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So, in february Dawn came down for a little visit and we had family photos done. I have come to realize that out of everyone in my family I am most definitely the least photogenic and that makes me sad, but I will share these anyway.

January has come and gone. I turned 21! I think i'll go get wasted in the u.s. of a and then mouth off a border guard. Just kidding, i wouldn't do that!

My birthday was good, I got an icecream maker and made some frozen treats that same day, but we made it wrong. The recipe called for heavy cream and I asked my dad and he said that heavy cream was whipping cream. So our ice cream tasted like frozen whipping cream and it like clung to my tongue. We'll attempt it another time.

Yesterday was Valentine's day and it was so wonderful. The only non fun thing was that we almost got hit by an idiot in a hummer. We were both KINDA hoping that he would have hit us though because our car is making funny noises and if he hit us hard enough we could have blamed it on him and then gotten it fixed for free!
Nathan brought me my favourite starbucks beverage and a dozen white roses (with one red right in the middle, and he says it was his idea, it was so pretty) to my work yesterday and a six year old boy thought it was extremely scandalous when i hid our faces so Nathan could give me a kiss on the forehead. Afterwards he asked me, "Are you like, boy and girl. Like you know, you're his boy and stuff? You kiss don't you?! You kiss on the lips hahahahha" I told him "No Jaden, I'm actually his GIRL. And it's okay that we kiss because we're married." He thought it was fabulous news that we were married (even though he's met Nathan on multiple occasions and I've introduced him as my husband) and proceeded to give Nathan a sly smile as he was getting into his car to go home. Kids are funny.

Anyhoo, we ate Japanese food by candlelight at our coffee table, sitting on pillows on the floor. It was extremely romantic, you
had to be there. I love being married and I love Nathan. He bought me chocolates and a glamour magazine and gave me TWO cards. Now that's love.

Tomorrow we're going to "Life Mates". It's a dessert night at the church for couples and I'm going alone. Nathan's singing during it so I'll be sitting by myself for half of the evening just like I've been sitting home alone for many nights while he's at the church practicing. And I still had to pay to go, but whatever. I'm not bitter haha.

Okay, so I think that's all I have to say except that we started an RRSP and I'm actually really excited about it. We're saving money, I'm so proud! Sorry for no pictures, I don't take any. I think my cat just farted on my arm.

oh, p.s. You should all check out post secret! I've loved it for a while and I want you all to know. It can be really inappropriate at times, it depends on people's secrets that week I suppose, but it is also very interesting. That is all.

www.postsecret.blogspot.com

You can go ahead and puke if you want, but I am going to write a post about my husband. I like talking about Nathan and this is my blog so I'm going to do it.

Sunday was our six month-aversary. These past six months have been stupid. Or they would have been stupid without Nathan. I don't know how well I would have handled the death of two family members, my dad being in and out of the hospital and some very important people in our lives moving away if it weren't for my husband. He's pretty much amazing.

When people ask me "So, how's married life?" I wish I could describe with words how truly wonderful and beautiful it is. It is an amazing feeling to know that i can be completely vulnerable and completely myself with another person. It is incredible to know that Nathan knows tons of things about me, things that really annoy me, and he still loves me and wants to know more. It's kind of like how a relationship with Jesus looks like.

Those are just general things, what I love about my marriage relationship. I hope many of you will find someone to share this intimate bond with.

I like talking about Nathan more than marriage though.

My husband is a quiet, gentle leader. He is never demanding or pushy.
He is mature (sometimes) and often displays wisdom beyond his years.
He is passionate about God, those he loves, and music.
He is a talented musician, and has a gift of leading others in worship.
He is hilarious, but he thinks his farts are funny, I don't.
He is really good at giving presents
He is one of the most understanding people I have ever met.
His unselfishness, patience, and kindness puts me to shame.
He has an incredible smile and he's incredibly handsome. ;)
I can tell he absolutely adores me.

Those are just SOME of the things that are great about Nathan. I've said to him many times that I feel sorry for the rest of the female population because I'm the one who got to marry him. He is the second best thing that has ever happend to me, being saved by Christ being the first. Thanks Nathan for asking me to marry you, and thanks for going through with it. I hope I haven't embarassed you! haha

So today I was walking the kids to school in the pouring rain. It was pouring, like as in really wet. One of the kids thought he was too cool for an umbrella so he let me borrow it. It was barely big enough to cover my head but I was grateful none the less. I shall never foget my umbrella again! Also, I now realize my boots are okay in the snow but once I'm ankle deep in water they aren't of much use. My feet were soaked and they were hurting because it was so cold. I thought to myself, there could not be a worse start to a day. (Yes, I'm quite aware that there are worse things that could happen but at the time this seemed bad) Then, just as we were in the home stretch it got really bad. The sidewalk was almost impassable. Yes, I am dramatizing this a little bit, but I want to make this interesting. Anyway, It was wet. I felt bad for the kids because they are little and it was like up to their knees. So we decided to walk on someone's lawn even though I always tell them not to do that. So i was half on the lawn, half on the mushy sidewalk when my feet start to slip. I knew right away that I was going down. It must have been a funny sight because as my feet come out from under me and fly up into the air and my derriere splashes into the slushy puddle, there is an uproar of laughter from behind me. All my kids were killing themselves laughing and then proceeded to complain about how wet they were. I just stuck my butt out and showed them how soaked I was and told them to suck it up. They thought it was great. So that is that!

