Double Delight!

Wouldn't it be glorious to give birth to a set of these:


Or these:


Or even these?? :


Those of you who know me well know that I really want to give birth to TWINS. I’ve recently discovered that I have several things in my favour:

1. I’m a fraternal twin: apparently fraternal twins are more genetically linked than identical twins, therefore I’m more likely to have them myself. YESSSSssssss.

2. We’re female fraternal twins. Female fraternal twins are twice as likely as male fraternal twins to have twins themselves. Apparently my chances are as high as 1 in 17.

3. I eat animal by-products. Apparently consuming such foods—especially dairy products—increases chances of having twins. My bowels have a slight aversion to dairy products, but if they’ll help me have twins…bring ‘em on!

4. We’re planning on waiting a few years before having babies. This increases my chances because the older you are, the more likely you are to have multiple births… except for that we’re not waiting 20 years. Shoot.

And some things that are not so much in my favour:

1. Overweight and super tall women have a higher chance of birthing twins. Again…shoot.

2. According to Dr. Steinman, African Americans are most likely to have twins, then Caucasians, then Asians and Hispanics. I think it’s fairly obvious that I lack the African American genes.

Although my chances of having twins are high, so are my chances of having dumb kids. To sum up a report done by CNN, women with big hips, backsides, and thighs tend to be smarter AND give birth to more intelligent children. I’m not complaining that I don’t have a giant hind end, but I do hope my kids aren’t dumb.

Matrimonial Mania!

2007 was the year of weddings! Several people who are very special to us tied the knot last year, and here they are (in order of date) :

Brad & Kendra:

Lowell & I (of course:)

Josh & Tara:
Stacey & Andrew:
Aaron & Megan:

Amanda & Josh:
Christie & Tim:
Paul & Liz:
Alison & Steve:

2008 brings even more weddings already! We are super pumped for the following people to get hitched:

CARLYNNE & DAN:

Zak & Avery:

Alisha & Tyler:

Lyndsay & Steve:

Duane & Becky:
(picture to come)

Don't we have good looking family & friends?!

Oilers Frenzy

I’m not going to deny that I’m a tooootal schmoozer. Today Lowell and I moseyed over to West Edmonton Mall so we could get in on some more Oilers action. Wayne wasn't there, but there were 11 booths set up throughout the mall with 2-3 players signing autographs at each booth. We thought we were waiting in Ethan Moreau's line (b/c as I mentioned earlier, we’re buds… in my mind), but were told when it was too late that we weren’t in his line at all. It was all good though, we got Penner and Sanderson’s autographs on Lowell’s Oilers hat, and the white shirt that I purchased about 7 minutes prior to meeting them. I'm planning on putting an Oilers iron-on transfer on the front of the shirt. Brilliant hey? Anyhoo, since all the other line-ups were so long that they wrapped around the entire mall, we just went right up to all the other booths without waiting in line and got some pictures. I feel almost famous. SOOoooooooo many many connections.

Extra points if you can pick out the Oiler!

Getting Geoff Sanderson's autograph.

Their hats drove us bananas because they made it so hard to get a clear shot of their faces!

Now he's looking up. That's Dustin Penner handing Lowell back his autographed hat in such a dainty manner!

Check out the ridiculous line-ups of people!

I KNOW you know who this guy (above) is!!

Rolie Goalie!

The End

Celebrity Sighting

Guess who Lowell and I saw last night??????

This guy:


Oh, you can’t tell who I'm referring to? Let me zoom in for you (the dude in the black):

Oh, it's still unclear, huh? Well, let me give you an even better look:


It’s The Great One...number 99...it's....WAYNE GRETZKY!

Last night Lowell and I scored some free tickets to the Edmonton Oilers’ game, and they just happened to be playing against Phoenix (Wayne’s team- and I think being in the same building as him qualifies us to be on a first name basis). Lowell volunteered for Big Brothers Big & Sisters last year, and they were gracious enough to give us a pair of tickets. Our seats were literally the farthest back they could be, but you know what? It was great. $27 (free for us) tickets are better than no tickets at all!

Also, I’m pretty sure that Lowell and I are good-luck-charms for the Oilers. The last time we went to a game, they won by a ridiculous amount. This time, they also kicked some serious buttocks. They scored twice in the first 2 minutes and 15 seconds, and ended up winning 5-2. The Oilers haven’t been doing so hot this year, so that is why we are self-proclaimed good luck charms.

And guess who scored the first goal within the first minute??

My very own Ethan Moreau:

Ethan's the one in black. The 2 goofs on the other side of me are Bill & Ann-Marie. hee hee:)

Anyhoo, the important take-home message here is….I HAVE ANOTHER CELEBRITY CONNECTION (PS- I'm pretty lax in my definition of "connection")!!