Our Holidays

We are home from our wonderful holidays spent in the beautiful Okanagan. It was great to see and visit with all of our family and friends.
We left Friday, and got to Edmonton and grabbed some lunch and started to head out. We didn't get far, when all of a sudden we noticed our tire was feeling weird and we pulled over to find that a huge round piece of wood had made a hole in our tire. Thankfully, there was a Kal Tire exactly where this all happened, so we gave a call to Brad (who works at the main Kal Tire in Vernon) and he got our car worked on right away. Thanks Brad :) After getting all patched up we headed out again onto the open road. I love road trips...

The hightlight of our holiday was of course the wedding of my brother Jason to my new sister Darcie. They both looked so happy and Darcie looked gorgeouse. To celebrate their wedding, we took Darcie out for a bachlorette party on the Thursday before the wedding.

And onto the wedding....It was a beautiful day and I am so happy to have a new sister. Here's a picture of all the Weglo sisters...

Cutting the Cake

The week had a bittersweet ending. We had to say good-bye to Jason and Darcie who will be living in Toronto for the next four years. But the exciting thing is that Josh and I gained a new member to our family. Jason and Darcie couldn't bring their dog Emmett to Toronto with them, so let us watch him for the new few years. So meet Emmett, who is such a great dog, and will definitely be keeping us in good shape :)
He was so good on our long drive home. The poor guy was cramed in our small little car, so was very excited any chance to got to get out and run around.

We stopped at Mount Robson park for lunch. I think Emmett was pretty excited to stretch his legs.

Now were back at home, continuing the big job of renovating our house. There is still so much to do, but it's slowly coming along. I promise to post some pictures soon!

I'm finding myself waking up every morning these days saying, "ok, tonight I have to go to bed earlier!" But every night it's always as late as the night before, if not later.... We've been quite busy with working on our house, and visiting with friends and family, that the days don't seem long enough!

Josh is finishing up his last week in his 2nd year apprenticeship program. As soon as his exams are done on Friday, we're packing up our car and heading to Vernon for my brother's wedding. I'm so excited to have a week off, and I get to spend it in the beautiful Okanagan! We're really looking forward to seeing everyone again, and celebrating my brother's wedding.

Onto other exciting news, Josh's sister Rachel got home on Monday from being in Germany for a year. She's home for awhile and then heads back to Germany again for another year in August. She landed late Monday night, got hardly any sleep, then was leading worship for a ladies night at the church on Tuesday night. What a crazy girl. We could start to see her jetlag catching up to her early on in the evening, when she joined Jesseca and I making cookies at the church. Here are some pictures from the evening. Can you tell all of us were pretty tired, and giddy :)

So here we are, just mixing along. Jesseca and I were a team, trying to make better cookies then Rachel. If you look closely, you'll notice Rachel's dough is looking a little funny.

Jesseca and I start to realize that our cookie batter looks so much better and therefore, we'll have the better cookies.

Goofing around

We started to notice Rachel's cookies looking a little FLAT! I knew the batter looked a little funny :)

We'll blame it on the jetlag Rachel. We love ya and we're happy you're home!

This past weekend, Josh and I made another trip into Edmonton for our good friends Josh and Jessica's wedding. We also got to see my sister and her husband Brad who flew in on Friday night for the wedding. You know it's a good weekend when it's filled with lots of shopping, krispy kream donuts, visiting with friends, some good dancing (none from Josh of course), and not too much sleep :) It was great to hang out with Brad and Sarah again, and see so many friends from Vernon. What a great weekend!

Sarah and I getting ready to leave for the wedding

The Beautiful Bride and Groom.

I got to see my friend Carey, who I hadn't seen since her wedding last August!

Jessica and Josh

June 2, 2007

YC

We're back from a crazy weekend spent in Edmonton at YC! This was our first year ever going and we loved it! When the conference started on Friday night, I was overwhelmed with emotions as I sat in a stadium filled with 17 thousand people who were there to praise, or learn more about God. Living in our world that is so consumed with sin, it was great to have a weekend that was focused only on God. It was so encouraging to be able to know that there ARE people out there who don't want to conform to the world but want to be set apart for Christ. What an amazing experience it was to worship God with all these fellow believers!

We took about 30 youth from our church. During the day, we tagged along with them to all the different concerts and sessions. I was so glad to be with a group of younger girls who didn't like the heavy loud music :)

I thought this was too funny not to post. You can tell this was a tiring weekend. This is Chris from our youth, who fell asleep during the Tobymac concert. If you don't know who Tobymac is, he was probably one of the loudest concerts there :)

Some fun pictures

My good looking hubby enjoying the concert, even though he doesn't look happy, he is actually enjoying himself :)

No more mustache

Here's another quick post to display more pictures of John without his mustache. The last pictures weren't so good, and his family and friends need to see the huge transformation...well maybe not that huge. So here are some before and after pictures.

Before

Rachel, I stole these from your blog...Thanks :)

After:

Pretty different eh?
Onto other news I'm so happy to say that my beautiful sister and her husband are having a baby. I'm pretty sure everyone that reads this blog, also reads hers but I'm just so excited to be an auntie. So Congrats again Brad and Sarah! We are so happy for you, and can't wait to see and hear all the exciting things that are in store for you!
I hope you all have a great LONG weekend.

Clue Game

For youth on Friday, Josh and I planned a real life clue game. Our leaders dressed up as the characters and hid around the church. They each had clue cards and the youth had to run around and ask them which cards they had, to limit it down to the last three choices. Here's some pictures of the fun that we had...

