I know its been two weeks... but here are some pics

Ok. So after much harrassment from my honorary roommate in Abbotsford, I have finally got pictures from my sisters wedding. There is a large number of pictures, so I am just going to post a few highlights, save you all the trouble of looking at tons of pics! So here goes...

The Happy Couple

The morning before their wedding and I think they were ready to get it over with. The next 36 hours were busy, hectic, emotional, joyful, fun, entertaining, loving, and perfect... What more can a couple ask for on the weekend of their wedding?
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The Bride
This is our lovely bride, my sister, the day before her wedding. We spent a large part of Friday setting up the hall, but despite the time it took, it looked absolutely beautiful afterwards and was worth every minute!
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The bridal party
The whole group of us met on Friday. Here we are at the rehersal, waiting for our turn to goof off down the aisle. Honestly, if all bridal parties were that much fun, the world would be a better place to live. Everyone just clicked, and acted completely natural around one another, despite being relative strangers. It was awesome!
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The bride and her bridesmaids

So. It is the morning of your wedding. What do you do? Well, if you are my sister, you have about a dozen girls sleep over, make a big breakfast, do hair and makeup, and enjoy your last bit of single girl time. It was a really fun morning!

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In bed with...

Enjoying some last time in bed together before her bestfriends would have to give her up to a man. Good thing it is a guy like that, makes it easier to give her up I would say.

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First man to see her?

Daddy of course! I took this one right as she came around the corner and he saw her for the first time.

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I promise, moving on to a couple ceremony pictures now...

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Walking with her proud pappa

There she is. She looked absolutely beautiful!

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The celebrated couple

If you have got good eyes you can see the smiles on their faces. A wonderful ceremony and no it isn't just cause I was involved:)

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Finally, what you have all been waiting for...

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A picture of me:)

Now, because I already posted so many, there will be none of the reception. If you want to see some, let me know, I'll do another post, but for now, lets leave it at that. It was an awesome day and I was proud to be a part of it. There will likely be a larger number of photos on my msn spaces within the next few days. Take care. Congrats, Ian and Shelly!

here i am!

In honor of my first morning waking up in the apartments, I thought I would post a hello. I am moved in, and mostly unpacked. By 4 am this morning, 4 fo my 5 roommates were moved in and the 5th one is in thee process of it. So excited to be living with these girls!
Last night, as we were trying to wait up for the 5th girl to arrive, we decided at 1 in the morning to go to a park here in Edmonton. I had been the night before and the view from this place is just magnificent. So, we throw on our pajamas, grabbed a few blankets and away we went. Well, the view didn't disappoint and the girls stopped complaining about being dragged out there, but while we are there, a cop pulls into the parking lot behind us, drives onto the field, slowly drives around a nearby school, and then drove up behind us. Do you have any idea how bright the lights on a cop car are???
So the cops get out, bang, one, bang, the other. They walk up on either side of our bench(although we didn't notice one of them) and starts talking. "Have you girls been drinking?" "No" "What are you doing here" "Just looking at the view, we are waiting for a friend to get into town and figured this was a good way to pass some time" "Its a good thing there is four of you" "Why is that?" "Well, this is just off the river valley, and I sure wouldn't want to be here alone at this time of night. What with the drug deals that go on around here. Have a good night girls, be careful"
Well, to say we were a little freaked out would be an understatement. We definitely didn't stay too much longer!
But ya. On that note, its off to Safeway and Walmart to better stock our cupboards, so I'll catch you later. Here's to cops scaring the snickers out of you!
(ps. wedding post coming soon, I need to get my pictures first)

Here I go!

Ok. I promise to write about the wedding, but for now I don't have time. Here I go. Moving out. My car is loaded, I did one trip yesterday and this one (plus a couple large items in my moms mini van). My room here at my parents looks barren, and most people would probably still figure it was full, and I am actually excited to get to set up home base somewhere else for the next 8 months.
Hung out with some of my roommates yesterday and it was awesome! I didn't want to leave for my last night at home, and am now more excited than ever to be there officially, full time! SO...
Here I go. Off to my new place!
(I'll write on the wedding later)
WHOOT. Here's to an exciting year!!!!!

Monday

Monday. My 20th birthday has come and gone. I am more than a little pleased to have the 'teen' removed from the number corresponding to the years I have lived, because I honestly believe that saying you are nineTEEN and saying you are TWENTY is a huge difference in the eyes of the listener. So I am glad to be out of the teens, all growed up and stuff;)
I spent the weekend in Kananaskis, camping with 17 other people through my church and we had a really good time. We went on a hike (I did the short part of the hike, only 17 km... yes. that is the short part), played in the river, sat in the hot tubs, played some tennis, and lots of time sitting around the fire just hanging out. It was a good weekend.
And now on this monday, nearly all my thoughts and attention is focused on the finish of this week, the big bang to finish the summer off, my sisters wedding. As the maid-of-honor, I have not quite got everything figured out yet. I still have to write a 3 minute speech, and essentially my whole week is devoted to her, if she needs me to do something, I'll do it because my position in the wedding party, my blood relations, and my desire to do it will command that I help in any and all ways possible. No, I have not yet memorized the song for the ceremony, I am working on that yet. I am at least learning the right song now, so that is a good start. No, I have no idea what I am going to be doing as a mistress of ceremonies. They haven't told me what they are looking for, and I am lost as to what my duties are. I have no jokes, and am uncertain about what stories to tell, or what gags. So if anyone has ANY ideas for jokes or gags or dinner order or anything I would love to hear it!
I am slightly concerned about the weekend because I got super stuffed up over the weekend and am sneezing all the time, and sniffling even worse. Hopefully I am clear headed by friday or saturday.
The only other thing that my focus is on is moving. Sept 1 is the big day in which I will move alot of my stuff out from home and into the apartment. I have not yet started packing, and to be honest, I don't remember a time when my room was a bigger mess, but somehow, in the next two weeks, while working a few more shifts, helping with the wedding, visiting with friends, catching up with family in town for the wedding, and shopping for things for the apartment, I have to pack. It will be an intersting couple weeks, thats for sure!
BUt I must be going. I have things to do and no time to do it. Have to be at work in 3 hours and have many things I was hoping to accomplish first, things that are getting nowhere the longer I sit here, wasting time. So if you have any ideas, let me know, I would apperciate it. Otherwise, take care and don't fall in the river...