10 things

I read this on someones facebook page and I liked it.

1)Learn to like yourself just as you are

2)Identify what is important

3) Downscale

4)Determine to live in the present

5)Set goals, Take risks, Be willing to Fail

6)Manage your time

7)Choose a positive attitude

8)Maintain friendships

9)Laugh

10)Pause

10 great steps to enjoying life......

1)Learn to like yourself just as you are

working on this one!lol! Please God and everyone is but dust..................

2)Identify what is important

God, Family, Friends...

3) downscale/simplify

don't clutter my life with too much stuff, simplify and enjoy

4)Determine to live in the present

Live more in the now than in the future or the past, let myself move past my mistakes and move onto new adventures and new mistakes. In the midst of those moments enjoy a grande americano with room and 2 creams everyday....

5)Set goals, Take risks, Be willing to Fail

I am good at setting goals,I have more journals with to do lists in them than my mother has knick knacks from garage sales, accomplishing them is a different story. Risks, I am not good at taking these, but I could try and I will. I hate failing though, I would rather not try at all than fail which is so sad, i truly admire those who have attempted at fulfilling their dreams, i wish I was that gutsy. so I will try to take some risks and enjoy some of my failures! This year i will create a new barbie doll!!!!!!!!!

6)Manage your time - Buy a new alarm clock and a cell phone that rings this should help.

7)Choose a positive attitude

Change your brain , change yourself. The brain that changes itself. Read these books, save myself! Prayer is key. Be thankful.

8)Maintain friendships

Yes, yes, yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need my friends. Everyone of them, they are all so very different and I love that. They have all helped me through so many different places over the years and most would never know how much help they were. I love them all , old and new...

9)Laugh

I have the best husband in the world, I can be seriously miserable and he will make me laugh and I forget everything. He is funny all of the time, we have a blast together. I am sure every girl feel s this way about her hubby but this is so true, he is the most amazing man ever and soooooo funny!

10)Pause

Be still and know that I am God.

Sometimes I need to stop and wait. Relax and remember that I do not have to figure out the answer to every problem, He is God and I am His. Just wait, no matter how crazy life is, He will sort through things I can barely stand to think about. Pause, be still and enjoy the present.

beautiful sunshine...please stay

The weather has been wonderful and I want it to stay. I am dreaming about the summer and all of the adventures I would like to have this summer.

Now Nath will probably have the summer off and our ideas of adventures are kind of different. He has been watching this documentary type show/reality show called man vs wild.

In this show this man travels all over the world, he gets dropped off in the most remote and difficult places to survive from the desert to glaciers. The point of each episode is to teach us all watching specific survival skills on how to get food water and of course how to make it out alive. I will never be interested in drinking my own urine or squeezing out camel dung so I can survive on the juices. I think my favorite was where he skinned a dead sheep, some how he skinned it perfectly so that it was the exact shape of a sleeping bag and he just turned it inside out so the fluffy wool was on the inside, he called it his sheeping bag. There was one episode where he found a dead camel and to sleep he carved out the insides and crawled inside to sleep. No thank you.

Anyway since Nath started watching this our little plans of hiking and camping have drastically changed. I am pretty sure I am not invited on the hiking trips planned now, I think I am too much of a princess for that.

I want to camp like crazy though actually i would like a repeat of the camping trip we had last year at stamp falls. So beautiful out there and the most amazing sound being so close to the water.So hopefully the weather will stay and we can plan the summer out soon! I am also very excited about the summer wedding at the end of August too, it should be a summer of partying!

It was the most beautiful morning yesterday when i drove nath to work. I wish every morning was this pretty, the mountains and the sun were so amazing.....so I had to take pictures.

Yesterday I was able to visit my friends at the zoo. I went with my mom, my sister in law and her mom who is visiting from England and of course Connor who is the cutest sweetest little man ever. I love the zoo!!!!!!!Not as much as the aquarium but so close, these are the places you get to go and be a kid and I am a kid I need theses places just so I can be the real me!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love the giraffe and I want one, but we aren't allowed a dog so I have a feeling the giraffe is probably out of the question. I am supposed to be writing out my devotional for tomorrows youth night but instead I am on here blogging, my mind is very busy today.

Nath is just about out of work the bridge is just about done and we are trying to decide what we should do, Steph and Jon are getting married in a few months, so there are a few things to plan and we are just to figure out what God would like us to do, so we are going to knock on a whole bunch of doors and see what opens and what our options are. If you have a moment and your praying please add us to your list, direction would be great.

I am excited for the summer and the plans we are going to make, I am excited to have Nath off for the summer or at least part of it! I want to camp like crazy and enjoy the sun which I really hope is going to visit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The new cat I want...............

