The Ring

well my friends...this is the ring.....i absolutely love it!! it was hard to get a clear picture but i think you can get the idea....i have always wanted a solitaire...i have not stopped looking at it....its the first thing i do in the morning....open my eyes and check if its still there..and nope, its not a dream!!

Flowers

Soizic came over today and she brought me some really pretty flowers....it was so nice....we poured over wedding magazines and she definately gave me some good ideas! She is dating my brother James...and we all love her!!

June 28 2006 - Our engagement

We are engaged!!! Yes its true! Its so exciting!!!

Steven proposed to me last night and it was the most wonderful night of my life!! It was picture perfect and I would not have wanted it any other way. We first went out for dinner to the restaurant where we had our very first date. So cute...we love it there because it brings back so many funny memories from the beginning of our relationship. Then Steven surprised me by telling me that we were going on a hot air balloon ride..something i have always wanted to do....i was sooo excited at this point...he told me that it was an early birthday present. I realize now that yes indeed it was, but it was also a tactic...he didn't want me to know that anything was up.....sooo...before we left the ground i called my parents to tell them what we were doing and to look for a rainbow balloon because we would be going right past my house......so we take off and the views are just breathtaking....it was sooo amazing to see the farmlands and the rivers and ocean from that elevation...its such a different perspective...i was loving it...then..it happened....

Steven, from the heavenssss above, declared his love for me....as you can see from the picture below, he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him....it was soo emotional and exciting all at the same time....the other people on the balloon cheered..and it was just the best moment ever.....after a few minutes someone offered me to use their cell phone to call my parents and let them know...we just happened to be flying past my house...but this is the honest truth...i took the phone in my hand..opened and...dialed 604 and for the lifeee of me could not remember my own home phone number...like gone..not a hope..it was soooo weird...i have never everr been so effected by love, joy, and just complete shock to not even remember my own number....so after steven so graciously reminded me of the number i called my parents..they were watching us go by at that moment..."mom can you see us?"....."yes we see you!"....."well mom, can you see my diamond from there!!!!"......haha..oh man..those of you that know my mom need not an explanation of what happened next....haha....they were sooo happy.

So after i got off the phone with them we are just enjoying ourselves sooo much,..everyone on our balloon was sooo nice and excited for us......but then......could it be.....someone says to me "ummm by any chance do your parents own a red convertible?"...ohhh noo..why yes..they do....i lean over the side of the balloon and see my dads car pulled over on 192nd with hazard lights flashing and my mom is running around in her bathhhing suittt taking pictures....it was soo funny....she had been swimming i guess when they all the sudden decided to follow our balloon...sooo that they did....they followed the ballon the whole rest of our ride.....we could see the red car driving through the streets of langley...my dad pulling over once and a while, and when he couldn't pull over my mom was like standing in the car as it was moving snapping shots...and then all the sudden our balloon would change direction and i would see my dad pulling a u-turn...haha..they loveddd it!!....so my mom took over 100 pictures of us in the balloon..some really neat shots....its so awesome to have sooo many memories of our special day!!!

So once landed, the crew and other passengers had some champagne with us and it was really nice to see complete strangers celebrating and caring so much about such a special day in our life.....After we left the airport we headed to my house where Elsie(my soon to be mother-in-law) met us for some more champagne with my parents.....we all just hugged and celebrated mine and stevens love......God has blessed Steven and I richly!!! I have a wonderful family and soon i will gain and become part of another wonderful family....what more could i ask for??

the moment

the happily engaged couple our shadow landing

the fire is scary

my parents...at one of their many stops along the way...you can see my dad waving

we did it...we landed...we went up as boyfriend and girlfriend and came back down as bride and groom!!!!!

beautiful sunset

i'm a dog lover..and cat despiser

today the three cats and dog at work had to be taken in to be groomed..not funnnn....jake the dog is nice, but largeee....he was not the problem though..it was those cats!!! they dislike me just as much as i dislike them...we really dont get along....i only had two cat carriers so the third cat had to be put into a box..with the lid closed...( i secretly liked this..haha...jj laura)...anyways...on the way there the cat started escaping from the box..it was beside rachels car seat...well..rachel can get quite intense like me...so she starts knocking the lid with her fist...donking the cat surely on the head....haha..all i could picture was the scene from the disney movie "robin hood"....when the king, as he rides in that carriage, keeps punching the basket that he puts that stupidddd snake "hiss" in..haha....that scene is ridiculous....anyways...and then on the way home.....the cat escaped again...but this time actually looked like "hiss" himself slithering from the box....with his new hair cut...i was sickened....this cat was like a insane reptile scurrying around the car....freaking me outtttttt......and jake was frightened by this so he tries to come over to my seat..on my lap!!! he weighs wayyyy more than me...the crushing pain...anyways...all this is pretty pointless...i just think their hair cuts are really funny..they usually have longgg longg hair..and now its shaved to the bone

this is delilah...i didn't know she was sooo thin...her tail is hugeee compared to her body...and her body used to look alottt bigger than her tail....

