Spring?!?

The first day of spring has finally arrived...at least I hope it has in some areas because it sure hasn't here!  It is snowing like crazy today...in the next few days we are supposed to be getting at least 30cm!  How's that for the beginning of spring?!

I have to admit I'm really jealous of all my BC friends right now who are enjoying warmer weather and NO snow- true spring!  Haha! 

To help me deal with the snow, and to make it feel like spring is coming someday, I made myself a gardening cake for my birthday celebration on Friday!  I'm pleased with how it turned out!  It was my first time using 'real' fondant, and it was SO much fun to make!!  Enjoy the pictures!! 

Spring...Right Around The Corner...Or Is It?

  

Being from BC I have to say, I am not a fan of winter.  If you have read my previous blog posts, I can guarantee you would immeditely come to that conclusion about me.  It's no secret I am anxiously awaiting spring.  BC spoiled me rotten!  And I know I'm not helping any by being a brat about wanting spring NOW...something I should work on I guess...

Anyway, last Sunday my mom's parents were here and we were able to go to an indoor floral conservatory.  It was a nice break to get away from the -30C weather we have been having, with not much of a warm up in sight. 

Here's a few of the pictures I took:  If you are somewhere that is COLD and has more snow than you can imagine...maybe you'll appreciate these pictures!  ;)

Ready For Spring...

Can you tell I've been so bored lately!?  I've been writing on this blog a lot over the past couple days...and in the moments when I haven't, I've been thinking about things to write about...how sad is that! 

Until recently I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that winter is such a depressing season for so many.  I know it has to do with the amount of sunlight, and vitamin D levels...but even then I couldn't understand how it could be "THAT" bad...well, until I moved to SK and have been experiencing winter for what seems like FOREVER!!

I am more than ready for spring.  Spring is my favourite time of the year.  I love hearing the birds sing outside my window.  I get all excited when the flowers begin to surface.  And in BC, I would marvel at the beauty of the blossoms on all the beautiful fruit trees.  I don't know how I am going to survive not seeing those blossoms this year...

Over the past few weeks the weather has been 'taunting' us here in SK...we will have 2-3 days of warm weather (warm being anywhere between -3 to +3) and then it turns brutally cold (meaning -30 or so...).  CAN SPRING PLEASE JUST BE HERE ALREADY!!!!!!!  I don't want to see the white any longer!  In some places the piles of snow are almost as tall as me...100% different from where I lived in BC.  Snow would come for a day or two...maybe a week...and then it would all melt...and the snow really wasn't that deep at all...

I was doing alright with living here...but over the past week I've been really missing BC.  I've been missing my city, my home, my life there, my friends...  For awhile I was okay...but really nothing can ever replace it.  In life you can never have the 'best of both worlds' like I often wish I could have.  If I live in BC I'm so far from my wonde

rful extended family, but if I am here in SK I am so far away from the mountains, the early spring, friends who have known me the longest of anyone outside my family...

I think it's just me missing the spring and feeling the winter blues that has made me feel down about missing BC...and I think that is what has also contributed to my brain turning to mush and being random all the time (much to the expense of my blog posts...).  I've been trying to pretend that spring is on it's way (though it really isn't yet) by planting a few plants inside, and by having pictures of flowers and fruit blossoms everywhere I look...