:

My favourite pic of the day courtesy of Arianne:

These kids were just so tired out by the end of the day, we sat in a parking lot for about a half an hour and they fell asleep for another 30 mins.

I just can't express how much I love my family's Sunday strolls!

a grand visit for grad

I don't know if anyone knows this but I love my darling Boonie. He couldn't make it to my graduation ceremony (don't worry, I'll blog about that soon) but he flew down from Fort McMurray to spend the entire weekend with me prior to my ceremony!

My weekend with Burns began on the night he flew in. It was Friday night and Luke and Burns arrived in Calgary at about 12:15am (so I guess it was actually Saturday morning). I rode with Denise to pick them up and Kobe couldn't wait to see his best friend. I hadn't seen that boy for a week because he has been in For Mac so I was pretty excited to see him myself. Aaaand since I won't see him for a whole month, I decided to get as much time in with him as possible, so we stayed up talking in his car for a few hours after Luke was dropped off. Then we decided to go to Denny's at 3:00 in the morn.


We walk in. The following is not word for word but this is mostly how I remember it happening.

Host: We don't serve your kind anymore.
Burns: Back of the bus I guess.

Host seats us...Burns and I feeling weird about what the host said. Enter Waiter who never looks as Burns or Paige.

Waiter: Any alcoholic beverages for you tonight?
Burns: No, no alcohol, we're good.
Paige: I'll get some hot chocolate.
Waiter: Whipped cream on that?
Paige: Yeah that would be good.
Waiter: Interesting...
Burns: I'll get some Coke.

Waiter leaves and comes back with drinks.

Waiter: Are you ready to order?
Paige: Yeah I'll get the bacon lover's BLT.
Waiter: Oh good, I thought you were going to order a Build-Your-Own-Pancake.
Paige: No, no, BLT is good.
Waiter: What kind of bread? (Waiter lists breads)
Paige: Rye please.
Waiter: Interesting...
Burns orders.

By then I was feeling highly annoyed with our waiter's tone and how he was treating us and some of the weird things he had said to us. And what was so dang interesting about my order?! Burns suggested it may be that he was annoyed with the table of teenagers a few tables over. He then came back a bit later after he had given us our food.

Waiter: You guys are awfully sober for 3:30 in the morning...I guess I'll have to watch what I say and pay more attention to you.

Uuuuhhhh....yeah. Thanks Buddy.

It was a beautiful morning when we got out though haha.

Calgary 4:30am.

The next day I cleaned a house in Airdrie so I was really exhausted. I went over to Burns' house and had a nice nap to get ready for the surprise Burns has been excited to give me for about a month. We took the C-Train downtown.

This was my surprise!

This was the first thing we saw when we walked in:

Outside of the theatre.

Before we left Burns' house, Kobe scratched me. Yes, I'm sure it was Kobe.

On Sunday we decided to go to a family ward with Luke and Mandi. While we were waiting, we decided to give Burns and little trim:

And apparently I am dating Batman.

Kudos to Luke for such great artwork!

After church we went to Big Hill Springs for another Sunday adventure with my fam. More on that to come.

I had such a great weekend! I felt like I fell in love with Burns all over again without ever falling out of love. Sorry for the sap but this is my journal haha.

thursday 10@ update

Quite a bit has happened in the past week or two so I decided I should update everyone now.

1. Last Friday night Burns left me for his brother.

He's in Fort McMurray installing alarm systems for the summer with his brother, Luke. *Sigh*. We went to Denny's a little bit before he left and they were having a chocolate/peanut butter bonanza going on! I hope it's still going on cause there were a few more things I wanted to try. I got the pancakes with peanut butter and chocolate sauce. It was good.

2. I own a car!

Because Burns needed a new car for the job, I paid for the repairs on this baby and now I own a retired cop car! For those of you who have ridden in this thing when Burns was the owner, it is now a lot cleaner and it will stay that way haha.

3. I went to a YSA dance the night Burns left with Lita courtesy of Marshie.

We went out with Marshie and Carol afterwards to The Chocolate Bar. It was alright. I think the ice-cream just threw me off. Plus also our waiter didn't know what he was doing. He gave me the feeling that he and the other man in there had just murdered the owners of the store and they were pretending to be the owners so that we wouldn't be suspicious. Ask Marshall, Carol, or Lita. They know what I'm talking about.

4. Last Saturday I quit this job:

5. For this job:

Yes, that's right. I am back to house cleaning full time. This little box of treasure is located in one of our client's bathrooms. So presh. I will miss freezing inside a greenhouse and walking through freak hail storms, which cause roads to become rivers, to get to work.

