Dielle

SCARIEST THING IN THE WORLD ............ to me

2007-11-16T16:48:00.001-08:00

This is what I found dead in my closet yesterday evening!!! Talk about DISGUSTING!!! Anyone who really knows me knows that frogs are one of my BIGGEST fears EVER! All I can think of is WHERE this thing came from and the thought of it jumping around in my room. It was just a tiny thing ..... but will haunt me for a long long time to come.

Just some pics of my sweetheart and I ......

2007-11-14T20:44:00.001-08:00

I'm ENGAGED!!!!!!

2007-10-26T17:10:00.001-07:00

New Addition!!!!!!

2007-09-02T15:09:00.002-07:00

I am an Aunt Once again!!!! But this time ............ to a GIRL!!!!

Ryleigh Kiele Schellenberg!

I thought it was time ..........

2007-06-18T17:00:00.000-07:00

Yesturday morning the Dueck clan, Justin and I headed to Winnipeg around 6:15 to watch and participate in the Manitoba Marathon. It was rough gettting up that early since I had only fallen asleep around 1:30 and was up already at 5:30 to start my day! Jared, Shannon, Tyler, Greg, and Justin were all a part of a relay team together. Greg ran their first leg of the relay and then continued on running doing the full marathon! We arrived at Jared's station and the adventure began! Tracy and I got to see all the relay exchanges and this time we made it to the stadium on time to see the finish! Shortly after we arrived at the stadium, Greg came running in ....... he got THIRD place!!!! I could never imagine running 26 miles AND getting in third place doing it! He did an amazing job!!! Congratulations Greg!! A little while later Tyler came across the finish, completing the relay for the team. According to the Winnipeg Free Press they were ranked as being in 6th place! All the guys did such a great job running! Maybe you'll see me out there next year ......... ummmmm YEAH RIGHT!

Below are some pics of the marathon:

Greg handing off to Jared at the first relay exchange

Jared exhausted after finishing his leg of the race

......... Greg still running

Shannon handing off to Justin at the third relay exchange

Tyler on his way finishing up the last leg!

Hope you enjoyed!! Who knows when the next post will be!!!

2007-05-15T17:47:00.000-07:00

Compliments of Speed World

What a night!

2007-05-03T18:57:00.000-07:00

It's been over a week since this video was shot but I thought I had to show this lovely video to you all!

Has he got the moves or what!!!!

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Last Friday night, five of us friends got together to celebrate Shane's birthday as well as mine. Going to Alpine Bowling Lanes was the first thing to do on our list! When we got there they told us that our reserved lane for 7:30 wasn't working and that we would have to wait until about 8:30. That was a bit annoying for us since we were wanting to go for supper afterwards and that would've been a VERY late supper! Thankfully while we were all thinking about what to do they told us that our lane was now working. We didn't have to pay until after just in case the lane stopped working again. The shoes ........ there was a father/daughter bowling event going on so there were no shoes in the range from size 9-12 (the guys were VERY uncomfortable) and I had to wear a size too big since they had no size 5's! We were in the 8th frame and I was up ....... STOPPED working!!! The guys working there told us that the people beside us would be done in about 15 minutes and that we could come and get some free drinks while we waited. So we all got HUGE drinks and waited oh so paitiently.

We tried setting them up as bowling pins!

Jared showing off his size 12 shoes!!! (he stuffed them with kleenex)

The time had finally come!!! We got our right shoe sizes and a new lane! We were all ready for our second game. As we were about to start they brought us 2 free baskets of popcorn! They felt really bad for all the problems we had to face! They even gave us a discount on our bowling. We eventually got started and had no more problems!!

Finally Legal!

2007-04-26T15:12:00.000-07:00

Yesturday when I showed up for work, Phyllis had tied an arrangement of 6 helium birthday balloons to my computer! Talk about feeling special the first hour you are awake on your birthday!
They even took me out to the cafe for lunch! They are such awesome people to work with!

Here are my lovely balloons I received!

Kelsey even came to my workplace in the afternoon and brought me some flowers! What an awesome friend!

In the evening Jared took me out to celebrate! We went to the IMAX to see "Dinosaurs". To be honest I was a little scared, lol. I closed my eyes when the T-Rex came on. It seemed so close I thought it was going to chop my head off!!!! None the less, we had a great time!

