Our Adventures

Well, it's time for an update. This past week has been a busy one. Last tuesday we had a special guest appearance from Angelle who was out doing a tour promoting her camp Bird River. It was good to see her again, I hadn't seen her since the last time she went out on this tour. We had a splendid night of touring the sites, walking the town and seeing scary art of randomly stacked chairs with nooses interspersed. On thursday right after my last class we headed out to Edmonton for a basketball tournament that Bethany (which Chris coaches) was in. Me in a van with 13 boys. Lovely. Actually it wasn't too bad or very eventful until the last hour where we got to see a giant egg and were swerving on the road because of the massive gusts of wind. I just thought the guy driving was a really bad driver but I guess he had an excuse. We got into Edmonton around 9pm and after getting told we were in the wrong building and finally finding our real building we watched some basketball and went to bed. For some reason it was really hot in our room so we closed the vent but that was the wrong decision because this made our room smell like toilet cleaner. I figured out the next morning that opening the vent made the smell go away. On friday I watched the boys play a good game that they ended up losing. We went to the West Ed Mall in between games and I finally found a pair of pants that fit people without stick figures. We got to see the sea lion show, that was pretty exciting, my favorite part was the little penguin that waddled around, he was cute. After the mall they had another game and Jen showed up to watch with me. Then I escaped the boys dorm and spent the night with Jen. We had a pretty normal night, bought some groceries, amazingly found a white spot and rented the Lake House and ate swedish berries and m & m's. We watched the Lake House on Jen's laptop and it was on the highest volume possible but we could barely hear it. Not the best way to watch a movie. Some parts were hard to know what they said but I think I got the jist of it. Here's some pics of our hangout time.



We had an eventful time trying to fill up my air mattress and not letting it all deflate before we plugged it up. Jen, I think Chris figured out our problem, once you get the big plug in, there's a little opening in that plug that you can put the air thing into to top off the firmness of the mattress. If that makes sense. Anyways, I slept and it didn't completely deflate overnight so it was all good. The next day we had some blueberry bagels together and I got Jen addicted to soduko's, another one joins the club. Then we toured around downtown Edmonton and the University because I had never seen either and we stopped by Ikea but didn't buy anything cause there's just too much to pick from. We went back to see the boys last game and Jen, you missed an intense ending. The boys were up by 3 and the other team scored a 3 in the last seconds so it went into overtime. Then the other team only had 3 guys left for the last minute or so and our team won by 2. Intense I tell ya. So it was good that they won one game and it was a gooder. Then we waited for the girls team to win the whole thing and we headed home that night. We didn't get home until 4:30am and so I slept until 2 in the afternoon. Not good for sleeping habits. Sunday was pretty much a write off, we just lazed around and did not much worth talking about. So that's what's been going on. We have our reading break coming up in a few weeks and are looking forward to seeing baby brother Ryan who's coming home from Capes for a few days and are also hoping to go to Calgary for the second part of our break to see some dear friends and snowboard if there's snow. Hopefully those plans will get finalized some time this week. Other than that, not much to report. If anyone has a bright idea of a blogging topic for me let me know because I seem to lack writing about stuff if nothing exciting is happening. Kay peace out.

Well, I'm the big 2-5 today. A quarter of a century, if you prefer that. Lovely. Do you ever remember when you were 10 and you thought that 25 was really old and that people that age were really mature and established and had kids and all that? Yeah, well that's not me at all. It's funny how you assume things like that because that's not how it ends up. My birthday consisted of school and more school so we celebrated it yesterday. Chris' parents were out helping Kevin move and his dad was out coaching the herbert basketball team in a tournament. So yesterday we had a nice brunch which I could actually taste which was exciting. I got a really bad cold last thursday and it's just starting to leave, hence me being able to taste. On wednesday last week we were hit with a massive blizzard. Chris and I attempted to walk to school that morning but turned back after one minute of walking in -30 something weather with snow blowing straight into our faces. No fun. The next day is when I got sick so we decided to skip that day too. We weren't the only ones who skipped so I feel it is justified. It was sort of a nice unexpected break even though I spent most the time passed out from tylenol cold medicine. I accidentally took two night pill's during the day, bad idea. Woah, got a little side tracked. My birthday...it was short and sweet. Right when I woke up Chris came in with his presents. I got a sweet puzzle mat so I can do puzzles whenever I want and then roll them up so the pieces are not all over the place and a puzzle to go with it and a random classic movie, the goonies. Then we went for brunch which was tasty, got some groceries and had a nap. No parties here. I was still a little out of it so no parties were fine with me. I decided to drop one of my classes today and switch for another, I'm cutting it pretty tight, tomorrow is the last day to make changes before you get penalties. But I think it was the right choice, more along the lines of what I'm interested in. Other than that, things are starting to get busy. Chris didn't have to coach last week but now it's going to be happening every week, he goes out to hepburn on tuesday and wednesday nights fo practice and then there's a bunch of tournaments, the first of which is in edmonton! Party with Jen! Works for me. Even though I'm only taking 4 courses this semester it feels as if it's going to be just as busy as when I had 6. There seems to be a lot more projects and assignments in these classes for some reason. And we all know that those take up a lot of time. Chris is going to be pretty busy too I reckon. But it's out last semester so we'll suck it up. We're in the process of thinking through what we want to do when school is done. There are many possibilities but not of them have been solidified in our minds. Do we want to leave the country? Do we want to move to BC? Or is there some random option out there that we don't know of? Hopefully one day we'll figure it out and we'll feel at peace with it. Anyways, I better get back to work. Farewell.

