My Post to Elizabeth

This is my post to Elizabeth. For those of you do not know about Elizabeth she is my sister-in-law and very close to being my neighbor as well. Her and my brother JJ and my litte, sweet, wonderful, amazing, adorable nephew Hunter live just a block away from me and my parents (which soon i will not be so close *weep weep*). Now to tell you the truth, when i first met Liz, i loved her until she stole my brother by marrying him. I still loved her but come on, he was like my best friend and she took him. So after a little while of jealousy, i decided that it was time to actually make Liz feel like my sister(because i have no real sisters, I needed her). And so, i went to Kelowna as much as I could to visit with her more than with Justin and it worked, she's just like my sister now!!!! Then they moved to Kamloops and now just up the street. Now i can see her as much as i want and i love to see her. Ian does too. He's always liked Liz. She's just that fun. It ALSO helps that she has THE CUTEST BOY IN THE WORLD!!!! Man, i love that kid. And she is such a great mom. It's cute. So there you go Elizabeth! I love you

Love Kristin (and Ian)

A Sigh...

so it's nearly official that NO ONE from my mom's side of the family (Mom excluded) is coming to my wedding.

sigh.

while i wouldn't say that we're all the closest family ever and we spend every joyous occasion together (actually it's the opposite, i hardly ever see any of them) i was still somehow expecting that SOMEONE would come. but alas, we picked december 31st, and that is just a bad day for everyone.

since we picked this date i've been worried. we picked it because A) it's a good day for us and B) it's a bad day for everyone else, therefore attendance will be smaller, thereby making our wedding cheaper. now for Kristin, whose family is larger than the population of my home town, it's not SO big a deal, because if one or two or five people don't show up then it's alright, because there are at least 37 other people who will come. but for me, five is my entire family!

sigh.

it will still be a happy and wonderful occasion. no doubt of that. just a little frustrating is all.

peace out y'all

ian

A Happy Shower

Last night I had my very first wedding shower.

At first I was feeling really selfish about getting all these gifts and i wasn't sure how to handle the whole wedding presents thing. And it was odd to think that a shower could be for ME. My daddy kept telling me that all these people want to buy me gifts and have a party because they love me and they want to show it by sharing excitement in my life and celebrating. I kept this in mind when I walked into the church (where the shower was).

I was very excited to see ALL the ladies that showed up. We had alot of fun and i felt very loved. So many wondedrful gifts, i loved every single one, and so far NO repeats of anything. Watching the faces of the wonderful women giving me gifts, I finally realized that getting shower gifts is not a selfish thing, it is a LOVE thing. And I am definitely feeling very, very loved.


Kristin

So very sad and pathetic

So, as we all know, Ian is on this BIG tool kick. All he does it talk about tools, look at tools, think about tools, and imagines all the things that he could build if he had all these tools. Well at first it made me all happy that he had an interest in something, then i got kind of sick of it (maybe a little jealous), and now I'm becoming just like him. Yesterday, all the flyers for stores came to the house and instead of me looking at the Michaels ones, I started looking at the canadian tire and home hardware flyers to find tools on sale.

Sigh....maybe i just want him to be happy with tools so i'm finding cheap ones he can buy. Or maybe...secretly....i love tools too. Huh, what?! Did I say anything?!...........

A Whole Lot to Do!

whew!
Ian and i are getting pretty burned out lately. We both work so much and then when we come home we are still working. We are making our christmas gifts as you may know and so after work we go to ian's house and play in his "workshop" making all sorts of things. It's fun but its alot. On top of that, i sit there and do my school work. And now ian's moving at the end of this month so it's time to start packing and cleaning his place now. Plus we have a puppy, fishtank, and bunnies, so we spend alot of time looking after all those things (plus ian got a plant, even that takes time to keep alive). Then there are the wedding plans which i am, frankly, getting sick of. Sorry to those that we have ignored, i really miss you all and i hope that after all this craziness is over we can see you again.

Anyways, i was just venting on my life.

Talk to you all soon,

Love Kristin

Ian's Workshop Begins!

So lately I've been on this huge building stuff kick, and I go to Home Depot and look at tools and stuff and wish I could have them, etc. So on Friday, I'm working on building something (I can't say what because it might be a gift for you!) and Kristin gives me the wonderful idea that we should go buy some sort of tool. Well of course I was excited! I love tools. Of course I can't afford the wonderful DeWalt tools like I use at work, but we went to Home Depot and I bought a mitre saw!
oh man so cool. so i set it up today and tried it out a little bit! wow. so exciting.

now if you'll excuse me, i have things to cut at various angles.

-Ian