family photo

One of the reasons I enjoy this season so much is that I can convince Tim go get family photos done.... I just received this photo about 5 minutes ago and I am excited to examine the rest. Thank you Kimberlee for our awesome photos.

Wifeness

I love my Hunny dearly, he is sweet, creative, funny and a rad bass player but I really think that I would have benefited from some sort of "wife school" where they could have taught me how to communicate in man language (and basic cooking too)unfortunately i don't think that type of thing exists so I will have to rely on God, Married Peoples Advice,Grace and a Couple more years of semi alright meals. Thank goodness Tim graceful when it comes to my learning curve and also not a picky eater and Ava is young enough that she will hopefully not remember the weird habits I have.

Pizza Dinner

While at work yesterday I was thinking about what to make for dinner that night which is often a struggle for me since no one taught me how to cook , I am not that good at it yet and most nights I am too tired to even want to be awake let alone do anything that requires a brain. Well I knew I needed to get over those thoughts and plan a dinner, so in-between making a decaf tall ristretto soy no whip extra hot gingerbread latter (not a joke) and a American misto the brilliant idea of making a pizza was born, I went to the store and bought all the ingredients but on my way to pick Ava up from school I thought it would be much more enjoyable for all of us if we got to do it as a family and if we would get to make our own mini pizzas, so I went back to the store and bought the 6inch pizza dough dough’s and then went home and did all the pre production.






It was a really fun activity to do together and I could tell that the usually sassy Ava enjoyed it because she didn't complain once and was all smiles. I want to try and include her more often in cooking dinner but I am in need of some kid friendly recipes, so if you have one please share :)

camping

WOOT WOOT for mini-vacations.


Today, Tim, Ava, Winston and I are heading on a four day vacation to Eastern Washington to go camping with our friends.

We went last year and stuffed our little petey (91 Honda Civic HB) with loads and loads of stuff, this year we are taking our new car which has a nifty little roof rack thing to old all of our gear ( our car still is stuffed to the rim)

more room to put stuff means more stuff !!!!!

The Days

Today;
lil'miss and I began some needed work on our "soon to be" vegetable garden. I took some coffee grinds home from work and kind forgot about them until today ( when the sun was shining) , well I have always wanted Ava to be part of the gardening process with me so i thought she would enjoy spreading the coffee grinds everywhere, and YAAA she did it wish joy. Hopefully we will have tomatoes, cantalope, blueberries and spinach sprouting.

Last Week;
Tim, Ava and I went to Canada to visit my family and do a little exploring, well we ended up in Stanley park and spent the majority of our time just laying in the grass with the daisy's, relaxing while the sun did its work.
A Couple Days ago;
Winston, Tim and I went to play on Rosario Beach. Last year we acquired ( unbeknown st) a very yuppie dog from the pound, a West-Highland Terrier, a small white fluffy token dog. Well luckily for us he is actually a hippie out-doorsie dog who loves the water and camping and being stinky.

Photo Time

so it would seem that i have been mute as of late
i don't know where i lost my voice because i havn't really found it yet
what i have found is pictures on my camera taken by a 6 year old named Ava ( she loves taking pictures)

So this will be a picture post of three varieties
1) pictures I took of Ava when me and her were doing girly type things
2) pictures Ava took of our mini trip to Canada
3) pictures of my little doggy

( Ava and I were cooking dinner and she was begging and begging to wear her flower girl dress from our wedding so i said yes but only if she wore one of her daddy's shirts and my apron over top. She was so happy and looked really cute trying to peel potatoes).


Malfunctions.

So two pictures in and blogger decided it did not want to be my friend and let me upload anymore.

Booo, maybe later.

Good Days

Peace

My rings have been "found". I think my husband stole them as an April Fool's joke but wanted to take it a step further and kept them hidden from me for 6 days ! So far only one out of the two has been accounted for. He insists ( with cute grins) that he DID NOT do it and that I should stop accusing him. He did it.

Joy

Monday afternoon I arrived back home from a Vancouver visit to find a new furry addition to my household. The Thursday beforehand we had put an application in for a cute little white dog ( our fifth attempt at adopting a dog) and they finally approved us for one. He is sweet.
He is also a digger. Today when Ava and I went to the gym we came home to discover a huge hole had been dug under our fence and no dog in sight, so we frantically started looking for him in the forest lands near our house but had no luck then we decided to ask Jesus to help us find him. Well we looked and looked and nothing happened so we came home. Well when we arrived we found 5 tweens in our yard with our dog...Apparently they had seen him running loose on our block and being the friendly dog that he is he ran up to them and they kept him safe for us. God hears the littlest prayers.

Love

Sunday night Tim and I made a deal ( I though it was a joke), well I came home Monday to see that he had stuck to his word and I saw a flower with a note on it that said "a deal is a deal" even though I didn't even think there was a real deal to be made.

Today

If you don't already know I was born and raised in Canada, west coast Canada to be exact.
On October 18th 2008 I got married to my American love, I packed up my things and moved to America and because I got married in America there were two things I needed to do to be legal.
1) Apply for Green Card
2)Apply for Social Security Number

I did both of these things the beginning of November 2008. I received my not-so-green Green Card in January and was excited because it said I was legal to live and work in the States.

My social security card is another story. At the office they told me it would be 2-4 weeks, well I applied November 3 and excpected my card by the end of November which would have meant I could have started some type of Job but it never came.

I went back January 6th and told the social security office that my card never came and the man who originally talked to me said he forgot to send my information and that my card would come in no more then 4 weeks but it never came

I went back for the third time March 4 to figure out what had happened with the time frame they told me and talked to the exact same person but what did he say? He told me that I did not exist in their computer, I showed them the official document that they gave me in November saying I would recieve my card in 2-4 weeks and they looked baffled, then pushed some buttons on their computer and said it would be at my place in 2-4 weeks ( ya right is what I said) . Well today I found out they lied because I got the card today, one week earlier then they said.

So to commemorate that I finally have my SSN, here is some cute pictures of my step daughter Ava(there is no real correlation between what happened today and her but I thought that she looked so cute while we were out eating)