:: Victoria's Christening ::

:: A few weekends ago we had the pleasure of joining my SIL Jen and her husband Michael as they Christened Victoria ::

:: Michael & Jen, thank you so much for including us in this special day - We pray God's richest blessing on Victoria's life ::

:: xoxo - Paul, Shawna & Co. ::

:: New Release ::

:: I know, I know...it's still early in October, but Christmas is right around the corner! ::

:: Yesterday Travis Cottrell {he is the worship leader for Beth Moore Ministries} just released a new Christmas album called "RING THE BELLS" ::

:: You can go to his website and get a snip-it of the sounds on his new album, I can't wait to get my hands on it! ::

:: Music is such a huge thing in my life; I was raised listening to 106.5 fm all night long. It planted good seeds & we now do the same thing with our boys ::

:: All in all, I love music. It's not often that I don't have some sort of music playing in my home, car or head. When I am weak I listen to music, when I am strong I listen to music, when I'm happy, when I'm sad...I listen. The impact music can have on my life is huge ::

:: I do think of the music that will be in heaven and the music that I want played at my funeral. It may be morbid but, that's me. Deal with it ::

:: Anyway, grab his new cd and get in the spirit - you'll love it! ::

:: Around My House ::

:: I love to decorate, I don't take much time to re-think my home as running around after two little ones and just keeping the house organized is enough of a job in itself! However that doesn't stop me from decorating at the end of September to welcome Fall indoors :: :: Here is a decor board I put together of all my Fall decor, hope you love it as much as I loved decorating ::

:: PS. Candy Corn was my new element to use this year ~ I didn't have ANY cash to put towards decorating, but I had $5 in my pocket and instead of a Starbucks I decided on the Candy Corn...let me tell you, it was a tough decision! ::

:: Schmoz of Things ::

:: Along with Fall has come so much stuff. Lots and lots of stuff. Fun, fun, fun stuff...but it makes for a busy life and not too much time to sit and blog :: :: So hold on to your seats, I will be back with a bunch of things to keep you up to date as to what has been happening in our home ::

:: Anniversary ::

:: A couple weekends ago Paul and I shipped the kids off to my parents place for and we spent a weekend at home with out the kids celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary ~ It was a great weekend ::

:: We went to Ikea and leisurely shopped, talked and enjoyed child-free living ::

:: We toured around Stanley Park ::

:: We kissed ::

:: We took in the scenery - it was a beautiful day! ::

:: We rolled around in the leaves...and documented it - Ha! ::

:: We pondered what the future holds for us ::

:: We took deep breaths ::

:: We sat quietly for as long as we wanted ::

:: We daydreamed {okay, maybe this was just me} about living in an traditional colonial home one day ::

:: We went to see a movie ::

:: We drank coffee and took time for ourselves, just the two of us. It was amazing ::

:: Here's to another year, it may be full of challenges but as long as I'm with you, we'll make it through ::

:: October ::

:: Sorry for the lack of blogging lately, last weekend was very full, full of life and lots of it ::

:: The weekend weather was perfect and we took every advantage of it {more on that later} ::

:: I will be posting more tomorrow but I just wanted to say hello, I'm still here, just busy with life. Please forgive me, and if you don't, well I don't know what will happen ;) ::

:: Here's to ::

:: eating too much turkey at Thanksgiving ::
:: remembering what we are thankful for ::
:: cozy nights inside watching a new season of shows ::
:: eating too much candy after Halloween ::
:: going for walks and listening to the colourful leaves crunch underfoot ::
:: oh, and candy corn...can't forget that candy corn! ::


:: See it is lovely isn't it!?!!? ::

:: I didn't ::

:: Here's a little story for you... ::

:: The other morning when I wasn't at Tim Hortons at 7.50 am ::

:: I didn't try to park & ignore my rear sensing system ::

:: I also didn't run into that lovely green Ford F150 parked behind me ::

:: Then I didn't have to leave my boys in the car while I went into Tim Hortons filled with only construction workers - to find owner of green F150! ::

:: I didn't walk around to every table in a VERY busy
Tim Hortons, asking who owned the green F150 ::

:: I didn't get to the final table and find the man that actually owned the green F150 ::

:: When I didn't realize that he was going deaf and needed me to raise my voice and tell him that I had hit his F150, so loud that all could hear ::

:: And all didn't go silent when I did state what had happened ::

:: And he didn't just say "that's okay, thanks for your honesty" ::

:: So I didn't respond..."don't you want to make sure there is no damage?" ::

:: And he didn't respond with "nah, I trust ya...thanks for letting me know" ::

:: And I didn't just faint from pure trauma and embarrassment to my system ::




:: No No, none of these things happened to me ::


:: Me, no never! ::

:: No not me! ::

:: Women's Wednesday September Event ::

:: So here they are, pictures of our Women's Wednesday Kick off event:
Walking in her shoes ::

:: We got to the church in ample time to set up the display of shoes, it was quite the undertaking to make the cafe feel warm and inviting, but I think we achieved it {and yes, that is my china cabinet and I have to say it looked fabulous with shoes instead of dishes in it} ::

:: Then the women started to arrive, and arrive and arrive...okay so where are we going to put all you women??? Hmm, bring on the extra chairs! Good thing our next event is in the gym! ::

:: Lisa & I praying before and preparing our schedule...as well as watching everyone come through the doors ::

:: We introduced our guest speaker: Pam and she did an absolutely fabulous job of talking about what she has "walked through", "currently walking in" and "what she is looking forward to walking into" - It was powerful ::

:: Once Pam finished speaking each woman received a "shoe box" and in the shoe box was 5 cards and a pen. They were asked to write down their "walked through", "walking in" and "walking into". Then at the end of the night each woman took home a box and they were asked to pray for the items in the box ::

:: We had some great worship by Tania {however she was also our photographer so we have no shots of her - Sorry Tawn!} and then closed the night chit chatting with each other::

:: Thanks to all of you from my blog world that came out, your attendance and support to this new ministry did not go unnoticed ::

:: And thank you to Tania for all of the photos - we will miss you eye to detail in October ::

:: We know that God it going to work mightily through this ministry and in the lives of the women that attend ::

:: We look forward to seeing you at our next event on October 15th - mark your calendars! ::

:: Fall = Oatmeal ::

:: I don't know how you eat your oatmeal in your house, but we eat ours dry, in a bowl, with a digger in it, then we proceed to play not eat ::

:: Happy Oatmeal Eating ~ Did I mention that I LOVE Fall? ::

:: Kake for K ::

:: I was requested a while back to do up a cake for a photo shoot for a 1st birthday. The request was simple - blue and brown polka dots w/ vanilla icing and chocolate cake...easy enough, one would think. But the pressure to have it "perfect" for this sweet boys first birthday photo shoot was clearly evident as I met Sarah to deliver the finished product ::

:: You can check out the rest of the photo's on Jillian Kirby's site here. It is such a fun idea especially when you have a sweet boy such as "K" ::

:: Happy 1st Birthday "K" - I hope you enjoyed your cake made just for you! ::