So I know it has been a while since I updated my blog (SHAME) but we've been really busy. I've been able to cross a few things off of my list. We just got back from visiting Josh's grandparents in Victoria, BC. While we were there we also visited my Aunt and Uncle. We had a great vacation, camped the whole time! We are just about completely sick of camping now, 7 nights of camping in cooler weather (it got down to 8 or 10 degrees some nights) really knocks you out. We saw more of the island than we have before, went walking in places I didn't know existed and drove up island to see a couple of the small towns, very cute! I will put up some pictures when they have been uploaded to our computer. While we were out west we also spent a day in Vancouver. We went back to Stanley Park, which is where Josh proposed to me more than 3 years ago. Can't believe it's been that long. It was nice to go back and it's nice that it's a place that we can afford to go back to!

Before we went to BC we went out on a date to the Galt Museum to see the High Level Bridge exhibit because the bridge is 100 years old this year. It was nice to do something different than going to the movies or having drinks, and I can cross going to a museum off of my list!

I'm hoping that there is still a little bit of nice weather left this year, we didn't really have much of a summer and I'm still craving some warm weather. But I am looking forward to Christmas time this year because then Jocelyn will be home from school for a month, miss her so much! (Love you Joss)

Progress report on the garage is this: The drywall, taping and mudding is almost done, then we are going to paint the walls and the floor. Once painting is done we can put up shelving for all our junk err I mean 'nice things' that are cluttering up our basement and my scrapbooking space.

Well that is it for now. Hopefully it won't be so long before I update again.

{ LOVE }

I just want everyone to know how much I LOVE my husband!

ME

Hello everyone!!

I guess now that I have finished making my list and I have started working on a few things I should make a proper introduction. My name is Chelsey. I am married to the most wonderful man, my best friend, the LOVE of my life, Josh!! We don’t have any kids but we do have a beautiful chocolate lab named Molly. July 21, 2007 we were married in the most beautiful wedding
and since then we bought a house, completed landscaping,

gone on a few wonderful holidays and got our “little stinker” Molly.

So much can happen in such a short amount of time. TWO YEARS!! Wow. This blog will serve as a way for me to document our lives for our family and friends. It will also allow me to get what is in my head out and to allow one more avenue for my creative juices to flow through.

It seems that in our world today people get caught up only in things that affect them and give no thought to what is going on around them. Sometimes this is simply because everyone is so busy, other times it is because people have become set in their ways, afraid of change and of too much human contact. I think it is so important to be connected to people, whether those people are your immediate family, your extended family, your friends or strangers. I want to be connected!

Have a wonderful day!!

100 Recipes

These are the 100 recipes I'm planning to make, cook or bake. I must let you know that I am not a very good cook. As a matter of fact I kinda suck. I have improved over the last couple of years. But I'm nowhere near where I should be. I NEED HELP. Please let me know your favorite things to eat/make and I will try to give them a shot.

The list will eventually be complete and I will keep it updated.

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1. Roasted Chicken
2. Shepard's Pie
3. Salmon on the BBQ
4. Twice Baked Potatos
5. Glazed Carrots
6. Chicken Casserole
7. Home made pizza
8. Potato skins
9. Home made apple pie
10. Home made cinamon buns
11. Chili
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100 Movies

These are the 100 movies I'm planning to see. The list will eventually be complete and I will keep it updated. If you have any suggestions for good movies, please let me know.

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1. Casablanca
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. Schindler's List
5. Gone With the Wind
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. ET
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. American Graffiti
10. Bullitt
11. Sophie's Choice
12. Citizen Kane
13. Vertigo
14. Saving Private Ryan
15. Pearl Harbour
16. The Cronicals of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
17. A Hard Day's Night
18. Rain Man
19. National Lampoon's: Animal House
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
21. Pulp Fiction
22. Angels and Demons
23. Apollo 13
24. Amerian Beauty
25. Good Night and Good Luck
26. Legends of the Fall
27. The Godfather
28. The Godfather Part II
29. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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37. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
38. Rebel Without a Cause
39. Braveheart
40. Simon Birch
41. Dances with Wolves
42. Fargo
43. The Fugitive
44. Goodfellas
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47. The Shawshank Redemption
48. Silence of the Lambs
49. The Usual Suspects
50. Basic Instinct
51. A Few Good Men
52. Scarface
53. Bull Durham
54. Platoon
55. Raiders of the Lost Ark
56. Poltergeist
57. Top Gun
58. The Abyss
59. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
60. The Deer Hunter
61. Taxi Driver
62. The Graduate
63. The Manchurian Candidate
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66. No Country for Old Men
67. City of God
68. Walk the Line
69. Stranger Than Fiction
70. Raging Bull
71. Six Degrees of Separation
72. L.A. Confidential
73. The Devil's Advocate
74. Nurse Betty
75. Donnie Darko
76. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
77. Brokeback Mountain
78. The Departed
79. Away From Her
80. Wall-E
81. Duplicity
82. Into the Wild
83. Unforgiven
84. Rocky
85. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
86. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
87. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
88. Alien
89. Aliens
90. Lawrence of Arabia
91. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
92. The Color Purple
93. Dirty Harry
94. Hotel Rwanda
95. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
96. On Golden Pond
97. Out of Africa
98. Planet of the Apes
99. Ray
100. Slumdog Millionaire
The Soloist
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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