NEW HOUSE!!

We bought a house! This has been the most frustrating experience, but also fun. Trying to find a house that was decent, and had everything we wanted was just a task in a half. The market is a Sellers market and it's VERY competitive. We put in 2 other offers before we actually got the house last Tuesday, which makes a total of 3 OFFERS. The houses that we put offers in were selling for a good 10 thousand more then asking. Thomas ended up find a couple houses on a website called Grapevine. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's Similar to MLS except these people listing through grapevine don't have an agent. They accept buyers with agents, but sometimes can be bitches about commission. We looked at the house last Tuesday with our agent and she was very IFFY about going through Grapevine, understandable negotiating commission can be a pain. Soooo we went, looked at it and knew RIGHT away we wanted it. We left and got our Third offer all ready for the sellers. They came back with a counter offer and WE accepted, our agent even got her 2.5% commission she wanted. EVERYONE was excited, the long awaited house was finally here. This house we bought, is even better then the two others we put offers in. We had our inspection on Saturday and everything looks good. We take possession May 2oth, which gives us a month before Baby comes.

We were both super stressed because right now we're living in a one bedroom Spacious apartment, but only spacious without baby stuff. Because of having such bad luck with house hunting we were getting to the point where we were going to give up and just try and find a 2-3 bedroom apartment in our building.

Our house is a town house, end unit, Garage, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, it's a mulit-leveled house with 4 stories high and an unfinished basement. It has a fenced in backyard with a deck. It's an awesome house. We can't wait to move in.

It's a BOY!

So I'm now at my half way point and we had our 2nd ultra sound yesterday and it's going to be a boy. This ultra sound was so much more interesting, we got to see hands (we think he was giving us a thumbs up) and little feet. Ultra sound lady even showed us the anterior of the skull....SOO COOL! I was pretty fascinated, forgot I had to pee so badly. We also saw the spine, the brain, and most of all HIS PENIS. Thomas thinks going a huge one, anyways, we're super excited. I'm sure you all have experienced the same thing, but I love looking at anatomy stuff and all the biology.......soooo neat! That's all folks!

Merry Christmas

I just wanted to wish everyone a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR! We're not going to be on the computer much because we'll be doing lots of traveling. We're be driving to Mississauga on Saturday morning and then flying out to Kenora on the 22. We'll be there with hommee Dad and Side Kick Sue till the 27-28 and then hopefully our last day there we'll spend it with Susan, just have to play it by year. I'm so EXCITED to see everyone, but not soooo excited about the weather. It's pretty depressing actually because exactly a year ago I was in Mexico for my Older Step brother's wedding, and now I'm going somewhere very much colder. ANYWAYS, once we leave Kenora on the 29th we'll be in Mississauga till Jan 2nd. It's going to be an Awesome Christmas. This is actually my first year without spending it with my parents and brothers so it's going to be WEIRD, but luckily Homee Dad and Side Kick Sue are quite the pair that they'll make it very entertaining. WOOT WOOT!

Happy holidays everyone

LOVE,

Thomas & Megan

NEWWWSSS

Hi everyone,

So I'm posting two days in a row. Thomas and I have some news, we're PREGNANT! I'm 3 months now and everything is good to go. ....heart beat is strong and the due date is June 19th/2010. We're super excited!!!!!!! Just thought I'd break the news to everyone :D:D:D:D

Please Help!

Hi everyone,

So, my youngest brother has a friend who has leukemia and this will be his 3rd Christmas in the Hospital. He's only allowed to see his family behind a glass wall, if he catches any sort of virus it could be life threatening. There is a foundation designed for families that end up having to take off work the spend time with the family and end up suffering financially. If you vote for him, Luke Murphy, him and his family could win a donation from the Cole's foundation to help with making Christmas easier. There are SOOOO many kids in this list that I want to vote for all of them. But I truly hope Luke will win. There are four kids in his family so it makes it that much harder for his siblings as well. Here is the website and just vote for Luke Murphy

http://www.colesfoundation.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=88

