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i created this blog mostly out of frustration because i cannot comment on other people's blogs without having an account.
I cannot guarantee quality or quantity but i'll do my best!

welcome to 2009 cyberfriends!! I hope you all enjoyed your christmas vacations, got to spend some time with your families and had at least one night of debauchery.
-December 24th Little Benjamin Firszt is born 6 days late. I am now an Aunt. I'm thinking Auntie Mel sounds alright, Aunt Melanie is terrible it sounds mean. My goal with this child is to make sure he gets dirty He is super super cute! Me my mom and my dad drove down on the 2nd at 2am and arrive in NC at 5pm. The only stops made were at the boarder (my dad always gets questioned because there is an asian James William Lee criminal) We were allowed to go pee only when the gas tank was almost empty and there was a gas station in the same vecinity of a drive thru. I did luck out once when there was an Arby's across the street had the bacon and cheddar with "pah tay ta"cakes. MMMmmmmMMMMmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmm. So we hung out at my sister's place with the baby, leaving only once because i needed one of those crazy candy apples, this time i tried AVALANCHE (apple dipped in chocolat, peanut butter, roll her in rice crispies and then strategically placed marshmallows).
Had lots of one on one talks with Benni, I explained to him that i won't get to see him very often but that i plan on being his favorite aunt. and i also told him that when he is older i'll take him for metro rides and introduce him to earth worms and pop rocks.
Drove back the next morning at 2am leaving my momma behind. Since we had lost some weight in the car my dad brought the speed limit on empty roads up to 100mph. and we made it back for 3:45.

Okay on to the next news flash:
Christmas day was going on as it traditionally does, all the presents had been opened and we were about start to shoot each other with our newest version of the nerf gun (a family tradition to have a war). I had bought Tony a new snowboarding jacket for christmas and he kept saying he loved it so much he wouldn't take it off. He stood up, said there is something in his pocket, walk towards me, my brother shot him in the leg, he fell to one knee and then gave a big amazing speech which i only heard on the video after because i was confused and shocked in the moment. I had Nnoooooo idea that this was about to happen and it took me a good minute to remember that i had to give an answer. There have been times in the past where i have thought that maybe i'd never get married but over the past years I have learned how good tony is for me and how even though we are very different, we really bring the best out of each other. This is what went through my mind just before i answered yes and from that moment on i can't stop smiling! :) I love my ring it has three diamonds Angelina went with him to pick it up on christmas eve (it was only ready at 4:30, tony was freaking out). She explained to me that there is one diamond for each of us (her tony and I). I couldn't believe that she was able to keep the secret from me.
So on boxing day the only thing i bought was wedding magazines and to the surprise of all my family and my new fiancee, i have started planning (i am a procrastinator about most things). I really want to do as much as i can myself and am so blessed to have the winters off to do so. But I also have visions of how i want it to be and have to figure out how to do it! The exact date isn't set but its going to be summer 2010 so you all have time to dust off your dancing shoes.

New years we all drove over to ottawa to go to a wedding, it was nice to spend new years with my family (minus three *frown*) all of us dressed up. the next morning we were awakened by the sounds of the fire trucks across the street at the radisson, we had front row seats for the fire that happened there, nobody was hurt. Then we went downstairs and played on the waterslide before driving back home.

Today everyone is back to work and school, the house is empty and once again its just me and my laptop nuzzled in bed until 11. I have to start doing the yearly cleaning at Dairy Queen this week which i'm looking forward to doing cause i was starting to feel a little useless there in december. I'm going to pick up Angelina from her dad this afternoon and she goes back to school tomorrow, she is going to be so jealous when i tell her i saw baby ben, but she'll be relieve to know she'll get to see him in march.