Happy 3 Years!!!!

2007-04-24T07:47:00.000-07:00

It has officially been 3 years today since Jared and I have been dating!!
I love you Jared!!!!!

Congratulations Darcy & Raquel !!!

2007-04-22T15:32:00.001-07:00

Here are just a few pictures from Darcy and Raquels wedding yesturday.

They had two cool backdrops for taking all the guests pictures.

Night out with the girls!

2007-04-14T12:11:00.000-07:00

Yesturday evening we took Raquel out for her stagette! It's hard to believe she is getting married in just exactly ONE more week! I am so excited to be able to share that special day with her and Darcy!

We started off our evening by making her go on a little treasure hunt. Each treasure she found had another clue as well as a few small gifts that she could use in her new home! We made it to Winnipeg just in time to make our 7:30 reservation at "Mona Lisa". It's a nice place despite the fact that you wait FOREVER to get your order taken as well as your food. I mean they had it written in the menu that their food takes awhile to prepare since they make it fresh or something. But still, the wait was a bit ridiculous. None the less, we enjoyed our almost 2 hour supper!

Our bowling reservations were for 9 but we only made it to the lanes by 9:30 because of our "long" supper. We had to wait 20 minutes in order to get in since we had not been on time for our reservations. We eventually laced up our bowling shoes and were ready to go! But wait ..... the evening couldn't go on without a bit more waiting involved. It took them FOREVER to put our names into the system so that we could start. They had accused Lisa of not paying so they hadn't put them up yet. So we started our game FINALLY! Well wouldn't you know...... our pins started to have issues in the middle of the game and then our screen froze. I love it how many times we had little issues here and there, it made for an eventful evening!

Very nice Raquel!

We headed to Timmy's afterwards since we didn't make it on time for the ice-cream place we wanted to go to. That's okay though since Raquel loves Timmy's! We then all headed home and Raquel went to uncover her last clue at their soon to be home.

It was a lot of fun getting to hang out with just girls! Raquel I wish you all the best as you finish up planning in your one week of single life left! I can't wait until April.21!!!!!!!!

Mission Weekend and more .....

2007-04-05T17:22:00.000-07:00

Last weekend our college and career group headed to Winnipeg for a mission / fun weekend. Friday night we all checked into the hotel and then spent the evening soaking in the hot tub and playing games! The guys stayed up until around 3:30 in the morning playing Monopoly! Us girls were LONG in bed by then!

The next morning we headed off to Teen Challenge to serve brunch to a group of around 20 guys. We made scrambled eggs, breakfast sausage, hashbrowns and also served cinnamon buns and muffins that we had made previously. They really enjoyed it!

After eating was done we presented them with a short program. Cody lead some praise and worship, Paul shared his testimony as well as a devotional and then Cody and Adam finshed off with a special number of their own which the guys all really enjoyed! It was so encouraging watching and being with these guys, and just hearing their story and seeing how much these guys have actually changed the way they live and how excited some of them are about Jesus!

We then headed off to Andrew and Amy's house which is on Burrows. They are friends of Kevin and Becky's from Bible school. They are church planters from our conference. We got together in groups of around 4, including some of their youth which was awesome and started cleaning. We cleaned up garbage on a few blocks surrounding and including Burrows. There was soooo much garbage everywhere. It was so nice to look back and see that we were actually making a difference. You can help others in so many different ways!

In the evening we all went to the Golf Dome and went mini golfing! I probably played my WORST game ever! I went off the green about 4 times for sure! The guys played Monopoly again until about 3 in the morning! Kelsey and I stayed up that late as well and we were not even playing! We weren't even that tired ... not sure why... that is pretty late!

The next morning a few of us went to church in Winnipeg. We could pick anywheres we wanted to go so we decided to go to Kelsey's sisters church near Corydon.
........ and that ended our mission weekend!

FUNDUE NIGHT!

Sunday Jared and I went to Lindsay and Jared's in Steinbach, along with Cody and Michael and had a bit of a farewell for Cody before he left for his trip. Cranium was pulled out and a lot of fun was had!

Lindsay had gotten a fondue set so she made us a chocolate fondue with fruit!
Pretty much right away when the fruit was hauled out, there were 6 eager hands with sharp little forks ready to devour! Everyone was trying to steal everyone else's fruit. It was CRAZY! But oh so delicious! Michael ended up with his hand bleeding a bit as well as a big chunk of fruit being flown into his coffee. All in all a great evening it was!
You can never hang out with cousins too often!

