Trip To Edmonton

Sarah and I made a trip to Edmonton this weekend to go shopping with my mom and Shelley who had come up on the bus with the youth group. My mom had booked Sarah and I a hotel room at the Mayfield Inn. It was an enormous room with a king size bed and huge jaccuzi tub! We took pictures to rub it in our husbands faces...especially the fact that we didn't have to watch any sports!! It was a great weekend and it was so nice to see our friends, even if it was only for a short visit. And of course, it was nice to shop for stuff that had nothing to do with house renovations :)

Thankfulness

Sorry this post is a little overdue :)

Thanksgiving was great this year. My family came up to Alberta, well those that don't already live here! We spent Friday and Saturday in Lloyd and then headed back to Bonnyville for Sunday and Monday. It was amazing having company in our house, and putting our newly renovated kitchen to good use. There is so much to be thankful for!

My sisters and I showing off the yummy turkey my mom made.

The boys doing what boys do at best...eat and sleep:)

Just Joking :)

Jason, Darcie and Jackson couldn't make it to AB this year. So Shelley made this sign...

We miss you guys!

Brad and Sarah brought their dog Hudson and Emmett was very excited to have a friend to play with. Hudson giving Emmett some kisses.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Another eventful weekend in our lives has passed…
Friday night we headed to Cold lake to finally buy our sink!! $360.00 later, we hopped back into the car and headed to McDonald’s for a quick, cheap supper :) On our way, we drove past Boston Pizza and Josh pulled in saying he wanted pizza instead. I didn’t mind... I always love to eat out with Josh so I went along thinking nothing was different. We get into Boston Pizza and I find out my friends had planned a surprise birthday dinner for me! I’m usually pretty good at guessing surprises, but they totally got me on this one! Since I didn’t know about it, I had left my camera at home so I don’t have any pictures to show… But it was lots so fun!
Then Saturday was spent renovating our house. We got so much accomplished and now I finally have a sink!! HALLELUIAH!! I never thought I would be so happy to do dishes :)
Also most of the kitchen is now finished…we still don’t have backsplash yet, so I’ll wait till we have that to show you pictures. But here is my fancy new shiny sink…

I know, it's just a sink, but when you haven't had one for a few months you really appreciate these things :)
John also came over for the day and helped renovate. Here he is putting our tile in by our front door. It looks so good!

Then on Sunday Brad and Sarah arrived to stay the night before moving into their new home in Lloydminster!! I was so happy to see them, and see Sarah's growing belly. We enjoyed a nice relaxing evening and then headed on Lloyd on Monday to help them move in.

Sarah unpacking her kitchen

The Boys taking a rest after unloading all the boxes

Now we're busy finishing off the rest of the house for when Brad, Sarah, Shelley, and my parents come for Thanksgiving. Can't wait!

Party Time

Yesterday, I turned 23...don't feel any different though :) I love birthdays, mine or someone else's. I just love how we have a day to celebrate someone's life.
Josh spoiled me and walked in the door with a beautiful bouquet of red roses. Then gave me some dishes from Princess house that will be perfect to use for Thanksgiving because my family is coming to our house this year!

I also got a beautiful bouquet of flowers from John and Tammy. They surprised me by sending them to me at work.

Josh took me out for a fabulous dinner and then we did some shopping. We grabbed a McCain's frozen cake (one of my favorites) to eat when we got home. Emmett wanted to share in the birthday fun :)

My wonderful husband.

As you can see, I had a lot of fun on blogger last night editing my blog. In the end, I only changed some colors but I like it better...

Well I've decided it's about time to post some pictures of our house. No, it's not yet finished but I just won't show you pictures of our kitchen. The countertops are supposed to be in this weekend, so I'll post the kitchen when it's looking a little better :)

So here are the before and after pictures. Note: The before pictures are taken when we first saw the house. So the other people were still living in it with all their stuff.

Living Room

Before:
Looking in from the old kitchen

During the Renovations

AFTER!!!

Bathroom
Before:

We didn't do too much... just painted it blue :)

AFTER!!


Bedroom:

Before

AFTER!!

Hallway & Dining Room

Before:

There used to be a blue linoleum in the whole kitchen and hallway. I really loved how our laminate turned out!

AFTER!!

Well I hope that's enough pictures for now. Have a great day everyone!

I had a fabulous long weekend!! It all started off, coming home from work on Friday to a clean house and bouquet of flowers on my coffee table. Josh had taken the day off, (never told me) and got some work done on our house...and to top it off got me flowers!! I love him...

