This is a very long post of pictures... but it was hard to summarize a relationship with my dear friend Carina in words...i thought the pictures might help me to share some memories as we anticipate their wedding tomorrow evening!  It's been a wonderful crazy eccentric at times deep and amazing journey together as sisters in the Lord and dear friends and I love you dearly!  You're marrying a great Scott and we wish you the Lord's blessings!

She can be a crazy driver!

 The three amigos at Niagara Falls on a girls weekend!

On the beach in Florida last January...

Golfing with the gators!!

She's a hot one!  All dolled up at Campfire!

Hmmm...should John be worried???  J.A. Macdonald doesn't seem to mind!

Curacao trip - that's an awfully big iguana! 

Enjoying rijstafel in Curacao... it sure was yummy!

Scared of dinosaurs are we??



One of the Mussche sisters...

Shopping in the States!  Oh what fun!  Look at that trunk!

Two great friends with two big plans... our last "single" adventure!

Relaxing on the beach on Pelee Island!  What a fun vacation!

At the southern most inhabited tip of Canada... hopefully we weren't going to fall off and drift into the States!

A typical Carina pose during (or should i say just after) a Settler's game...

 she's a super competitive player...

A typical Danielle pose after a Settler's game...how did i lose yet again???

On a wine tour with the ladies - Brenda, myself, Helen, Carina and Lois!  

This is just a funny funny picture... 

Always needing to be heard!

There's no pining away here, we're a bunch of saps when it comes to Christmas -

 must have a real tree!!!

On the wagon in PEI at Anne's house!

Doesn't she look just like Anne??

A whole birthday crowd - it was amazing to be together with so many wonderful women to celebrate my 30th birthday in style (and secrecy)

Always loves to read!

At my recent wedding shower - i was so happy to have Carina stand up for me as maid of honour!  I only hope i can return the favour as elegantly and capably!  (although i'm a matron - apparently!)



There ain't no flies on us!!!  Horsing around at Campfire!

Carina picked out her wedding shoes long long ago in a faraway mall

We also picked out our wedding hats!

Apparently then she picked out a Scott and they went after a swan in a canoe

Row, row, row your boat, gently down the lake... merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is such a dream!

In the summer, we made a visit up to Caledon to see the lovely couple and share a day with them!  We went on a hike, got "lost" and had some adventures!  Thanks for the great memories!

The happy couple!  December 21, 2012... We wish you the Lord's blessings and much happiness in your marriage and journey together as husband and wife!

It's a lovely day

I just wanted to do a very quick post before i left to go pick up my dear mother so we can go thrift store shopping for some specific items (it's sometimes fun to go with a goal, and at other times frustrating!).
I wanted to acknowledge that it is 12-12-12 today.  I had forgotten about that and when i was writing dates on something at work yesterday, all of a sudden i remembered and then was super excited and made sure all my surrounding co-workers were noticing the significant date - apparently, this will not happen again in our lifetimes!  So i'll have to find something fun to do at that time - 12:12 on the 12-12-12... that's a lot of 12s!!!  I think it might be particularly endearing to me since i'm born on the 12th!
And secondly, the fact that Filip the Fir is proudly and quite capably filling a space in our living room.  We chose him from amongst his 500 identical siblings at IKEA last evening for a great price and trundled him home, all the while debating what his name should be (nothing like creating a character and identity for your Christmas tree i think to keep things interesting).  Was it a boy or a girl?  I think we agreed it was a boy - and since we met our friend Phil at the shop, we thought it might be something in honour of him - though we changed the spelling a little to make it more flowing and flowery...
So now our home smells delicious - we joked last night that we should have taken a picture of Filip in the car and told everyone we just bought a new air freshener - really handy portable and other things like that! 
We've let him settle overnight - he didn't tip or fall but simply popped open his bound together branches and has given us a very pretty show of how symmetrical and full he is, but yet, full of character since he has nearly four tops - do we need four tree-toppers then???

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