It got pretty out of hand

You're never too old .........

2007-03-29T16:13:00.000-07:00

This past Sunday the Dueck clan (including Aunt Mary) headed off through the thick fog to Steinbach! There we went to Tanya and Greg's for games and appetizer night. We all brought together games, food, and laughter! When we had all arrived we noticed something was missing ..... or shall we say someone..... can you guess!?!? You probably can't so I will tell you. The missing piece was who other than Tyler! He finally realised he was going the wrong way down the perimeter when he hit inkster. The fog really affected his driving......he eventually made it and brought some amazing taquitos.

The board games were not even touched all night! Instead, Nintendo Wii took up the whole evening. There was baseball, golfing, bowling (my personal favorite), tennis, and last but not least ..... there was boxing!

Here is a sneak peak of what I mean by ...... "you're never too old"

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It was SOOOOO funny watching these two together!
(Jared's mom and Aunt Mary)

Weekend in Review

2007-03-19T19:21:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pictures from my weekend!

Thursday night Jared and I babysat Kai. I can really tell that Kai loves it when we come over ....... especially Jared!

Friday night the whole family came over for Bern's birthday supper! My dad made a tunnel from cardboard boxes for the kids to go through!

...... you aren't a kid Jared ...... it's your own fault for getting stuck!

On another note.....
Just thought I'd share a glimpse with you of what
one of my favorite hobbies is ...

With most of my drawings I look at other pics to draw them but I would really love to take art lessons some day but I feel as though I don't have the time! I think it's just me being plain lazy!!!

2007-03-12T17:53:00.000-07:00

Once again I had an action packed weekend!

Friday night Jared and I joined Darcy on a trip to the city. We spent a little time looking at some dining room furniture that Raquel had looked at previously and then we went to the mall and ate and shopped around for a bit! After we decided to go to Timmy's! Jared and I were busy counting our change hoping to have enough to spare for a coffee and an ice-cap! I seemed to have enough for mine and Jared only could find $1. After he had found his precious looney it somehow got out of his hands and it was gone! Lost! We searched for about 10 minutes and eventually I had found it! The whole way to Timmy's he was flaunting his money in our face until I finally decided to knock it out of his hands once and for all! This time we knew it had fallen between the seats so ....... I dug my hand in to see if I could feel for it. Well let me tell you....... I sure did not feel money my first time going down.... rather I felt something sort of softer in a bag. I told Darcy, it feels like there is a bag with a piece of cake in it or something. He didn't think I could be right so he put his hand down between the seats for himself! Sure enough! He felt it as well! I think he was the one that ended up pulling out the mysterious parcel hiding out between his seats. It was probably close to one of the most disgusting things you imagine finding in your vehicle after who knows how long! I will tell you what it was.................. a zip-lock bag with a block of cheese inside!!! Darcy said he had remembered bringing cheese home from Raquels house one time and never knew where it had gone to! Thankfully for him, that bag was sealed nicely for the last few weeks or months! However long it had been there! So we threw the mouldy cheese onto Timmy's parking lot and retrieved Jared's precious looney which had obviosuly fallen beneath the bag of cheese! We then finally enjoyed our beverages!

Saturday night college and career was cancelled at my house since of our paint smell, but I still decided to invite a few people over, hoping they could bear the smell! Of course they all noticed it but at least they didn't smell the fish that my parents had made for supper that night! Probably one of the WORST smells!!
The time had finally come to take out the game of "Scruples". What a great game! You really get to know your friends through a game like this! It apparently doesn't help to be honest either!

After we all soaked it the hot tub for probably almost an hour and a half! We were all looking like prunes when we finally got out!

Sunday was a very long day! First we all enjoyed a lunch at church which was served by our youth group! Mmmmmmm!!! A few of us then headed off to Chad's for pretty much the WHOLE day. Kelsey and I had decided earlier to paint together at Chad's. The guys sat on the couches ALL afternoon and watched curling!! UGHH so boring for me to watch! Thankfully Kelsey and I had our little craft corner going on! I had brought a bulletin board along to paint and Kelsey had brought her paper along to paint on! She is such an amazing painter! She offered to give me a piece of her special painting paper to let me attempt at something. I tried copying exactly what she had painted but turned out just horrible. This is what my final product looked like:

I decided that it was better for me to stick to painting wood and not pictures!