All the Characters dressed up

Professor Plum

Miss Scarlet

Mrs. Peacock

We added a little twist to the game, having an FBI agent running around catching the kids and putting them in jail. Does anyone from the Phillips family recognize him?

This is Josh's dad, who was our FBI agent. This picture may be a surprise to some of our blog viewers because after 25 years of having a mustache, John came back from his trip to Europe with no mustache! Josh didn't even recognize him when he picked him up from the airport.

He played the FBI part perfectly. Here he is catching some youth in the Library. He even had a real radio and was calling in for back-up. He played the part so well some people actually believed he was a police man in real life :)

We headed to Boston Pizza last night for our Anniversary Supper. We had our classic barbecue chicken pizza with a bandera bread as an appetizer. Yummy! Then Josh and I both decided we were hungry enough for dessert. Big mistake! Josh got the biggest dessert, the Rolo ice cream cake, and I decided on my favorite, the brownie a la mode. After about 2 bites we realized our eyes had been bigger then our stomachs!

But Josh was determined to finish it....So here's the pictures I took while enjoying the agony he had with every bite :)

To start off, it wasn't so bad.

Josh is starting to second guess this dessert idea.

Laughing at Josh, trying to finish his dessert :)

I couldn't believe it! He actually finished it!

This is how we felt afterwards.

The moral of the Story is: ummm...don't eat dessert after having a whole pizza and appetizer, even if you think you're hungry.

1 Year Ago Today....

I was walking down the aisle to be united with the love of my life. I can't believe the year has gone by already! Josh, you are an amazing man of God, and an unbelievable blessing in my life! It's been an incredible year, and I look forward to so many more! Happy Anniversary Josh, I love you.

Extreme Makeover

Meet the Design Team

My parents came up this past weekend to help us renovate our house. Our weekend was filled with painting, ripping up floors and carpet, more painting, and some good visiting. I think we're on a first name basis with the people at Home Hardware because we made so many trips there for paint and supplies. I finally decided on my colors...I stayed pretty safe with a light sandy brown for the living room and hallway, and a green in my kitchen. The house isn't anywhere near being finished but we still got so much done! Thanks Mom and Dad for driving all the way to help us with the house!
This week our project is the floor. We're going to be buying laminate to lay down so we can start putting in our cupboards and re-building our kitchen.

Here's more pictures of our not yet finished house:


This is the green I chose for the kitchen. I was really happy with how it turned out

Here is what's left of our kitchen after Josh took out all of our cupboards. We'll definitely be doing a before and after picture for you all to see!

There is still lots to do! I can't wait to show you all the finished product!

Our eventful weekend

Josh and I had another very eventful weekend!
On Friday night, Josh and I were in charge of planning youth so we played the "Amazing Race". It was so much fun! The youth had to drive around town and video tape themselves doing certain challenges that Josh and I had made up. Since we were in charge, we thought we'd take advantage of all the youth and use the game to get our yard cleaned up a little. So one of the challenges was, "Video your entire group picking up dog poop in Josh and Laura's new backyard". We made sure it was worth a lot of points towards their team and they actually did it! Other challenges they had to do were serenade a rubber duckie with, "Rubber Duckie, you're the one" in a church members bathtub. One of the groups videotaped Josh's grandpa (one of the elder's in our church) and a youth in the bathtub singing. It was so funny that they showed it in church on Sunday!
Then on Saturday Josh had to work so I headed over to our house to do some painting. As I pulled up, I saw a family from our church doing yardwork for us! The people who we bought the house from had decided to leave the front yard and backyard full of dog poop, cigarette butts, and lots of garbage. Josh and I had planned to take a day to clean it up, but instead it was all done for us! We felt so blessed by this family considering two of them are youth and they could have been taking a day off but instead came and cleaned up our messy yard!
After Josh got off work, we headed into Edmonton in search for new kitchen stuff. We spent the night at "Alissa Hotel". It was great to visit with her and she even came shopping with us the next day!
So onto Sunday...we spent the whole day at IKEA! I think Alissa just came for the hot dog deal but it was still so much fun to have her around and give us advice on certain kitchen stuff. We got to IKEA just after 11 and Josh and I didn't leave till 6. We couldn't make up our mind on what cupboards to buy, but finally decided on the Antique Finish. Thankfully it all fit into the blazer and we headed home!
Josh is starting school again today in his 2nd year apprenticeship and I'm sure as soon as he gets home, he'll be ripping open the boxes to our cupboards to start assembling them. Then my parents are coming up on Thursday to help us paint and bring up some furniture! I'm so excited to see them!
Well thanks for reading my ramblings and I hope you all have a great week!

Thanks everyone for all the painting tips...

Friday night Josh and I had our first meal in our house, a subway picnic on our living room floor. yum yum

We then went around the house making a list of everything we need to change and therefore buy. We are planning to renovate most of the upstairs, putting new laminate floors and paint everything. On Friday night, we decided that we would love to renovate our kitchen and so Josh has been on the IKEA site designing out a new bigger kitchen. Thanks for the IKEA tip Alison...

Now I'm getting really excited because I get to have a big kitchen, which is something that I didn't have in the apartment.

Josh is excited about our new house

Enjoying our subway Picninc

Josh got a little distracted while measuring the house

It's official, we own a home! We got the keys today so now all we have to do is move all of our stuff in! We're heading to Edmonton this weekend to buy everything we need to renovate. I'm really excited about all the painting I get to do. There are so many color ideas I like, there just doesn't seem to be enough rooms. The people who lived there before didn't like too much color, considering the walls are all white. But if anyone has any paint colors that they've used in the past and have liked, I would love hear them. We'll have to post before and after pictures as soon as we finish renovating everything!

Here I am holding up the keys to our new house!