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This is not for people with weak stomachs....


To my husband, the love of my life, my best friend,
I cannot believe how quickly this year has flown by, nor can I even begin to describe what an incredible ride it has been. Nathan, I wish I could find the words to describe how much I love you, even though you already know. I am so incredibly blessed to be able to just have you in my life, let alone have you as my husband. You are a beautiful person with vision and drive and passion and I am so intrigued by you. I don't think you could ever bore me! You are a work of art, a masterpiece. One full of talent and potential. You are also so kind and sweet and loving. I wonder why God looked upon me in favour and entrusted you to me, but I am eternally grateful to Him. All praise be to God. I love you so very much Nathan, here's to 80 more!

p.s. I swear, you make it so easy to love you. I don't know how you do it!





Thank you to anyone else who read this and did not vomit all over their computer. And thank you all who came to our wedding and celebrated with us. It was a really amazing day!

So it's time to update my blog again!

Nathan is at a retirement dinner for one of his co-workes which i was NOT invited to, how rude eh? Jeesh. Anyway, so I'm home alone and I should be folding laundry so now I'm obviously going to update.

So this past week or so has been really busy. Last week, to all of our suprise, Kathleen graduated high school. Well, she had her commencement so she still has time to fail, we'll be praying for you Kate. Jk!! And she also had her grad. I cannot even describe to you how beautiful she looked. My parents and Lindsay drove her to my work so we could all take some pictures together and all of the little girls followed her around and wanted to be in pictures with her. It was really cute. And then one of my favourite (am i allowed to have favourites?) little kinders drew a picture with chalk on the pavement of the "princess" that came to visit haha. Congratulations little sister!

The day after her grad was may camp, which was totally awesome! I'm not going to say that I was in love with how some things were run this year but I enjoyed all of the youth so much. It was interesting being the only leader in a cabin with 16 teenage girls, but it was pretty much just really good. Nathan also had a chance to lead the 450 or so people attending maycamp in a few songs of worship. TJ, Gareth, and I were up there with him and it was cool. I was able to worship and Nathan got a lot of encouragement and affirmation afterwards. One man seeked him out to tell him that the two songs that Nathan led were the higlight of his weekend musically and that there are only a handful of people in the world who can balance incredible musicality with genuine worship and Nathan was one of those people. I definitely think that Nathan is something special too! It was just really neat to hear that, and it's also neat to see how humble Nathan is even after receiving a compliment like that. Okay, I think I'm done now. Maybe I'll add some photos later. Goodbye!

I won "Canada's Photo Contest" with 77 votes. I think I beat the other competetors (Did i spell that wrong?) by 8 or so votes. I'm very excited, it's just nice to know that out of the 350 photos that were posted, people thought my picture was the best. And Vanessa, since I won, you have to pee your pants now like you said haha. If you are curious what my picture was, look at my previous blog post. It's there.

And also, I wanted to congratulate my wonderful friend Karina on getting engaged. That's fun!! Have a good day everyone! And watch LOST, it's a good show.

So lots of things have happened since the last time I posted, but I was too busy to sit down and update so I forgot most of them, but here's what I do know.


Vanessa was here for a week just over a month ago. She is such a fun fun girl and now I'm super excited because she is moving down here for the summer and she's going to be living next door to me at my parents house. That will be interesting in many ways! While she was here we decided to go for a little photo shoot and that was a lot of fun...







Speaking of photos, I just entered this photo in the group called "Canada's Photo Contest" on facebook and I'm so nervous because I really want to win haha. The theme is green and out of the hundred or so photos entered so far I have the most votes! That makes me happy haha.




So something pretty cool happened a few sundays ago... Nathan was leading worship and a few weeks prior to that he felt that God was telling him that something big was going to happen this week during worship. He listened, followed God's direction on what songs to pick, and prayed A LOT about it. We have really been feeling lately that God wants Nathan to be a worship pastor, and I keep telling him that he's going to do something GREAT. I just feel it. Anyhoo, that sunday there was a few guys who were doing a presentation from this ministry called "team challenge" who help people with drug problems and after worship one of them got up on stage and spoke directly to Nathan and pretty much affirmed everything we have been feeling. He said that Nathan is a genuine worshipper, he is blessed with a gift and he is going to do great things for God. He talked directly to Nate for like a minute and it was just really cool because it wasn't really him talking, it was God talking through him. There was no way that this human being could speak to us and affirm everything we were feeling without ever having talked to us or even met us before. So as it turns out, God was doing something big in OUR lives that sunday. I wish I could explain what that moment really meant for us, but I just did my best right there.

Toby and Aysha got fixed a few weeks ago and are no longer trying to make babies... not that Toby really understood how to do it anyway. He's kind of dumb, I thought it was instinctual but apparently this cat has to be taught a few things. I just thought I'd share that.



Vanessa took this picture, isn't Aysha cute?

Have a good day!

I'm not going to tell you about the highlights of my week or anything, I wanted to show you the highlights I just got in my hair! I've never had hair this light before and I'm excited about it haha. You can't see them super well but I thought I'd give it a try anyway.






We went to my gramma's for dinner tonight. She's so cute, she made us stew because she knows it's one of my favourites. I think that's all she ever makes when I go over there but I don't mind because i do love stew! mmmm good! I'm getting my dad to make it for me on thursday haha. And speaking of thursday... Vanessa will be here on thursday for a week long visit and I am superly super excited for that! Our week will be full of photo shoots, junk food, chick flicks, and goofing around. I'm looking forward to it!

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