our little (huge) family

For the next 8 days Matt & I have 5 children... yes, count them, 5!!! We're staying with the MacIntosh kids while Dan and Margurite are in Palm Springs. We are staying in a beautiful house, full of fun food that I would never buy for Matt like pizza pops and chimmy changas, and I get to drive the van... that's right, Im a soccer mom!!! We are having a blast so far though, Matt is like a kid again playing hide-and-go seek and lots of Xbox while the girls and I have made a sushi date and already hit the mall.
In other good news we're getting lots of bites on our car and Mr. V is on the hunt for a nice cheap putt-putt for us. He's so great and we feel so blessed to have him looking for us. We (mostly Matt) will greatly miss the Celica... it was the car he first asked me out in, its taken us on many trips to Seattle, Summerland and Vancouver and it is pretty fast!! But its time for something that doesnt cost us a million bucks to fix everytime a little thing goes wrong and we probably should sell it now, while we can still get a decent price for it. Any takers?? Haha.
Last random thought for the blog... Praise God for Darren, who was voted in with an astounding 90% last weekend as our new "Vicar"!!! Woot woot for the many good years of making morman jokes and chasing Taylor and Matty around to come.

katie's "wifeing it" blog...

Sunday night.... The week looms ahead of me, ominous and full of lots of basketball and tutoring, with no hope of the snow days I have come to love. I sit here in front of my cozy, pink-tiled fireplace and try to sort through my thoughts of Darren's sermon this morning on marriage and roles and submission... Im wrestling through this all, my Karis CD playing in the back ground to feed my introspective mood.
Some times I feel like I have a little dual personality thing going on in this area... there are my natural, sinful, stubborn instincts to rebel and be like a 2 year old stomping my foot in declaration of my independence. Then there is the "Focus on the Family", Sunday school answer, that the concept of submission and dying to self is easy to understand, I just let my husband lead and go with the flow. But in reality I am not happy with either of these options. I don't want to just go with the flow and yet I am perfectly happy to just "wife-it" as a friend of mine recently referred to it. So what is the fine balance? How is it that man and woman were created equal, with separate, equally important roles. I think I have a hard time wrapping my head around it because its not tangible. Im a "kinesthetic" learner (according my psycology text book) which means I like concrete rules and examples. There is no step by step process to 'dying to self'. mmmm....
That was a ramble, Im fully aware, but its just what Im thinking and I suppose its in a bit of response to Steph's blog last week - just to let her know she's not alone in her wrestling...

Some more of Brady's amazing shots!

Pictures by our very own Brady Fishbook...

A Whole New Season...

December 17, 2006 I married the most amazing man in the whole world and now I have a new name, all new kitchen appliances and I sleep with a boy. We had a beautiful day, so many amazing and loving people helped us by making it all look gorgeous. I am thrilled with it all, it was perfect! I don't just say that because that's what people should say after they get married, I really mean it! There are a few things that I would do differently, hind sight it always 20-20, but they are little and insignificant. We had so much fun and have spent the last 3 weeks talking about how blessed we are! We had an amazing pastor who married us, he really knew us and gave an awesome message that made us laugh and cry. Our wedding party was a blast put up with the chill during pictures. Brady took some AWESOME shots which I will post later and I am still anxiously awaiting Mike's pictures. We were also so thankful for our families, our parents gave us so much from the wedding itself, to Carla's amazing rehersal dinner, to so much love and joy throughout the day. And of course, our amazing geusts. It was so awesome to look out at all those people and be so thankful that each one was there! They all meant so much to us in different ways but I can honestly say that I was thankful for everybody, and also thankful I knew them all... hehe.
We went on to have a great honeymoon. Dan and Margurite so generously gave us their condo in Sunpeaks for the week. We got to explore the village, ski and snowboard and have lots of play time in the snow.
Since we've been home we've done a ton of visiting with family and friends, opened our huge load of AMAZING gifts, set up our suite (which is huge and now full of beautiful things and great treats from IKEA!) and generally bummed around and enjoyed married life.
I must say I am loving my new season of life... I feel settled and content. I'm trying not to be too corny here but it really does feel like home....