Knitting Project

One last post for such a post-filled Sunday. I wanted to share my current knitting project:

It's coming together but now for the potentially tricky part, I'll be updating this project with pictures!

Settling In

To try and house the many, many books Greg and I have accumulated over the years we had to buy a fancy new bookshelf, ($50 from Zellers, the fanciest - right?) but it does the trick:

My mom and Claudette stopped by for a visit yesterday and brought some house warming flowers...making our super sale of a bookshelf actually fancy. Thanks!

Halloween Birthday!

The downside to moving to a new town a few days before Halloween is that every store is sold out of pumpkins. But that didn't stop Greg and I! We bought squash to carve and it worked out pretty well:

Buttercup and acorn squash

The top of a buttercup squash is very similar to a cork

Greg started with the acorn squash...

But ended up with the buttercup...it turns out buttercup are
SUPER tough to carve, so Greg helped me out :)

My pumpkin! The top kind of looks like
this could be a Sherlock Holmes pumpkin

Despite these being squash there were a lot more 'guts' than
I thought there would be

Smiling buttercup full of candle light

YAY! Halloween is saved, by squash!

Squash by daylight, ready to go on Halloween

Some of you might know that Halloween happens to fall on my birthday, yes you read that right. So we pulled out the Happy Birthday banner I made for Greg's Birthday and hung it in our barely unpacked apartment, it worked:

Despite having just moved into a new place AND Greg having worked on Monday he pulled together a very awesome birthday complete with a yummy meal, drinks, desserts and presents:

Halloween cupcakes (and there was lactose free ice cream to
go along with it)

Part of my present...CANDY!

Greg also was thoughtful and remember WAY back when I posted about wanting a tripod and that's what he gave me - yay!!

Overall an awesome birthday and Halloween

The MOVE!

Despite a hiccup in getting the UHaul (we had to drive to Berwick outside of Sussex on Friday to pick up the truck) moving went pretty well.

One thing we learned is that combined we own a lot of things.

7AM-ish on moving day

Early morning tired eating - Greg resembles a monkey this early

Half of the stuff has been moved to the UHaul

99% empty living room - hooray!

Nerdily getting our photo taken
in front of the building

The UHaul before we went to my storage unit

Way too much stuff in the storage unit!

But we got it all out - hooray!

And it all fit in the truck...just barely!

About the hit the road to New Glasgow
...Greg has food in his mouth, sorry!

The new digs!!!

A lot of stuff all over the kitchen, and Greg's sweet dance moves

A living room in disarray, really we have a couch not even the
right side up (we were waiting for those little pads you put
on the bottom to protect the floor)

 More photos to come once we're a little more settled. So far it's coming along but we are still riddled with boxes. Garbage/recycling day can't come fast enough!!

Good Bye Saint John!

After being in Saint John for a little while one thing we hadn't gotten around to was the "market breakfast". Normally we buy stuff on Saturday morning then go home to make breakfast, so on our very last morning in the city we decided it was about time to check it off our bucket list.

Market breakfast is pretty standard it turns out:
eggs, bacon, toast, hashbrowns!

We also said a teary good bye to the Balemans who run a produce and other yummy things stand in the market. Who knew that you could make such good friendships with the people you buy food from in just a year! When they are wonderful as the Baleman's it turns out it's pretty easy.

Good bye market, we'll miss you!