Exciting News!

I feel like I've been lying to you, the blogging public, for the last three days. Now I can finally come clean, which is the main reason I'm doing this posting on Saturday between periods of the Canucks-Flames tilt. Which means that it's also going to be a short explanation, with more to come on Monday.

Here's the exciting news: Steph's best friend since, well, a long time, is now officially engaged! Congratulations Tanya Szczur and Mark Wilson--we're so happy for you! Steph and I played a role in the actual engagement itself, which happened at the Banff National Park tollbooth last night, no, this morning, at just after midnight.

It was difficult for us not letting it slip. And the plan did involve quite a bit of cloak-and-dagger emails and planning behind Tanya's back. Which, of course, made the event all the more sweet. Good times were had by all.

Here's what's actually been happening at our house before all this, which I couldn't say on the blog earlier because if Tanya had read it, it would have busted the surprise. You see, last night we stayed over in Banff (see my previous comment about the engagement happening at just after midnight in Banff, over 300 km from Three Hills), and the dilemma was what to do with Theo while we were there. So what ended up happening was that Steph's mom flew out on Wednesday of last week (which is why we drove to Calgary in a snowstorm--it wasn't voluntary) so that she could take care of him last night. So now she's here until next Saturday. Tanya and Mark were originally going to come out this weekend to visit us, but with the engagement and all, they're spending an extra night in Banff before they come up here. Which means that tomorrow night we'll have a house full of guests. And that's really cool, considering how slowly the last four weeks have gone just staring at the same four walls all the time with nobody to talk to (except my lovely blog readers).

Ah, so much more to say, but alas, the game is starting again, and I want to have something more to talk about on Monday. So come back then. By the way, we have guests over pretty much from now until the end of the semester, so if my blog entries all of a sudden become much shorter, it's because I'm having trouble finding time to do them. But I'll still be here reliably.

Anyway, that's it for tonight. Thanks for stopping by, and I'll see you Monday.