The Reception...

John and Stefanie's reception this past Sunday at their home went really well, everyone had a great time. Brian and I gave them their wedding portraits in an Album and they seemed very happy!

Brian's nephew Jack patiently waiting for his parents party to get started!

**I did not make these cupcakes**

Brian's other nephew Jeremy all done up in his suit!

Brian and John with their Dad

The happy new family... oh they were so annoyed with me for making them sit for a quick picture! I know they were busy, but such is life!!

Brian and I!! We have so few pictures of us together! This is rare!

The first dance....

John and his mom, Elanne.

A small fire gave great ambiance for the evening after dark....

So these are the fun James Bond pictures I did for John and Stefanie... its not wedding related, but they were so excited to get these! (Disclaimer: the gun is not real!!)

Congratulations John & Stefanie!

Brian and I met John and Stefanie at the winery yesterday to take their wedding pictures before chauffering them off to their chartered flight to the Sunshine coast to elope!

Here is the group of us when we arrived at the airport... never been to the south terminal at YVR before, pretty neat... all float planes!

Brian's dad and sister Lorissa met us at the airport for a small family send off!

45 minutes after landing at their destination, John and Stefanie got married as soon as they got off the plane! We hope they are having a great honeymoon!

Crescent Beach with Cali

(So we are working on a little gift for someone's birthday coming up...) Mom, Julie Cali and I went to Crescent Beach on Friday morning for the nice scenery, it was such a nice day and Cali just loved the space to run around like crazy and chase a few birds on the beach!

Another Reno Update

So the renos are slowly continuing but definate progress is being made! I can't help but think about how Grandma would be getting excited about a bonfire when you look at this pile in the back yard! Haha... Scaffolding is now up around the side of the house and our entrance so we currently have to go through the garage! So instead of our regualr 3 doors, we now go through 3 doors and a garage door to enter our suite... haha, I have never had to deal with so many doors to get into a house before!

This is the current view from our masterbed room. Sandpit with siding and a big pile. Haha, I can't wait till things are done!

More Baking...

I don't know why I am on such a baking kick lately... this morning I woke up early and baked up some pumpkin scones! They are pretty good, next time I will put a bit more pumpkin spice in them as they weren't as pumpkiny tasting as I wanted... then again, I love pumpkin.
Brian had been bugging me for apple pie, so one night last week I made myself a free form strawberry pie (I took a picture, but it looked sorta gory so I didnt post it) and I surprised Brian with a little 2 apple pie in this small ramakin! He didn't save any for me so I guess he liked it!

Island Work and Visiting...

So lucked out and was able to go to the Island for work at our Colwood location (everything paid for) so I took advantage of that and was able to go spend some time with Katie, Ian and Aaron before they leave for their new adventure in San Fransico! It was great to see them and we spent a bit of time doing some family pictures.

Weekend at Dad & Jeanie's

Julie, Cali and I headed up to visit Dad and Jeanie for the weekend in Kamloops! We all had a really nice time and it was fun to take one last little trip (for me) before the summer is over!
Jeanie gave Cali a new 'baby' which she was just thrilled with!

On saturday morning we all got in Julie's car and drove out to Vernon... our goal was to get huge tomatoes at Mitz's Farm where we used to get awesome produce... This was lunch at Denny's in Vernon.

We decided to see how things looked at our old Cabin and maybe say hi to Wally if he was around. We ended up not even recognizing our old spot... the only things left were the cabin and the outhouse that was painted blue! Wally is no longer on the lake either, he sold his cabin last October due to health issues. It was sad to see how things ended up, but we still have all the great memories!

Jeanie entertaining Cali while we made the drive back to Kamloops looking for some sort of fruit or veggie stand along the way... where did they all go??

We finally found a small farm in Westwold that had a fun little store with gifts and produce and lots of cool old displays around (see below).

After a long day of driving around... relaxing at the house... Dad was having a good time confusing Cali (they were looking at a Map book and Dad kep asking Cali 'do you see a kitty?' etc)

Dad putting together one of his famous breakfasts this morning! Waffles, blueberry pancakes, fruit and bacon! Yummmm

We took Cali to the river to wear her out before the drive back home again.

Dad and Cali playing in the water park

I think they were looking at a bicycle... either that or its just another goofy pic!

Checking out the interesting bark on the tree....

There were lots of flowers in this park... the fountain had been turned into a huge flower pot

Playing in the park with Grandpa!

Cali thought it looked like fun... mommy and auntie Holly playing on the teeter totter so she decided to join us! (Julie and I have a long history on this particular toy)

Thanks again for a fun time everyone!