ULTIMATE wedding planner<3

So, I got this book to help me with my wedding planning... "the ultimate wedding planner and organizer", so far it's pretty sweet and it's helping me figure out what to look for in a photographer, ceremony and reception locations, and tells me how to save money. AMAZING.



But other then that, not a whole lot is new. Still looking for a job, still stressed with wedding planning, still waiting for this to be over.

Thank GOODNESS! that I've been filling my free time with family, church, and friends... keeps me from thinking about the fact that I'm 1300 miles away from Tyler and that I need a job desperately, and other minor details of life!

Right now I am just in a transitioning stage... I'm not sure exactly how to explain that... but I will soon when I figure it out haha!

RESTORATION.

So it has been quuuuite awhile since I've posted.
I have become a Berean Student Community Leader and I'm taking part in our project called the Restoration Project.
We as a youth group will be helping out Sept. 26 to clear out some creeks and streams and what not of all the trash and debris that have piled up. Putting our effort into making our community a better place, a more enjoyable place! & At the same time we are using this as a way to raise money! People can give a one time donation, or pledge per hour.
But while on the subject of Restoration, I was thinking about how this time in my life is all about Restoration. Restoring friendships, family relationships, being restored within myself, letting God renew and restore my passion for him.

Trust me trying to restore relationships with family and friends isn't easy for me! If I don't get along with something, then usually that's just the way it is and stays. I don't go out of my way to be mean to them, or at least I try not to, but sometimes I just can't help it. But I believe God's really trying to work in me to restore those relationships that I have blocked out. It's going to be a lot of work, but I'm really going to open up and let the work be done!

And I've always had a passion for the Lord, it's been qutie a roller coaster ride though. I feel like God is really restoring and renewing my love for Him, and my understanding of his love for me. Along with my personal faith and trust that he will always pull through!

Wow. He is so good to me!

photoshop/picnik practice.

so since i have nothing to write about currently, i've decided to try out some editing in photoshop. i've been looking into a camera [Digital SLR, Canon of course.] i'm debating between the T1i and XSi to start off. hmmm?

countdown for couples.

so i haven't been on in awhile. to catch you up on life before i get to my point i'll let you know about my weekend... friday consisted of a softball game i pitched in then tyler&i stayed the night at his parents in Bow Island fri,sat,and sun night[45 minutes from the Hat], then saturday we woke up to start our 4 softball games back to back at 10am, sunday was his parents 25th anni. party we ate good food and socialized with friends and family-to-be, then last night we played KILLER BUNNIES... great game you should own it. and i believe this thursay-saturday we will be in Calgary [3 hours from the Hat] visiting their Fair aka STAMPEDE and then hitting up Street Wheelers with some friends.

now that that's covered, tyler&i have started reading "countdown for couples" by Dale&Susan Mathis... this is a christian based pre-maritial counseling book, sounds a li'l boring right? but actually it's been amazing and we've only done 2 chapters hah!

i would reccommend this book for any couple who is considering getting engaged, or already engaged... it has a lot of inteactive stuff in it... like questions for eachother and things for couples to talk about. some of it is stuff you'd think "well i already know this" but when you start to talk you realize you learn a lot more, and deeper things. it has serious questions and discussion topics for couples as well as "just for fun" questions and discussion a good balance of both keeps us reading! it also teaches us how God is always to be the centre of a relationship, as marriage is not just between man and woman but a covenant between that man, woman, and christ.

"A cord of three strands is not easily broken" Ecc. 4:12

and if you aren't into the whole "god" aspect of things i would even still reccomend this book for the discussion and question peices and words of advice throughout it!

anyways you should definitely buy this book if you're considering engagement/marriage or are engaged! also they have a website that is alright... http://www.countdownforcouples.com

here fishy fishy fishy!

so i would just like to let everyone know i am officially going to become a Pro Bass fisherman... ok so maybe not, BUT me&tyler have been out fishing almost everday for a week now, i go to work with him and we fish in between truck dumps [he does excavating... right now he's pushing dumptruck loads of dirt, cement etc into the side of a lake, it takes the trucks a good 30 minutes to go back and forth] we've been catching Pike from about 1.5 feet to 2.3 ft long... they get up to a hefty 4ft and weigh in around 38lbs! so yesterday tyler decided he'd get me my own rod [Shakespeare Mantis], since we only have one right now [Shakespeare Ugly Stik]. i'm so excited to get out there tomorrow and cast it... see how she holds!

who'd ever had thought i'd become a li'l outdoorsman. [granted i still won't pee outside or kill the fish.]