holy hell in a hand basket

well today is another wonderful day at work where there is not much of anything to do but thankfully alicia is here so we have been telling stories from the past week where we have missed each other…aww…

we were chatting about how hectic our christmas’ were…this was mine..

Dec 24
- Tubing on Cypress
- Visit with Grandma Ciavarro
- Dinner at my house
- Open gifts at Chads house
- Midnight mass
- Open gifts at my house
- In bed at 2:30am

Dec 25
- Pick up at 8:30 to go to White Rock
- Christmas Breakfast in White Rock
- Opening of gifts
- Hang out
- Nap at 1:00
- Hang out
- Christmas dinner at 6:00 at Grandma Heagles
- In bed at 10:30pm

Dec 26
- Chad over at 10:00am
- Drive to check out hall for wedding
- Boxing Day shopping
- Lunch at my house
- Hang out
- Boxing Day dinner with the Rossis
- Back to Chads for some Sopranos
- In bed at 11:30pm

Dec 27
- Die of Christmas overload…

my mom got tickle-me-elmo…she is OBSESSED…

Christmas morning at Chads parents house…i have never seen so many gifts in my life…but i guess it makes sense since there were like 5 families there…but still…SO MANY…


so handsome in his new Christmas sweater…


Christmas dinner…his cousin found an earwig in her stuffing…slightly gross…



molly the puggle



ex-hust-ed

we blamed the earwig on the surrounding construction

Chad got me a giant Quatchi because i am 5 and succumb to marketing ploys…but really…anything that is soft and fuzzy i automatically fall in love with…i was SO excited to get him for Christmas!

now its new years eve and we will be driving out to White Rock for some drinks and fun and most likely wont get home till 5 or 6 but i will still fall asleep on the couch at 2…thats what i am predicting…

2007 is ova…and now its going to be 2008…the year of the wedding…and all that surrounds it…IM EXCITED…

no resolutions…no looking back…it was an amazing year and all i want to do now is look forward!!!

HAPPY NEW YEARS YA’LL!

Christmas is ova

and now its time to recoup

we spent Christmas Eve up on Cypress Mountain which was pretty much the coolest Christmas Eve event ever…

went tubing with steve and ashleigh and it was jam packed with little kids everywhere…



they had this pulley thing that you hook your tube onto and it pulls you up the mountain…they also had a path to walk up the mountain…but being the lazy wops that we are we chose not to do that…


it was cloudy and then sunny and then cloudy and then sunny…



chad coming down the mountain…he would use his hands to steer his tube but it just made him look like the biggest dork ever…





it was all very cold and snowy but it hadn’t snowed in a few days so everything was a sheet of ice…

this is where he threw snowballs at my head constantly…



rosy cheeks…


we got two hours of tubing for 15 bucks…but because it was so busy we only got to go down about 6 or 7 times…which was a little crappy but they told us to come back later in the season and we could get way more runs in…


kids and their tubes…

chad pretended the tubes were dogs since they had a leash…here chads dog is trying to do my dog…

bad dogs!

he didn’t have snow apparel…so he wore my brothers snow pants and opted for runners instead of boots…the man is insane…

here we are at the look out halfway down the mountain…it looks like bloody summer…

my camera was dying so we were trying to sneak in a few more shots…

but clearly chad didn’t know what to do with his face…


after the mountain we popped over to visit with chads nonna (italian grandma) since we weren’t going to see her over Christmas…after chatting for a bit we discovered that chads grandparents were good friends with my uncle who is a priest…grandpa ciavarro died some time ago and when chads grandma remarried my uncle preformed the ceremony…meaning chad actually met my uncle twenty years ago without even knowing it!!!

it turns out that chads step-grandpa was an amazing singer back in his day and sang in my uncles itlaian chior…the same chior that half my family use to sing in…it was mind blowing sitting there listening to him talk about my uncles and anuts and the time he went over to my grandparent farm and visited with my grandfather and everything…we sat there in shock…

our two families connected some twenty years ago and we had no idea!

when we got back home we told my parents the news who were totally surprised…my dad realizing who chad step-grandpa was phoned my uncle with excitement over the news…back in the late 70s / ealry 80s the italian chior put out an album and on the back cover was a picture of them…and there was chads step-grandpa looking exactly the same!

i dont know how we never made this connection before but when we did it was amazing!

fate

the fate that began when chad was adopted by this family…this family who would then become connected through my uncle to my family…the connection would not be known for years…until someone started a blog…and someone read a blog…and somewhere they meet…and they hang out…and they fall in love…and they plan to get married…and they find out twenty years ago…a connection had already been made…

my uncle married chads grandparents…and now he will marry us…

fate

after a million days straight together
i have been abandoned all day today
and i am now so bored
i am going out of my mind

i will do a better post tomorrow
when i am the only one at work
and will more then likely waste the majority of the day

ive found some really cool wedding stuff
and i have no one to tell
ANSWER YOUR PHONE DAMMIT

le sigh

and the rediculous-ness has already started…

because i was sick last week and parts of this week i am so behind at work, especially since tomorrow is our last day and then we are off for a week…plus all our suppliers close for 2 weeks which basically screws us over…well…screws me over…

we still havent sent out our chirstmas cards due to my illness and then the engagement and everything…so we are planning to hopefully do them tonight…

thankfully we finished all our christmas shopping last night…now the only thing i have to worry about is getting something for my mother and finishing up chads stocking…i am buying NOTHING in january…

and i just found out that all the stuff from work i had on hold that i was going to buy with the gift certificates im pretty sure im getting for christmas i can no longer keep on hold and i must buy them all today…cash only…dammit!

i got my ring back last night after being resized…when i wear it chad acts like a cat trying to bat at the new shiny thing thats infront of his face…he pays more attention to it then to me…

he says its because the ring is like a fancy new paint job on an old rusted out beater…

are you serious???

did you just say that???

yes this is how he treats the woman hes going to marry…

asshat.

anyways i have to get back to work…

the wedding is tentativly booked and all will be confirmed this weekend…looks like it will be the beginning of september….

we move fast…