Less then 100..

Hey Everyone - sorry but the posts have been super sparse. I'm telling you, it's not for lack of trying - I have sat down tons of times, and then got side tracked with wedding details, phone calls and catching up with friends. 


Work is going great, I am on my own now and I have really enjoyed working with all of the other dispatchers that I didn't meet on my training. I am really enjoying the job, and I LOVE being 10 minutes from home. Twelve hour shifts don't seem to be such a drag anymore and I am happy to admit I don't even mind starting at 5:30am as it means I am home in time to eat a normal supper time meal. The nights are good too. When I used to work a lot at the hospital, and working a night about 4am you'd wish the clock said 7am. The shifts seem to go faster when they end earlier, even though it's the same amount of time spent at work. 

My garden is growing at a rapid pace, which is very exciting! Everything has come up so far, and is looking very good. My radishes are mostly ready, and I think beans, peas and beets won't be too far from being ready too. Tonight we wedded the better part of the whole garden as it really needed it, as Neil said it was hard to tell what was a weed and what wasn't - there was A LOT of weeds!


Our buck & doe was on June 18th, and was a huge success! We had so much fun and are so thankful for our wedding party and families for all their hard work and help to make it such a great night for us. It was certainly overwhelming to know a little more than 300 people were in the same building, to support us. It was an amazing feeling. 

Our house got it's 1st Birthday Present - about three weeks ago, we along with our friends Meredith & Sonny, and Neil's dad, and Jeff installed new front steps. We love them, and they look great! 












Our neighbours have given us wonderful compliments, and everyone who comes to our house say how nice they look! About a week later, we bought a screen door for the front door. It's hard to believe on June 25th, we've been here, at "our house" for a whole year. Hard to believe!!








I went to a beautiful wedding this passed weekend with my sister, in Drayton. It was a friend of hers from work, and I was so glad to go with her. It was a beautiful day, with a beautiful Bride named Denise, and a really sincere and wonderful groom named Rob. The wedding was beautiful and really got me excited for ours. Lynsey and I had a really great time together, and we started the morning with pedicures and breakfast! Thanks for the great day Lyns! 

I will promise to post pictures of the garden soon! I better before the weeds take over again! 


We had Holli and Drew over for dinner tonight, I made some killer ribs which were a huge hit! I'm telling you, ribs so are easy! For these ones I made a dry rub, with some spices. Then I made a home made chipoltle barbecue sauce to baste them with on the bbq. I had them in the oven for about 4 hours at 250 degrees, and then finish them on the BBQ. I throw a bunch of things together, and how it turns out as good as they do, I will never know - but damn, these ribs had it going on!! We had baked potatoes, and garden salad (lettuce from my garden!), and Holli brought a Snicker's cake for dessert! Yumm! 


If you haven't already guessed.. it's less than 100 days til the wedding! As of today, 94 to be exact!


Will write again soon, 

Four Months to go, and finally I think SUMMER is HERE!

Four months today, Neil and I will be exchanging out wedding vows, and I will call him my husband, and I will be his wife. I just needed to write that down. It's reality, I'm getting married! That, my friends is crazy but I am so excited. 


Our buck & doe is on June 18th, it's coming very quickly and we're very excited! I cannot wait to see our families, and friends together to help us celebrate this new chapter in our life!

Our garden is at a halt, but I want to get it planted by the end of the week. I've got some green and red peppers, tomatoes, leeks, lettuce, zucchini, spaghetti squash and tomatoes going in planters on the deck for now. I've got everything planned out for the garden, just need to get some compost worked into the ground before I plant it. I never imagined I would be planting it this late, but I hope to get it in very soon!

Veggies waiting patients to be planted! 

The fire department has been very busy, it feels like they have been out at least once a day, sometimes twice a day for weeks. Ofcourse, Neil is enjoying keeping busy while I am working a ton of nights, so it's keeping him happy!! 

Neil filling the tank down the street from our house.

I'm pretty confidant that spring never really came. The past two weeks have been rainy, and miserable. I spent many nights driving home from work in thick fog, which was pretty scary and tended to double the time it would usually take me to get home. With that said, I do believe SUMMER is here! The weather the passed three days has been HEAVEN and everything that I have growing it tripling in speeds because of this great weather! 

The view from where I am sitting to blog, with the sweet smell
of lilacs and the strong warm breeze. I love our home. <3

Life is good otherwise, I am nearing the end of my training at the communications centre, and will be on my own next week! I am really looking forward to it. This weekend is going to be a very busy one, but I am looking forward to being off with Neil for two days. On Saturday morning we'll be going to a Cattle Dispersal Sale for our extremely missed friend Ron Wooddisse. I think Neil plans to take Friday off to lend his help to prepare for Saturday. This will be so bittersweet for family and friends. Afterwards, we'll head Tammy & Paul's wedding - we are really looking forward to it. Tammy and I have been swapping decor stories since we got engaged so I am really excited to see all her ideas! 

Sunday I will be attending a bridal shower for a friend, and then coming back to our house to have our wedding party over for dinner! It's going to be a busy weekend! Well I better get ready for work. It's so nice out, I just don't want to move. 

Four months and counting... lots of love..