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This is Me and my beautifully gorgeous sister.

Reasons why I love Lindsay:

1. She has a superb sense of humour
2. She does this thing called the "homie dance" which confirms that she is the whitest girl to ever walk this earth
3. She shortens words to be more efficient? Or just to be funny? I don't always know which one
4. She makes a really disgusted face if anyone tries to touch her
5. She doesn't have any extra limbs growing out of her abdomen like the "octopus man"
6. She has a beautiful soprano voice, which she is humble about
7. She is smart, mature, and immature all at the same time

I forgot to add this to my last post...

It is so windy out today and I love it, minus the fact that some branches were squeaking against my window and I was petrified that there was a mouse in the house that was going to come under my blankets and nibble on my toes. 

Okay, so I just finished watching Oprah and I guess my friend Vanessa did too because she just posted something on her blog that I am going to share because I feel exactly the same way. She can just write way better than I can... so here it is! ...

                                                

                                                      The Death of Books?

"I was just watching the first few minutes of Oprah and she's raving and drooling over her new "faaavorite gadget". It's called the Kindle, and it's an electronic, wireless book reader. It's basically like an ipod for reading. You can wirelessly download books from Amazon and they go straight to your Kindle. Sounds cool right? But honestly... as cheesy as this sounds... my heart just broke a little bit. They were raving about how it's the future of reading and soon everyone is going to own one. It saves paper and space and blah blah blah. But what about BOOKS? What about the excitment of coming home from Chapters or the library with a stack of new books? The crisp, clean smell of the un-touched pages of your new hard cover? Or the musty smell of the pages of an old classic? What about bookshelves? Lined and stacked with books read and re-read and shared. The bittersweetness of turning the last page of a much loved novel, and the excitment of standing in front of a shelf thinking "Hmm... what should I read next?" The joy of holding it your hands, getting so lost in the story you don't even realize you're turning pages. Bent corners to hold your place or draped over the arm of your favorite chair, waiting patiently for you to pick up where you left off.
What about libraries? The quiet hush, the stack ready to check out. Second hand book stores! The thrill of finding an old copy of a childhood favorite.
I know I sound overly dramatic. I realize that books are probably going to be around until I die. But I can't stand the thought of them slowly dying out. The way records and cds have almost died out with the rise of itunes. There just seems to be something so cold and impersonal about clutching a flat, electronic piece of equipment rather than a real, honest-to-goodness book.
If my grandchildren ever ask me what it was like when real books were still around, I swear I will die of a broken heart! :)"


The Suspect in Question...

So what do YOU think?

Wow, my sister Kate sure does trust me. She handed me $350 of her hard earned money and allowed me to walk around Ikea and buy anything that tickled my fancy... but for her room. I was so excited when she told me I could do this, it didn't even require begging!! Unfortunately I didn't take any before pictures, that would have been a good idea. My "after" pictures aren't even that good, but they will give you an idea of how we turned her child like room into a contemporary adult oasis. (Can you tell I've been watching a lot of home and garden television haha.) AND we came in under budget! haha





Sweet lights hey? I love these!









Fake flowers to match the ones on the pictures on the wall!



So when Nathan and I picked her up from work I made her close her eyes and then I walked her into her new room. She said holy crap a lot, ate some candy, and had a huge smile on her face. I think that means she likes it?

First off I have to give a big congratulations to Amy and Shawn for getting engaged! That's so exciting and I'm invited to the wedding so that's even better! haha. And also, Congratulations to my friend Cheri and her husband for tying the knot last week! Oh i just love it!!

So Nathan and I both got iphones a couple weeks ago. Oh my goodness gracious they are so much fun! I have no idea how i functioned before without one. Jk, but seriously they are so fun! Yesterday I bought this application for my phone where it puts a bunch of bubble wrap on the screen and you can pop it. Sounds like a waste of money but it was only .99 cents and it's actually pretty satisfying haha. And that is also why I will have pictures on here today because it's so much easier just to take pictures on my phone (not to mention that I have no idea how to get pictures off of my actual camera haha)

We got bored a couple weeks ago and decided to change around our bedroom. I like it way better this way. These pictures are for Lindsay and Vanessa, the ones who actually would care haha....






For the past three weeks, Nathan has been on the worship team at Gracepoint. He's been singing and leading some songs. He's really been enjoying it and I have to say that he is absolutely amazing! I know it's not a performance or anything, but I'm allowed to be proud of him and his gifts because I'm his wife. Seriously though, he is so gifted! He's had so many people tell him that he has a beautiful voice, including a music producer lady from calgary who just happened to be at church this past sunday. I thought that was pretty cool. Okay, I just re-read what I wrote there and it sounds bad, like we're treating this as a performance and a way to impress people. We're not, I swear, I'm just proud of Nathan and I'm excited that he has this outlet to use his gifts. I can't wait until we get him through school and he can lead people in worship on a regular basis... that's what he loves. He also really enjoys the Worship Pastor there and he's getting together with him on a regular basis just to connect and do a discipleship type of thing. This is way more than we could have hoped for! We've also been meeting more people at church and it's very exciting for us. We had coffee with one of the pastors and his wife and it ends up that he and I actually went to the same highschool at the same time... he graduated with my sister. Weird eh? We're really enjoying Gracepoint and we feel that this is definitely where God wants us to be.

I start my course tomorrow night and it's scary! It's only an eight week thing, but hopefully it will give me the skills I need to get a higher paying secretary job. It makes me nervous starting new things, but I know it will be good. Ooooh, and Danica is going to teach me how to knit! Hopefully it won't be as frustrating as crocheting! I'm watching Restaurant Makeover and they're making nachos... can you guess what I want now. Bye.

Oh, and here's some cute pictures of Toby and Aysha... just because they're cute!

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