We ordered Bill's pizza for supper and then watched Amazing Race! It was really disappointing seeing Rob and Amber be eliminated from the race.... now I have to pick a new favorite team!

2007-03-07T15:16:00.000-08:00

Last weekend was a VERY long weekend for me! On Thursday I only worked until 10 am since I had no work to do and because the weather was so bad. (and that was my last day of work)

I had taken Friday off since I had a foot appointment in the city. Jared willingly let me come along with him since he was going to school anyway. The roads were HORRIBLE!!!! Never been on more icy roads in my life!! Everyone was basically fish tailing. My appointment was for 1pm and he dropped me off at around 12 since he had to be back at the U of M by 12:30. I went up to the office to see if I could get it done right away and I could! It took about 10 minutes and then I had to wait around until 3pm until Jared was done his classes! It felt like forever!! I brought quite a boring book along and I read in the lobby for about an hour and a half and then I headed over to Timmy's which was right across the parking lot and read there for about another 1 1/2!! Finally Jared showed up and off we went to eat supper! We ate around 4ish but we were SOOO hungry!! We of course headed to Applebees! Jared and Darcy arranged for us couples to meet at Silver City for 7ish to watch a movie. We watched "Wild Hogs". Very good movie I must say!! Quite funny! We were all satisfied with the selection! Later we went to Timmy's and spent almost an hour there. So all together on Friday I spent about 2 1/2 hours at Timmy's!! It's a good place! But never again!

I also just started my new job this past Monday.... the first day I can honestly say I went home with a major headache! Information overload!!! I have been there 3 days now and each day seems to be getting better! I think I also wasn't used to being at work for 8 1/2 hours straight!! I have always gone home for lunch for my 1 hour break. I can't wait until I totally feel comfortable with what I have to do!

Time to move on......

2007-03-01T07:47:00.000-08:00

Today is officially my last day of work. I had a good time working at this job but there just wasn't enough work for me. On Monday morning I will be starting a new job at K-Tec!
It was kind of sad emptying out my drawer and throwing away old notes........ but the time has come I guess... to move on!

I guess I leave work in about 10 minutes or so, since I have no work to do and the weather is so horrible! So hopefully I make it home safe on my last drive home from this workplace!

Another Eventful Weekend!

2007-02-24T17:44:00.000-08:00

This weekend I had the priviledge of being able to see ALL my nephews!! I hadn't seen Koen and Liam for probably almost 3 weeks I would have to say!! Too long!!!

Kai's pjamas were WAY too short on him!! It was quite funny!!

Koen has gotten so big since I have last seen him! He totally looks like Amy did when she was a baby! He has so much hair that it automatically styles into a mohawk as you can see!

Liam had quite an evening last night. Our family went to the rink for supper and Liam had such a good time! He got a rocket painted on his face, a balloon shaped into a dog, and a football!

As you can see below..... a party of some sort has begun!

Raquel and I decided to throw a suprise birthday party for Jared and Darcy last night! They were suprised when other people started comming but sure didn't show it! Oh well!! We tried!
Jared attempting the "crab walk limbo".

Jared recieved this game "Chicken Limbo" from Shannon and Tracy for his birthday, so we thought we would pull it out and give it a try! It seemed to be quite the entertaining game! Quite amusing to watch I really must say!!

Darcy also attempting the "crab walk limbo". I think they both made it!

Raquel and I made them a "Hot Dog and Fries" cake! We were so excited to show them our creation! It looked quite disgusting though because it looked so real!! Tasted good tho!

They didn't seem to want to share with anyone else! Does it look real?!?!

It was an eventful evening but a lot of fun!! We played Buzz Word and then we sat in the hot tub. Jon showed up also and was quite excited to sit in the hot tub. Most of us were already in and then Jon came............
He pulled up a chair and was ready to climb on in.... he had a coke in one hand as well... he already had one leg on the ledge and then all of a sudden we heard a crash and looked over at Jon. The chair had slipped away from under his one foot left on the chair. Meanwhile his other leg stayed put on the ledge! Lucky for him he has long legs.. if that would've been me I would've been all other that floor!! Oh Jon.... only you!

