First Saturday of August...

So Dave and I have been here for two weeks now, and when I say here I mean Toronto. Yup. Home sweet, lovely home. Within two weeks we drove 14 hours from our actual home to Dave's mom's as are usual first stop to Toronto to celebrate Dave's 30ish-th birthday, back to his mom who threw us a wonderful baby shower, and back to Toronto again for some city love. There are plenty of stories already within the two weeks but instead of going through the whole shabang I'll just write about this lovely Saturday in the city...

Dave and I sleeping in until 10, enjoying every bit of sleeping in until our bundle arrives next months (NEXT MONTH! Can you believe it?!) He hits the gym, I hit up the kitchen where my mother spends most of her time making breakfast on the weekends and dinner every night.

A text from a long time best buddy tells me he's in town with his lovely girl and siblings(/inlaws.) Dave and I get ready for the day and meet up in Kensington Market. Out and about in this lovely, sunny, hot day we meet in a sea of people and they're food crawling to Toronto's top food places. We wish them farewell after the meet thinking we'll see them later in the day when my brother messages me, movie time! But first, since we're in the neighbourhood, a good ol fashioned treat, beef patties from Patty King.

Scotiabank Theatre, I like to still think of as Paramount, we watch Guardians of the Galaxy. My review? Awesome movie, great music, love Zoe Saldana and honestly thought Chris Pratt's character was going to be overly cocky but surprisingly wasn't as bad as other Marvel characters.

Dave being his usual burger loving self was craving one so off we went to Burger Priest where he orders the High Priest, yup and fries. Can you guess what happens next? You guessed it, Dave gets a little tired so we hang out back home for a while and then finally, what I've been waiting all day for...

National Ice Cream Sandwich Day! We hope into Harrison and drive down to Ossington for some, what I thought was BangBang but was Bakerbots Bakery. Scarf down our delicious treats and head home again. Dinner time for the baby and I and really, why pay money when my mother is cooking adobo at home? Ending my night with this meal and Dave is out to party at the Tiki Bar with his buddies. Thus concludes our Saturday.

I'm not sure when I'll be posting again but I sure hope it's soon, so many adventures, so little time!

Ooh yeah, are you surprised Dave and I bought new shoes? Of course not. These bad boys are a MUST for pregnant, swollen feet. Honestly life savers. And Dave just wanted them because they are nice and super comfy. His and hers! I wonder if they have them in baby sizes... Anyways, ta for now! :)

Blackout of Summer 2014...

Thank you Hurricane Arthur, because of you more than 50,000 residents alone in NB lost their power for more than 48 hours. Dave and I lost our power for at least 72 and here is our adventure starting with our Saturday night dinner, (we lost power Friday night while sleeping but got it back in the afternoon and then lost it again until yesterday morning around 10:00am.)

Dave eating his steak and potatoes with a salad and he cooked me up some Chef Boyardee.

Waking up to Sunday morning feeling hopeful for power but then realized how many people lost power and the conditions of outside and here is our Sunday.

Dave, the BBQ king, making breakfast for me. (And yes, that's a drawing of Dave that I drew of him.)

Breakfast is served and the kitties are watching Dave clean up.

For lunch I decided to "invent" a new sandwich, peanut butter and bacon.

Our front yard, looks a lot crazier in person, debris everywhere, insanity.

 

Dinner time for Jes! Dairy Queen baby and of course a blizzard to end the night. (Dave had a chicken salad, no one wants to see that, lol.)

A few of the damages we seen while driving around after giving Harrison a quick wash. There's more of just branches on houses and cars, too many to post.

Every night we ended it like this...

Hello Monday, still no power and another BBQ breakfast and dinner. This time the power is back at certain areas in my town and Freddy so to kill some time and boredom we head there.

More eggs and bacon and a side of tons of hash brown and always topped with banana ketchup.

Selfie due to boredom and more peanut butter bacon sandwiches with a healthy apple.

Predinner at Regent Mall and to honour Fried Chicken day the day before got some Thai Express wings and had a sundae on Strawberry Sundae Day, yay!

Leftover rice with tosino for Jes and grilled chicken with hasbrown for Dave.

Finally Tuesday. I was honestly expecting our power to come back on Thursday but surprise surprise, Dave makes me breakfast and right before 10:00am, the wonderful sounds of beeps go off and hums start up, thus ending our blackout adventure. Charge up the phones and laptops and turn on the internet for Netflix but throughout the day I still left the lights off and tried to conserve energy. I also forgot to mention that we luckily had running water, unlike some of my friends who run on well water and couldn't flush their toilets or what have you, if we didn't have water I think I would've complained a teeny bit more. We survived and we enjoyed it. Anyway, until next time!

Last BBQ breakfast, Dave's been boiling and french pressing his coffee the whole time we had no power and yes, more bacon.

Our family portrait drawn by yours truly. (And no, they're not angry!)

Filipinos Take Over Canada Day...

Happy Canada Day everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful weather here on the east coast, sorry Ontario, judging by the news there's suppose to be some clouds but the weather lady looks like she's in wonderful weather. Anyway, I just hope you're enjoying the day to celebrate this awesome country we call home.

Dave and I really had no plans for today but I needed to get out of the house. July has just started and the heat is already affecting my nose which includes the hot air outside and the cold dry air from air conditioned rooms giving me nosebleeds, yup I'm sharing that on here, the perks of pregnancy in my case. We start off with one of those and immediately I need out. Dave gives Harrison a bath (I haven't written about Harrison yet but I promise I will,) cuts and waters the grass and we're off, downtown Fredericton here we come!

All I really wanted to do was to head anywhere where I could get some donuts and eat them in a cool enough place outdoors where I didn't get attacked or feasted on by mosquitoes, here is the result of our day.

 

 

Filipino dances from Tahitian babies to Tinikling darlings, blew my mind!

 My treats for the day, finally some fresh mini donuts and dairy-free Menchies!

Thus ending our Canada Day adventure of 2014. Now, I'm due for a nap. Happy day everyone! :)

Like I Said...

So I'm trying to keep up with this blog but I am truly horrible at this. The majority of the people who read this and was meant for I'll be seeing in a few weeks so there won't be much to post but I'll try to anyway. Always new adventures in Toronto and I'm so excited!

Well, I have been busy and you all know why, if not, here's a little recap through pictures...

Yup, I'm certainly growing something in there. Who knows what it could be... We'll just have to wait in September! The last picture is current with me being 28 weeks which means, I'm finally in my THIRD trimester!

That's enough of that now. Until next time people, I still have a few more things to share that I've been lacking on and just feel like posting and sharing. Have a wonderful day! :)