Thank you so much for the help

Megan

Wii

So Thomas and I bought a Wii on Saturday. I really like the wii and there are so many fun games you can get for it. Since Thomas has HIS PS3 I got my Wii :D. It's pretty exciting. Last night we came home from lots of shopping. We went to Value Village and bought our halloween costumes and then went and bought the wii. So we had also bought wii resort which is so awesome (Steph don't worry, next time we come over we'll bring our game and controllers). There are lots of mini games within the one game (just incase no one has played it before). Thomas has been playing a wake boarding game and a sword fighting game mostly. In the sword fighting game your character is running around and you have to fight groups of people and try to complete the level without getting hit three times. If you get hit three times you lose. So I had to take a video of Thomas playing the sword game, it was just hilarious. I was trying not to laugh cuz I didn't want to hear myself LOL. You'll notice near the end of the video Thomas stops running and that's because he's trying to "DODGE" his enemys.

I recommend the wii for everyone. IT'S SO MUCH FUN! Thomas was so excited he was rushing to set it up. Considering it's my wii I think it's actually both of ours....booo I guess that's married life

Here ya go mum.

Popular pic.

Based on the first couple of comments I've decided to blog a few more pictures. The more "artsy" ones.

As they say in French "Les Picture"

So I'm sure you haven't forgotten, but I got married recently and here are the pictures. We were given something like 200 pictures. So if anyone wants specific pictures so you can scrap book or print or do whatever you do with wedding pictures, please EMAIL me the type of pictures you want and I'll send you a couple that you requested for.

Honeymoon is over.

Well our vacation is over, and now I face a lifetime with Megan. Her family has informed me that there is not 30 day money back guarantee. I'm not saying she is broken, but she is sure is crazy. I knew this ahead of time, but how she has unleashed all her crazyness for me. Here are a few pictures from our vacation...

This is the face that I make, when I realize that I'm stuck with megan. :D...

By the time we were flying home, you can see from this that we are going crazy :D...

OH BY THE WAY... Everyone believes that Megan does all the posting on the blog.. Just to put on record. THIS IS THOMAS.

Pole Dancing

So on Friday night the girls from work took me out to learn how to pole dance. It was a surprise to me because all they told me was to wear comfy clothing. It was a TOTAL BLAST, we had sooo much fun. It was very similar to a group exercise class in a gym. It was actual lessons for everyone. I recommand EVERYONE to try it, except guys, they aren't allowed..sucks to be you! We started drinking at my Fitness Manager's house, then we went to Oakville to pole dance then back to my FMs house to continue drinking. I had sooooo much fun, it was a great way to end my last day. Oh yea Friday was my last day at Goodlife. So here are some pics

Who's the winner.

So we need all of your advice. What painting is better. Thomas or Megan's.

Please don't cheat and look at the names.

Visit to Petawawa!

HOLY SHIT, all I have to say is that I had a BLAST! So basically I took the train to Ottawa to meet up with Thomas and then Thomas and I drove up to Pet to stay with Steph and Matt for the weekend. I have some HILARIOUS PICS from SATURDAY. Hope you all get a good laugh :P

CON'T

Continuation

The room with no furniture and suitcases on the floor the the bedroom. Oh yea it's only a one bedroom apartment, but enough room and a super comfy pull out couch for guests to sleep on

New Apartment In Ottawa

Creeper ^

Alright everyone so here is an update. Thomas is now living in Ottawa, which is where we're both going to be living. I went to Ottawa this past weekend and helped Thomas pick out things for the place. Make look all nice a pretty :D I must say Thomas did an awesome job at picking out the place. Steph went with him, so it was good to know that there was a women's opinon around, Thanks Steph!! So we bought a couch, kitchen/dinning room table with chairs, carpets, shower curtains, living room curtains, shelving things and then little things, like towels, and then some small kitchen things. He has everything he basically needs right now, so thats good. During Christmas break when he was down here we had bought a bed room set and leather couch. So we have two couches, one being a pull out for company. So the bed room stuff came yesterday.

