The time has come

at the airport

stevens cousins and sister

the happy couple...stevens hat is a tad large

he missed his pipe...haha..muck is just waiting to get his hands on that thing

luke, jonathan and gino

stevens mother...elsie! well..finally steven is home!!! its soo great!! Saturday was probably the longest day i have ever lived!....i was hoping to sleep in a little to pass time, but of course i couldn't....stevens flight came in at 6:30..so i had alll day to fret.....luckily i had some things i needed to get done...so i was not just sitting staring at the clock i got to the airport early...and waited so impatiently.....i sat on the chairs and stared through the doors of where he would come out...i probably watched about 10 different jets unload before it was his.....butttt as he came around the corner i did not see him...he was smiling and waving and i just had a blank stare...he thought i was sooo mad at him,,haha..what a way to come home..poor guy...but then i saw him and ran and we had a great reunion....the problem was that i did not recognize him as he walked out....he has nooo hair!! i have only ever known him with tons of curls..and hes really tanned...( dont ask me why...he says they had like one day of sun....how is that fair?) it was really weird that i did not recognize....but i think hes soo handsome...with his new hair... so we had a great first weekend back...after the airport we went out for dinner to the restaurant where we had our first date...haha...it was very nice to just catch up....and on sunday we went to church and then had people coming and going from about noon to 11 at night.....a big campfire...sang a few songs (thank you jon)......and i had monday off work so we puttered around langley and had so much fun...i missed him so much..and thennn i worked today..but i brought rachel to steves house for the day, while lauren was at school.....we had lots of fun...she loves steven...i think she tries to impress him.............so now its just back to life...its weird...every night i feel like i should be crossing off another day..but the waiting is over....although i did not like being without him, it was fun to have something to look forward to...oh well......i look forward to every day with him i guess....hahah........is that too much????

one more update

soo..little steven has officially finished his school......he had one exam this morning and some practicals...he got 92% on his final exam..and did really well in the practicals...so now he is just packing and can not wait to come home!!! or so he says, that little piff.........ha oh well...right now i am listening to dashboard....and the song is on that says "i'd like to hire a plane and see you in the morning"....for sooo long i have listened to that song and wished that i could do just that.....but nowww steven is getting on the plane in the morning....it feels so good :) and another exciting thing is that i got into the program i wanted!!! so off to school for me in september...the program is SETA....special education teacher assistant.....i am really excited to have gotten in, but at the same time it is quite sad...because it means i only have 4 months left with my work family....i kneww that the day would come, but it does not make it any easier...there has already been some tears around here at work.....sometimes i just look at the girls and cannot believe that i will not be here everyday to watch them grow up....so i am really trying to cherish every moment with them..and just trying to remember that when i am exhausted, at my wits end, sick of cleaning poopy pants (ha), and all around going insane, that i only have a little while longer with the girls...and that i should really try to live in the moment with them and enjoy it.... so all in all life is pretty exciting right now..lots of changes...

He's almost home!

Well the time has almost come! Steven will be coming home to me this Saturday!!! i can not wait.....these last few days are going by really slow it seems....i can not believe that two months has gone by.....thats just insane.....i have enjoyed so much of it though....its been so nice to just be able to do what i want, when i want....like going to bed early...i never felt bad once!! haha...it was also really fun to hang out with my girlfriends and shop tons.....but although i have been having lots of fun, i am really looking forward to having my best friend back.....steven and i have so much fun together and no one could ever replace him....although the Lord is my #1 strength, i feel that God has blessed me with steven because he is also so much of my strength in life...saturday could not come soon enough!!

An update on the fire fighting side of things.......he has done awesome!!!

Steven has worked hard and done soo well in all aspects of the course....his written test scores were amazing (90's)....and of course the physical tests he did even better on! he actually finished first in the final physical exam!! so last friday was the day they actually graduated and a ceremony was held for them.....they had to stay one more week for a driving course.....which i am sure he will do just as well on.....hahaha..i could brag forever....i am just so proud of him!!! sooo soon enough he will be home and then my blog will hopefully have more pictures of us and what we are up to, as oppose to the dogs!

Bath time

Rebecca and Daisy

Becky saving her "yip yap" dog mint for later

Is Daisy not the cutest thing you have ever laid eyes on???

"save me"

"please dont ever do that again"

Smoochies 3rd Birthday party!!

Rachel having fun with Pinata toys....little Jacob in the background is loading up with his fair share!!

hahaa..oh man...this is not good

the big scramble

the DQ cake...i tried to convince rachel to get something cute...but she wanted this depressed looking frog...haha...you learn to choose your fights wisely..and this was nottt one of them.

good job smooch!

present time

little jakey boy joining in on the fun

cute

could rachels smile get any bigger?? she was soo proud

Eggstravaganza!!!

Laurens school had the big egg drop this week...its when you have to build a contraption that somehow protects a raw egg from breaking, after being thrown off the school roof....ha..lauren and her dad did such a good job!!!! laurens was the best and cutest by far and it was the first of hundreds to be thrown off the roof..and her egg survived!!! it was so funny to see all the different ideas that kids come up with.

