Last Few Months.....

I wanted to be a better blogger than when I attempted at one a year ago. It's not looking much better but I hope I can redeem myself and get on here more than once every three months.

A lot has been going on in our lives in the last few months. The house has been keeping us so busy and has been extremely hectic. Even the thought of coming home on an evening and spending it blogging is definitely not something I wanted to do. Now that life has slowed down just a bit I can update you on everything going and blog a lot more.

Our new kitchen is FINALLY in!!!!! It took approx. 8 weeks to get a semi working kitchen. Right now it is looking like by the end of this week (week 9) we will have a full working kitchen, all our appliances working and cupboards full. It is going to a glorious day when I am able to cook in my kitchen and then sit down at our dining table and eat a meal in our own house.

Original Kitchen

New Kitchen

Back Wall with New Door & Window

With having no kitchen we really haven't spent a lot of time at home. Mainly because we can't cook here but all the rest of our rooms have been filled with all our kitchen appliances (one set for upstairs and one set for our downstairs basement suite). Our home hasn't been a very relaxing place to be and we don't have any room to just sit down and hang out. We are finally cleaning up everything and moving things from all the other rooms to our kitchen.

Other than that Ben and I have both been working a lot. Ben is currently on night shift and keeping busy with home stuff in the mornings. I am working for my dad still and going to school at BCIT in the evenings.

Our puppy Nixon is not so much of a puppy anymore he is now 8 months old. I have been taking him to beginner dog training classes. Also I have started to volunteer once a week in the afternoons at the Burnaby Custody Centre or Juvie Hall. I am a recreational volunteer so I play sports with the kids for a few hours. It's a lot of fun and the kids are great. I would like to volunteer twice a week but just need to get used to the environment first.

Coming up in a couple of weeks we are taking a 4 day vacation to California to visit Ben's Sister and Brother in law and their 4 awesome kids. We are really excited to just go down there and hang out. We are hoping for some hot hot weather so we can come back with tans. After working on the house and putting all our effort in to it we are excited to get out of town and enjoy some relaxing time.

I will blog more in the next few days of more that has been going on.