this is scoot....look at how big these cats are...they are mancoons...lauren is a 7 yr old kid..and his head is bigger...

buntzen lake

nik and i getting some sun

lena, nikki and i....this picture really reminds me of high school...cause us three were inseparable....

new hair do's!!!!

both girls wanted their hair cut the other day so we went and got it chopped...they both have little bobs now..i think its really cute and nice for summer

lauren looking pretty

smoochie hanging around...lookin like somewhat of a mess..haha..can you tell i helped raise this kid....i swear sometimes shes the spittin image of me

fathers day

fathers day

my new babbby

this is my new truck....i loveeee itt...i missed driving standard soooo much...its a little v6 so it has the power i like..haha...its so weird i like that..but i do....i still have my other car and will sell the protege in september when i no longer need car seats for my kidlets....

in love

granville island

smoochie having fun on the indoor playground

twins!!! i like to dress us alike sometimes..its cute...

i did laurens make-up and hair for her dance recital...lauren dances at the same studio i used to dance at..its so weird

yummm

i'm so cool

The other day we borrowed stevens dads truck to take our leftover stuff to the salvation army....(this was before i had my beauty little truck)..anyways..i thought i was pretty cool in this huge truck....thanksss carl!!!.....as you can see i am wearing a little tool belt..haha..we found it at value village ...its a kids size and its the same brand as the big boy one steven has...so we match and it fits!!!!!.....i love it... i am unsure?

Best Friends

This is Lyndsey and I at her 22nd b day party....her b day was on june 6th but blogger has not been working for me since then....soooo its late..thats ok....

enjoy

hey everyone...i dont know whats with blogger..but every time i log on and try to post something it doesn't work..oh well...soon enough i shall have some more pictures for you....until then....

"Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way. If you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You'll get his help, and won't be condescended to when you ask for it. Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who "worry their prayers" are like wind-whipped waves. Don't think you're going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open."

james 1:2-8

a few words

"But even there, if you seek God, your God, you'll be able to find him if you're serious, looking for him with your whole heart and soul. When troubles come and all these awful things happen to you, in future days you will come back to God, your God, and listen obediently to what he says. God, your God, is above all a compassionate God. In the end he will not abandon you, he won't bring you to ruin, he won't forget the covenant with your ancestors which he swore to them. "

Deuteronomy 4:29-31

These verses bring to mind for me how simple it is to find God if you truely want to.....i think alot of people never question themselves or who or what they actually believe in....maybe they just accept how their parents raised them and accept where they have ended up in life without much thought to go with it....i can not imagine living without knowing how i got here or where i will end up.....or without any hope......God is NOT just for the people that were born into a christian home...or for the people that are "good enough" for him......every single person is someone who God loves and wants them to love him.....all you need to do is look.

A verse

hello friends.....how is everyone doing?? i hope you are all doing great and getting excited for summer...nowww....i know there are some people out there that read this blog faithfully, yet only a few of you leave comments.......and i know this to be true because i will run into the most random person and they will tell me that they are frequent viewers and i dont even know how they got my address....sooo..if you are reading this and want to leave a comment then please do sooo...i would love to hear from you and would also like to know who is reading up on my life..its a strange thing having a blog......

so with some thought i have decided to use my blog for pictures and stories of whats going on, but also i would like to use it for encouraging people, so basically giving this blog a purpose.....i know alot of my friends reading are christians, but probably alot are also non believers.......i was thinking of just putting some bible verses up and then see what comes from that....the bible translation i have chosen is "the message"....its a very loose translation...but it is super easy to understand for those of you who have not been raised on the king james version (most likely only us brethren girls have been...or ex-brethren?)ha..anyways.....if anyone is reading their bible and comes across something that they think could be shared then let me know and i can do some posting....i hope both believers and non believers can read and be encouraged and find hope for our very busy and often complicated lives......God bless.

John 3:16 (The Message) "This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. "