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Monday, October 15, 2007
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Honeymoon!!!
Yay! We leave tomorrow, bright and early at 3:30am. Our flight isn't till 7am but that's what sucks about living in Canmore (the only thing btw) you have to drive an hour to get to the airport and then be there 2hrs before your flight.....it's going to be an early morning. I wanted to stay overnight in Calgary tonight but Travis wants to drive so I guess we're driving.
This morning is the pancake breakfast at the firehall to kick off Fire Prevention Week. Travis left at 7am and I should be showering and going down there myself so off I go.......
This morning is the pancake breakfast at the firehall to kick off Fire Prevention Week. Travis left at 7am and I should be showering and going down there myself so off I go.......
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
*Sigh*
I love my life. I feel like I've finally found who I am and what I'm destined for and where I'm supposed to be and what I'm supposed to be doing with my life. I'm living my destiny, right now, in this moment, this is what I'm supposed to be doing. I've never been happier or more content. Everything in my life has brought me to this moment, to being a wife, to being me.
If I spent everyday doing what I've been doing the last two days I'd be happy for the rest of my life. Yesterday I cleaned the house a bit, did 5 loads of laundry, cooked dinner, Travis and I hung some pictures in our living room and I re-arranged all the roses I have scattered around my house from the wedding. Today I went to Calgary to pick up some stuff from our registry at the Bay. We are able to add stuff until our one year anniversary and anything we buy off the registry is discounted. I bought a ton of stuff today and was expecting a huge bill but nope, not for me! I was shocked at how little I spent for the amount of stuff I got. We completed our bedroom linens with a new duvet, duvet cover, bedskirt and another set of sheets and I bought a few things for the kitchen. Then I came home and cooked dinner and Travis went to fire practice. I'm cooking turkey dinner tomorrow for my in-laws (that still sounds weird), Travis's grandpa and Jenn so I went to the store to pick up a few final things. I came home and made the cranberry sauce, from scratch! I've never done that before and I don't like cranberries so I have no idea if it's going to be good or not but it sure smelled good. Then I made a few dozen chocolate chip cookies cause I was stupid and told my husband, before we were married, that I'd make him cookies whenever he wanted. I'm going to pay for that one. I mixed up some buttermilk pancake batter and it's sitting in the fridge with some raspberries as a special treat for Travis before he goes to work. It will be an extra special treat if I manage to get out of bed to cook them for him ;0) just kidding, of course I will. So I did all my prep work and pre-cooking I can for dinner tomorrow, I organized my recipes and figured out when things need to go in the oven and when they should be done (we watch a lot of the Food Network on TV), so I should be set for my first big dinner as a wife. I'll be sure to take pictures and post them tomorrow...if it's a success.
Yay, my husband is home.
If I spent everyday doing what I've been doing the last two days I'd be happy for the rest of my life. Yesterday I cleaned the house a bit, did 5 loads of laundry, cooked dinner, Travis and I hung some pictures in our living room and I re-arranged all the roses I have scattered around my house from the wedding. Today I went to Calgary to pick up some stuff from our registry at the Bay. We are able to add stuff until our one year anniversary and anything we buy off the registry is discounted. I bought a ton of stuff today and was expecting a huge bill but nope, not for me! I was shocked at how little I spent for the amount of stuff I got. We completed our bedroom linens with a new duvet, duvet cover, bedskirt and another set of sheets and I bought a few things for the kitchen. Then I came home and cooked dinner and Travis went to fire practice. I'm cooking turkey dinner tomorrow for my in-laws (that still sounds weird), Travis's grandpa and Jenn so I went to the store to pick up a few final things. I came home and made the cranberry sauce, from scratch! I've never done that before and I don't like cranberries so I have no idea if it's going to be good or not but it sure smelled good. Then I made a few dozen chocolate chip cookies cause I was stupid and told my husband, before we were married, that I'd make him cookies whenever he wanted. I'm going to pay for that one. I mixed up some buttermilk pancake batter and it's sitting in the fridge with some raspberries as a special treat for Travis before he goes to work. It will be an extra special treat if I manage to get out of bed to cook them for him ;0) just kidding, of course I will. So I did all my prep work and pre-cooking I can for dinner tomorrow, I organized my recipes and figured out when things need to go in the oven and when they should be done (we watch a lot of the Food Network on TV), so I should be set for my first big dinner as a wife. I'll be sure to take pictures and post them tomorrow...if it's a success.
