Eenie, Meenie, Pumpkin!!

No idea where that title came from!! But it's fun!! Went to the pumpkin patch with school today, tons of fun!! I love going every year!! Was hoping to get some mmore pics though but, it's hard especiallly with the little ones, watching them and all!! Did get some with the children but, I don't think I should post those so, here are some!!

My boss and frined Lou, amongst the pumpkins!!

And all the pumpkins to choose from, well some anyways...

Wanted to get mmore fall pictures maybe on the wekend!!

so, it's hump day today!! YAY!! I guess I shouldn't say anything we just had a long wekend!! Our Thanksgiving weekend was good..did tons of scrapping which I will post very soon, I promise!! Have been feeling so inspired!! Had dinner with Jared's family on Sunday and then my family on Saturday!! Good times!! Did do some gardening..I'm loving it!! I think some of my moms green thumb rubbed iff on me!! we have a litle patio area and it's next to the tv room so, everytime we watch tv we, have at least something nice to look at!! Planted some bulbs too!! Have to wait for Spring for that though!!



Was wanting to post onemore pic of my mini garden but blogger will not let me..ugh!! There will be scrap page soon!!

My mom and my sister Vanessa left for SanDiego this morning!! I am SO jwalous, I wnated to go too!! Vanessa is actually doing a triathalon on Sunday..good for her!! I could never do that!! But they're going to have such a good time, my mom hasn't been back in 10years to visit family so, I know she ill have tons of fun!! Jared and I are going to go either in March or over the summer too I cannot wait!!

Anyways I hope evryone is having a fabulous wek!! More later..

It's An Loooong Weekend!!

YAY!! For a long weekend!! I am so happy and excited!! Three days off of relaxing, sleeping in, doing some scrapping!!! For us in Canada it is our Thanksgiving Day on Monday!! So, that means we get some turkey!! I get it twice. Sunday with Jared's family and Monday with my family!! Should be good!! Looking forward to the turkey!!

Have been doing some creating both at home and at school!! Will share the scrappy pages soon..but I wanted to share some of my craftyness I do at school!!

Here's the picture that sits on top of the calendar, I love how it turned!! Love my sparkly pumpkins and bats!!


And here are our Thanksgiving turkeys that we made with the children, aren't they cute!! And super eay to make. Let me know if your interested!! Isn't he acute turkey!!


Hope everyone has a fabulous wekend!! will post more of my scrappy creations soon, have been totally been feeling creative lately!! Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends!!

Don't mind me...

Just updating my pic for two peas avatar and also for the blog. Will be back to post again later!! Hope everyone is having a good week so far!! The weekend is almost here!!

Wish I Was Back in Hawaii...

My sister's friend just left for Honolulu on Saturday and I'm so jealous!! I so wish Jared and I were both back there..on Waikiki beach, in the sun, hanging out, having drinks and having a good time!! I totally need to start saving our money so we can go back soon. So, since I am not there right now I thought I would share some pictures of us when we were there!!







Doesn't it make you wish you were there right now?! Now I just need to talk about some things on my mind...

So, I am happy to say that I did end up figuring out the oven. Called Jared after he had finished his soccer practice and asked him. I felt so dumb. But, at least I know now how the oven works. Needless to say that I didn't eat 'til about 10 o'clock. I told my mom the story she just laughed!! She said at least I am learning, which is true!! She's going to come over and teach me how to make ribs in the crock pot, I am SO excited!!