Also at Laurens school this week was the "scurvy shack"...a little store that was set up selling pirate stuff and other cute things.....little did i know that lauren took her purse to school that day and bought this whole hawaiian outfit...hahaa....spent her allowance!! she looks so cute in it though.

haha

i was just showing rachel all the pictures on my blog..and as we scrolled past joel she was like....."who is that??? jo may???".....ha i dont know why she said that..i laughed so hard....sorry to the people that will not understand this post....i guess joel reminds rachel of Daisy!!!!! i love it!!!

That's a Pig!

Daisy has a pig snout

i was hiding her ball on her

another sick pig

hideousss...becky looked upppp at the last second

a cute rebecca

Tiny little girls

lauren when she was 4...she is almost 7!!!! i could cry just typing that!

little smooch at 9 months....and in two weeks she will be 3!!!!

Sunny days

She is all ready to go, but not quite sure yet about this gardening

those are such tiny little knees!!

now she is all into it!! helping my mom rake and pick up sticks

my mom was nice enough to babysit rachel for a little while this afternoon.....lauren was at school.....i had to run to the doctor.....rachel was fine though..she loves my parents and being at my house....she raked for about 30 secs and then was bored..so i gave her a popsicle before i left...haha..in winter....but it did the trick.

on another little note..the other day rachel and i were in Winners.....and all the sudden she started singing the "praise 106.5" song....at the top of her lungs...haha...it was sooo cute.....i didn't realize she listened to the radio so intently when it was playing....kids listen to everything!!!...i love it...i have a little evangelist in the making!! haha

The calendar

this is the long awaited splendid day

thats alot of X's

this is the picture thats on the calendar right now.....elsie gave me this calendar as a gift shortly after steven left and its brought me sooo much joy!!! yorkies are my favorite kind of dog(sorry becky, daisy)........this picture is my favorite because i swear its steven and i....him with his big beard and me with my random, sporatic hair ....and with a bow...i always have some clip in my hair which reminds me of that bow.....i just love it!!!!!

Sickening jokes!!!!

Well.....the other night a bunch of us went downtown to Yuk Yuks...comedy club.....in my desperation to be out and about in civilization and to not sit at home missing steven i went........haha..i actually wanted to see my friends too....but i was tricked!!!!! if anyone knows me at all, they know that my bedtime is strictly and promptly 7:00...haha..i go to bed sooo early its not even funny.....sooo nice little jonathan tells me that we were all meeting to go downtown at 7:00.....just upon hearing this i am having second thoughts but i talk myself into going thinking that if we leave at 7, the show is sure to start my eight..be home by 9:30 and then off to bed....well jonathan decided not to tell me until we were on the highway(cause he knew i was stuck then) that the show didnlt even start until 10:30...we were going out for dinner first unbeknownst to meeee........i am already falling asleep just at the thought of staying up so late...so we get to the restaurant and i am not hungry at all....because i had eaten a huge dinner just before i left........but again..if anyone knows me they know that if food is around i willll be needing some.........so what do i end up doing??? sharing a vegetarian pizza with our new found vegetarian/animal rights activist friend........steven vanmuyen........so as i ate my green pepper pizza jonnnnthan sat beside me eating a meat lovers pizza!!!!!! this night was not going my way.....anways......we got downtown to yuks yuks and we were early so we had to wait in this holding tank room....and when the doors open i got lost in the stampede of pushing and shoving sickos!!!......usually if i get lost i just stay where i am and eventually steven finds me and plucks me away to safety....but not this time....haha...i'm only a poor single girl right now :( .........right off the bat i did not like that atmosphere so i plunked myself right inbetween steven and jonathan ...to protect me from any evil doers......haha..(for some reason i get really carried away and think everyone is always out to get me...the stories i scheme up in my head!!!!...even i dont believe them most of the time).......haha..so the show started....and it was all downhill from there........the obscene things that come out of their mouths......its so sad to sit there and think about all these people that are lauging soo hard...staring and laughing and enthralled with it all.....i watched the crowd more than i listened to the comedians...it was insane!!! it gave me such a creepy feeling at one point..when everyone was laughing so hard...they dont even know what or why they are laughing.. like maybe its because someone said the "f" word..or maybe its because its now funny to degrade woman and their body parts...or maybe its because it feels good for these people to come into a place and laugh and mock at the very moral and corrupt problems that they choose not to deal with in their lives...its now better to laugh at your problems than to acknowledge them.....when did it become funny to knock a girl up and then do drugs and sleep around some more instead of raising that child???....i was seriously sickened and saddened at the same time.......and i am not for a second raising myself up above these people in anyyy way!! i mean...i was there too....its just i think i walked out of there with a different view...a view to never going back...and some of these people will go back for more and more...to numb the seriousness of the problems in their lives.....to get their "make myself feel good" dose..and then walk out of there actually thinking that their problems are supossed to be taken lightly!! it was such a eye opener to me....to really grasp just how easily the devil can work in this world.....he had all those people duped that night and was enjoying it!!! that comedy was nothing short of mocking the Lord and everything that He is about.......i know that some people might think i am overanalyzing or being too severe....but as christians we have a responsibilty..and its definatly not to follow the unbelievers around and join in on the "fun"......even if the jokes themselves had not been crude and gross, even if they had just sparked an evil thought in someones head it should be enough for that person to run out of there......anways...i could truely go on forever...( as you all know) hahha....so i will stop there......but i encourage everyone to think about things like this..not just about "comedy"..... but how often does something in your life take over or completely wipe out what we believe in as christians???