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We've been working on some little home improvements lately. 1) Important Artifacts Museum We started a very small museum in our apartment. Currently there are four...
It is now May. This is the month we have been waiting and waiting for. My maternity leave started this week and I am officially nesting. From sewing curtains for...
There is a section on our bookshelf designated just for kid's books. The collection started long before we knew we were having someone to read them to. There is a...
Our apartment is starting to look like a baby lives here…or at least that one is on the way. This weekend was fairly productive on the baby front. We found and...
It's Valentine's Day, so why not post about lovey stuff? You'll remember that Mandy and I got married last year. There was also something about being Orthodox...
As the story usually goes, I was late. After a week of trying to brush it off I finally caved and took the test. I was at work. It was about 10 in the morning. I...
Until recently we hadn't been making a lot of effort to get outside. With so many cool places to go here it's almost criminal not to. So, officially, last weekend...
We started this blog originally to share in the process of planning our wedding. It then morphed into a log of funny projects we were working on together. So now it...
This post marks the first of what we hope to be a series of posts about our engagement and wedding planning process. As we are simultaneously new Orthodox...
Tom and I met about 7 years ago while we were both living in Toronto. We had what I call a false start and later parted ways – Tom to Halifax and myself to...
Most people get married on pleasant, fairweather Saturday afternoons. Well, what happens when you get engaged at the end of the summer and spring is far too long...
Here's a hard topic: Mandy and I have spent considerable time working on our guest list. We want to invite EVERYONE we know but of course we couldn't feasibly do...
Every time Tom and I sit down to talk about the wedding we end up with yet another list; guest list, stuff to find list, people to talk to list. So much thought is...
It's 1:12 am and I'm up. I've been trying to wrap my mind around investments, compound interest and the sort. It's not tax season, but it is grow up and be...
Since our engagement, together we have been the recipients of so much warmth, so many blessings (in that people bless our engagement), so much shared excitement...
This is not the invitation design. Just a cheeky piece I made in response to a lot of wedding invitation designs out there. Not to say ones that use these...
Finding a wedding dress is nuts. There are literally thousands and thousands to choose from and can cost thousands and thousands of dollars. I will admit, once...
Today, we went to our official Martens family engagement party. Future mother-in-law is a talented florist. We were welcomed with some of her work. I met a lot...
Welcome to our first ever guest post. I guess I can't really say "first ever" because this blog hasn't been around long enough, but it's exciting nonetheless. ...
Otis is my cat. He is just over a year old and weighs nearly 20 lbs. He is a tuxedo cat with the build of a panther. He loves being around people and follows me...
It's not often you get three weeks off work and are almost required by unwritten laws to go on a vacation. We're taking our honeymoon pretty seriously. Knowing...
Mandy met my family over Thanksgiving weekend. We flew into Toronto on Friday morning, and by that evening we were sitting at my Brother's family's Thanksgiving...
Mark J. recently sent me some photos he shot at our surprise engagement party, which our friends Jeremy and Shari-Anne held for us a while back [scroll down for the...
Armed with a gun we trudged through aisles of bed sheets and cabinets stocked with precious china. As instructed by our commander (or Hudson's Bay representative)...
It's official, I have a wedding suit. After about two weeks of shopping (maybe that's not that long for suit shopping), I found it. It began in Toronto, where,...
At our reception, Amanda and I plan to have a slideshow—the kind with actual slides and a slide projector. We are boycotting the powerpoint multimedia...
I have never been to an Orthodox wedding. Which means that ours will be the first one that I attend. I don’t imagine it will be entirely foreign, but from what...
This has absolutely nothing to do with our wedding, except maybe the teamwork aspect. I needed to make a human-sized hand costume for a project at work, so Mandy...
36 more days to go. Hope you are getting as excited as we are! This morning I started to compile the list of songs we'll be playing to get all your winter bums...
This is Ryan. He lives a few doors down from the parish that Tom and I attend. When we discovered that he was a very talented Goldsmith we commissioned him to make...
As the big day approaches, its meaning increasingly shifts from a concept to a reality. What was once a harmless distant plan is now staggeringly nearby. The...
This is a retrospective post. It's been almost one year since Mandy and I officially started dating, and a little over a year unofficially. Here are some memorable...
My friends gave me the party of a lifetime last night. I'm talking about the bachelor party. I'm not sure if I'll post photos of this one, but let's just say...
Cute as our invitations may be, they have incorrect address information for the Reception venue. The correct address for Murrayville Hall is 21667 48th Ave. We...
This afternoon my sister hosted a very adorable little wedding shower for me. Both of my grandma's, most of my aunties and girl cousin's were in attendance. Tom,...
Source: The Weather Network As temperatures plummet far below zero in eastern Canada, Vancouver holds true to its form with wet but mild weather. Our guests from...