I just found out more crap going on with this bridesmaid. I'm not so much upset it's more that I am mad. I just don't understand why she is being like this and doing this. She is supposed to be a friend. We've been friends for 10years now..a long time!! I found out all this crap from my boss who is also a very good friend but, she is still my boss. A very cool boss I might add. She blabbed all this to my boss while she was giving her a massage. She's a massage therapist. And my boss had an appointment with her. She did not know all this was going on. This happened about a couple of weeks ago. She told me yesterday. In some ways I am glad she told at least i see her for who she really is now. I think what made me the most mad is that she said some not so nice things about my mom, and she called my sister's liars. Issues about the bachelorette thing..most of my friends couldn't make it because it was too expensive..she should've done something affordable, and she didn't listen to any of my sister's ideas...and she had some of her friends show up at the club where we went..how rude is that? And she had issues about the hair and make-up for the wedding, that she hated it..blah..blah... If it was such a problem then she should've had said no to being a bridesmaid. I didn't know she felt like this until the wedding. She was being a fake. She was lying. And how she told my boss was completley unprofessional..she put her in a very awkward position. What's worse I still have her stupid tiara box. I borrowed her tiara as my something borrowed. She wants the bos back, which is fine but she doesn't want me to leave it outside. Wants me drop it off with her mom. Why?! It's a stupid $1 store box, worth nothing. I'm really in no mood to talk to her mom..I'm sure she knows?! If not still!! Still trying to decide if I should be a cow and just drop it off in front of the door...I don't know. Jared thinks I should. I have decided after all this recent information that i don't want to be friends with her anymore. I'm better off without her. I know it's sad because I've been friends with her for SO long. But what she did and how she acted is just wrong. Especially with family involved.

Okay thanks I just had to let all this out.....it's too bad I cannot cut her out of all the wedding pictures. :)

So happy it is Wednesday tomorrow, the weekend will be here soon!! Ready for Grey's Anatomy on thursday..have to rush home from tutoring. Friday is Ghost Whisperer with Jenifer Love Hewitt, love that show!! Anybody else watch it?! I love watching things about ghosts and other spirits.

Nothing else to talk about..hope everyone's week is going well!!

The Oven

I'm frustrated.I've been waiting for the stupid oven to get hot enough so, I can cook my chicken shish kabobs and tater tots. I've been trying to figure out the oven for the past 2 hours. No luck. And I'm getting very hungry. Jared's at soccer and won't be home for another half an hour. Now this oven is just way too compicated, there are two knobs that have to go on in order for it to work and I just can't seem to figure it out. Have tried turning it one way and them the other way, nothing, just doesn't get HOT enough. I think I screwed up the oven. I'm thinking about giving up. Or at least waiting until Jared gets home.

So, my week has been kind of ugh!! I got sick. The second week of school, can you believe it?! I usually get sick the first week, but I thought I was going to be missing out this year. But, I think I jinxed myself 'cause I did. Just a week later. The cold started Monday night and it continues. ALthough the migraines are gone all I am with is NO VOICE!! So, hopefully tomorrow I will have a voice again because teaching preschoolers and kindergarteners with no voice is a little hard. So, pray for my voice.

Believe it or not I just ut my pictures from Hawaii on the computer so, I thought I would share some...I wish I was back there with Jared, we had so much fun!!





More to come, for sure!! so glad it's Friday tomorrow, not too many plans for the weekend. Do some scrappin', cleaning, probably watch some football with Jared, write out those Thankyou cards..that's about it!! Hope everyone has a fab weekend, gonna see if I can figure out this stupid oven!!

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

To the absolutely best Daddy in the world!! So happy and thankful to have him in my life!! And I love him so much!! He's so kind, a good listener, funny, thoughtful, he is just the best!! Her'e to a happy day for my Dad!!




Hope everyone has a good weekend!!

Blessed...

Cannot believe that today is my last day of summer break!! Where did the summer go?! It flew by so fast!! Been trying to really enjoy the past couple of days left of summer break...Kind of want to go to work tomorrow and kind of don't. will be happy to see my co-workers, meet all the new children and see all the returning ones. But still going to miss the lazy days of doing nothing, watching tons of tv and movies, waking up late, taking all my time in the world, hanging out with my baby sister and my parents, scrap dates with Connie. Now I'm going to have to fill it all in two days on the weekend, ugh!!