Dueck Family Outing

2007-02-19T06:59:00.000-08:00

Yesturday the Dueck family and I headed out to Winnipeg to celebrate Jared's birthday. We were to meet at Dakota Bowling Lanes by 4:45 ........ at least that's what MOST of us thought. Tyler was no where to be seen. Wouldn't you know.... he had gone to Academy Bowling Lanes!!! We did start without him since he was basically at the other end of the city! lol. He did arrive eventually and the evening went on. When you are bowling with the Duecks .... be prepared for some good compeition. They pretty much all seem to be amazing bowlers ..... even you Dana!!!

We headed off to Applebees for supper and Tyler almost didn't make the turn off (at least from what we saw, lol). It almost seemed as though he wanted to go bowling and out for supper by himself!!! Jared basically just got games for his birthday. From Tracy and Shannon he got a game called "Chicken Limbo"!!! lol and yes..... it requires you to do the limbo!!! It was awesome!! I can't wait to play that game!! It actually has a chicken on it and it sings a limbo song!!! He got a few funny cards as well .. but apparently it takes me awhile to catch on to such humor! Well the time had come for the talented group of Applebees singers. Our waiter had asked what the birthday boys name was and he replied ..... "Jared." She then got everyones attention at the restaurant and announced.. "Dan is celebrating his 2oth birthday". She had told us earlier while she was serving our drinks that she had short term memory ... but this was pretty bad since he had JUST told her his name!! We corrected her and she announced his real name. I must say..... the Duecks sure are a fun group of people to hang out with!!! Never a dull moment!!!! ( in a good way)!!!

Jared and I made sure we would make it home by 10 to watch the first episode of Amazing Race: All-Stars! I guess Sunday nights will be filled television watching once again!!

Valentines / Birthday

2007-02-17T09:34:00.000-08:00

Last night I took Jared out for his 20th birthday! I was a week late...... oh well!
First of all we headed down to the Olive Garden on Portage.... it was PACKED!!! We had to wait for 45 minutes!! When we finally got to sit down we enjoyed our salad, soup, and bread sticks. Jared ordered spaghetti and meatballs ................... HUGEST meatballs I have ever seen!!! Plain old me ordered a pepperoni pizza since I am not a fan of the place!

We managed then to make it to the Golf Dome at around 9:00. We hit the driving range for about 40 minutes only since it was $.40 per minute! I only swung and missed about 5 times so that was good!!! I am really really looking forward to golfing with Jared this summer!!! I have never ever been to a golf course so it should be interesting none the less.

We stopped at Tim Horton's on our way back home for some Ice Caps. In Jared's words ...."the worst Ice Cap I have ever had." Oh well, at least I enjoyed mine!!!

I had totally forgotten that I had a birthday present for him until he reminded me! lol. I had bought him a brown t-shirt from New Orleans.

We also gave eachother our Valentines Day gifts yesturday since we didn't have them ready on Wednesday!

Here is what we gave........

So it was Thursday afternoon and I stil had not figured out what to get for Jared. I was feeling a little stressed since I knew he was hard at work making something for me and I didn't want to show up on Friday with nothing!! So I searched around for a few ideas and the idea of making hard candy came to me! I got an old jam jar up and painted it with hearts. I thought the hard candy would go perfect in it!! So in the evening I started to attempt to make hard candy....... without a candy thermometer! BIG MISTAKE!!!! Friday morning I had checked on my creation and it still was not one bit hard!! Once again I was stressed out Friday morning at work. What in the world was I going to put in my painted jar that would still make it special??? I had to think hard since I had to have something by the evening!! Thankfully Tracy and I started emailing eachother that morning..... she had asked me about if I had found something to give to Jared yet. I told her about my idea and how everything turned into a disaster. She gave me the idea of trying again during my lunch hour and she would even lend me her candy thermometer! So I quickly rushed home for lunch break and started once again............ was I ever relieved!!!! I had 10 minutes until I had to be back at work and my candy was hard!!! It even tasted AMAZING!! I never got to eat lunch yesturday but it was sooo worth it! So I put my candy in my painted jar and went from there! Jared had told me that at first he was thinking to himself...... hmmm I guess she painted the jar... so I guess that is special. But when I had told him that I had made the candy himself he was MUCH more pleased and loved it!!! So thank you Tracy for making this all possible!!!! lol

This was Jared's creation................. message in a bottle!!! I was very impressed! He had gotton an old wine bottle, stuck a picture of us in it, filled it with rose petals and then stuck a rolled up note inside. He even burnt the edges of the paper to give it an old look!! Creative I tell you! I appreciate getting something like this instead of the typical roses given on Valentines. Don't get me wrong, I love getting roses, but this was a nice change in between, a lot more thought seems to go into something like this!

