Moved

We officially left Regina on April 28. My daycare lady was also moving and her last day was the week before. My awesome friend Lyndi watched Boston for me Monday and Tuesday and my mom flew out to Regina on Tuesday to watch Boston for the rest of the week and best of all pack! My dad drove all by himself on Thursday and also came and packed! I don't know what we would have done without my parents. They packed most of our stuff and were a huge blessing to us! Scott and I both worked up until the day before we moved and had little time to pack.

We made some great friends from church and work that came despite the rain and help us load the truck. I am so glad I decided to hire a cleaning lady to clean the bathroom and kitchen that morning. It was the best $80 spent! A few good friends came and helped clean the rest of the house and we were on the road later that afternoon for the long drive to Edmonton.

Sunday we loaded a 10 x 13 storage unit to the max and our stuff is currently still stored there! I need to take a picture of this, it is pretty funny how floor to ceiling the unit is packed.

Scott and I were surprised how sad we were to leave Regina. I made a couple good friends at church and tons of great friends at work I knew I was going to miss and I do still miss them. Scott was really loving his job and everyone he was working with and all his friends from school.

First Roughriders Game

My friend kristi got free tickets to one of the pre season roughriders game against Edmonton. We have always wanted to go and see what these diehard fans were all about. It was fun but cold and windy, so we left at the end of the 3rd. I will admit I did cheer for Saskatchewan, I hope my brothers don't disown me. But honestly, I wouldn't want to be beat up with a baby in my arms for cheering for the opposite team as all the crazy saskatchewan fans.

I Love Regina

We went to the farmer's market today. It was a beautiful day with our favourite family. Too bad they are deserting us next week and moving back to Calgary :(

Winter Poem

Scott's grandpa sent him this poem and i thought i would share.
It is dedicated to my two and only two friends back in Regina (we are currently in Alberta enjoying a 4 week holiday)!

t's winter in Regina, Saskatchewan

And the gentle breezes blow …

Seventy miles an hour ,

At thirty-five below.

Oh, how I love Regina

When the snow's up to your butt …

You take a breath of winter.

And your nose gets frozen shut.

Yes, the weather here is wonderful

So I guess I'll hang around …

I could never leave Regina,

Cuz I'm frozen to the ground!!

Finally Pictures

We are surviving! Life in Regina is good. We are so busy right now with school for Scott and any spare time i have i am busy working at my part time job. Boston barely gives me any spare time, it seems like he doesn't sleep as much as i read babies should. 
Any one have any thoughts? He has a good nap in the morning but lacks a good nap in the afternoon. You would think that would mean he wants to go to bed early but most nights he wont go to bed till 11pm. Any thoughts, any suggestions??!!
We are slowly getting our place together. Here are some pictures of what the place looked like when we first moved in. (Sorry some of the pictures are terrible but it was so humid in the apartment when we got here because they had just cleaned the carpets.)

We went for an afternoon walk today. We have lived her for a few weeks and still haven't taken a walk to the nice lake up the street. I promised my mom i would take a cute picture of Boston wearing this shirt (for those of you who don't know, my maiden name is Woolley).

My Thoughts on Regina and our apartment after Week 1

The drive was better than expected; I was told it was boring and flat. I was surprised that I thought it was pretty and relaxing. But maybe after a few times back and forth my views on the drive will change.

Regina is bigger than I thought.

Regina has decent shopping. The two good things about the shopping is everything I need is right next to each other and not too far from where we live.


The University is a short walk away. Scott took us for a walk their on Saturday to see it and get all his books he needed. 


Scott got 5 books for his Masters program on Saturday and the price of all of them was the same as just one book he would have bought for his degree.

The place we are living in is okay… I said I would rather live here because it is bigger than our condo was, but Scott said he would rather live back in the condo because it is nicer (way nicer).

Scott is surprised about how good the MPA program. He comes home after class and cant stop talking about it.

We hate not having a dishwasher.

I love having no hallway to our apartment. Our door goes straight outside. 

I don’t like that when I open some of the cupboards, all I can smell is cigarette smoke.

Church here was okay. Nothing too exciting but happy to say at least 4 ladies are really nice!

They think Boston has a big head here, well at least one lady at church told me he did.

We get high speed internet on Friday! I will post pictures then… until then, I am enjoying this free slow internet provided to Regina by the government!

Move #1

We are officially out of our condo and moved in with Scott's parents. All our belongings are stored in their garage and their spare bedroom. We had an issue with the paper work for one of the parking stalls but i think it is finally worked out and no money was lost and especially no sale was lost!
It is amazing we went from this...

To this...

Bye bye my first place! I hope the two guys that bought it, enjoy it as much as we did!

A Busy Life

It has been a while since i last posted anything. Life has been busy and a huge adjustment. Baby takes up most of my time which i love but at the same time, i have so much i need to be doing right now!

I have had 2 baby showers and am very thankful for Scott's mom and sister who did my one in Calgary and for Breanne who did my one in Edmonton. Boston got tons of great clothes and books! I also got a bunch of money to buy him the stroller he wanted (okay maybe i wanted it, but he will be happy with my decision i am sure).

Boston had his first photo shoot a few weeks ago, click below for a preview of how great he looked!

http://anonadamsphotography.blogspot.com/2010/06/baby-boston-calgary-newborn.html

Boston had his baby blessing on May long weekend. We (My mom, Scott's mom and me) looked everywhere for a outfit for the blessing that would fit him and in the end found a funny outfit that barely did, but i loved it. My brother and sister-in-law sent Boston a tie from Ontario and even though it went to his knees I put it on him.

Picture of Boston and Daddy sleeping.

I spent the last week at my parents house in Sherwood Park. I loved being home for that long of time. We went shopping, went to a yummy cupcake store, eat great Italian pizza at a yummy restaurant, saw tons of friends, hung out with family and enjoyed Boston and all the attention he got.

Boston and I had our 6 week check up at my actual doctor on Thursday. I have to say i really like my doctor and glad to be away from the maternity clinic doctors (they were not too friendly or helpful). Boston weighed a massive 9 lbs 1 oz! I told myself after the 6 week check up, I will start eating healthy and working out. SO Monday is going to be the first day of healthy Tara and also healthy Scott. Scott recently expressed the idea of starting to run and i have always wanted him to run with me! We are going to have to wait maybe another month before we take Boston. I have a running stroller but have heard you are not to run with little babies... anyone know for sure???

Today was a great day and it was also a first for a lot of things!

1. Boston fit into his first pair of jeans and cute shirt!

2. We used my new stroller for the first time!

3. We went to the zoo!

Aunt Alyssa


Daddy


Boston being eaten by a bear and mommy trying to save him...

4. First time i walked for more than 20 minutes and i had no pain! We walked around the zoo for hours and i feel great!

5. Boston experienced mommy's favourite restaurant, Open Sesame. Scott and I went with our friends (the lady who did his baby photos) and their baby who is less than 2 weeks older than Boston.

AND last but not least... we are officially moving to Regina! I am fine with the idea, only for 12 months for Scott to do his Masters but when i look at my condo and all the work i need to do to get it ready to put on the market i get overwhelmed!! Scott and i started to look at places online to rent and i got overwhelmed! Basically i am overwhelmed but fine with the idea of being in Regina, just getting there is stressful!