Did get to do some scrappin the past couple of days!! Which is always good. And of course got to make more thankyou cards!! Will be happy when that is finally done with, soon!! Hung out with Jared the past three days, which is toally awesome. He almost had the long weekend off, he's working tonight at the restaurant. I know he's happy that school starts tomorrow...more money coming in!! Wanted to share my scrap pages from this weekend!! My entry in Odette's CJ, what your lucky for. I chose my parents. I have realized even more how important they are to me, and how much I cherish them. I think I will be doing a page about this too for my albums.


I saw this "challenge" on Jessie's blogand I read it and id it right away just haven't had a chance to post it. There will be a page on this soon too. Written on Tuesday August 28, 2006

Yesterday
-I taught French
-Hung out with my Dad on the patio, had lunch and chatted away!!
-Went to Michaels with my Mom in search of knitting needles
-Had a breakdown about what I am going to do with the bridesmaid drama
-Drank a martini

Today
-Clean the house
-Enjoy a cup of coffee
-Scrapbook
-Work more on the thankyou cards
-Spend time with Jared before he goes to soccer practice

Tomorrow
-Teach French
-Bring more of my things from my parents house
-Organize
-Scrapbook
-Hang out with Connie

Hope everyone had a fabulous long weekend...and a fabulous week too!!

More...

Just a couple more pics from the wedding. I'm sure I will be posting more again throughout the next little while..just getting the actual picures in my hand on Monday..so excited!!

Thanks to everybody for all the advice on the last post. Things are already A-LOT better between Jared and I, which is really good. We're both happier!! So, thankyou!! Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!!

For those of you that are married and/or have lived with their significant other tell me...the first little while of living with that person is the hardest, right?! My good friend told me it takes about 2 years. Things with Jared are okay, we're still getting used to each other being around each other more but we fight SO much more. When we were dating and while we were engaged we never fought and now, ugh!! I know it's normal but it totally sucks!! At least we're both on the same page, and tryng really hard...any tips or words of advice will be greatly appreciated. Or stories..tell me..Will post more pics of the wedding soon!!

The best day of my life...

Some of my favorite picures from our wedding...









Will post more later...

Busy still!!

Sorry I haven't posted. Even with the wedding done, I find myself still being busy and still in some ways wanting to relax..wish I could go back to Hawaii!! We're still organizing the house, and I'm still moving stuff from my parents house. Jared's been busy working tons, doing two jobs. He goes from one to the other and I haven't really been able to see him much. Thank goodness it's a long weekend this weekend, and I get him the whole weekend.

Also, have been finding out some stuff that happened at the wedding after Jared and I left. We had fights between the bridesmaids and the groomsmen. Two of the groomsmen got into a fist fight, GREAT!! And one of my bridesmaids, not the one who was giving me problems before..for some of you who remember, another one. But in some ways she was kind of playing it that it was my other friend. Apparently there was stuff going on before that I did not know about and then after Jared and I left the reception she basically told off my sisters, my other friend and my cousins visiting from California. It was so bad that my mom got involved. Not good. My sisters told me eveyrthinhg when I got back from Hawaii. Ugh!! I'm still thinking of what I should do. Get rid of her..I know it's harsh but I'm pissed at what happened..or just take a break from her..I don't know..We've been friends since high school and in some ways I feel bad but others I feel that if I just end our friendship I won't feel too bad. I don't know. Any input would be great...

Jared and I have a wedding today, one of the groomsmen that got into a fight actually. Jared's a grooomsmen as well. He's going to be in a tux. ROAR!! Can't wait to see him!! Planning to do some scrappin' as well, I'm excited!! Pictures coming soon, I promise!! Hope everyone is having a fab weekend!!

Aloha....

Well I'm back everybody!! And Hawaii was amazing!! Jared and I had a really good time!! Saw tons, felt good to relax as well!! Have tons of pictures to share...will soon!! Still so much to do though, still moving and unpacking, and going through stuff and organizing, which is always tons of fun!! Totally wanting to scrap too, hopefully this weekend, I am SO behind on the CJ..sorry blogging babes!! Will update with more soon..hope evryone is doing well!!

