Yup, completed another year of school- feels liberating! I now have all this freeeeee time- what shall I do???! Should I a) Knit baby booties b) Learn to crochet c) Finish my stack of novels that I’ve collected throughout the year d) Start an art project e) Vegetate or f) ALL the above? Don’t have a whole lot of motivation to do diddly-squat tonight but I made a promise to myself to atleast update my blog 
Post-wedding life is still blissful even with my pregnancy hormones. Tim and I are well excited about baby’s arrival, especially after seeing it for the first time on the ultrasound screen a few weeks ago. It’s hard to believe that this little creature is inside of me- growing bigger by the day! We’ve started on a few potential baby names but for now have decided to keep it secret from everyone as we quickly found that some people can have incomprehensibly strong opinions about names.
It was a busy summer- with study (i.e. cramming), gardening/landscaping the yard and other activities like camping and hiking. We also enjoyed some time in Toronto to attend my cousin Vicky’s wedding (isn’t she a beautiful bride??!). It was wonderful seeing my grandmother again and for Tim to finally meet her (she wasn’t able to fly to Edmonton for our wedding due to her health). Of course, we also spend time visiting my many relatives too (7 cousins, 4 sets of aunts and uncles).
Tim and I managed to squeeze in an evening to tour about the city and caught a showing at the Toronto Film Festival called “A Letter To Momo” (it was the world premier). It was a heart-warming japanese anime that took seven years to hand draw! Amazing!
<P.S. Barry the baby bird eventually died after 2 days. Still feel aweful about it.>
As a mini-celebration for finishing exams, Tim and I took off to Jasper National Park this past weekend to go backcountry hiking. It was a relatively short and flat hike (13km one way)- though the fallen trees on the trail really became fairly laborious (sometimes you had to do a full tuck and roll to get through!). It was really enjoyable despite the chilly night (probably dropped to 5 below centigrade). The beautiful scenery made up for it though!