...And that concludes our date!!

2007-02-15T14:15:00.000-08:00

Some people told me they were having a hard time reading my blog because of my colors. Let me know if this color is better!

MDS Update .... part 2

2007-02-13T15:24:00.000-08:00

Here is a pic that I forgot to put on yesturdays update. I really like this pic ..... can I say that???

..... Tuesday 4 of us ladies were assigned the job of cleaning up about a 3/4 mile stretch of road right near the church. It took us almost 6 hours since there was SO MUCH garbage everywhere. We got quite a few honks but soon realized it was from the work we were doing!!! Two guys in a van pulled up to where I was working and told me how much they appreciated what we were doing. He even gave me a bag of new work gloves that we could use! The next day we could see already that people had started throwing their garbage out their windows. It was kind of frusterating but it was expected to happen.

Wednesday my Aunt Dorothy and Uncle Menno arrived and I was assigned to the same site as them as well as Sandy Eidse. We went to Alfred Pete's house once again. My Uncle Menno installed cabinets and the countertop while Sandy, Aunt Dorothy, and myself grouted the floor for tiling the next day.

Thursday a lady by the name of Bev Claassen and I went to another site to paint a shed. The wood on the shed was not smooth so I had to use all my strength while I was rolling in order to cover up the wood. It took us almost 8 hours to paint this shed....

.....there were other distractions along the way though. There were three young boys that we met at that particular site. Their names were Lucas, Marcus, and Rene. The one boy Lucas always kept on comming to us and telling us that he was going to paint. Even though we had said no many many many many many many times he just kept comming back. We had to keep a close eye on him since he always was wanting to pick up the paintbrush. His younger brother Marcus got his hand in the paint and put a handful into his mouth. That can't be healthy can it??? By the end of the day those boys had paint around their mouths, skin, and all over their clothes. It's not like we didn't warn them, lol. They were terrbily cute none the less. I got to play a bit of baseball with Lucas that day as well just before my lunch break!

Rene and Lucas

Friday 4 of us ladies stayed back at the church to sweep and mop the floors. Everyone only had to work until lunch that day since we were wanting to be on the road by 1. Our group only had to work until 10 so then Kerry gave Sandy and I a tour of some of the other sites. One of the highlights was being able to go by boat to see Rubys site.

I think everyone that went took this same picture

Ruby picking us up to go to her house

Krystle and I had bought a little craft to work on for our journey there.

Our Home

Our group shot

Well that pretty much wraps up my MDS adventure!!! I would encourage everyone to do something like this in their lifetime!! I had an amazing time and would do it again!!

MDS Update .... part 1

2007-02-12T15:16:00.000-08:00

The time has come to write about my MDS adventure!!!!

Our group of 12 left for Louisiana on Feb.2. The ride there was a lot of fun! Krystle and I spent half the time driving with a couple from Winnipeg, Vance and Bev Rehill and the other half we spent travelling with Merl and Evan. We spent most of our time sleeping and watching movies with Vance and Bev and by the time we got to Merl and Evans van we were ready to play games!! Evan brought a game called "RATS". For some reason it was a TOTALLY addicting game even tho there was not much to it!! Evan told us before we started playing that he always wins. We tried to prove him wrong but he actaully just kept on winning.

We spent our first night in Colombia. Once again, Evan came to our room and we spent some more time playing RATS! Evan seemed to still be winning so we added in a few more rules of our own..... and wouldn't you know it........ Krystle won!!

Evan and Krystle during an intense game of RATS!

Krystle Wins!!!

Speaking of rats, this is the cute rat that Jared bought for me to bring along on my trip.

Krystle and I comparing on how much darker I am than her

Our second night we stopped in Hammond. (not sure where that was exactly)
The next morning we headed off to New Orleans to do some touring. Here are a few pictures of what I saw.........

The famous "Bourbon Street"

Krystle, Evan, and I pose in front of some of the first real palm trees I have ever seen.