Mr and Mrs McGowan

It's official..we're married!!! And SO happy!! everything went perfect..still doing so much but, wanted to share some pics of the big day!! Our photographer was amazing!!

Leaving for our honeymoon in Hawaii on Wednesday, will post more pics later!!

10 days...

That's how many days until the wedding that is left!! I cannot believe it!! Now everything has gotten so busy, with final meetings with everybody, finishing up with the little things, payments (the fun stuff)!! Jared took today and tomorrow off so, he could help me with things, what a sweetie!! Picked up my dress today, and got to take the dress home..so exciting!! And tomorrow my cousins arrive from SanDiego, so excited along with a million other things. And I have my bachelorette party on Saturday, little nervous about that but apparently it's catered to me completely, which makes me feel a bit better, all my friends told me I have nothing to worry about, Jared has even assured me that I have nothing to worry about, we'll see!! I will try to post maybe one more time before the wedding, but if not I promise to share pics soon...and I hope evryone prays for me for good weather..I know it will!! Take care everyone!!

Happy Canada Day!!

YAY!! Woohoo!! It's July 1st, Canada day!! Happy birthday Canada!! One of my fave holidays!! Always go to the Salmon Festival, which is huge and it's in Steveston about 10min walk, with lots of stuff to do. Rides, craft fairs, cotton candy and hotdogs, the Canada day parade, good times!! Been going to it since I was little, look forward to it every year!! Also have a plant show that my mom and I enter every year...will post some pics soon..see if I win!! Have a fab weekend everone!! We're now exactly TWO WEEKS AWAY UNTIL THE WEDDING!! So excited :)

Thankyou!!

To everybody for all the birthday wishes!! It all meant SO much!! My birthday this year totally did not feel like my birthday with the wedding and all the other stuff going on. But with all the well wishes, and the thread on two peas and all those fabulous tags that some of you made it meant SO much to me. So, THANKYOU TO ALL MY WONDERFUL FRIENDS!! And to Chriselda for arranging the tags, you are awesome my dear..and I look forward to our phone date so very much!!

So, I did get a couple of gifts..not a-lot but that's okay I was not expecting too much!! Got to see Jared for a bit. He showed up at school to steal the car from me... and of course all the kids are curious to see who's at the door, and some said hello!! After he left it was 20 questions from the children who he was, what was he doin, why he took the car. I eve had to explain to one of the girls what a landscaper was!! Jared picked me up after school and we drove to work at the restaurant and, he tells me that my mom phoned him and that she needs a pot for dinner tonight and that it's in the trunk, I was like okay!! He reminded me once we got to the restaurant, and he wished me happy birthday and that he was sorry he had to work, and that he loves me tons....so, I drove home and got my stuff out and went to open the trunk of the car, there were a dozen roses, a card and the movie Memoirs of a Geisha!! No pot!! How sweet!! So, I phoned him and he knew that I had found the roses, and told me happy birthday and that he loved me...What a sweetie that Mr Magoo!! My soon to be hubby!!

We had a mexican dinner, my mom's cooking is the best. Vanessa came over, she's in town with her boyfriend Casey. Good food and yummy cake!! It was fun!!

Here I am, the 27year old...

Thanks again everybody!! Sending you all big hugs!!

Another bridal shower and I even did some scrappin...

Yes, I did some scrappin this past weekend!! It was for my CJ and the birthday page for Muriel, but hey it was some scrappin!! It felt good, and fun!! I don't think I'll get to do some scrappin for awhile...that's okay 'cause soon I will be scrappin wedding and honeymoon pictures!!

So, my weekend was good busy as usual with the wedding getting closer. It's only 19 days away!! I can't believe it!! I still have so much to do, but I'll be okay. No freaking out yet!! I don't think I will, only nerves might kick in maybe the day before but that's good nerves so, that's okay!!

