Lair's birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART!

Yesterday Lawrence turned 34.

YEAY FOR BEING BORN!




Speaking of being born, two friends had babies last week. Kyiel and Brandy welcomed Aurora here on Feb 16, and Janine and Mike welcomed Owen here on the 18. We are so happy for all of them! I can't wait to meet the babies! We also have some newly pregnant friends, due in October and a few others, both due in May. That's a lot of 2010 babies!



For Lairs birthday we had a bunch of friends over last night to watch the Canada v.s. USA Olympic hockey game. It was a TON of fun!!!! Too bad we didn't win though! I drank many a beer and I think every one had fun.

Family Day long weekend

We had lots of fun for Family Day Long weekend. Jeff, Jo-Ann and Anushka came down from Edmonton on saturday and left on monday.

Vik stopped in for a visit saturday evening.

On Sunday, Lair worked and the rest of us headed off for a quick trip to the zoo to see the animatronic Dinosaurs ('Dinosaur's Alive' display) on from now until october. It was pretty cool. 22 new dinos that move and roar. Quinn was quick to point out the Speakers in the bushes. Sigh. So no real 'magic' from the Dinos but he was impressed none the less. Poor Anna was not pleased with the load roaring. Jo-Ann told her they were 'just saying Hello', then Anna kept saying 'No Hello' every time we approached a dino. So cute! We saw a few of the animals then made our way home.

Karen & David and Dwayne & Marcie came over for a visit.

On Family day monday, it was so nice to wake up and hang out with Lawrence in the morning/ all day, quite novel since we don't have any days off together. We thought we would go to Cora's Restaurant for brunch. When we got there, there was a huge line up. Sowe opted to go home and make brunch, so I made French Toast and Lair made Egg's Benedict. It was delicious, cheaper and easier with the kids =)

After brunch we bid farewell to the Marvins and watched the Olympics!

A great long weekend!

Floaters

Floaters in the eye are random bits of protein (?) and other various organic matter (?) from your eyeball walls that detach and subsequently 'float' in the eye goo. I guess it is considered somewhat normal (but more so with old age).

I've been plagued with floaters in my eyes since I was a child. It's like having a gnat fly through your vision, except there isn't anything there, or like looking through lace or a veil, or a psychedelic haze (lol)... small shadows drift in and out of my field of vision constantly... of all shapes and sizes; spots, squiggles, lines, cobwebs.

My new Optometrist is aware of them (saw him almost a year ago) and he didn't express any concerns. However, as of late, it seems like there are more than usual. Especially when I'm reading, using the computer, or tired. They are so abundant these days I need to stop and wait for my vision to clear so I can read/type... I guess I should make another appointment to make sure everything is ok.

As far as I can tell my daytime eye sight is still very good (probably still better than 20/20, however my night vision, well, let's just say, I had a hard time seeing as I was folding (dark) laundry last night in dim light ... Sigh.

Note to self. Make apt. to see eye doc.