Spring has Sprung (finally)

Wow, has it really been more than two months since my last post? Well, it has been a busy couple of months. Let's see...where to begin. We've finally finished renovating our basement but I still have to hang pictures up so photos of that will come later. At the same time we were ripping out the garden so we have more grass area in our backyard. We transplanted a few of the bushes and trees and have made our yard a lot more clean and simple. Now we're just waiting for the grass to grow, which it is, but hopefully it will fill in because right now it's looking pretty patchy.

May was quite busy. At the beginning of the month we had family out visiting for Colin and Amanda's wedding. Our first official guests in our finished basement was Rob and Lisa and their kids. The kids loved running around with Molly and getting sniffed by her and we played trivial pursuit pretty much every night they were here. It was good to have some extended family come and make use of our space. Ryan and Randi came as the Braun's were leaving and they stayed with us for a week. We didn't get to see or do much with them because we were working during the day but we had some fun evenings together. While they were out we got the announcement that our first nephew Cole Kevin was born on May 5th. Randi and I were pretty excited so we went on a little mini shopping trip to get him some cute new duds. Colin and Amanda's wedding was on May 7th and I did their pictures. It poured in the morning and we had no back up plan for pictures but God answered our prayers and the rain pretty much stopped as soon as we went out to take pictures. I'm really pleased with how they turned out and I think they are too. After Ryan and Randi left, my friends from Capernwray, Kevin and April, came with their kids for the night on their way home from Calgary to the island. It was great to see them since the last time was two years ago. The boys had fun giving Molly sticks to chew on and hiding in her secret corner of the bush. At the end of May Chris ran in the Run for Water with Eric and Ryan, it turned out to be a nice day and the boys did pretty good, getting 9th and 10th (Eric and Chris) in their age category for the 10k. Cheryl also ran but she did the half-marathon, she's a tough cookie.

Spring Happenings

Colin and Amanda

On June 4th was our 5th anniversary so we went for a little getaway to a town called Mukilteo, which is in Washington on the coast, just North of Seattle. The weather was some of the best we've had so far this year so it was great for those many hours of shopping at the outdoor malls. We also checked out the Boeing factory where they make all the big 747's, 777's and 787's, it was pretty cool to see how they assemble those gigantic planes. Supposedly the building they make them in is big enough to fit the whole park of Disneyland. Crazy. After that we shopped for a bit at a mall nearby so Chris could get some more Apple toys to satisfy his computer geekiness. Then we had a bit of time before supper so we found a random beach and had a nap there while enjoying the sunshine and the view of the mountains. We had some delicious Red Robin's for our anniversary meal and then went back to the hotel to watch the end of the Canucks game. On our way home on Sunday we spent the day at the Seattle outlet mall having a little shopping spree since we both hadn't got new clothes in quite a while. It was a good little trip that went too quickly but summer is almost here so we'll be having lots more fun trips I'm sure.
Starting last week and until June 20th I have been working at a middle/high school for a teacher that had wrist surgery and is gone the rest of the year. It's teaching one block of French and the rest of the day is working in the library. It's been really good, especially working in the library. There is an assistant in there that was basically responsible for making the teacher organize everything for me, she told me if she hadn't made this teacher get organized I would've come into a pile of papers not knowing where anything was (doesn't sound like a typical organized librarian to me). So I'm grateful that this lady is there to help me out and make my job easier trying to figure what I'm supposed to do. We get along really well and it's been good to just have a relaxing few weeks, even if it means doing inventory and scanning thousands of books, I've been enjoying it.
As far as pregnancy news goes, I went into to see my OB/GYN last week and asked if there was something we could do to speed up the process so we don't have to wait another year and a half to conceive. We discussed a few options and I decided to get another HSG done which is where they inject dye into your uterus and fallopian tubes to see if there is anything blocked. The reason I did this is because the last time I had this done I got pregnant very shortly after. There is a higher chance of getting pregnant because the dye sort of flushes out the area. So I took the day off today and went to get that done, hopefully that will all that has to happen and it won't be too much longer for us to get pregnant and to have that baby we have been longing for.
We're both really ready and looking forward to summer. We hope to go camping lots and are looking forward to our trip out to Saskatchewan at the end of July. Only a few more weeks of school, I'm sure they will fly by and then bring on the sunshine and summer adventures!