Yup so I thought I was clever making seperate sections for the Christmas' we had but this is the latest one that happened so you have to scan down and read the other two first and it'll make more sense...

We spent the rest of our break out in Chilliwack until the day before school started. We got to see lots of people that we really wanted to see and hadn't seen for a long time. It was good to be out there again and see all those people. We started the time off with a friendly visit from Jamie, Paul and Jen, it was brief because we were still on Saskatchewan time but we got to see them the next day at "Christmas supper". The morning after we opened presents and got some nice clothes and basically our whole set of Denby dishes that we thought would slowly be collected but instead my mom went nuts and bought them all. We won't be using those for a while but it's good to have them. That day we briefly went to the mall and exchanged some of the clothes that didn't fit and then that night my brother, Jamie, Paul and Jen came over for supper. Instead of the traditional rice pudding we had ice cream cake. Chris and my mom hid some nuts in it so whoever got one won a prize. It was pretty obvious where they were because the icing was all messed up in that spot. For some reason though Chris and I were the only ones who found them. After supper we played some scattegories and pictionary. Jen and I were on a team for pictionary and didn't even get on the board until the others were at the second last space. But then we kicked their butts and made it half way up the board. Yeah, we almost had an amazing comeback. Next time...We also tried some of my parents liquers.



Some othe stuff we did while out in BC were walking Willy, taking a drive to the lake and up in the Columbia Valley, playing dice with my mom, watching some movies... One night we got to see David, who is my friend who went to Capes with me but we haven't seen each other for years because he lives in Australia. He's living out in BC now though because he just got engaged to Karin who went to Capes with Chris. It was really good to be able to see them in the short time that we were out there.


On Sunday we went to Mark's church in Abbotsford and picked up Jeremy from the airport. It worked out perfectly because we didn't think we were going to be able to see him. We went for a nice little hike through some paths by Mark's house and played some pool. While we were on our way back from our hike we randomly saw that same Capernwray guy that we had seen while we were out with David and Karin, how weird is that? Anyways, it was good to see those boys again. Mark was one of our last friends that lived out here in Saskatoon and now we have none... Just kidding, kay maybe not that much. That night we spent at home instead of partying for new years.


The last night we were in BC we headed out to Coquitlam to see Eric, Carmen and Mike. We went out for supper at ABC and played some taboo and the boys played darts. It was a nice relaxing night of festivities.




It was so good to be back home even if it was a short time. We headed home the next afternoon and made it home not that much later then we were supposed. Of course we couldn't avoid some sort of delay as we waited 45 minutes for our bags in Saskatoon. But we made it and now we're back to school. We took Tom out of our place to be recycled, it was a sad moment. We stocked up on groceries, cleaned up our place and now we're ready to go for another semester. It's nice to have Chris at home everyday, makes things more interesting and more normal. Well, I've been writing for a while now so I'll end it here.

I ended exams on the 22nd and Kevin and I drove to Herbert. Chris came later because he had to teach that day until 3. The first couple days we had the Braun gathering and it was a good time of playing games and eating lots of food. We had 11 people in the house for two nights so that was fun. All the single boys slept in the family room, Janette slept in Ryan's room and we slept in the basement. One morning I woke up before all the boys so I could shower and this is what I saw...

You can tell these boys are in Bible school. Colin had his own air mattress but decided to sleep on the same twin mattress as Ryan to stay warm. I thought it was pretty funny.

After everyone woke up we went to the church and spent the whole day playing games and we also went to the school gym for a bit to play some basketball and volleyball. After Christmas Dinner we had a chinese gift exchange and Chris and I got a puzzle, which was not quite his choice but I enjoyed making it the rest of the days there. Some people got some pretty funny presents like Curtis getting a willow tree angel figurine. Well, I guess that's not a funny present, it's just funny that he was the one who got it. Janette was actually at the same Christmas as me, which is wierd because it seems that we always miss the year that each other are there so it was good to have another girls around to balance with all the testosterone.





The rest of the time out there we spent relaxing on the farm, playing games, tubing and even some good ol' cross country skiing. We opened presents on Christmas Eve after we went to church. First we had some finger food which was really good. On Christmas I got to drive the quad as Chris and Ryan rode the tube. We had some good turkey for supper and the whole family had a half hour nap after. That was pretty funny. I guess the turkey knocked us out. Alysha came only 5 minutes after we woke up, it would've been pretty funny is she had shown up when the house was pitch black. We played a game that Ryan got me for Christmas and then we watched Invicible. The next day I hurt Chris when he was tubing so Ryan, Kevin and I stayed out for a bit. The last full day we found the old family cross country skis and we did some hardcore skiing on the yard. It was actually a lot easier then when I remember doing it when I was ten on the sidewalks.

Now that things have gotten somewhat back to normal I figured it was time to get back in blogging. Sorry for all of you who desperately checked everyday hoping for something new. I hate when that happens. But today is your lucky day. There's lots to say and many pictures to post so hopefully blogger lets me.

Chris and I had our own little christmas here in Saskatoon the weekend before we left for Herbert. We opened presents by the tree and had a splendid breakfast. I ordered Chris the three Harry Potter books that he was missing from his collection. He was happy to get those and in fact is reading one of them now. He stayed up until 2 am last night finishing one. What a weirdo. I guess he likes them. Chris got me some satsuma body wash and lotion, I love that stuff, it smells so good. I also got a Stuart McLean short story book, they're really witty short stories and every now and then we have story time before bed. I also got a necklace but I had to return it because it was a little too big for my liking. All in all it was a good first Christmas as a married couple. Here's a few shots from that day...