After a 20 minute plane ride I was welcomed home from two days of bridesmaid bliss in Vancouver. Emily didn't miss me too terribly as her new baby kitties were enough to preoccupy her little heart in my absence.
I thought I'd miss the freedom and fun of kid-free city-life, but it seems I've more than enough fun @home to preoccupy my little heart too.
Our new pool drew our neighbour kids over this afternoon. Some of the sweetest, brightest kids you'll ever meet sitt'n in that pool there. Hopefully get to see more of them now that school is almost out.
(Footage of Manitoba trip in the works)

Lesa and Jildaz are 4 days old as a married couple and I want to start a blog based solely on the fabulousness of my weekend as her bridesmaid and the wonderment of their wedding day. Everyone was taken back by Lesa's beauty and enchanted by the glowing faces of the love-birds in-love. In this shot, Mr. Fehr especially captures the pride and the honor many of us felt to see Lesa in her splendor walking up to meet her adoring groom. It would be difficult not to be inspired by the love and devotion between these two or to even imagine that they would ever take lightly the foreverness of their commitment to each other. I was so proud to have been a part of your extravagantly stylish yet simple celebration on June 24th, 2006. The medley of robin's egg blues, the texture of the art nouveau wedding cake icing melting in my mouth and the portrait of a perfect goddess bride are with me forever. As always, I am so grateful to have found an extraordinary friend like you in this great big universe. God Bless both you and Jildaz in every possible way for decades and decades to come. May you someday be able to exhibit the sweetness of your own mom and pop's long-lastingness, because I know your hearts long for nothing less.

pretend it's two days ago...

HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY TO YOU
YOU LIVE IN A SHOE
YOU LOOK LIKE A MONKEY
AND YOU ACT LIKE ONE TOO

LOVE YA HEATHERFEATHER

"The Wife" is gone. So I figured that the old lady would want to know what we've been up to while she's out for a few days.
Check out the pics.
Tee hee.
Congratulations go out to Jildaz and Lesa on thier wedding day! You guys rock.
Love you's.

Standing on the bed while chatting it up with her amazingly sweet and radiantly pregnant Auntie Heather last night. One of the things that makes Heather so irresistible is simply her laughter! When we (emily and/or i ) think something is funny, Heather does too, and she'll always erupt with this genuine and compelling *happy laughter* that makes me want to cry just thinking about it.

Seems I'm not the only one who got herself in trouble around here. Due any day now, we're looking forward to a batch of "summer kitties" to help keep us preoccupied until the baby arrives.

snotty little sweetie

The sheer spazziness of this photo just makes me smile. Em's just "lost" in her cotten candy while Tom's not sure what's more important: the first 11 ft. tall dog in suspenders he's ever seen on his right, or the hotdog bun he was busy eating a moment before on his left. The bun won this round.

Me "cartooned"...yes i'm sure it's not twins.
Okay, here it is, my own little email address. Please don't rely on any of the others, this is the one...

angela.plett@gmail.com

I'm soooo touched when someone special to me has their first baby!
Congratulations to my cousin Jacqueline and her hubby Brad on the arrival of their beautiful little sweetpea:
*Elle Josephine Rae*
*Born April 18, '06 *

The game is simple really: Take out the prego while she tries to take a picture of her family on the riding mower. That's Emily's "You're dead meat, woman" grin.

It's slowly sinking
in that we're all
about to fall in-love
with someone
new.

(sheesh, it's slowly sinking
in that me and my blog
are really CHEESY!)

Dreaminess

I leave town
for a day and
this is what I
get.

THANKS SWEETIE!

i
love
this
kid

Tommy Bruce Marek
The funky white boy who loves playing with cars, flowers, and plastic guns. Love 'm.

I tried to get some more close-ups but most of them turned out blurry.
Among mentionable fridge stuff, we find here:
A little hand-drawn Mom's Day card that my littlest sis made for me-wow!
A well-deserved certificate (that not every kid got ;)
A surprise "Prego" postcard from Heather with the words "Guess who's due in November" discreetly photoshopped in tiny letters on the jar.
A few magnets that Lesa painted for us during her last visit.
A heavenly wedding invitation from the magnet painter.
A bluebird series by Emily, coming soon to Teletoon.
And finally, a special little gift for poor Lesa and her sight for sore-eyes of a cone-headed cat that you can learn about here. (That's her own money dude, I mentioned the price of his new tail and she had me search her room for her coins!)

Pregnant, Impregnito, Preggarama, Preggie-Sue, Pregmatic, Green Preggs and Ham...

Here it is, my Official Pregnancy '06 Update, complete with a picture that will further prevent this from ever happening to you if you're squeamish.

28 weeks pregnant (see diag.). 7 months. 12 weeks to go. Third Trimester. I swear this one is trying to bust out early. Imagine trapping a crazed bunny just beneath the skin on your tummy, that's this guy. Bad analogy, crazy bunnies gross me out.

Everyone, everywhere politely asks me: "How are you feeling?" and my answer is often simply: "Pregnant". For me this means:

Physically: Tired, spent, big, round, ugly, cute.

Emotionally: Angrier than hell, sweeter than honey, really happy, kinda depressed, and occasionally a relieving wave of complete normalcy.

Hmm, maybe an actual photograph of me would be more telling. I think I look psychotic in every pic I've seen of me so far this pregnancy and take great pleasure in deleting each and every one.

In a nutshell, this has been my weirdest pregnancy yet, with forgetting I was even pregnant half the time, and the other half wondering how it's going to be possible to care for a baby with a dude like Tommy cleaning the toilet with his toothbrush and licking the garbage can the moment I take my eyes off of him.

This is what I know:

A) The overwhelming, indescribable love that happens to us moms when our baby arrives makes us nearly invincible, in a fatigued sort of way...

and B) Steve is incredible. He hasn't had a single hesitation since we found out we were having another baby. It's hard not to see that as a sign of good things to come.

We spent most of Mother's Day basking in sunshine and fool'n around the yard. Steve took some gorgeous photos when he wasn't busy giving me the royal treatment.

Happy Mother's Day Mom!
Love you more than a card sent on time could ever say... (oopsy, in the mail)

Here are your vids as promised:
Daredevil Em.
Tommy blowing dandelions.
Um, okay.
Uh, yeah.
Ow
Can't... resist..

Just slapping a few pics from this morning on here for those of you who are having an uneventful minute this weekend.
THANKS SO VERY MUCH, AUNT ROSE, for sending the tiger and puppy stuffys to the kids-they looove them and take them everywhere.
Steve painted one of the kitchen walls "Lemon Zest", see it? It's exactly what i needed in life. Thanks again hunny.
Later all, enjoy your weekends!

Emmy and Steve made me this neat fish puppet decor thingy while I was at my KNITTING LESSONS. Yes, I have failed as a cool person to be associated with. But if you're sweet about it you might get a scarf for Christmas (within the next 30 years, lengths may vary).