Yay, my husband is home.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
I now pronounce you....
husband and wife! Yay! It's all over and we're married and the day was even more perfect than we could have ever imagined.
The whole week was great. We got to spend some time with my family and our families got to meet and get to know eachother. Everyone arrived on Wednesday and we had a huge family dinner at Susan's restaurant, Caramba, in Banff. On Thursday the girls all went for pedicures in the morning and the boys went to Calgary to pick up their tux's. Then Thursday afternoon Travis took all the kids to the firehall to see the trucks. That was probably one of the highlights of the entire week. Sophie is a firefighter in the making.
Thursday evening Travis's parents hosted a BBQ for all the family. It was great that everyone had a chance to meet before the wedding. Friday was a busy day of final preparations. We were all at Sue's bright and early doing all the centerpieces and flower arrangements. It took a little while to get them perfect but once we had one under our belts we went into prodcution mode and they were done. Everything for the reception was transported to the golf club while Sue, Niki and I checked into our hotel.
Friday afternoon we had a small rehearsal of how the ceremony would happen and then we took off for dinner at the Crazyweed. Then Travis and I parted ways. He went to Todd and Jenn's for the night and I went to the hotel with the girls.
The morning of the wedding I was up bright and early at 4:30am. And guess what I saw when I looked outside??? SNOW!! The first snowfall of the year to hit the ground in Canmore. Unbelievable.
However, as I have learned, when it comes to weddings, things always have a way of working themselves out and the snow was probably one of the best things that happened that day. Our pictures are going to look amazing.
I spent the morning of the wedding getting my hair done and hanging out in the hotel room with my girls, my mom, dad and grandma. It was the perfect way to spend the morning. My knees didn't start shaking till Dad and I were standing at the end of the aisle waiting for the music to start. Our ceremony was perfect and then we were married! We made our grand exit, went to get pictures taken then the reception was underway. I don't have any pictures of the ceremony or reception yet so check back in a week or so. I'll post them after the honeymoon.
Travis has gone back to work today and I'm home all week playing house wife. I think my first task will be organizing our gifts and getting our house back in order. Then we leave for sunny Mexico on Sunday!!!
The whole week was great. We got to spend some time with my family and our families got to meet and get to know eachother. Everyone arrived on Wednesday and we had a huge family dinner at Susan's restaurant, Caramba, in Banff. On Thursday the girls all went for pedicures in the morning and the boys went to Calgary to pick up their tux's. Then Thursday afternoon Travis took all the kids to the firehall to see the trucks. That was probably one of the highlights of the entire week. Sophie is a firefighter in the making.
Thursday evening Travis's parents hosted a BBQ for all the family. It was great that everyone had a chance to meet before the wedding. Friday was a busy day of final preparations. We were all at Sue's bright and early doing all the centerpieces and flower arrangements. It took a little while to get them perfect but once we had one under our belts we went into prodcution mode and they were done. Everything for the reception was transported to the golf club while Sue, Niki and I checked into our hotel.
Friday afternoon we had a small rehearsal of how the ceremony would happen and then we took off for dinner at the Crazyweed. Then Travis and I parted ways. He went to Todd and Jenn's for the night and I went to the hotel with the girls.
The morning of the wedding I was up bright and early at 4:30am. And guess what I saw when I looked outside??? SNOW!! The first snowfall of the year to hit the ground in Canmore. Unbelievable.
However, as I have learned, when it comes to weddings, things always have a way of working themselves out and the snow was probably one of the best things that happened that day. Our pictures are going to look amazing.
I spent the morning of the wedding getting my hair done and hanging out in the hotel room with my girls, my mom, dad and grandma. It was the perfect way to spend the morning. My knees didn't start shaking till Dad and I were standing at the end of the aisle waiting for the music to start. Our ceremony was perfect and then we were married! We made our grand exit, went to get pictures taken then the reception was underway. I don't have any pictures of the ceremony or reception yet so check back in a week or so. I'll post them after the honeymoon.
Travis has gone back to work today and I'm home all week playing house wife. I think my first task will be organizing our gifts and getting our house back in order. Then we leave for sunny Mexico on Sunday!!!
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Today is a big day
Everyone arrives today!!! In a few short hours this wedding is going to seem very real . Everyone is asking if we're nervous yet and we aren't quite sure why cause the only thing we're nervous about is giving our speech at the reception. But ask me tonight if I'm nervous and you might get a different story. Seeing everyone and knowing that they came all this way just for me and Travis....maybe I'll be a little nervous. Now the real preparations are starting. Picking up flowers and tux's and getting pedicures and going to rehersals. It's overwhemling at times but I think I'm holding it together pretty well. I'm not a bridezilla but my stress comes out in the form of tears not yelling. So far I've had 2 wedding meltdowns and I fully expect to have one on Friday as well. That's pretty normal though, isn't it?