I found a poem I love today, this is the cat that I want to have. I loved talking to my cat when I lived at home and sometimes I enjoyed so much that she never really said anything back, but then I read this poem and for today I want a kitten just like this one.


My kitten won't stop talking.
She just prattles night and day.
She walks around repeating
nearly everything I say.
My kitten never says, "Meow."
She never even purrs.
She mimics me instead in that annoying voice of hers.
She waits for me to speak,
and then she copies every word,
or begs me for a cracker,or says, "I'm a pretty bird.
"I'm not sure what to do, and so I simply grin and bear it.
She's been this way since yesterday;
that's when she ate my parrot.

ken-nesbitt

the last 2 weeks...................

Welllll!!!!!!!!! It has been a crazy 2 weeks, i went to the island to spend a few days with my mom and take her to see a surgeon, visited in port for a wee while, Came back over with my dad and visited my nephew for a couple of days, then nath had his 26th birthday and we went to the keg, yummy, then we had Jon and Sean for the weekend, then it was our 6th anniversary then I had a day at home by myself where i went to visit Kate and then my in laws came to visit and go to the w.o.a conference in surrey which was sooooooo good and they all left Saturday, Sunday we went to church a 12:30 and out for dinner afterwards with some great family and friends got home around 7 pm and now it is Monday and I am tired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The perfect date ............

So tonight nath and I went out for dinner to Sammy j peppers, which is always great. Well once it was not but that was only because someone had taken one of their ketchup bottles and poured a bottle of their habanero sauce into it. So I ate french fries dipped in this special sauce thinking it was ketchup and just about earned myself the Heimlich maneuver from my hubby because he thought I was choking. I was actually gasping because my throat was on fire and i wasn't quite sure what had happened. Yes drama queen i know, but when you are eating ketchup and fries with fish you do not expect to have watering eyes and a burning throat, it was weird and nath thought I was crazy until i made him try everything on my plate so he would know i was not and a few minutes later i was all happy because his eyes were watering and he was trying to cough up a lung! We drank a ton of water and milk and the restaurant paid for dinner that night. Tonight was great though, their lobster rolls are so good and the jerk chicken chowder is great too.
At dinner we were trying to decide where we wanted to go for our 6th anniversary and what the ideal date would be and they are very different. Nate would like to go squamish and hike up up to Shannon falls, pack lunch and spend the day outside, it is really beautiful up there but it is still so cold out and our anniversary is only 2 weeks away I have a feeling the weather isn't going to change much in that time. I would like to go to a monster truck rally drink lots of coffee and eat hot dogs, so I have no idea what we should do to celebrate but I am sure we will come up with something, 6 years yay!
We might get a chance to go away but were not sure yet, he doesn't have that much work left so he is taking anything he can right now. Maybe Easter weekend we can take off for a bit, we will have to see.
I figure 6 years is pretty good, so far so good, it has been a lot of fun and I can't wait to see what happens next and hopefully it will be as good as the last 6 ! Hopefully!

shopping for the perfect dress.............

This weekend was a lot of fun, Stephanie was over and on Saturday we went to see if we could find her a wedding dress.

First of all we chose the dress shops on HASTINGS, yes , I know what your thinking , why!!!!!! we should have known better but we had heard so many things about the great dress shops there. Now truth be told that was when I was getting married so that would be about 7 years ago now.So needless to say we should have stayed away and listened to Lalaina when she mentioned that New West had the most beautiful dress shops, but we didn't , we got in the car with no maps or directions of any kind so we headed off to the only ones we new of. That is why we got a cramped little store with only one person on staff when we arrived and she was not that happy to see us at all , now I am sure she was tired and over worked but it just wasn't quite the experience we were hoping to have . They have that no shoes in the store rule which isn't so bad in most places but this was not a pretty carpet it looked something pulled from the shed in someones backyard,soooo not pretty at all. I really hope my feet don't come down with something because I had no socks on that day, my poor flintstone feet. Steph's sister sharlene met up with us and saved the day she mentioned there was a bridal store in brentwood mall, called Bryon's Bridal. It was exactly what a dress shop should be , beautiful with tons of dresses and you met with a consultant who helped you thru the process and at the end they gave us complimentary bottled water with a picture of a bride on it and the stores name, might sound cheesy but we like the perks! Steph picked the most beautiful dress I have ever seen, it is perfect . It was the first dress she tried on and then she was done, she didn't want to try anymore on, she had found the one she wanted, it is really beautiful. We had fun and it was great to dress her up in all the princess dresses. Soooooo much fun to be a girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This Wedding is going to lovely.

I have to say I am also excited for all of the parties, bridal showers and torturing along the way!!!!!!!! Let the scheming begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay!