Coast to Coast

I usually only get around to one posting a week, but I figured I would give the heads up...I am leaving for New Brunswick in a few hours. May 16th is my grandparents 50th anniversary and my Aunt who lives in Alberta has planned a little party thing, I have not seen my Aunt or her children (who now have their own children) in about 12 years!!!

I have not seen my grandparents (either side) for almost 3 years, and my mama's mom alzheimers is getting very bad, none of my relatives have even met James hahaa (well one aunt and uncle) so this should be a veryyyyyy interesting trip.

Unfortunately we are only going for 4 whole days, since today does NOT count I do not land in Moncton till 11 grrrrr, I hate losing a whole day to plane travel. I am flying with Emi, so the flight could be intersting as well hahaa! Send us some good weather vibes, and hopefully I get a few good pictures to post when I get back on Monday!!!!

ciao

The Love Shack

James really wanted to propose to me around Christmas (2006) I think mostly because we were visiting my parents but he hadn't yet found a designer that he "clicked" with alot were super swamped and saying the ring would take months and months. So instead he asked my dad for approval while we were visiting, and found this stone as one of my christmas presents, he did not say the words "will you marry me?" but I knew it would happen soon. We had already been talking about marriage and life so the proposal was not a huge surprise but the stone was...funny story or at least to me we were at my aunt and uncles a few days before christmas celebrating with them, and I noticed a similar stone with a different quote in their dining room and said "oh I love these, always the perfect wording!" And James got this funny look on his face, I just ignored it thinking he was being his weird self. Well prior to going to my relatives we had been shopping, he went his own way to look for stuff and saw this stone...and picked it up, then said "no she will think its tacky and cheesy" and put it back down. Ha! So after visiting with my relatives and him seeing me excited about theirs he made a trek back out to the mall fighting with the crowds determined to get this stone!

We were married in the Dominican our "celebration of love and life" non traditional wedding, we wanted to involve our guests as much as possible, so I had one of my best friends say a speech and explain a Blessing Stone Ceremony, we wanted to remember what everyone had said so we had our guests write it on one rock that we kept, here are a few favorites, I believe the top left is from my mom the top right my sister, bottom left my dad, and bottom right Dianna who did the ceremony....needless to say there were alot of silly sex and baby making ones, lots of laughs and embarrassed faces when I asked everyone to read them out loud ha! My favorite from the best man Nick who took our pictures I can't seem to find, I think he used a yellow marker and it has faded...but it said something alot the lines of crazy sex for ghaki making, Ghaki is sort of like devil child, or just young kid, in Japanese it was James' nickname in his group, passed down from the original ghake Nick himself, since James was the youngest in their group (they went to highschool in Tokyo)

And this we bought while we were in the dominican, I have a totally cheesy love center sort of thing set up on this window, with a little stone statue from the wedding coordinator from our hotel, this stone, the quote stone....lots of stones, an orchid from James lots of sentimental "junk" hahahaa.

Girls Night

My friend Dianna came down to visit last night...so we celebrated in honor of the up coming Sex and the City movie with what else.....COSMO's, I have not had a good cosmo since our college days. It brought back memories as we sipped and chatted into the night.

I like to make them with Raspberry Cranberry Juice, gives it a sweeter touch! I try to not look at the pictures of the week until after I uploaded my photo...so I don't feel as though I am copying someone ha! And I was so good, did not look and then when mine loaded and I checked it so many great drink shots I don't stand a shot...maybe we should start a wannabe competition hahaaha!

Rewind!

So we all know I have been having a very hard time keeping up to date. I am still missing my camera cord, so I have to take my memory card out of the camera I use stick in an old one, WHICH IS SOOOOO SLOW, so it takes an hour to upload all my pics, which is why I procrastinate uploading pics. These pics are older from when I was house and dog sitting! And probably a few from when we went up to whistler for dogfest.

Which means you will probably see our camping pictures (we went from April 28-30) next week hahaa.

Emi went in for surgery on thursday to be spayed. So you will probably see conehead and stitches shots in 2 weeks hehee. She is doing good we are being couch potatoes together, which means hopefully I can finally get to my pictures (organizing that is) and getting stuff ready to visit family in New Brunswick....oh and the million pounds of laundry I have to find time to drag to the laudromat.

Emi is 6 months old as of yesterday!! I can't believe we have had her for 4 months already...she's getting so big, I can hardly remember how small she used to be....she is 15 lbs now WOW, but sure as heck does not look that heavy.

Let's see what pictures I can dig out to post!

Emi and Lucy playing tug, they are the same age, Lucy is a bordercollie/lab mix

You know me and the macro, I can never get Emi to sit long enough, so Hogan was a great subject!
I love that you can see his white hairs, he's I believe 7 years old.
Hogan trying to take over the chair
Our furkids, Emi looks so big, she is so small to me, until I see her at different perspectives like this one
Walking the dogs in Steveston, only Hogan would brave the cold water.
This pictures makes me hear the song Safety Dance, by Men without hats....you can dance if you wanna!!!
Driving up to Whistler, a "through the window while the car is moving" shot is mandatory!
Bedhead??? Ha Me About to join the parade. FatMan, and the Unsinkable Molly Brown. Cotton won 4th place (honorable mention) for his Batman costume hehee. Animal torture at its finest
And lets end the day with another car in motion window shot!