6. On Sunday evening I was invited to a bonfire at Bowness Park.

This little gem...

...turned into this bigger gem:

I had a pretty decent time.

7. I want this cat:

Rexxie the Devon Rex cat. She's awesome and hypoallergenic.

8. But all in all I'm glad I own this cutie:

He lights up my life.

9. I saved a life yesterday.

This spider was in a bathtub I was cleaning and I decided to not kill it or wash it down the drain. It was pretty cute.

It reminded me of this meme:

10. I'm graduating on Tuesday!!!!

Burns will most likely not be able to make it to my ceremony but he's going to try really hard to make it down on Saturday to celebrate with me.

I think this is going to be a good summer.

a sunday adventurer's life for me

On Sunday it was my turn to decide where the fam should explore for our weekly Sunday adventure. I chose Bowmont's Waterfall Valley.

Here's Nitty leading us down the path to the natural springs.

Right close to COP but you would never guess that once you were in the trees.

Navy kept watching Kobe. She said, "buh...buh" trying to say, "puppy". Sooo cuteee!

Our first encounter with one of the natural springs. We were just fascinated!

One of the reasons this park is so cool is that there was a wooden path all the way down to the river!

I don't know what's going on here but their expressions are pretty priceless:

Uncle Daryn with Naves:

At the river:

Marshie jumping across the stream. Crazy boy.

Alex and Nitty splashing in the stream that Marshie just jumped across.

Getting a little too comfy there on those stairs.

Kobe!

Marshie and I climbed a rock close to the path. It was seriously the most perfect rock for rock climbing!

Joe panning for gold:

Aaaaaand what would a nature walk be without a little wildlife?

I love being able to play with my family every weekend! I definitely look forward to Sundays :D

strawberry shortcake kabobs

 Today I am going to teach you how to make Strawberry Shortcake Kabobs. You will need the following:

Instructions:

Firstly make your golden yellow cake. Well...I used golden yellow cake because I already had a box of it lying around. I'm not sure if that's the cake in strawberry shortcake but it turned out delish! When the cake has finished with its baking, cut the cake into little squares that you think would fit on a kabob stick nicely.

Wash and cut up some strawberries. Make the pieces big enough to fit onto a kabob stick.

Order = strawberry, cake cube, strawberry, cake cube. You can try all kinds of different orders iffins you like! Mix it up! Why not?

Lay your SSKabobs on tinfoil, parchment paper, or something you don't mind cleaning chocolate off of later. I used a cookie sheet.

Melt your chocolate. I used Hershey's Dessert Fondue chocolate. It was aaaammaaaaazing! It's a little on the "I can't afford this crap" side of things to be sided with, so perhaps you would like to try something cheaper. My roomie suggested Toblerone bars melted in half-and-half cream. That sounds real nice, too. Or just use good ol' chocolate chips.

The instructions on the Hershey's box told me to melt the chocolate in cream but I didn't have any so I used milk. Turned out just fine.

Aaaanyways. Drizzle your melted chocolate all over them thangs and you got yourself a fan-freakin-tastic dessert that will look like you put a lot of effort into making but really you didn't! Your company will go wild! No company you say? Relax! Your tastebuds will go wild!

Sooo good!

10 on wednesday

1. I'm working at Sunnyside. The first week was really slow, but last week picked up a bit because of Mother's Day and this week is even more busy because of the BEAUTIFUL weather. Feel free to come visit me, but maybe not this week because it's crazy in there!

2. Burns is back to working for Rick. He's also doing a few jobs with another garage floor company.

3. I still haven't heard back from UofA so I guess I'm still on the waiting list.

4. My convocation is June 5th!!!

5. I reeeeeaaallly want to go camping. I have yet to go without a parental figure there.

6. I guess I should start looking for an SLPA job soon (speech-language pathologist assistant) just in case I don't get accepted into grad school.

7. On Sunday Kutarnas, Biebers, Marshie, Carol, Burns, and I all went out to Big Rock to enjoy the sun, each other's company, and the big rock out in the middle of a field. I can't wait for next Sunday!

8. The sun is setting later which means I'm not as tired at 9:00pm which means I want to stay up later! The only problem is that the sun comes up sooner so at 6:00am my whole room is filled with light. But I love it.

9. When I went to get my teeth cleaned before my trip to Utah, the dentist took an X-ray and told me that my wisdom teeth need to be extracted before I turn 24. I was hoping that they would just never come through my gums and I could pretend that they didn't exist. If I don't get them out, they will cause some major problems even if they never cut through my gums.

10. The best thing about working at Sunnyside? New friends! This year there are sooo many new cashiers and they're all so awesome!