We got another kitten two weeks ago today. We named him Tobias, like Tobias the never-nude from Arrested Development. He prefers to be called Toby, but I call him Tobes and Nathan calls him Poop-sack or butt-nugget. He seriously stinks sometimes. And he's constantly putting his butt in our faces. I just don't get it! Nathan just wanted to add that Aysha was cleaning Toby's anus today. haha. I put lotion on them a few days ago so they would both smell like vanilla spice. Mmm mmm mmm. Toby and Aysha love each other and we are a very happy family!




Nathan and I put up our very own Christmas tree yesterday. It's so exciting and our place looks so incredibly cozy! I love the Christmas season! And do you know what else I did yesterday? I made a really yummy meal and it did not poison anyone. It was really exciting. Not that I've poisoned anyone before...

It was Spencer and Kelsey's wedding this past friday and I had a lot of fun. I'm glad it has finally worked out for them and I'm sure it was a very special day for everyone involved. Nathan was Spencer's best man and I'm pretty sure there's never been a more handsome best man EVER! Nathan and I also bought them a really fun present... we told them to bring it on their honeymoon if you know what I mean haha. Hopefully you guys have enjoyed it so far. Congratulations on the nuptualizing our dear friends! We wish you the very best. Marriage is such a wonderful blessing!

And I just want to wish my mom an early birthday. I won't say how old you are on here, but you're still really young right? Yup. And to Chris and Kellee... Congrats on getting the job! Nathan and I are really happy for you and we're so glad you're having a good trip!

Nathan was trying to be like that cat.


So that was like half a month ago that I said I would write a new post. Oops.

I'm trying to think what is worth writing about.... Hmm.... For those of you who don't know we got an adorable little kitten in October and we named her Aysha! She's a pure-bread siamese and she's so cute but she's also really annoying and I want to kick her sometimes. I woke up this morning to find my plant on the ground with wet dirt all over the carpet. And we went away last weekend and I came back to find one of my lamps completely destroyed. She's such a little bugger. She's sleeping on Nathan's lap right now though so I like her now. And just so you know, I would not actually kick her on purpose!

So I have had extremely bad luck with cars over the past little while. Two mondays ago I was on my way to pick up Nathan and my stupid stupid butt head of a stupid car stalled on 64th right before King George. I was seriously not impressed! I phoned Nathan who was at the McDonald's on 72nd and I was bawling and it was just not good. So he ran all the way to me. Isn't that sweet? And Lindsay came and picked me up and then we went out for dinner. It was a very traumatizing experience. Luckily our car is fixed now. BUT...

We had to borrow Nathan's parent's van while ours was getting fixed and it's huge. Two days after the stupid stalling incident I was trying to back out of our drive way to take Nathan to his car pooler's house when I couldn't find the break and we crashed into my parents' fence. Yeah, it's funny now, it wasn't when it happened. Why would they make such a stinkin' huge vehicle with such a stinkin' small break? Like seriously, what is that? So we had to wait for the tow truck man to come and save us. It was actually kind of nice to have Nathan get half a day off of work. I enjoyed the company.

We went to Victoria for the long weekend and stayed at a beautiful hotel called the Magnolia. On the ferry ride we saw a seal eat a seagull. It was really cool. All the little seagull's friends started poking at the seal. I felt bad for the little seagull family. It was SUCH a good weekend! We did all the touristy things including going on a half an hour horse and carriage ride. It was fun. We definitely needed this weekend to just get away from all the business. I want to do that EVERY weekend.

Okay, I think that's all for now. My family is coming over for dinner and a movie tonight. It's actually the first time we've had them over for dinner so I think they're excited haha. I have to tidy and make Nathan stop playing his new video game. It's called Assassin's Creed and it's actually pretty cool but I don't like all the blood sprays. Have a nice day everyone! Oh yeah, sorry there's no pictures. I still don't know how to get them from the camera to the computer.

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The counter is showing me higher and higher numbers, yet only two comments. Don't try to tell me the counter is lying, it never lies. I'm going to eat some apple cinnamon cheerios!! Grr.