Saturday I went with Jared to see a guy that makes alterations on kilts. We ended up leaving early because the kiltmaker needed some more fabric in order to add to the kilt since, it was too small for Jared. We didn't bring it with us. Now Jared has had his kilt since he was 18years old and that was like 10years ago..so he has grown a bit. Luckily Jared's mom had saved some fabric so, he had enough for the alterations. After we went to the Bay, to pick up some gifts from our gift registry that were there for us!! Love all this gift stuff!! Jared went to work and I stayed home and did some scrapping!! YAY!! And just relaxed!!

Sunday I had a my bridal shower with Jared's side of the family. Jared's mom. grandma and sister arranged everything.We all had a good time!! I was officially welcomed into the MacDonald/McGowan clan, with lots of kind and welcoming words and I even got "pinned." Which means that the mother-in-law pins the sash of the kilt fabric to the bride. So, that's what happened!! We had some food, chatted and opened gifts, which is always fun!! Got lots of fun goodies, gotta start on the thankyou cards now. Later that night Jared and I went out to dinner with his brother and his girlfriend. We went to Milestone's my fave restaurant..then later we did more wedding stuff, finalizing the guest list, a schedule for the day of and kind of started on the seating chart but we had both had enough.

Gonna share with you some of the bridal shower pics...opening presents!! I think it's my favorite part..you can see my "sash"!!

Okay Blogger is behind sucky..that's all the pics I can post for now...I'll try to share more later...

So, guess what tomorrow is?! Yes, my birthday. My champagne birthday, 27 on the 27th!! Although it doesn't even feel like my birthday with all the wedding stuff going on. My sister Olga says my birthday doesn't count this year because I'm getting married...I kind of don't want to turn 27!! I'm getting old!! UGH!! I get to celebrate with the children at school which is kind of cool, I've never actually celebrated my birthday at school so, it's a first!! Hope everyone has a fabulous week!!

Tea for Two

My weekend was good, busy but good. The weather was gorgeous with the sun out and feeling nice and warm with a cool breeze. It was good. Spent some time outside, amongst the flowers in my mom's garden while drinking un cafecito :) Saturday was spent doing some wedding stuff..working on the favors and checking the RSVP, looks like we're going to have to call some people to see if they're coming or not. FUN!! Jared took the car and went with his brother to Tartan Town..I always laugh when I hear the name..it's a place to rent all the stuff you need for wearing the whole Scottish kilt outfit. So, that's done. They got everything there, which is good. Jared worked Saturday night, I worked on some of the favors and watched season one of Alias with my sister Olga. Love that show..in the beginning I didn't really have much of a chance to watch it near the end. I wish i could kick ass like Sydney Bristow can..I know it's a tv show but still how cool would that be!!

Sunday I went with Connie to the Secret Garden for high tea...so fun!! Loved it!! It's a cute little kind of store/house you can have tea and then in the back there's a store with some of the teas they have and all the baked goodies and tea things. We had a good time drinking tea and chatting. Because of the crap that was going on at last weekend's bridal shower..bridesmaid drama..fun...Connie never made it to the bridal shower...sad..so, we had our own, just the two of us...and she got me some scrap goodies as a bridal shower gift...woohoo..KI stuff..happy!! I haven't been to the scrap store in a like a month..it's hard. Probably won't get to go 'til after the honeymoon!! We had a good time!!

The Secret Garden...

Me and Connie...

The yummy goodies..I love that three tiered stand...very cool!!


We had a Father's day dinner sunday night, in honor of my daddy..yummy food!! Jared met up with the groomsmen for the tuxes and then he hung out with his family later. So, wedidn't get to see each other this weekend at all. Totally sucked. But that's okay soon I'll have him around all the time. Which is good!!

Okay I need to ask all of you about how you organize your scrap supplies. I'm going to be moving my stuff into Jared's soon and trying to organize a little because it is such a small space. So, tell me how do you organize everything? Especially cardstock and patterned papers and all the paper scraps..want to see want works best maybe for me and what is easier...thankyou so much!!

Hope eveyone had an awesome weekend...have an awesome week..summer officially arrives on wednesday!! Love it!!