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Nearly there...
I realize that all my posts lately have been all about the wedding so this time I'll try to break routine and find something else to write about.
The most exciting thing for me lately is starting my 8hr position at the hospital. I've said goodbye to night shifts and 12hr shifts and now all I'm working is 8hr, day and evening shifts with some on-call during the night. So far it's been awesome. I sleep in a bit, get up and putter around the house (lately doing wedding stuff) and go to work at 2:30pm. I don't get home till 11pm so it doesn't give Travis and I much time to spend together but I try to come home on my dinner break and hey, we get to spend the rest of our lives together I don't think a couple evenings a week is going to make much difference in the long run. So far I've only done evening shifts, 3pm-11pm, and that is the majority of what I do but I do get a few day shifts as well which are 7am-3pm. The only crappy thing about the position is the on-call shift from 11pm-7am. Some of my evening shifts are acutally, evening on-call, so I work my 3-11 shift and then go home and hope that the phone doesn't ring for me to go back. The only reason they'd call me to come back is if there's a major trauma, a couple births or it's just really busy. It happens every now and then but not regularly. We're having a ton of births lately! We only have 2 labor rooms and already we're getting into trouble with space. We've had a few instances where there have already been two ladies in labor and a third comes in and we have to find a room to put her in until someone delivers and we can get into a labor room. It's only going to get worse as our population increases and we're already getting more and more overflow from Calgary and Cochrane so the hospital is going to need some major reno's in the next few years. It's going to be very interesting.
Yesterday I was working in emerg and we had to intubate and send a really sick patient to Calgary. I realized that I'm so much more comfortable in the labor room than I am in the trauma room. Give me a sick baby or a scary delivery or a delivery without a doc and I'm good but don't give me a trauma patient. I told the doc afterwards that I think I'll stick to maternity patients from now on. He laughed and told me I was fine but I guess it's just my experience and comfort level. I am in no way an emerg nurse yet, that's for sure. Give me another 10 years and then maybe I will be but for now I'm still calling myself a maternity nurse more than anything. The scary thing is that most of my shifts are in emergency so I guess I'll have to start feeling more comfortable in the trauma room. That the beauty of rural nursing. We are the jack of all trades and masters of none, you have to do everything and know everything and be ready for anything. It's exciting and I'm really, really lucky because everyone is so helpful and I'm not afraid to say 'I don't know what I'm doing' or 'I've never done this before' and someone is always there to help. Nurses are known for 'eating their young' but not at the Canmore hospital.
Travis is waiting to hear if he's going to be one of the new lieutenants at the fire hall. We're really excited about that. It means that he'll be sent to fire school to finish all his courses, fully paid, and he'll get more responsibility at the hall and a bit of a pay raise. He'll be sort of a liason between the part-timers and the captains. People will come to him with their issues and then he'll take it to the captain or the assistant chiefs. The new position is being created partly because their long time chief is going to be retiring in November so they're trying to create more structure within the department. There's going to be a lot of changes happening over the next few months.
Only 10 days till the wedding!!! Today is Sue's birthday too!!! My little sister is 23 today. Only 7 days till people start arriving. Dad, Candace, Jeff, Fiona, Kaia, Sophie, Tim, Karen, Abby and Ben (whew!) all arrive next wednesday and then Mom and Grandma arrive the next day. Yay!!! I can't wait till everyone gets here. It's going to make the wedding seem that much more real, I know it's only 10 days away and it should feel real already but sometimes I feel like 'is this really happening?' Silly I know but the fact that it's MY wedding feels kinda surreal sometimes. If you had asked me a year ago if I thought I was going to be getting married within the year, I'd have told you that you were crazy. Only cause a year ago, I hadn't met Travis yet. The day we get back from our honeymoon will be our one year anniversary.
My coffee is done so I'm ready to get my day started now. I have to organize all the decorations for the reception and I have my make-up trial at 3pm then I'm going out with Sue for her birthday celebrations tonight.