A young boy tap dancing for us

Krystle and I posing by fake palm trees

We drove up to Six Flags and it looked like nothing had been worked on since the hurricane.

Pictures of hurricane damage

The "Superdome"

The water level on one of the houses we looked into.

Sunday night we headed down to Diamond which was about 1 hour from New Orleans.

Krystle and I personalized our room door.

Our beautiful Abode

Monday we started off our work week. Sandy Eidse and I headed off to a site to paint baseboards, wash windows and putty. The man we worked for was Alfred Pete.

Alfred Pete's backyard

****I will continue to post tomorrow but right now I have to quickly get ready for my hockey game!!!

Weather Update!!!

2007-02-06T13:41:00.000-08:00

Well I won't post all that much about MDS now but just to let all of you out there know.........I got a bit of a sunburn today and had to wear mosquito spray!!! It is AMAZING weather out here and I don't want to come back to winter :( I will tell you all about my trip when I get back since I really suck at typing on a laptop!!

can't wait to tell you all about this awesome adventure!!!

I have some amazing pics that I will be posting as well!!

That's all!!!

Away I Go!

2007-02-01T11:53:00.000-08:00

I officially now have ONE more night left at home until I leave on MDS for 10 days!
I am really looking forward to this adventure! I am pretty much all packed up now so that's a relief! I have to be at the church by 5:30 a.m tomorrow morning. AHHH soooo early! I hope I don't sleep in!
I've had quite a sore throat these past few days,I didn't even make it to my hockey game on Tuesday. As of now I still don't know if we won or lost!
I just hope my cold clears up by tomorrow to make my travelling conditions a bit better!

That's all I have for now!!!

I will have a lot to post when I get back!!

Update On My Life

2007-01-30T14:35:00.000-08:00

For me, this sure has been awhile since I have last posted. Nothing too overly exciting has happened in the last few days. Last night Jared and I went to Shane's to watch Prison Break and 24. Once again I would have to say they were good episodes. 24 didn' t have too much action tho. Whenever you go to Shane's house you can always expect an array of different foods, and there were tons let me tell you!

Tonight I have a hockey game against Ile Des Chene. I hope I feel alright to play, my throat is feeling quite sore! Oh well, I will have to tough it out! Hopefully this game will be a little more challenging than our last one. We played SBC last week and won 9-1! It still was a fun game tho!

As of now I have 3 more days until I head off to Diamond, Louisiana for MDS. I do not feel all that excited as of yet, but I know it will come on my way there I am sure! I have no idea what to expect when I am out there but I am sure it will be a great experience! I have to miss a wedding and a special birthday while I am gone, so that kind of sucks, but that is just the way it has to be! The special birthday I have to miss is Jared's 20th! I promised him tho that I would make an expensive phone call home on his birthday just for him! (I hope I remember!!! lol) I am really going to miss Jared while I am gone, I know it's sad, but this is the longest we will not be seeing eachother as far as I know. Oh well, it will just be more way more exciting when I do get to see him the Sunday I get back! For his birthday I am planning on taking him to the driving range at the Golf Dome as well as to his FAVORITE restaurant (which I don't like), The Olive Garden. Expensive evening let me tell you, those driving range costs are CRAZY!!!!! Oh well, what I don't do for someone I love!

Please pray that we will have a safe ride there and back!! As well as for safety and team unity as we are there!

2007-01-26T06:36:00.000-08:00

Well, yesturday around 4:00 I went to the hairdresser to get my hair coloured and cut. I was a little nervous to see my long hair go, I mean to others it probably still looks long, but to me it feels like half my length was cut off! Little did I know that I would only be out of there at 7:00!!!! That was the longest hair appointment I think I have ever had!!! 3 HOURS!! I got out of there just in time to make it to Heidi and Bern's by 7:15 to babysit Kai. When I arrived at my sisters house I of course immediately got stuck, stuck just on ice tho and not in any snow! Luckily my dad was passing on his way to Members meeting at church and pushed me out! Bern couldn't help since he threw out his back and Heidi....... well she is pregnant and shouldn't be pushing a car!
Kai was as cute as ever!! He cried for maybe 15 seconds when they left for Bible Study but then after that... a perfect angel! He always seems to be in a good mood! Jared showed up a while later to help me out. Right aways Kai was bringing books to Jared. Jared was a good sport! Kai even wanted to sit on his lap and everything. Kai barely wanted to come to me at all!! He was basically rejecting me all night!! I love it that Kai seems to love Jared so much! We didn't really want to put him to bed because we were having so much fun with him!
I would've posted pictures of Kai and Jared together but stupid me forgot my camera!! They were so cute together!

