just life

(a pic of my new car! woot woot!!!)

so my sister came out to visit us and i didnt get a SINGLE good picture of us. this is the closest one that looks remotly normal and she is probably going to kil me for posting it.
we did so much FUN STUFF> medicine hat isnt exactly the most happenin' place to be but we packed the weekend with fun stuff. ate, drank and were merry.. did normal sister stuff liek starbucks, shopping, movies, etc. drove in my new car, introduced her to our friends, went to moxies (where i work) and ate some more yummy food. had christmas, did the whole presents, appys, dinner, and big christmas breakfast. oh yeah, and we ate. (did allot of that! :)) we had a fun time... at least i did anyways. its going to be fun to go stay with her in van in a month and a bit and SHE can make ME some yummy food and take ME out. yay!
this month is going to be CRAZY. it kicked off with rebecca comming to visit. i go back to work tomorrow (boo) but only for about 10 days (yay!) and then my husband and i head off to the dirty south to visit his family in North Carolina for christmas holidays. i am SO excited. i havent seen his parents and grandma since last christmas and i miss them SOOOOOO much. its going to be a blast and WARM! my man sure deserves it after braving working crazy long hours in this blizzard that we had for the past bit here. when we come back i only have about a week and a bit with him before he heads north to go work his tail off and bring home the real bacon for about three months. i am going to miss him more than i even know now. i already miss him and he is still here. its going to be really hard on both of us but we will get through it. two weeks after he leaves i am going to vancouver for a week for my cousins wedding and to see my family, havent seen my parents since august so im pretty pumped for that, itll be a great distraction. THEN in about a month after that i am either going to go back to vancouver or hopefully to wherever jo-ben is to see him for my birthday in the begining of march. oh! also my hsband has decided to give treeplanting one more hoorah (for the eleventh summer in a row!) and he will be foremaning a crew for the last time for the month of may... i am NOT going to plant or check or do any of that silly bush stuff this summer but i am going to go with him either for part of the month or the whole thing, dont know at this point. i will be camping and making his life easier and maybe helping out the cook or somthing in my more than ample spare time. geesh, what have i gotten myself into with this life?! just kidding, its all a big adventure right?! we are hoping after all of this that we can go on some kind of trip since my husband is going through travelling/surfing withdrawl. i want to go to figi but we will see! hawaii is an option too because we have some good friends who just moved back there (jo-bens university friend and best man and his girlfriend) so yeah, who knows where we will go but the two stipulations are that i must be able to lay out and get a great tan and jo-en must be able to surf till his hearts content. oh! and if that isnt enough stuff we are heading back to North Carolina at the end of august for jo-bens 10 year reunion with his highschool friends. he grew up in peru, SA for almost 20 years and hasnt seen lots of friends from highschool and on the missionary base since he was like 18 and there is a huge ( ha, there were 3 kinds in his grad class and about 20 i think in his bro's the year after... so that constitutes together as huge as far as people getting together from the base) amount of people comming out ... 20 or so, to NC for this combined class reunion. i am SO excited to meet people i hear all of these great jungle stories about and people i havent seen since our wedding and jo-ben is super excited too. its going to be great.
so yeah, our lives are getting turned upsidedown again (and it feels like we just got a min to breathe here!) and this weekend kicked it all off. i will have some interesting bloggs to come for sure so stay tuned.
till next time, im off to bed!