Then to make the weekend even better, Josh and I headed to Glendon for PYROGY Days on Saturday with John and some cousins. Now anyone that knows me well, knows that I LOVE pyrogies so it's funny how I ended up living close to the largest Pyrogy in the world. So every year this small town has their pyrogy days, which some might think would be corny to go too but it was actually so much fun! When we walked into the hall, there was a man singing the pyrogy national anthem, and the smell of pyrogies with onions and sausage frying filled the room. What better way to spend a Saturday then to eat pyrogies....

Josh and I enjoying our pyrogies.

Of course we couldn't go to Glendon without getting a picture with the Pyrogy :)

It was funny cause as we were taking pictures, there was a bridal party getting ready to take some too! Who wouldn't want their wedding pictures near the biggest pyrogy :)

Well here is an update for all who read our blog....

Our house reno's still aren't finished, one of the reasons being we still don't have countertops! We ordered them over 7 weeks ago, and our patience is running a little low cause they told us we would have them in 3 to 4 weeks. So having no countertops, means having no sink, which in turn means having very quick easy meals with the least amount of dishes. Thankfully I have a husband who's favorite meal is Kraft Dinner, so I think I'm still safe :)
We're starting to get busier with fall quickly approaching. We'll be helping with the youth group again this year, which should be lots of fun. Our church has been blessed with a youth pastor (finally!!) so we're very excited to see where God will take our group this year through Morgan and Joelle.

We've also been leading a College and Career group through our church, which is starting up again for the year. We had some people over at our house last night to hang out, eat, and talk about the upcoming year. good times...

Our friend Matt also brought over his dog, Timmy. He's about a quarter of the size of Emmett but thinks he's bigger and tougher than him. It was pretty cute to see them wrestle cause Timmy was all over Emmett. I think Emmett was just happy to have another dog to play with...

Reno's

Josh getting ready to do some home renovations. Why the googles and mask, I'm not too sure...But it made for some fun pictures :)

Even Emmett wanted to try...well ok, he didn't like it too much but he's still pretty cute :)

Our house is still coming along, if anyone is wondering why I haven't posted pictures yet. It's still in the "in between" stage so I'll post pictures when it's all finished. It's been a slow process, and I can't wait till I have my own kitchen again. Maybe now that the weather is getting a little cooler, we'll be forced to stay inside. :)

Our Long Weekend

Josh and I had a very memorable long weekend. We spent Saturday to Monday out at our church's family camp, playing fun games, and enjoying great fellowship with everyone . The highlight was on Sunday when Josh and 5 other people were baptized in the lake. It is always so encouraging to see fellow believers take a step in their walk with God, and declare to everyone how they want to live for Him. The service was amazing and it was great that many of Josh's family were there to share in the joyous occasion.

Josh being baptized by his grandpa.

A couple of our youth also got baptized which was very exciting. One of the girls requested we sing Brian Doerksen's, "The River" as she walked out into the water. It was a very emotional moment.

Ephesians 3: 16-21

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

For Jason and Darcie

Emmett has been our dog for a couple months and it's been so much fun! Here are some pictures and stories to show his funny personality.

When we first got Emmett, we brought him home from Vernon to find that we also had a momma cat with her kittens living under our shed. Emmett didn't have a very friendly greeting from the momma cat one day, and was freaked out of our shed for the next few weeks. Here is Josh trying to get the kitties to come close, but Emmett wouldn't go any further.

We have also found that Emmett loves to chew things when he is left alone for the day. Thankfully we haven't had anything too important that's been wrecked, well Josh might disagree. The other day we opened up the garage to find Josh's childhood cabbage patch kid, Sammy, was torn to pieces. I was actually quite happy with Emmett because no joke, this doll freaked me out. It looked like a doll in a horror movie. I guess Emmett agreed :)
Here's Josh when he was little and if you look behind him you'll see Sammy, the one with the scary eyes... :)

No more Sammy.....muhahahahah. (my evil laugh)

We were out with our College and Career Group at Josh's grandparents cabin last week. We brought Emmett out to run around and Josh found this frog. We let Emmett play with him for a while and then Rachel got this picture. I'm pretty sure Emmett was more scared of the frog then the frog was of him. No surprise there, Emmett is definitely a wimp :)

Overall, Emmett has been a lot of fun and brings many laughs to our house. Thanks Jason and Darcie for letting us have him while your away in Toronto. We miss you guys and hope the move went well!!