2 Fabulous Years!

Today is our 2nd anniversary! 2 years ago we were sealed for time and all eternity in the Toronto Temple.



It's been a wonderful 2 years and we're looking forward to many many more!

To celebrate, Phil and I spent the weekend together. We started with a stop at the temple. We were dropping off Abrianna and some other girls for the Beehive Conference and thought it would be fun to visit the temple Sat morning....that is until we realized our recommends just expired! Oops! Turned out the temple is closed for a few weeks anyway so it wouldn't have mattered. We ended up just taking a walk around the grounds and got a new picture in the spot we got "officially" engaged:





After the temple we spent the day window shopping, having lunch together and checking into a hotel for the night. We stayed at the Don Valley Hotel and it was a nice little escape from the everyday. Nothing too fancy but wonderful to be away from home.

I neglected to take photos of the hotel so here's a couple I found online. This was the room style we had and we loved the indoor pool!



We had a great view of the outdoor pool from our room but it was a bit too chilly to go out and enjoy it. We stuck to the indoor pool and hot tub!

View from our window:


Sunday morning after a delicious buffet breakfast we took advantage of the balcony and sat outside enjoying the beautiful fall weather.



Phil makes an excellent foot rest :)


After checking out of the hotel Phil took me for a quick stop at this huge house/mansion that he used to attend art classes at when he was a kid. The grounds are covered in beautiful gardens and we took a walk through them.



As we were leaving we heard some tinkling music...Ice cream truck!




Fun weekend together :) I love my Phil so much! So glad we chose to be together forever!
Xoxoxoxoxox

Salmon

Last week for Family Home Evening we took the girls down to Bowmanville Crek to check out the many salmon making their way up stream. This event happens every year and is special to me because it happens right around our anniversary. The first time I saw the salmon was during a nature walk Phil took me on during our honeymoon week together. It was fun to do this with the girls and see all those fish :)

Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Life

After the busy, fun and slightly chaotic hiatus of Summer, we're now back to our normal routine. Kids are back in school and home from the trailer so we're back on our schedule of having them with us every other weekend and Tuesday nights. It was a nice normal weekend and I liked it that way. Friday and Saturday Phil got to work painting our living room. It's only partially complete but well on its way. I'm so thankful he is working so hard in his off time to help improve our home. Every step we complete gets us one step closer to what we want our home to be. The girls and I did some grocery shopping and grabbed a hot chocolate together in celebration of the beautiful cool fall weather we got this weekend! It was wonderful. I even broke out my long jeans and cute boots! I'm so happy to be saying farewell to the vicious heat of Summer. I love Fall most of all and hope it sticks around awhile!

That night we decided to head out for a family walk to enjoy the weather. Nice relaxing family fun! We rounded off the awesome day by ordering Chinese and having a movie night. I love my family!

Today was church. Phil was released from one of his callings which is nice since we've both had multiple callings in our ward for the past little while. Our ward just recently merged with some members from another ward and it's nice to have some new faces to share the work with :)

This afternoon we made time for another family movie together, sorted through all he kids clothes and downsized a bit, then had a visit with our friends Dawn and Immanuel and their family.

Simple, normal weekend...and I loved every minute of it!

Good Luck Girls!

Good luck to our girls heading back to school today! Hope it's an awesome year! We love you! Xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

Labor Day Weekend

Its been a busy weekend for us but we've sure had a lot of fun! Friday morning I sent my employers off for their holiday weekend and got most of the day to myself. I ended up getting a lot done, including taking a load of stuff to the dump, a second load of stuff to donation and a lot of things done around the house. Two thumbs up to Phil for starting to clean out some things from the storage unit...2 car loads gone is a big step in the right direction! :) Later that day Phil and I spent some time cutting firewood in the backyard. We cut most of the tree down a few months ago but we've had a big pile of branches left waiting to be cut down so we made a big dent in that project as well...naturally we pick the hottest days possible to do this sort of thing but still...good to get some of it done! We're planning our Halloween party and hoping if weather cooperates that we can do part of it outside so we're going to be busy in the next month or so working on getting it in better order. Saturday we got to help some friends out who just moved into a new home. They had a lot of work to do at their old house getting it ready to put on the market and we got the chance to help. It was actually a lot of fun hanging out with them and they were kind enough to treat us to dinner that evening which was a blast :) Thanks Edward and Roseanna! Hope to hang out more soon! Since our morning helping friends turned into an all day event we didnt' get to head up to the trailer until Sunday morning but we had a lot of fun while we were there! We made smores (with york patties and Reese's PB cups! YUM!), played games and swam in the lake (complete with jumping off the dock pics!) Always a fun time at the trailer! Hope everyone else had a fabulous holiday weekend! XOXOXOX