The most exciting thing for me lately is starting my 8hr position at the hospital. I've said goodbye to night shifts and 12hr shifts and now all I'm working is 8hr, day and evening shifts with some on-call during the night. So far it's been awesome. I sleep in a bit, get up and putter around the house (lately doing wedding stuff) and go to work at 2:30pm. I don't get home till 11pm so it doesn't give Travis and I much time to spend together but I try to come home on my dinner break and hey, we get to spend the rest of our lives together I don't think a couple evenings a week is going to make much difference in the long run. So far I've only done evening shifts, 3pm-11pm, and that is the majority of what I do but I do get a few day shifts as well which are 7am-3pm. The only crappy thing about the position is the on-call shift from 11pm-7am. Some of my evening shifts are acutally, evening on-call, so I work my 3-11 shift and then go home and hope that the phone doesn't ring for me to go back. The only reason they'd call me to come back is if there's a major trauma, a couple births or it's just really busy. It happens every now and then but not regularly. We're having a ton of births lately! We only have 2 labor rooms and already we're getting into trouble with space. We've had a few instances where there have already been two ladies in labor and a third comes in and we have to find a room to put her in until someone delivers and we can get into a labor room. It's only going to get worse as our population increases and we're already getting more and more overflow from Calgary and Cochrane so the hospital is going to need some major reno's in the next few years. It's going to be very interesting.
Yesterday I was working in emerg and we had to intubate and send a really sick patient to Calgary. I realized that I'm so much more comfortable in the labor room than I am in the trauma room. Give me a sick baby or a scary delivery or a delivery without a doc and I'm good but don't give me a trauma patient. I told the doc afterwards that I think I'll stick to maternity patients from now on. He laughed and told me I was fine but I guess it's just my experience and comfort level. I am in no way an emerg nurse yet, that's for sure. Give me another 10 years and then maybe I will be but for now I'm still calling myself a maternity nurse more than anything. The scary thing is that most of my shifts are in emergency so I guess I'll have to start feeling more comfortable in the trauma room. That the beauty of rural nursing. We are the jack of all trades and masters of none, you have to do everything and know everything and be ready for anything. It's exciting and I'm really, really lucky because everyone is so helpful and I'm not afraid to say 'I don't know what I'm doing' or 'I've never done this before' and someone is always there to help. Nurses are known for 'eating their young' but not at the Canmore hospital.
Travis is waiting to hear if he's going to be one of the new lieutenants at the fire hall. We're really excited about that. It means that he'll be sent to fire school to finish all his courses, fully paid, and he'll get more responsibility at the hall and a bit of a pay raise. He'll be sort of a liason between the part-timers and the captains. People will come to him with their issues and then he'll take it to the captain or the assistant chiefs. The new position is being created partly because their long time chief is going to be retiring in November so they're trying to create more structure within the department. There's going to be a lot of changes happening over the next few months.
Only 10 days till the wedding!!! Today is Sue's birthday too!!! My little sister is 23 today. Only 7 days till people start arriving. Dad, Candace, Jeff, Fiona, Kaia, Sophie, Tim, Karen, Abby and Ben (whew!) all arrive next wednesday and then Mom and Grandma arrive the next day. Yay!!! I can't wait till everyone gets here. It's going to make the wedding seem that much more real, I know it's only 10 days away and it should feel real already but sometimes I feel like 'is this really happening?' Silly I know but the fact that it's MY wedding feels kinda surreal sometimes. If you had asked me a year ago if I thought I was going to be getting married within the year, I'd have told you that you were crazy. Only cause a year ago, I hadn't met Travis yet. The day we get back from our honeymoon will be our one year anniversary.
My coffee is done so I'm ready to get my day started now. I have to organize all the decorations for the reception and I have my make-up trial at 3pm then I'm going out with Sue for her birthday celebrations tonight.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Dress day!
Today's the day I get to bring my dress home!!! Sue and I are going to Calgary in about an hour or so for my final dress alterations. The first appointment is at 10:30 and the seamstress makes her adjustments and then at 3:30 we go back and if all is well, I get to take it home! The last time I tried it on it didn't need anything done except the bustle so hopefully it's still the same. I've been trying to avoid icecream as much as I can but when I'm stressing over wedding stuff all I want is icecream. Yesterday was the only day that I've been feeling really stressed out over all the things I still have left to do. Everyone says "don't stress over the small stuff" yeah, easier said than done people. We're meeting Allison, my designated VIP, for lunch to go over reception details. She's agreed to be in charge of decorating the room since we can't get in there till 2:30pm on the wedding day! Yikes. She's going to do an amazing job though and I trust her completely.
I'd better get into the shower so I'm ready to go when Sue gets here.
I'd better get into the shower so I'm ready to go when Sue gets here.
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