Last weekend update...a triple birthday.

So last Saturday we had a triple birthday planned.
Especially since Brooke comes from Ottawa and Jane comes from Kingston to Toronto.
With birthdays in October and November (that would be Val's, Eva's and mine).
We decided to do dinner all together.

Since none of us have been we went to Woodbine Racetrack.

Where we enjoyed the buffet at Favourites.

Each table had a screen that made viewing much easier!

And we learned how it all worked.  And thank goodness we were inside because it was a cold night.

Gambled a little.

Likely illegal gambled a little with the custom made board that Val made.

There was cake.

Sparklers in the parking lot after.

There was presents.
A TV for Val from all of us.

Gift cards to JCrew and TopShop for me
(which I have been obsessed about since I wrote in this post here).
Homesense gift cards and a floor lamp for Eva.

Then we all went back to Eva's house for a sleepover and breakfast the next day.

The only thing that bummed me out is that it was decided from then on if you want to have a birthday party then your significant other/yourself would have to throw it.  My heart sunk a little.
I mean I've been having extreme anxiety very mixed emotions about turning 30.  (Yup I'm about to enter my thirties much to my huge disappointment but that's for another post).   
I don't know it just made me feel like that some girls have it all (career, husband, new homes, family, vacations, someone to throw them a party) and some of us don't.
And that is just how life is.

Anywho I wanted this post to be positive so ignore that last paragraph.

And it was a fun filled weekend.
With a trip to the firehall candy store which I've written about here before.
For Brooke's daughter.

Well I may have gotten a candy apple for myself.
Got to love how they slice it all up for you.
Happy soon to be birthday to me.



Pics from here, here, here, here,

Wii!!!!!!

So as per usual Christmas is a very difficult time for me.  So I will just focus on gifts for people.  Probably the two most difficult people in the world to shop for are my mom and dad.  They really have everything they could possibly want or need.  So this year I thought what could I give them that would be so much fun? And perhaps start a new Christmas decision.  And it wouldn't it be extra nice to start a tradition that would allow you to blissfully ignore deep conversation and bring on silly fun games.  So I thought why don't I get them a Wii?!  Not only that they could use the Fit portion which would be good for both of them.  Hopefully they will use it more than once a year but other than that it is super difficult to shop for them.  Also, once I got going thanks to Taylor I knew I had to get extra controllers.  Then I thought to add a few more accessories and before you know it a whole lot more than I thought.  Oh well I really really hope they like it and if it can make Christmas more tolerable then it will be worth every penny.

I got the black Sports bundle (black becuase all their other electronics are black) and the Sports packages look really fun.

The stepper addition :)

Extra "boy" controller.

Two of these for me and my mom to have pink.

The Wii Fit Board.

Charger station becuase thanks to Taylor I know the batteries get zapped pretty fast.