Wedding Bells

On Friday March 16th, 2018 my Mom and Mark got married!!  It was a very quiet celebration with only Arren and I there and Mark's friend DeShaw!  It was held at the Central United Church in Calgary.  An old and beautiful church right in the heart of downtown!  The minister was great!  She really added to the ceremony and made it very personal for them!  DeShaw and Arren were witnesses and I got to be a ring bearer!!!  I gave Mark's ring to mom when it was time to exchange rings!  The vows they wrote for each other were special and sweet, right from the heart!

After the ceremony Mark took us all out for lunch at a little Irish Pub!!  The food was sooooo yummy!!!  It was just down the street from the church so we walked there on the beautiful Spring day!  My mom made her own dress!!!  It was a dress and she converted it into a skirt, she used the sleeve holes as pockets in the skirt! They both wore the jackets they wore when they first met each other!!  It was cute to witness just how in love they are with each other!

It was a beautiful day and so great to spend it with two amazing people! I am thankful for them in my life, for the examples they are to me and for the love they share with me and with each other!  I love seeing my mom so happy, and with Mark by her side I know they will be able to face any challenge that comes their way!

36 Years Old

My birthday this year fell on a Wednesday.  And it was a wonderful day!  Calum was scheduled to get his braces put on so him and I had a date in the city for my birthday!  Armin wasn't feeling great so he hung out with us too!!  I had a funfilled day with my two boys and Calum looks extra cute in his braces.  We went for lunch at the mall where we all had our favorite, Armin had pizza, Calum french fries and me a wrap from Opa!  Yummy!!!

After lunch we headed to Walmart to get groceries.  The boys were so good just following me around.  We left the city and went home where we were met by Jared and Emry also coming home for the day.  Jared had a little huddle with each of the kids and in turn they all came up to me and gave me a little gift!!  From Armin I got a giant mint chocolate bar, from Calum I got the movie Jumanji and from Emry I got a pair of sunglasses!!!  So spoiled!!!  I quickly gave them all hugs and thanked them for the gifts and then we headed out to the Irish concert where we had a most delicious pancake supper!!  Then I quietly slipped away to go to a 31 Gifts party at Arren's house!  Jared stayed and listened to the performers at the Irish concert with the kids.

At Arren's party Mom had made a cake and everyone sang Happy Birthday to me!  It was lovely and so nice of them.  It was fun spending my birthday with my sister and my mom and all the other ladies at the party!  I was spoiled by mom and Arren too!!  Arren gave me the Enjo window treatment and mom gave me a rooster decoration and some totes from Hawaii!!

Jared and I went out for my birthday on Saturday and we had such a great time together!!  I love spending time with him, just the two of us!  We went shopping, where I got a new shirt and updated my cell phone!!!  We ate at The Keg and had melt in your mouth steak and we went to a movie!!  We saw Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri!!  It was an okay movie, it kept my interest the entire time but then the ending just, for lack of a better word, sucked!!! We came home to kids sleeping soundly and went straight to sleep ourselves!!  It was a late movie so we didn't get home until after midnight!!!  WOW!!! I must be getting old, we used to go to late movies all the time with no thought of what time we'd get home!!!

I always love having a birthday, it is a time to reflect on the past year and look forward to what another year will bring!  I had a great birthday this year and am so thankful for all those who took time out of their day to wish me well!!  This year is already shaping up to be pretty amazing too!!