4 Years of Bliss!

We have been married now for 4 wonderful years! (Been together for almost 10 years...wow). Our love grows stronger and stronger each day. Its cheesy to say, but I really do love him more eachday. We've had our ups and downs, learned to pick our fights and remember that communication is always the way to go. A great quality about Matt is that he never gives up! If I am being difficult and hard to understand, he will work through it with me instead of choosing to get mad and walk away. I do the same with him and i KNOW that that is the reason why we are so strong. We are best friends. Tell eachother EVERYTHING. Look forward to the end of the day when we get to see eachother. We find that words are getting harder to find as the years go by to describe how much we mean to eachother. This year I made him a slideshow and that, to me, speaks a thousand words about our relationship. Sacrifice is another huge part of a great marriage, for almost 9 years of our relationship, Matt choose to live in Ottawa with me and my family. Even though it killed him to be so far away from his family and friends, he did it for me. Now after 9 years, it is my turn to sacrifice and leave my family and friends. The only way Matt could get his dream job as a FireFighter was to move to Calgary, lucky for him (and me) this is where his family lives aswell. It was the right decision and I know that our marriage will be stronger because of it. We are so grateful for the Lord's hand in our life and that we choose to be sealed together for eternity. Hel. 10:7 whatsoever ye shall seal on earth shall be sealed in heaven; That is one of my favorites from the Book of Mormon.

All Moved In

We have been having a great time living here in Okotoks so far. On Friday June 12th we got pocession of our house! I picked up the keys at noon and celebrated with Caitlin and Kristi while Matt was at work. Thanks again girls for your thoughtfulness and for helping clean:P We moved in to our new house on Monday June 15th after painting prior on the friday night and Saturday all day!! Thank you so much to Matt's Dad, who is a painting machine!! Matt's Mum, his sister Barb and her daughter Rachel also stopped by and gave a muchly needed helping hand. Thank you so much to you all for giving of your time. We really appreciated it. On Monday Sue and I started and finished painting Parks' room, it looks great! I am grateful for the helping hand Mum. Move-in night was long and not so fun, but Matt, Ben and Grant pulled through and helped us in a huge time of need. A special thank you aswell to Matt's Mum for keeping Parks happy in the process. We are so blessed to of found such a wonderful home in such a short amount of time. It is such a peaceful area, we are surrounded by paths and parks, we even have a little pond area beside our house where kids catch frogs:) For the past week and a bit I have been climbing over boxes trying to unpack things and keep Parks happy at the same time, every mess I clean up Parks makes a new one somewhere else:) It has not been easy. But there ARE worse things in life. I'm kinda getting use to my routine of either unpacking or playing at the park:)
We ordered some new carpets for the house thanks to my wonderful parents:) thank you again! The current carpets are white...our dog is brown...we have a 1 year old boy running around...it was a no brainer! They are muchly needed.
For Father's Day Matt really wanted to go up to Tie Lake for the weekend, so his wish was my command:=) I'm glad we went, it was a good break, especially for Matt who has been working so hard. He is in week 6 now out of 11 for the Fire Fighter Training, 4 guys have been fired, 2 quit due to illnesses and 1 guy just didn't like it so quit. Luckily Matt is still top of his class, he cant believe he is getting paid to do this job. I am so lucky to have such a hard working, dedicated husband/father. He's out the door at 6am and home usually by 6pm, and even though he is exhausted from his very long day, he always makes time to play with his son, offers to go for family walks AND he'll even hang a few pictures for me...ALL with no complaints. Parks and I are so grateful to have you, Matt. Everything you do is for our family. We love you so much.

Parks Jumping