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Espresso Rings

Today the three of us were actually in the office at the same time, and today...our office rings arrived! Yes, thanks to Fannie us three office girls now have office rings. And we love them so much! We drink tea, coffee and espressos all day. And now we can rock these rings from Smiling Silversmith everyday.

Thank you Fannie! You spoil us...

Pizza Night

Iris sent me pictures of the pizza night we had last Friday with Vinoth. Jen, Christine and John - you missed out! Thank you to Michelle for the dough recipe that we've used over and over again!

Carmelizing the onions.

Parmesan, garlic and tomato sauce.

Camelized onions - check!

The toppings brought by everyone:prosciutto, mushrooms, sun dried tomatoes, cucumber, spinach, green pepper, goat cheese, onions and steak.

Browning the steak for Vinoth's cheese and steak pizza.

Sauteed spinach, mushroom and carmelized onions for Keith and I's pizza.

Green pepper and cucumber for Iris's pizza. Cucumber is actually REALLY good on pizza!

Keith and I's pizza is done!

Iris' prosciutto is ready to go in the oven.

Mmmm pizza.

Iris' pizza - final product. So good.

Amy's Documented China - Hong Kong Trip

My friend Amy is absolutely incredible at documenting her trips.
If you'd like to visit China and Hong Kong, just click here.
You're in for a real treat.

My cousin Sara is visiting us from Switzerland. She's my mom's, cousin's daughter. We love having visitors and so happy she could stay in our home for 2 days. We explored Toronto on Wednesday and Thursday. I truly loved touring the city I live in.

Scarborough Bluffs

Woodbine Beaches

Woodbine Beaches

Dundas Square

Eaton Centre

Old City Hall

Nathan Phillips Square

City Hall

Nathan Philips Square View

AGO

AGO

AGO

French Cafe...and Chinese Letters

Ali Baba's - Great falafel sandwiches

Ali Baba's

To the CN Tower

Porter Airport

View of T.O

View of T.O

Glass floor

Bottom view of CN Tower after the adventure

Inukshuk

Woodpecker statue? I don't know, but I loved it and have never seen it before.

Woodpecker statue

The Path

I loved this ad made out of car parts.

Bundle of...Amazing

Today I was a part of the most incredible thing I have ever seen in my life.

My friend Karen invited me to journey along with her during her pregnancy the past few months. We kept in touch and talked back and forth about it and I was able to attend one of her midwife appointments (so sad my schedule didn't allow for more!) I felt so honoured to be a part of it. She's so calm, cool and collected and it was incredible to be a part of this pregnancy of her third child.

All of this lead to today, Tuesday January 24, 2012. Her little bundle was brought into this world...right in front of my eyes.

I don't even know how to explain it. It happened. It was absolutely incredible, amazing, a true miracle. I feel like that's what everyone says - but it truly is. She did it all natural, in her home, and my goodness, she's my hero. Never have I seen someone so strong and calm and cool. Her labour was only 2.5 hours long this time, and I just made it for the birth with 5 minutes to spare!

I know every single experience is different, every child is different and every mom is different. I'm just glad I got to be a part of this one. It would be amazing if my (hopefully) future experience is anything like this, I'm sure it will be completely different. But like Karen said, if she was able to show me that pregnancy and birth can be a beautiful experience, then her job is done. Well Karen, you did your job. I am still completely awed at how "normal", natural, beautiful and real every moment was today with the 3 hours I spent at their home.

I still feel so honoured to have been a part of it. So thank you for letting me in on this incredible day. I'll never forget it. This Dragon baby will be extra special to me.

Ting!

During the day we got together with the Fam to celebrate Joey's 5th Birthday. Happy Birthday little guy! He's growing up to be a real sweetheart and a funny kid. All the pics are on my Mom's camera, I wish I had one of his all-blue outfit today! Maple Leaf T shirt, blue pants and a Marlie's toque. Adorable.

We then headed to the Ting's after for a get together dinner and a surprise birthday thing for Warren. We ended with a game of N-Tropy. Always a great game! As expected, it was really fun to play wish Asians. They do the best "ohhhhhhhhh!" sound and most often. I love it.

Warren and Carol spoiled us with some homemade spring rolls that we at in lettuce wraps. Delicious!

Surprise! Happy Birthday Warren!

Carol had candles made that spelled his name - cute!

Near the beginning of N-Tropy.

The middle-ish of the game.

Warren making his move!

The end of the game. I lost! But had a lot of fun. I made 3 sticks fall. Boo!

A great Saturday all in all. I love the weekends. Because Keith and I get to hang out 24-7. Love it. And we always get to see friends and family on the weekend. Love it.