Curling in Sperling (thanks Todd)

2007-01-21T14:50:00.000-08:00

Saturday evening our college and career group headed out to Sperling for a night of fun! I must say, I had never ever really been in the little town of Sperling before. When we arrrived at the arena, we all decided to partake in the game of curling. A lot of us had never really curled before, including me. It was interesting none the less. Raquel and I would both agree that we are amazing sweepers, right Raquel??? lol. I mean for a little part of the time we kept up with the rock, but a lot of the time we just couldn't run fast enough to get to it. We tried a new stategy since our first one obviously wasn't working. We tried stagering a bit. She went a little closer to the person throwing the rock while I went quite a ways down in case it went past her, that way I would've been farther down to get it. Let's just say, somehow the rock still got away from us!! Anyways, it was a good experience and I am happy to say now that I have curled. I suck at it, but I have done it!!!
After our game of curling most of us headed onto the ice beside and started a game of hockey. All I can say is that those boys were sure skating circles around us girls. I am glad I can just stick to playing on a girls hockey team!
Later we went to Kevin and Becky's for a spread of different pies! It was delicious! We didn't play games like we normally do when we are there, but instead all lay around. I think we all had too much of a workout on the ice!

It may appear that we look like we know what we are doing!

The meal

2007-01-20T00:46:00.000-08:00

I must say that yesturday I had quite a delicious meal! I had gone over to Jared's house before he had really started making anything so I sat in the kitchen and watched. I was not allowed to help at all! I was asking him a lot of questions about things he was putting into this sweet and sour sauce. I found out a lot of things that actually do go into that sauce that I never knew before. His brother Tyler thought that possibly cinnamon went in to make it have the sweet taste and lemon juice to make it sour. lol. Still not sure if he was serious or not! He lit some candles for our meal, as well as put on the softest music he had... "The Fray". I am very proud of Jared for making such an AMAZING meal!

The Chef in his beautiful pink apron!

Looks amazing doesn't it?

He always does that to me when we take pictures!

The concert

2007-01-19T12:26:00.000-08:00

Yesturday was the Dierks Bently concert and here are a few photos from the event.
They are not very close up, but it was the closest I could zoom my camera!!
It was not nearly sold out but it was a good concert!

Dierks Bentley

Doc Walker

Eric Church

Can you tell it was a country concert!?

Things to look forward to!

2007-01-17T15:46:00.000-08:00

Today during my lunch break I recieved a phone call from Brittany Kornelson........ she invited me to join her at the Dierks Bently concert tomorrow night at the MTS Centre, along with Olivia, Chandra and possibly Annette! Doc Walker and Eric Church will be there as well. The best part is........ is that it is FREE!!! Plus, we will be in box seats! I am really looking forward to spending a night out with the girls!!!

The other day I am looking forward to is Friday night. Why??? My wonderful boyfriend will be cooking me a meal, my favorites even!!! Sweet and sour sausage and mashed potatoes!!! The special part is, is that he is doing it all by himself. Myself would probably struggle making such a meal as I am not all that good with cooking yet. As long as he knows how to maybe I don't have to!!

My ADORABLE nephews!

2007-01-16T16:11:00.001-08:00

Koen Oliver

Kai Dante

Liam Cole

2007-01-16T14:49:00.000-08:00

To those who tried commenting, it should work now!

Post number one, hopefully not the last...

2007-01-15T21:49:00.000-08:00

first post.

I have decided to begin my adventure that lies within the world of Blogging.
I'm not sure I will get very far but we will see how creative I will get.
Kelsey has finally taken on the task of helping me with the beginning part of blogging. Showing me the ways of the Blogger world.

So here goes nothing:
To start my blogging off with a bang I'll simply state what my evening consisted of. It's a Monday and on Monday's I get together with 4 other special people. Jared, Chad, Kelsey, and Shane. Our reason for getting together? 24.
Tonight was the second half of the season 6 premiere and I must say I am speechless.
That's all.