10 things I love about summer

Summer is so great for so many reasons...

1) Sunshine! I for one always miss it during the Canadian winters.
2) Shorts and Tees. The freedom from winter wear is exhilarating!
3) Fruit Salads. Ok fruit in general is soo yummy, and much cheaper in the summer.
4) Swimming. Yes, there are indoor pools, but lakes are fun.
5) Warm nights with friends. So fun to play outside till 10:00pm and it still be light out.
6) Ice cream. Who can resist when its plus 20 out there?
7) Clear starry nights. Love it.
8) Family Trips and Reunions! Vacation time.
9) Camping. The great outdoors.
10) Playing in the rain. No snow. Enough said.


What are your 10 favourite things about summer? Have I missed any good ones?

Going GREEN!

I'm not one of those people who is going to go crazy with trying to save the environment, but I have come a little way by doing a few simple things that make me feel like I'm not destroying the Earth. Jordy and I have a beautiful front lawn this summer and so we needed to purchase a lawn mower so it doesn't turn into a forest. We don't have a ton of money to spend on a gas or electric mower so we went to Canadian Tire and found a good old Reel Mower.

Haha, alright, so its a little more modern than this one, but this is essentially the idea. No motor. Just the power of your legs. Pure GREEN energy!

Another way we've tried to save the Earth is converting to the Green Shopping bags.

So you don't have to start wearing clothes made of burlap, or live life with the heat and lights off. Just start small and be practical. We have a small lawn, so the Reel Mower works for us, we also had been given a few of those bags so we didn't have to pay much for them.

Just keeping up and being a little more Earth Friendly.

Summer has arrived and nothing starts it better than a PARADE!

So the season of sun has arrived in Southern Alberta and have we ever been enjoying it! We went out to Taber for a Saturday to help my Mother-In-Law work on her yard. It also happened to be the weekend of Taber Days. So around 10:00am we took a break and headed down to the parade. It was a blast. Raven (our neice) was cute as always, and everyone had fun gathering candy and looking at the floats.

The Pipers were a big hit.
The cute little Police Chihuahua got a few laughs.
Everyone having a good time, I don't remember what they were looking at for this one.

August's first parade! :D

Family fun!

Good ol' trampoline!

Summer is going to bring lots of fun memories for us and I'm so excited for the great weather that has decided to grace us with its presence in Lethbridge. Love the heat, love the fun, love the time with family!

Boring

So I guess our lives have been pretty boring lately, which is all I can say as an excuse for not updating. However, since the last entry the year has moved along like it does every year. Jordy successfully finished his third year of his degree but thanks to taking only four classes a semester he is enjoying two classes of summer school. So due to his school, that puts a pause on all summer related trips or activities we had planned. But don't worry, he'll be done this semester at the end of June and then we'll hit summer running hard. Yay Camping! I've been able to go back to working one job and have been blessed with full time hours almost every week. Jordy is still pulling extra weight by going to school and working three nights a week (sometimes more!).

My little sister Brittany plans to move into our basement suite at the end of June and I look forward to having her close. We've already started helping her to find furniture and such. (We decided to lend her a nice desk we had sitting around and perhaps some other stuff, we'll see.) We hope she'll do well down there, but it will take a lot of work on her part. We wish her the best though!

We are looking forward to having fun (as much as school permits) the next few months with planning on going to a little bit of Whoop Up Days and if I'm lucky, some Stampede. Thunder In The Valley is coming up fast and that is always a blast! And as it will be Jordy's first time ever, we're looking forward to it even more.

We've continued to add the finishing touches to our humble abode, we finally put some pictures in the empty frames on our walls, now Lara can't bug us about that anymore! :) And I bought a little potted plant for our living room (here's hoping it lives more than a month!!! Fingers crossed!)

Hopefully I'll be able to update more, but its hard when there isn't anything amazing to report on. Hope I haven't bored you all to much. Till next time. Cheers.

New, New, New

Hello again! I realized its been a very long time since I've updated our blog. Sorry it took so long but this time I have such happy news to share!!

Jordy and I had a baby nephew born Saturday March 21, 2009 at 3:30 AM!

August Dee Litchfield!

And boy is he a cute one!

We are all so excited to welcome this little one into this world! Best of all it was almost on my birthday! He was born exactly (to the hour) 24 hours before me, but 20 years later! I'd better not ever forget his birthday! ha!

And so I have left the years of teens behind to look ahead to my twenties. Very strange feeling to think that I've lived for two decades now. And what have I got to say for myself?! Well here goes...

I have a wonderful husband who loves me as dearly as I love him!

I have a beautiful home.
I've expanded my skills as a homemaker quite a bit (I can survive in the kitchen now!).
I'm serving my first "big calling" as a Primary teacher.
My testimony has continued to grow.

I look at the above list and can't help but feel like I've accomplished something. I hope I'm not alone in sometimes feeling the bogged down, never-accomplish-anything-important kinda days, but every once in a while I look at my life and feel great! So I guess I could say that I had a very good birthday!

Lately...

Hello again! Its been a while since I've updated 0ur blog so here goes!

Life is going pretty good in Lethbridge. School has been getting tough for Jordy, but we're both pretty sure its just midterms etc. As for me, I'm on the hunt for another job due to lack of hours at the one I'm currently at, so that will keep me occupied since my latest hobby, reading the Twilight Saga has come to an end. For a whole week this is all my husband saw of me while I read this fascinating series!



Indeed, it only took me a week to start and finish the whole series, but I feel sorry for my hubby who put up with me for a whole week. He's so amazing!

Before I started my "reading week" Jordy and I were out enjoying as much sunshine as we could before the weather took a turn for the worst and covered Lethbridge in another few inches of snow. I wish it would all be done! We took an afternoon to rollarblade around Henderson Lake and took the opportunity to take more pictures with my new camera.

My wonderful Valentine's / 3 Month Anniversary!

So my amazing husband bought me a really nice camera for a Valentine's / 3 Month Anniversary present and he gave it to me yesterday before our date with his brother and his wife. So we went mini-golfing and then we went to the movie Defiance! We had such a great time, here are some pictures from the day!

A group picture. Jordy, me, Jenn, and Dusty in the back.

This is soooo Jordy!

Jenn did pretty good, (by the way, she's due at the end of March!!! :D)

Deep concentration.

Not so deep concentration... haha!