so close...

It has seriously been 2 and a half years in the making….the day when the garage will finally be done. IT IS SOOOOO CLOSE…I can taste it.

This is where we are at: the walls have been painted, the ceiling has been textured, the lights are all up and working, all the plugs and switches are wired, the garage door opener is installed and working, most of the shelves are up, peg board has been installed and a track system for all our cords, hoses and accessories is up and working. The only real major things left to do is paint the floor, install the rubber baseboards and move in all our things. YEAH I can hardly wait!!!

I also finished another layout in the past week. Our first anniversary which was almost 2 years ago. We had a fabulous time in Radium and at the hot springs. I would love to go again someday.

(totally could not get this picture to insert the right way, oh well this will have to do)

Journalling says:  For our 1st anniversary we decided we needed to get away. Neither of us had been to a hot spring since we were children so we thought it would be fun to drive into the mountains and soak our cares away! We decided upon Radium Hot Spring just inside of Kootenay National Park in BC. On our actual anniversary we took a long drive through Kootenay National Park and stopped at all the roadside lookouts, rivers and lakes. Such stunning beauty! Later that evening we went for dinner and then to the hot springs. We had so much fun, so nice to relax and we got lots of cute pictures using our underwater camera case. We had a wonderful first anniversary! We can't wait to celebrate lots more wedding anniversaries in the future!

I was really wanting to use the kraft paper that I had in my stash and I thought that because all the pictures were outdoor pictures it would work really well together. Oh and I love this green patterned paper that I used! I just love all those colors you can find in nature. Just makes everything so fresh! Thanks for looking!

{ kiss the girl }

This is my new layout! I finished this yesterday for National Scrapbooking Day. This is not something that I would normally do...use three different patterned papers on the same page...I was really stretching myself here. But I LOVE how it turned out. It helps that these papers come pre-coordinated! This picture was one of the ones taken when we took photos of the kids for mom and dad's christmas present last year.

Journaling says: Sunday August 9, 2009 - Me, Josh, Jocelyn & Justin got together to take photos of all of us so we could put nice photos together for a Christmas present to our parents. We had so much fun finding new places to take photos and we all looked great! Professional looking photos for free makes me happy!

I'm really on a roll here so I hope to keep it up and have lots to show everyone in the future! Oh, I also finished our Mother's Day Cards today, but of course I'm not going to put pictures up because our moms would see them and spoil the surprise!

A New Layout!

So this is it.........my first scrapbooking layout in a VERY long time! And of course it is going to be about Molly, our purple girl! Spent time over at my aunt and cousins house this past Sunday and I got this layout partially finished before we put together shower invitations for my sister-in-law. I finished the rest of this layout at home and I am pretty happy with how it turned out!! I love to look at all the pictures of Molly to see just how little she was! Awwww :) Let me know what you think!!

 

Journaling says:

Friday June 5, 2009 – The day we brought Molly home!! I just couldn’t wait until after work to see her so I had Josh bring her to see me at work. She was so cute and so small, everyone who saw her just fell in love; Including me and Josh! I’m pretty sure she fell in love with us right away too!

We fixed her a bed in our kitchen and put up a baby gate so she couldn’t get loose in the house and pee on our carpets. We had so much fun playing with her in the yard when we got home from work and she was so happy to see us. Our family is complete! Just the three of us.

Thanks for looking! I hope to be doing a lot more of this in the near future!

MS Walk

This past Saturday me and Josh volunteered for the Enerflex MS Walk down in the riverbottom. It was actually a lot of fun. It really amazed me how many people had volunteered and how many people were walking/running and how much money was raised for MS. So awesome! It really didn’t take a lot of our time…just a half hour meeting on the Wednesday before and then on the day of the walk we were there from 8:00 to 12:30. We met some nice people, helped out a good cause and got to do something different for a change. The start/finish line was at Fort Whoop Up, and that’s where all the sponsor tents, the DJ, the food tables and the information booths were set up. There was all kinds of yummy food for us to eat too so that was nice, cinnabuns, fruit, donuts and pizza!

They even had the fort rooms opened up so we could see the armory rooms and some of the sleeping quarters and the kitchen. Really neat, I haven’t been to the Fort since I was in elementary so it was really cool.

For the actual volunteer part we were checkpoint sitters and we were sitting right near the High Level Bridge handing out water and cheering people on. Not a bad job at all and we had plenty of time to sit and talk about all the future plans for the house, the garage and our future family :)

This was a really great day and we felt really good after having spent some time volunteering! We are definitely going to do it again next year, and we are looking for other ways to volunteer, including the Relay for Life which we are going to try to do this year too!

Our litte furball is ONE today!

I can't believe it, but it is true...Molly is one year old today. It seems like only yesterday that Josh picked her up from the breeders (when she was about 6.5 weeks old) and brought her to see me at my work (I couldn't wait until after work to see her). She was this little ball of fur, only 9.5 pounds and easily fit snuggly into our arms. And oh those first couple of nights with her, she was literally up every 2 hours (we had her on a bed in the kitchen with a baby gate up so she couldn't get loose) and oh those cries and whines. And as soon as she saw one of us come into the kitchen she would try to climb as high up our legs until we would pick her up and hold her, then all was right with the world. She was for sure our baby and we were for sure her mommy and daddy! xoxo

Well today she is definately full grown, she is 85 pounds and there is no way I would be able to pick her up now, even Josh can barely hold her for long, just long enough to weigh her.

I made her a cute hat for her birthday and we got her a couple of presents, a nice bone and this huge rope, which she loves. And the whole point of a rope this big and tough is so that she doesn't destroy it in a matter of minutes. We gave her a new stuffed toy just last week...it is now completely torn apart and there is no stuffing left in it :)

She has been such a wonderful dog and we enjoy her so much. She has such an attitude sometimes, and then other times she just wants to cuddle and give kisses. And boy oh boy is she smart, she has picked up so many tricks and she definately has a way of getting what she wants! We are looking forward to many more birthday celebrations with her! xoxo Love you Molly <3