update as promised

okay, so yet again, it has been a while since i blogged. i honestly love my blog so the fact that there have been so few entries as of late is a true testament to how busy jesse and i truly are at the moment. since there are multiple updates that need to happen i am going to separate them with subtitles for your easy, reading pleasure...

wedding update:

so, as most of you have probably noticed, the wedding invitations have been sent and rsvp's have started arriving which means that there is once again, wedding work to be done. unfortunately,  i am beginning to stress because there are a few more people rsvping than we expected but c'est la vie.

one really exciting update is that both jesse and my wedding rings have arrived. i am so excited. sometimes i go up into our room when no one is home and take my rings out of their pretty purple boxes and wear them in secret for a few minutes (and by a few minutes i may mean a few hours). that is how beautiful they are. but sshhhhh.... don't tell any one.

no, you can't see inside the boxes... we have to keep some surprises for the wedding day

tonight jesse and i actually drove into cochrane after work to meet with our justice of the peace. we were really looking forward to this meeting because we had no idea how this ceremony was going to go. she explained everything to us really well and we are definitely excited to start planning out our ceremony and vows.

after we met with brenda, our jp, we went into town and got an ice cream from mackay's ice cream shop. mackay's is this 50's style ice cream parlour that cochrane is known for whose ice cream is actually going to be featured on our wedding menu so we figured it would probably be good to try it. we were both super impressed. there had to be over 30 different mackay's original flavours to choose from but i choose chocolate and coffee while jesse opted for pistachio almond. honestly, the coffee ice cream was the best i ever had - it had real coffee grounds in it. delicious. i am definitely happy we choose to do the mackay's ice cream bar at our wedding.

revelstoke update:

another reason for me being so m.i.a. from the blog is the fact that we were in revelstoke for five days over the august long weekend. for the past couple years our baseball team has been going to revelstoke august long for the kokanee glacier challenge - a five day softball tournament / camping trip that is an absolute blast. i love revelstoke so much that i actually call it christmas in august. this year we did surprisingly well and ended up placing third.

we literally set up camp around the baseball diamonds

it was almost 37 degrees 2 out of the 3 days... i actually got heat rash

we made a giant jenga game out of plywood

it was so hot the local fire department came to cool everyone off

we made really good friends with out camp site neighbours and organized a giant 20 team beer pong tournament the last night there. even though they were from vancouver, we seemed to get along great haha

emi update:

so, emi is growing like a weed as always. we left her with val and kev while we were in revelstoke and she seemed to enjoy herself. she is definitely over 55 lbs and is getting what we call her "big girl teeth". she is very consistent with "sit", "shake a paw" and "lay down" but we are still working on "down", "come" and "stay".

what a babe

sleeping beauty