Megan Margaret Cain

Alright so I was thinking yesterday and I figured I would blog about Megan Margaret Cain. So for those of you who don't know my full name is Megan Margaret Korn. and then you have Megan Margaret Cain. Soooo when I marry Thomas I will be changing my name to Megan Margaret Cain. CREAPY, I KNOW!! hehe. SO Megan and I joke that she will call me Kegan instead. BUT you see she is now moving to GRENADA which makes room for Megan Margaret Cain II. So you have Megan Margaret Cain movin out and Megan Margaret Cain movin in (soon enough). hehehe

People ALWAYS ask me what my last name is going to be when I get married so I tell them. BUT then I tell them about "my fiance's sister's name" and they laugh. I think it's pretty entertaining. But thats it for now.

BTW I see Thomas next FRIDAY which his course will be COMPLETE!!!!

Oh and also 192 days left till the WEDDING!!!

So what do I do?

Well I figured I'd take this time to maybe explain a little about what I've been doing for my training. Not sure if you really know what a Signals Officer is but I'll do my best to explain what I've been doing so far.

On this course we are focusing on more of an officer role, planning and preparing. Last week we were writing orders, and developing Courses of Action "COAs", for a hypothetical scenario. We had to develop communication plans using antennas, satellites, radios, computers, vehicles and troops that would provide a wide range of services to units in a battle field. We had to come up with three options and present them to a commander. Kinda geeky when you think about it, seeing how we aren't using the equipment but simply researching it. So that one of the things that we've been doing. Made for a long week.

Also for the last 6 weeks we've had an assignment to create a CR, basically an office, that would handle all sorts of documents. It had to handle different levels of security and meet a bunch of requirements for rooms, buildings, locks etc. It took alot of time to creat it seeing how we have to ensure that every safety measure to protect information is there. Again Kinda geeky.

In 2 week we start another hypothetical excercise. This time, we get to work in a CP where we basically oversee what is happening on a battle field. We brief anyone that comes in on the situation, letting them know whats happened in the past and what we expect to happen. During this week we'll have to create orders and come up with COAs to present to commanders to provide comms to the fighting units. So yeah thats another thing we do, maybe a little less geeky.

So thats what I got right now. Figured I'd let you all know what I'm doing seeing how I'm sure no one really knows what I'm doing.

Productive Weekend

So like I was saying in the previous post, it was a productive weekend and the reason for that is.......we booked our flowers. I was starting to stress about FLOWERS. Now I am not a very flowery person. Yes they are pretty, but they DIE and who wants to spend a bagillion dollars on those crazy things...NOT US!! hahaha. ssssooooo, I went to one place a couple weeks a go and got a quote, lets just say HELL NO to that place. THomas said I should have told the girl to F*** OFF because it was so expensive. ANYWAYS, Thomas found a place online, which is fairly close to my house, and I checked it out last week....just to see how their display looked and all that jazz. I then booked an appointment so Thomas could come with me on Saturday. We went and it was a total SUCCESS. YAY!! I was really starting to stress about the friggin flowers. But at this point I knew exactly what I was looking for annnnd what we needed. So we got everything for waaaayyy cheeper. So we're under budget, a little higher then we were anticipating, but we're happy. WE're getting there and it gets more and more exciting.

Happy Halloween

Alright, so on Halloween Thomas came down for a visit. It was a VERY productive weekend. Friday night we stayed at my place and gave out candy to all the little (cute) critters. My brother Shawn, a couple of his friends and his girl friend were scaring kids, well bigger kids, it was was fun. There are pics of my house and done up along with the pumpkins we carved. It all looked pretty awesome.

On Saturday night Thomas and I went to the annual Halloween party I attend. It was Thomas' first time coming with me and that was fun as well. I was a nurse and Thomas was a Doctor. There were some really good costumes, my friends are creative. The Strangers you see in one of the pics are Fallon, Sheldon and Ken (left to right). Fallon is my best friend along with my Maid of Honour. So that was our Halloween.

The battle of Thanksgiving...

Well Steph and Megan have already covered most of the news about how Thanksgiving went. But not sure if any of them mentioned the war that broke out. Here it is...