Kaden and Amy!

Kaden and Amy got married on April 6 this year. I was lucky to be their photographer! I LOVE how their pictures turned out! Take a peek:

Congrats you two! May the Lord richly bless you in your new life together! We love you both lots and wish you all the best! :)

Crazy Renovations

Needless to say we have been extremely busy lately...hence the no posting. As of now Logan and I are out of the house basically every night (Logan every night except one) and we are in the middle of finishing our basement! *hooray* Logan is currently playing for two bands in town (one band just has one gig he is playing in which is tomorrow night) the other band he is a permanent fixture in and they are quite busy with at least 1-2 gigs per month, so he is usually practicing with them at least once a week. Then he is our worship leader at church so we have church functions 3 days of the week and then he's actually taking a self defense course on fridays and bagpipe lessons on tuesdays. That leaves him Saturday night, which usually books up as well. It's been insane.
Renovations have been coming along nicely though! we are just about done with the drywall, i will be doing the last bit tomorrow night and then our mudder and taper is coming in monday. When he is finished by thursday, we will begin painting, flooring and tiling and hopefully have at least all the tiling done by next weekend. We have about 3 weeks until our friend moves in so we are just boogeying now!

 Logan and the first wall he framed! 

 First bedroom framed in

 Drywalling halfway done - 1st bedroom

 Bedroom section under the stairs. The guy who did our drywall spent three hours alone on that section. He did a good job though!

 The doors to the 2nd bedroom (left) and the bathroom. Laudnry room is the room on the righ side. He hadn't cut the drywall around the door at this point My back is towards the stairs

 Main family room area. Stairs are at my back to the right

 2nd bedroom beside the bathroom - it's quite a small bedroom but will work for an office/music room for now.

 The door from the second bedroom into the main family area

 Looking into the HUGE bathroom - wasn't intended to be this big but due to some careless planning by the builder's it was either a bathroom with a laundry room combined (making the bathroom quite small) or a HUGE bathroom and a small laundry room in the furnace room. We took the latter.

 Bathtub/shower alcove.

 the seriously huge closet beside the bathtub alcove

 looking out from the bathroom into the main family area, nice "hallway" into the bathroom

 The bathroom vanity! I LOVE the top. The top didn't look like this in the picture and i was a little bit worried but it turned out great. The actual cabinet portion is a dark chocolate brown. I'm very excited about it!

Logan and I also went out for our early 2nd anniversary celebration tonight. Tonight is the last night for the next two weeks (until after our anniversary) that we would be able to do anything so we went for dinner, then to a movie (Star Trek: Into Darkness - AMAZING!!) and then for ice cream. It was quite wonderful! Logan has a gig tomorrow night and saturday night, then we have a going away party on sunday for our dear friends the Tyler's as they move to California. Logan is then heading off to Montana for 4 days on Monday to go tour the Gibson factory (Taylor factory last month, Gibson this month lucky duck!) Then when he gets back my parents are coming that same day for four days to help us with the tiling in the bathroom and painting etc. Then I am hitching a ride to Edmonton and going on a work trip through Jasper and Banff for a week. Then we have 1 week at home and then our friend moves in. June is going to go by SO fast...So life is...crazy at the moment. Finding it hard to breathe, but i also find i get bored without the busyness. I was off two days in a row this week and was quite bored the second day, so we'll see how we manage once things slow down a bit!
That is our update as of now - more to come in the near future I'm sure!

Best New Years Ever

 We had a really awesome New Years Party - Fondue! We invited around 15-20 people over and had 2 actual fondue pots and then a pot of oil on the stove going. It was great fun! I think the best part of the evening was singing in the New Year with praises to the Lord! Amazing. So blessed to have the friends and family that we do Happy *belated* New year!

Hawaii Baby!!

 We just got back from Hawaii and WOW what an awesome trip - I can't believe the things we saw while we were there, it was awesome. It was lots of fun with family and we really spent most of our time on the beach...but I am ok with that! We saw a lot of stuff from the beach. It is Whale season in Maui right now, so there are tons of humpback whales in the area so you can sit on the beach and watch them jump and slap the water - it's pretty amazing!

Our view from the plane coming in for landing

We had a "rough" landing so the panel fell - only one though! Everyone laughed

The view from our balcony - bliss

One of the restaurant's we ate at just down the beach

 All of our bags - and Logan photo bomb

Cutie Tyler

Our room (living room area) we shared with Kyle and Leah

Fun on the beach

All 10 of us sun bathing

Evan being Evan

And our sunburns to finish

This trip was really awesome - We really love our animals and we sure got to see our fair share of them! of course it's whale season so we saw tons of whales. One of our beach days there were 2 sea turtles swimming pretty much right close to shore - they were about 4 feet away. amazing to watch! Then we went on a snorkel trip and saw a dolphin, again within 4 feet - it swam right up to our boat and was playing with it! Amazing to watch. Then Logan and I went for a walk along the beach and we came across a beached seal!! It was a hawaiin monk seal which is apparently one of the rarest seals ever. It comes to shore to rest every once in a while and can stay for up to 3 days! This one stayed for 2 and it was amazing to see. The last thing we saw which i was surprised i wasn't freaked out by - we went snorkelling on our last day and saw a shark within about 20 feet of us! It was just a reef shark so it wasn't dangerous, but it was HUGE. I would say close to 6 or 7 feet long, but it was incredible to watch.

All in all a great time! My parents are still there and they have a bunch of pictures and videos of the animals and whatnot. Once i get my hands on those, be sure that I will post them on here! :)

More wedding photos from this summer

I just realized that I never posted photos from our best friend's Brady and Renessa's wedding so here are a few! Photos were taken by Renessa's cousin Shandy Wascylciw with Captured by Shandy

 This one cracks me up everytime!

 We're just besties, NBD. I think this is a very nice picture of us

This picture is really special - Renessa's mom is only 41, and her grandma i think is 56 ish so this is a picture of her, her mom, her grandma and her great grandma's wedding rings. You don't get that opportunity very often!

Speaking of weddings, we have another one this year! My cousin Brad is getting married. He actually asked me to take pictures of them the night they proposed. The plan was to have me come along. Kristena had been complaining that they don't have any pictures together, so Brad just explained that me being there was because they don't have any pictures together so it was just a photo shoot. So we had some fun in downtown GP and then in the middle of our photo shoot. I distracted Kristena and while she was talking to me, Brad got down on one knee behind her, and when she turned around i started shooting like crazy! It was lots of fun and I can't wait for the wedding day :)

Seems like it will be another summer full of weddings, but i don't mind :) Weddings are always a wonderful occasion!