Dave's Orchard

Well what do you know? Jason finally got himself a blog. It was completely his idea, I think he saw all my blogging friends and was jealous. At any rate, his link has been added (along with a few more new pals!)

Last night I had planned to blog, but I was exhausted and went to bed at 10... I didn't even hear Jason come in, but he didn't go to bed until 12 (He was too busy blogging!)

This week has been crazy... Thursday and Friday were field trip days. We went to Dave's Orchard in Langley and had a blast! We got to pick our own corn off the stalk, pull up our own carrots and beets, pick tomatoes and even broccolli right off the plant. I didn't even know what a broccolli plant looked like until this trip! Apples and pears were picked right off the tree, and we got huge potatoes and pumpkins galore. The best part was I did this 4 times and the lady who owns the farm (Dave's wife) kept giving me more and more! Here's my produce load after just day 1!!



And the next day I got more than double that! By the way, yes that is Hampton, I guess he was hungry. Anyways, we ate corn on the cob Thursday night and it was delicious! Since I came home with 7 cobs the next day we gave some to our landlord and some will go to my mom tonight. I think the plan is today is to slice and freeze up some of the other stuff, like some broccolli and carrots. It's lots of work being a farmer!

Well, I'm off to do some cleaning today, although I kinda wish I was preparing some killer costume for a halloween party tonight. I love dressing up... we were invited to a party downtown but it was over $40 a ticket and that was just too steep for right now... maybe next year!

Shakin, Bakin, and Hotting things up MAC style

Sorry I haven't posted for a bit, I've been completely occupied with Jack. Ok, maybe not really (although I'm proud to say we've now finished disc 4 and only have 2 more discs left of Season 1) Anyways, I haven't updated because I wanted this post to include some pictures I took of the fantastic meal I made recently.
Here's me shakin' and bakin':


And here's the finished product! Mmm mmm good!


Oh! And we have a new addition to the family, his name is Hampton:


We like him, he's yellow and happy. He lives with our favourite orange Ikea suction scrubber:


Today I went for MAC makeovers with my friend Erin, and spent too much money on makeup because I'm a girl and, well, if Rachael can love hot handbags as much as she does I'm allowed to love hot makeup. I tried to take a picture of the hotness but they all looked a little too trampy... My makeup now looks like I was going clubbing tonight or something. It was the best when the girls who were doing our makeup asked us where we were going tonight and we answered "home". At least Jason thought I was hot when he saw me. That's all that matters anyways!

Jocelyn (my sister for those who don't know that) got a new little buddy. I wish I had a picture but I don't, so I'll leave you all in the dark about this for now. You can guess if you'd like to. If you wouldn't like to, then don't.

Anyways I must get some sleep tonight and it's going to be a half hour of scrubbing to get this hotness off my face. Goodnight all!

Jack's the man.

I'm in love. Yes, with Jason of course, but I have a new love in my life. His name is Jack Bauer. And Jason's just as in love with him... ok not with him in particular but his life, or at least this one day of his life. I've heard so much about how great this show was but I'd never seen even one episode. So last night we decided to stay in and rent Season 1, discs 1 and 2. I honestly don't know what I would do if I had to wait a whole week to see each episode. After the first episode we were completely hooked, and ended up watching the entire first disc (4 episodes) that night. Today all I could think about was what was going to happen next... Jason really wanted to go biking but I was still tired and not in the mood for biking so I stayed home and watched 3 more episodes. I would've watched the 8th one but Jason called and said to wait for him. Only when he got home he wouldn't let me just fill him in on what happened, he wanted to see for himself. So I watched from 4:00-7:00 all over again, then from 7:00-8:00... Now we need to rent discs 3 and 4 or I'm going to go insane.

It's just such a good show!! I commented on how it's like if you turned a novel into a movie and didn't leave any detail at all out. It's fantastic. And it's helping to ease the transition to our one-channel television. If there's nothing on Global, we don't watch tv.

Tonight we went to Castle Fun Park with a bunch of people from Maple Ridge Baptist young adults group. It was fun, we went to originally play mini golf but it was so busy that all us girls decided to get refunds and get tokens for the games instead. There's this one game that you hit the button and try to get the jackpot. It's like gambling for tickets and extremely addictive. Especially when the pot gets up to 150 tickets or so... Andrea, Hannah, and myself all won at least once, Hannah won twice, her biggest amount being 150 tickets. We pooled our tickets together and got a ton of candy! Together we had almost 900 tickets. Too bad we were 19,100 short for the 12" television.

Friendly tip: next time you come across a shooting gallery (They have them at the PNE, as well as right here in your very own Castle Fun Park), take a picture with your flash on. Trust me, it's worth it.

Mmm bubble bath, relaxing music, and a good book...

makes for a great night! It's very quiet right now at my place, Jason's out at judo and I ended up with a bit of quiet time for a while until he gets home. It's nice, I kinda forgot what it's like to be alone. I'd never trade Jason for anything, but I really am learning to appreciate time for myself. I talk all day with parents, kids, everyone... and of course with this job it's constant go-go-go. Then usually I get home and it's go-go-go some more whether it's go to Maple Ridge for judo and the gym (didn't go tonight 'cause I had a dinner date with my Mom), or we go to bible study, or whatever. We always seem to have somewhere to go - which is great! We have lots of friends, lots of activities - we really are blessed. It's just nice sometimes to sit in the bathtub and read, with no time limit and no place to be...

Goldmines and Pictures

Alright so I went biking today and even brought my camera, only to have it die after the first picture. It was a good ride with excellent weather. I got to take good old Stinky Dee (my bike - it's a Kona Stinky Dee-Lux) up to the woodlot for the first time. We rode Goldmine, which is way up past the powerlines (it usually takes us about an hour to hike up to the powerlines alone). I found out today that the trail was named Goldmine because it actually used to be a goldmine. Jason showed me where the entrance is, I still can't believe I never knew it was there, I rode past it a bunch of times. It basically looks like a huge puddle about 15 or 20 feet off the trail, but it goes down super far.... we tried putting a really long stick in but couldn't touch the bottom. Apparently Jason and Bill way back in the day put an old tree in it and now it's gone completely, it sunk right in. Crazy!

Anyways, so no pictures from my ride, but how about some of my favourite ones from the wedding photos we got this week? I haven't had a chance to upload them all onto a website or anything, but consider this a little sampler...

Live to the world...

We have connection!! Finally after some craziness, including a morning visit on a Thanksgiving-weekend Sunday by Mr. Telus Worker, we have the internet. Turns out that the room we picked as the office is the only one in our place that has a dead phone line. Any one of our 3 other phone jacks would work except that one. So Mr. Telus Worker gave us a wireless modem instead and we hooked up my old wireless receiver to the computer. Voila! We have internet.

So folks, I will try and be as diligent as possible when it comes to blogging, as I now have no excuse not to.

Today the plan is to go biking and then to GrammO's house for dinner. Not the big thanksgiving one, that's tomorrow at my "DH"'s parents house (hee hee I have a DH now)
I shall bring my camera on our biking adventure. :)

Hooray!

Good news girls and boys, the internet will be up and running by the weekend at the latest! More blogs to come!