Christmas Party Photos part 2

Here are a few more photos from the evening.

Thanks Mom and Al for the comments. Nice to know you are seeing the posts. :)

Aunt Judy & Cassie

Mamy Janelle & Lori

Our tree. Not too many presents under there yet!

Dad & Matt. We did exchange Christmas gifts (we did exchange ornaments) and put all of our exchange gifts under the small tree! :)

Our Christmas Party

We had a great night at our party and I think/hope everyone else did also. Thank you to everyone who braved the storm warning and made the drive! I was too busy hosting to take many photos but here are a few...

Photos from Matt's Birthday :)

Help, it's starting already!

Victoria's friend Josh and his little sister Gracie and baby brother Ethan were over for a visit with their mom Tracy today. Victoria and Josh are in the same class and have become great friends. Josh's family just moved onto our street a few houses down.

We are having a Christmas party on December 15th andTracy & her husband Rick are going to come celebrate with us. We are looking forward to spending a nice night with family and friends before Christmas!

Santa is coming soon

Things have been pretty busy lately. I've opened my business and it's been a very hectic couple of weeks! I had to do a lot of waiting for registration and name searches and all of those fun things before I could publish my website and start advertising. Kiss The Bride officially opened on November 8th and things are really going well. I have had two potential clients and one who has hired me. I am very pleased with that outcome considering it all happened within the very first week of my opening. My website is www.kiss-the-bride.net for anyone interested in checking it out. It's a fairly amateur site as I did it all myself and have never created a website before!!

After we were snowed on last weekend and it was instantly winter, this past week was very warm and it became autumn again! Today we were sitting around listening to Christmas music together and drinking hot chocolate and decided that Victoria would write her letter to Santa. So I have posted it for all to see. Pretty cute. :)

wedding photos

Here are a few photos of the thousands and yes I really mean thousands of photos we have of the wedding. I realized that not everyone has facebook (where I have 5 albums of photos posted) so I am putting them here for your viewing pleasure :)

grade one - first report

victoria with hayley relaxing and watching tv

hello. just wanted to let everyone know that we went to meet victoria's teacher last night for the first parent-teacher interview of the year. she said that victoria is doing extremely well and is a joy to teach. one of the two teachers we met has been focusing on reading and writing and she showed us some of victoria's work and explained that two months ago victoria could print 14 words correctly off the top of her head and now she can print 39. we are very proud! tonight victoria and hayley are having a girls night in and just finished watching a movie together and now they are reading in bed. the girls had no school today or tomorrow. we are looking forward to a very busy weekend also as victoria has swimming lessons on saturday and has been invited to a hallowe'en party on sunday afternoon. she is very excited! :)

House Warming Party Saturday Sept 29th

Here is a photo of Mike, Jacqueline and Lori. Jacqueline was the previous owner of the house. Her husband refinished the entire house himself. He did all of the hardwood floors and all of the ceramic tile. All of the details were done by him. Sadly he passed away in April. Here is Jacqueline giving the keys to a very emotional Lori and Mike. We have all become great friends with Jacqueline who has since moved to France to be with her family. She is such a sweet lady!
She has promised to visit in the spring. :)

Here is Jason & Emma. Jason, Becky and Reece came from Halifax for the bbq :)

Their new living room :)

Here are a few people enjoying some chatting and munchies in the huge kitchen :)

Hayley posing in her new dining room!

The girls enjoying their burgers and hotdogs :)

We had lots of fun and lots to eat.

Everything went well and now Lori, Mike and family are all moved in.

wedding video

If anyone would like to see a portion of our wedding video who is not on facebook, they can go to www.steppingstone.ca and at the top click gallery. On the left side under wedding montages you should see our names at the top of the list. Enjoy :)

fun with our friends

We are really enjoying having Mike, Lori, Hayley, Ethan, and Emma now living in NB. They are only a short drive away. We enjoyed supper at their house just tonight. They take possesesion of the house on Thursday and we are very excited for them! We are throwing them a house warming party this Saturday! Their neighbours have shown them such hospitality as most of you know Mike and Ethan both were in hospital the very first weekend they came to NB. It was a difficult time for them. Here are a few photos of some of the gang out to supper for Mike's 30th birthday on the 14th :)

Lori, Ethan, Victoria and Hayley

Victoria and Hayley

in all their toothless glory

I can not believe how long it has been since we blogged. I thought I would post a few photos of Victoria's first day of grade one. Her oldest friend Hayley who just moved here from Ontario is in the photo with her. Hayley is in the immersion program so she is not in the same class as Victoria but they are both having a really great time so far! Victoria will start immersion in grade four.

camping trip

victoria met a few friends while we were there! she had a lot of fun with them!

this was our home and camp site for the weekend
here's a shot of cassie chasing the birds! that was too funny!
here are the seals hanging out on the sandbar!

cutie

our view at sunset

cassie exploring

here we are :)

another action shot of cassie chasing birds!

we had a great time camping on pei last weekend! aside from a few bug bites it was a lot of fun! we stayed at seal cove campground in murray harbour north on the eastern end of pei. victoria especially loved camping. we roasted marshmellows and combed the beach for seashells. we even got to see a bunch of seals relaxing on the sand bar! cassie had a lot of fun too chasing the birds!

great visit

the photos tell the story. we had a great visit with everyone!

cheryl and matt get surprised

great family shot

walking the streets of saint john