Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! (I know it's late but better late then never right?) We finally have internet so I'll be posting more blog posts. Sorry I haven't been around for a few months :P We've been busy. With work for the both of us and married life to deal with it keeps us on our feet. But we love it. I love Christmas time and I love the fact that it's such a wonderful time to spend time with family. This Christmas was nice, I got to spend time with my family while also having another family to talk to.

I loved being able to spend Christmas with my husband, it was a unique experience and I can't wait to have more :). Although it was different it was fun. I got to spend time with my family and Arles at the same time, they get along so well and for that I'm truly grateful. Our family just keeps growing and before we know it Eric and Chris will be bringing in new people as well.

There is so much I want to talk about but I can't seem to bring my thoughts together in a way that sounds somewhat intelligent. So I'll just list all the happenings around here:
*Eric finally went driving today
*I got more shoes for Christmas
*Sleep is a wonderful thing
*I went out for sushi with the girls last week....oh how I love them
*I took Arles out for sushi the next night
*My brother in law has been living with us
*I cook...amazing right?
*Arles and I are heading to Edmonton for a couple days (I guess you can call it a honeymoon since we never went on one)
...and there's more but I'll post about them later.


Sorry for the short post but I really should get to bed. I've been pretty tired lately and this week is the perfect opportunity to catch up on sleep. Oh but one more thing...Emily is engaged :) :). I'm so happy for her and can't wait for all of us cousins to meet up with our husbands :P. Anyways good night :)

Post-Married Life

Sorry I haven't written in a while, without internet it's been hard to stay on top of the blogging world :P. Well it's been five weeks since the wedding and I still feel like we're in the honeymoon stage, we have far to much fun together, we're always laughing and life is wonderful. I have never been happier. I also love that although we're living together nothing has changed in our relationship, he bugs me about my funny little habits (I leave cupboards open...) but it's all in good fun and at the end of the day I love having someone to talk to about the good and the bad. What's even better is our house is slowly coming together :) We just bought a couch yesterday so we're pretty excited about that.

I started a new job just after we got married and I love it. New kids mean new germs so I've been sick off and on for the past month but it's all good. Arles also started a new job, although the hours aren't the greatest (he works 6am to 6 pm), it still gives us time to ourselves at the end of the day. I love him so much :)

So a couple weeks ago I had an experience. I went through a giantic puddle in my alley...and killed my car. There I was driving along when I started to go through what I thought was a puddle so I sped up to make it through. Well then the car shuts down. I call my dad in a panic as I have to be at work in ten minutes (thank goodness dad's are still around after you're married :P). I then start the trek out of my car and toward my house; I step out of the car and realize the 'puddle' was knee deep. Frick. I got home and realized that Arles had come home sick and was at home so I had him drive me to work. I couldn't believe my luck that day. What's even luckier is that my car has been revived!!  It should be dead because I flooded it. But it's not thanks to my wonderful father and lovely husband.

Anyways that's life right now, crazy but fantastic. I love every minute of it and love that every week Arles and I go back to the temple and remember how we felt five weeks ago as we exited the temple as husband and wife :)

PS: Our wedding pictures will be making an appearance very soon :)

The Final Countdown

I have four days left until I am sealed together with Arles for time and eternity :). I don't know where this summer has gone!! It feels like life has just been flying by, it doesn't seem that long ago that I was hanging out with Arles at the dance and now we're almost married! His parents will be here tomorrow and the rest of his family will be here on Thursday. I still feel a little overwelmed but I know that Heavenly Father is and has been helping me every step of the way.

I am so grateful that he is able to take me to the temple. We went three times last week. I love it in there and the more I go the more I pick up on, I am so glad that I am begining to understand the basics so I can then begin to really look for what the many symbols mean. Each time I go I try to focus on one part and that has really helped to let me understand what it truly means. I love it.

So I got a full time job! I was offered a part time job and I have been trying to phone them back in order to let them know I can take it but they never picked up and never phoned back. I was getting ready to go into town to talk to them when I had a feeling that I should try one more time. I did and my new boss picked up and told me she had given my position away...but she had a full time position to offer me! So now I am employed and ready to take on new challanges. I really like my new boss and I think it will work out for me :). It goes to show that Heavenly Father is mindful of me and knows I needed a new job.

Anyways I have tons to do and honestly I have never felt more at ease with this wedding. I'm going to the temple again tonight and have an eternity with Arles to look forward to. Life is wonderful.

Going Back

About a month ago Kim and I were youtubing and ended up looking up old bands and artists we liked as teenagers. Stuff like Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, Brittany Spears, and Hilary Duff. It was interesting to listen to these songs in a new light. I never really listened to music, and deffinately not rock (I recently listened to Guns and Roses...they're actually not bad) when I was younger but I can always appreciate good music. Today I found Jessie McCartney...haha so funny, I remember listening to one of his songs on Family Channel. Here's the video so everyone can appreicate a flash to the past :P 

I am so looking forward to unwinding this weekend, licencing came and we have so much to fix :( on top of licencing yesterday we had the Heath Inspector today and Accreditation this past Monday...lets just say I'm getting sick for a reason. It's not that my centre is bad but we focus more on the children then the paper work and so we get nailed for little things. Apparently I put a child in a dirty high chair, but what the report didn't say was that I had taken the child out to change a diper then put him/her back in. Silly? I think so. Anyways time to continue cleaning the house.