1 Month...4 weeks...30 days...

Until the wedding, we're almost there!! SO excited!! Now it's down to the little things and giving away all the money we've saved to pay for things!! That's hard!! Have a fab weekend everyone!!

Bridal Shower

I had my first bridal shower on Saturday, my mom and sisters threw it for me!! It was a "surprise"!! I kind of had an idea...I was not allowed to go into the fridge on Friday, I had to ask my mom to get something out for me...that's a hint and that I wasn't allowed to go home until about 1:30pm and so, I had to keep myself busy since Jared was at his grandpa's helping him cut a tree and doing some yard work!! We had tons of fun, played a ton of games, chatted tons, ate some yummy food. It was good. There was some crap going on, which I won't get into too much, just makes you realize who your real friends are and on and on..maybe more later on that. But I had tons of fun at my mom's and sisters shower...check out some pics..

Surprise!!! Me walking through the front door!!

Opening presents..some of the gifts I got..Jared will for sure love the lingerie and the champagne for the honeymoon!!



The Suttorp girls...my baby sister didn't join us 'til the end, she had to work!!

Me, with my future sister and mother in law...the McGowan Girls!!

Group picture...


After the shower it was a pretty laid back Saturday night...I was so tired went to bed super early. Sunday got up to meet with the photographer, fun..she's awesome..then spent the day with Jared, hanging out doing wedding stuff, went to Michaels, got Jared's passport pics...delivered invites, all Jared's...cleaned his place..soon to be mine. He has a computer lab in his kitchen/entrance way, and it's driving me nuts..monitors, keyboards, processors, computer parts everywhere. Jared and his brother were planning to sell them..that was in February...they have to go..either a garage sale or the dump. But, the place looks clean!!

So, that was my weekend!! I hope everyone had an awesome weekend!! Just wanted to let all my bloggin buddies know that, now with the wedding getting closer I am having less time to go on the computer, I try but it's hard. So, I'm trying to make it out to everyone's blog but, if I don't for awhile just know that it's wedding busyness and, that I am trying :) I hope everyone has a fabulous week..thinking of you all!!

So much going on...

So, I survived the house boating!! Came back in one piece!! My voice didn't really come back until yesterday, still was kind of husky!! Along with this horrible cough!! But along with the cough, and no voice had migraines on Friday and Saturday. Which totally sucked!! Could not drink as much as I would've liked to. Jared made up for the both of us. The weekend was actually very relaxing. Lounging up on the top deck while we were driving on the lake ( do you drive a boat?), chatting, eating, tons of napping, relaxing. It was good. Totally what we needed, both Jared and I. No wedding stuff, appointments nothing. Although I did think about some stuff that I should be doing...anyways, this whole trip makes me even more excited about Hawaii and just relaxing with my husband. Cannot wait!! The drive there and back sucked..5 and half hours...seemed forever...I cannot stand being in the car for so long...but all in all it was good!! Jared was such a sweetie, taking car of me with the migraines, napping, bringing me food...makes me even more excited to be his wife..I already knew how awesome of a husband he's going to be and take care of me forever, but it made me realize even more how lucky I am!! I love him even more!!

So, the wedding is 39 days away..OMG!! I cannot believe it!! this weeke have so many things I need to do..finally get the passport pics, the marriage license, meet with the photographer and the decorator and the florist...start on the favors...but I am getting EXCITED no stress whatsoever!!

June is my birthday month as well!! And this year it is my champagne year, like they call it. I will be turning 27 on the 27th of June!! 27!! Can you believe it? Ugh...and this year it's kind of cool I will be in school to celebrate with the children. This has neve happened before, I'm excited..they all think I am turning 5 ;) OSunds good to me!!

I wanted to post my entry in Kat's CJ....such an awesome album..love the colors..and I love how it turned out..


This weekend I am hoping to get some scrapping done too..have felt lost without it...gotta keep going with the engagement album..have a fab rest of the week..