Are you there Bloggers? It's me, Amy...

It was another busy weekend at our place. On Thursday, I worked from home but around 11:30, I headed into town and met up with one of my teams for some drinks and pool at Dooly's. It was a great time. I stayed until about 4:15 and headed home to cook some dinner (I made garlic and cream cheese riced cauliflower, a honey balsamic pork tenderloin and lemon pepper onions and peppers. mmm). Friday I was at work, and left around 3:00 to drive myself and a coworker downtown for our other team party. We were pretty early, so we stopped in at T's (not knowing it was a gay bar), and had a beer there. Then we went on over to where dinner was :Prohibition Public House. We had a private room in there (pictured below). For dinner we picked in advance. I had beef carpaccio to start, a garden salad with a vinaigrette dressing, maple chipotle fried chicken with mashed potatoes and seasonal veggies, and a mocha crème brulee (We just picked our mains in advance and the rest were part...

Christmas is always a time of year where I just kind of "survive". Things are busy, there's lots to do, lots to catch up on and lots of things to remember. Here are the things I want to do before Christmas: -Spend an entire evening alone in the garage (or basement), with the heater (or fireplace) on, a movie on the big screen, with a drink in hand, wrapping gifts! -Remember all of the "special days" at Garett's school for the charity campaign (wear Christmas gear, ugly sweater day, plaid & flannel day, etc). -Go to the school on December 12 to help decorate gingerbread houses and get happy meals for dinner on the way home. -Attend a porch sign painting party on Saturday -Attend a neighbours Christmas party for a while where Tyler and I can wear our ugly Christmas gear -Find some time to get Santa pictures done with the kids (somewhere different this year I think because I am SICK of waiting in line at Place D'Orleans). -Introduce...

This year, here is what Garett put on his Santa list. It's a pretty solid "boy toy" list: Keira didn't really make a "list" this year, but sent her letter in asking for a few things :) Next year will be MUCH different on that front, I'm sure lol. What are your kids asking for?