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!!

Happy Birthday Rachel

Rachel is leaving for Germany today for another year so we had a little early birthday celebration last night.

Showing off her gifts. (sorry for Josh. If only I knew how to crop a picture :)

We're going to miss you Rachel!

Birthday Fun and Happiness

It was our good friend's Jesseca's birthday last Saturday so we had a surprise party for her on Wednesday night.

Lillian made her an amazing Freightliner cake!

Good Times!

Also this week, Josh and I and 2 other couples from our biblestudy group have taken on the challenge to not be negative. Apparently there is a church that is fasting for 40 days from negativity, and so we thought we start off slow and try for 1 week to see how it goes. This means no negative thoughts, actions, or words from this Monday to next. It's crazy to realize how often we're actually negative. It's so easy to think negatively towards a bad driver, or get caught up with the gossip at work. Or even to be anxious and worry...all of these things are negative even if their just in our thoughts! It's definitely been a challenge, but a good one!

No Negativity coming from this couple :) I hope you all have a fabulouse weekend!

Camp-Out

This past Friday, Josh and I spent a night out camping with friends from our couples biblestudy group. It's been so great having other Christian couples that we can fellowship with every week! It was also nice to get away for a relaxing night, visiting by the campfire, and taking advantage of the nice weather on the lake.

All the boys showing us their wakeboarding moves. This was Josh's first time ever wakeboarding and he got up right away!

This is Tim. He's a proffessional :)

Here's Naomi showing the boys how it's done :)

I've only gone wakeboarding a couple times, but I think I'm addicted :)

Heather and Dan. Heather is having a baby, due at the end of September, so I think she was pretty content just sitting in the boat.

We only stayed one night, so it all went by so fast. We'll definitely have to do it again, but next time we'll stay for the weekend!