In November we added a member to our family, little Tartanya, she's a 4 pound Black and Tan Pomeranian who just turned 4 years old.
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| From Fall 2010 |
She's been a handful to say the least. We've had to potty train her, (we're still in the process of this). I've trained her to sit, stay and shake a paw. She recently just had a surgery and had 11 teeth pulled and is now on anti-biotics, and right now she's in great need of a bath. She gets along with Bunnyrat really well and they play with eachother a bit.
Ryan started a new job at AMEC. They're an engineering consulting firm. He has more potential to move up in this company and has the chance to be mentored by experienced people. It's a great move for him and I'm very proud.
Christmas Vacation was very relaxing and much needed. I had all of our Christmas shopping done and wrapped in the first week of December. As of Dec 20th there were no gifts wrapped for me under the tree. I'm an avid present shaker, this was probably why. Ryan quickly wrapped up gifts before our first stop in Regina to visit my parents. To my dismay, neither of the presents were shakable. They had both been padded with something, my guess was laundry, since the laundry hamper was in the room Ryan wrapped the gifts in.
We went out with my friends from high school for our annual get together supper. It was great to see everyone. I only get to see most of these people once a year. We got back from this gathering quite late and it was then Christmas Eve. Ryan mentioned that it was Christmas Eve and since I didn't get to properly shake my gifts, I should open one now. Of course I knew what was up ;) He handed me one of the unshakable presents. Underneath a pile of sheets in this large box, was a ring box taped to the bottom of the box and a card. I opened the card and it was Christmas card with a rabbit on it and inside was printed, "I love you, will you marry me?" I looked at him and told him I would have to look at the ring first in order to answer. I opened the ring box and inside was the largest clearest diamond I have ever seen and held. It had a yellow gold band ( I love yellow gold for those of you who are crinkling your noses ), and a brilliant round solitaire diamond. I of course said yes.
So we're engaged! Christmas eve morning, I phoned around Regina to get the ring sized and hid it from my Dad and sis, I wanted to wait until my Mom got home from work to tell everyone all at once in person. My Mom got home before we were home from getting the ring sized and put together all the pieces. The empty box, the gift tag and the stray wrapping paper from an open gift and then scolding my Dad and sis for not noticing these things, ha, ha. We celebrated with them Christmas eve. We had a wonderful Christmas. I framed Ryan's Team Canada Softball Jersey from when he pitched on the team in 2001. He was surprised. Then we celebrated our engagement with Ryan's family on boxing day.
I'm so excited for planning a wedding and getting married. There were times when I thought that this wouldn't happen for me, but that was okay with me too. As long as you're happy, what does it matter? We're looking at wedding dates in early 2012, nothing set in stone yet.
So there's the update, there will be lots more to come soon if I can keep up. I'm missing a ton of things in here as it is!
I hope you all had a great holiday!
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