PS: I'm cutting my hair tomorrow...like at least two or three inches. Let's hope I don't regret this.

Conversation of the Day

Child: Do you live with your mommy and daddy?
Me: No, I live with some friends.
Child: Oh, so you're the mommy now?
Me: No, I don't have any children.
Child: Well you should.
Me: Someday (Child), not for a while though.
Child: Well all you have to do is go to the doctor and ask to have a baby.
Me: Oh really now?
Child: Yes, then I can see it...because I want to see your baby.

I suppose if you see a special doctor it could work that way :P. However I don't think that's the way I want to do things. Children are funny.

Children :)

So I've gone back to work :) I love it so much, I never realized how much I loved these children until I waqs back with them. Honestly, they are the best. I love the feeling of walking in and knowing for a fact that I am loved and missed. The first day I came in and immediently one child came up with a big smile and gave me the biggest hug then asked if I could read a story to her. I cannot explain how good it feels to know that even when I show up with no make-up, and hair pulled back into a pony tail the children still think I'm beautiful :P actually that happened yesterday and the same child that was so excited to see me a couple days ago looked at me, stroked my hair, then said "I like your hair" it's those moments that make this job worth it.

I also have a funny story. So today I turned off my alarm at eight and thought "I'll just lay here for five more minutes"...well five turned into forty. I had work at nine and of course I live twenty minutes away so when I wake up five minutes after I'm suppose to leave it's never good. Well anyway I threw on some clothes, put on some eyeliner, brushed my teeth and ran out the door, it is now 8:45. I sped all the way to work, what usually takes twenty minutes took me ten. Luckily I was only a few mintues late and no one asked why :P Anyway I'm thinking I need to get more sleep so this doesn't happen again. At least the children are always happy to see me :P

Anyways life is good. And school being out for summer is always a plus :)

A Great Day :)

Today is a good day, do you want to know why?? Well for starters the sun is shining and the lakes we have around town are basically gone. For the past few weeks it's been raining ALL the time, just last Thursday my boss' house got flooded and she basically has to re-build the entire basement. But we haven't got rain for the past couple days (knock on wood) so it's drying out.

Another reason why today is a great day is that Rehn is starting to be such a sweetheart towards me, not to long ago whenever I so much as looked at her she'd scream her head off....it wasn't fun :P But now she loves me and no longer screams, she actually wants me to play with her all day which makes me feel pretty spectacular. I wish I could post a picture of her just to show you what a cutie she is, but since I work in a daycare I need to get special permission first so I won't post anything yet.

I got a text message a couple hours ago saying that my cousins from the states were almost in Canada!!! This weekend is my grandpa Wood's 80th birthday so the whole family is getting together to do a special party for him. I'm so excited to see everyone together again :).

So all in all it's been a great couple of days, and hopefully I'll have more to post before the weekend is up.

Conversation of the Day

At daycare today we made flower pots and flowers to go in them for mothers day, the flowers were even made from the childrens handprints so it made them extra special. Well when one child went to take it home he threw a little bit of a tantrum because he wanted me to have it. I explained that it was a mothers day present so he needed to give it to his mom. Instead of a "ok I'll give it to her" I got "I want you to be my mommy". So I guess I have a child now....

happenings

So since the last time I posted there hasn't really been alot going on in my life, I am currently working and attending one class at the College. Doing both really dones't leave much time for me to hang out with friends and it kinda makes me feel like a hermet and I don't like it. You see when i'm at home my friends are at school and when they're home i'm either at work or school so our scedules never coinside.

I am taking a childcare course and that is actually one of the funnest classes I have ever taken, it definitely has many politial aspects to it as it is a goverment course but other then that it's great. I am also volunteering at the school here to gain some expeirence in the classroom so i know if i truly want to go into Early Childhood Education or stick to daycare work.

On a happier note I should be getting a cell phone soon!! Yay for actually being in the loop and texting people :P I have never owned a cell phone of my very own so I'm pretty excited to be able to own it and be able to pay for it myself :)

About a month ago my mom was called to be Stake Relief Society President, and just last week she was sustained, I was in class at the time she was set apart but I can't believe how spiritual she has become in the past month and a half. At first she was overwelmed but as time went on she realized that she was choosen for this calling and that she needed to accept it and move on, she has truly been an inspiration to me and I hope in the future I become like her. I don't envy her though...any stake calling is a pretty big deal and to be able to handle it with the poise she has takes a very strong woman.

Also today is my brothers birthday!!! It's weird to think that 15 years ago today Eric was born and brought into this family. I'd like to think that I named him because one day when my mom was very pregant she asked me what I thought a good name was and I told her if it was a boy Eric, and if it were a girl Ariel (yes it was off of The Little Mermaid, but give me a break I was 3 at the time!!) I am so glad that he was given to my family and I and can't imagine my life without him in it. There I go all mushy again...ohh well, I am truly grateful for him and can't wait to spend Eternity with him and the rest of my family.