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So, much has happend since I last wrote something on here, I must have been having SO much fun that I forgot to write about it haha. I am about to steal some pictures from Vanessa's facebook to show you some of the fun things we did this summer!



Lindsay and Vanessa at the beach after church, the only picture of me from that day is when we went to get fish and chips and I spilled a bunch of ketchup on my hand. It was gross. I went into the restaurant to ask if I could use the bathroom and they quickly said yes because they thought I had blood gushing out of my hand. Their faces were funny!




Vanessa, Lindsay and I wandered around the "Midnight Masquerade" at Chapters and met up with Kathleen for the midnight release of "Breaking Dawn"... the conclusion to our favourite vampire love saga. Don't make fun of us until you read the books. Thank you very much! As you can see, we were extremely excited.







After Vanessa and I got our hair done we went down to the fireworks! This is one of my favourite parts of summer. My dad and Nathan came too, no pictures of dad... and ONE picture of Nathan from the whole entire summer. Someone's a little camera shy I suppose. Anyhoo, we always stop to load up on candy before we walk down to the beach. We found razzles and had to get some as a tribute to the wonderful move "13 going on 30". It's a good one. Oh, and it ended up being absolutely freezing... who would have thought?




This is the only picture i am going to put up from the longsdale quay/ grouse mountain because it was STUPID hot that day and i thought i was a gonner. Seriously, it was hot. But we saw some cute bears!




Then we went to the pne/playland. The only reason i went on rides this time was because my gramma bought the ride tickets. Gareth met up with us there too and it was fun! I thought I was going to puke... but luckily there was no charfing... not by me at least. Nathan and i were sitting on a bench watching some guy throw up everything he ate that day. Vanoo was standing right by him and gave him a dirty look after she realized what he was doing. It was really funny, I don't think she meant to though, shes a good person. haha.


So yes, those are all of the pictures we have of our outings. This was probably one of the very best summers I have ever had. It was so much fun having both Lindsay AND Vanessa living next door. And we got to spend more time with my family which was nice too! Lindsay and Vanoo have now moved to Grand Prairie, I'm hoping they'll move back here after that!!! I'm sad but very happy for them too!

In other news, Nathan and I have found a new church to attend. We have been going to Gracepoint and we are really enjoying it. Nathan had a little "interview" type thing with the worship pastor there and he pretty much said that he'd like to mentor Nathan. So we are really excited because this is a major answer to prayer!!

Okay, that is all for now. Maybe I will update sooner next time! haha

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.