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Yesterday Sarah and I accomplished something great, yes, yes, working on the guest list.  We -think- we’ve got everyone but we’ll see how that goes when Brian and Sheliah come and visit in a week Monday.  I think my mom has some extra ideas for invites.  We’ve also worked out some favours details, we’re pre-ordering the ones for adults this week as there will be about 4 months prep time and it will take 2 months for the stock to arrive in from the supplier.  The youth / young one favours are far less an ordeal and will be prepared a few weeks before hand.

Yes, among all of this yesterday, we still managed to make it to a trampoline land birthday party in the Kamloops Tournament Center for a good friend of the families son, Aiden had a blast, some video below!  And yeah, the lawn got done yesterday as well.  As the heat goes down, the darned thing grows faster.

the Trampoline

help i’m stuck in the foam pit

MEN ARE JUST HAPPIER PEOPLE…..

NICKNAMES

• If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah.
• If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Dickhead and Shit for Brains.

EATING OUT

• When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it’s only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
• When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

MONEY

• A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
• A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t need but is on sale.

BATHROOMS

• A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel .
• The average number of items in the typical woman’s bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.

ARGUMENTS

• A woman has the last word in any argument.
• Anything a man says after that, is the beginning of a new argument.

FUTURE

• A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
• A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

SUCCESS

• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
• A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

MARRIAGE

• A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t.
• A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change, but she does.

DRESSING UP

• A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.
• A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.

NATURAL

• Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
• Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

OFFSPRING

• Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
• A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

A married man should forget his mistakes. There’s no use in two people remembering the same thing!

Originally we were going to be booking the All Saint’s Parish hall until we found out the Parish Priest wasn’t going to be around to confirm or provide booking information until the end of Summer.  Seeming with the MADNESS down in the GVRD / Vancouver over selecting the Reception Halls, ceremony locations and all the other funness we couldn’t risk being unable to get the particular locations we wanted.

The options were, a Hall In Queens Park New Westminster, In Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park, In Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam.  I will post the names as a update to this post later.  The only important item is that it looks we booked the last and best hall!

As it turns out, the Theater was due for maintenance the weekend we wanted and they were holding it for this purpose instead of renting it out.  The technicians will only be in the Theater for a couple of hours.  As it happens, we’re not interested in the Theater and only want the Grand Galleriea.  With this in mind, the wonderful staff at Port Moody City Hall Parks and Rec were able to speak to them, confirm the maintenance requirements and rent us one of the most beautiful locations we could find, oh how Wonderful!

It sounds like Port Moody is our reception location and we’ve already picked the location / date / and apparently colours too (Sarah).  Anyone with thoughts or comments on the Reception Venue is more than welcome to post a comment.  Is there anything else that we can get – equally as good?

Sarah today received the catalogue of Invitations I so graciously ordered from somewhere on some internet site.  We have yet to receive the samples.  Well, did I get a phone call that went something like this “I’m heading out to Michaels to see if we can get the for less than a kings randsom”.  Apparently, envelopes, RSVP cards, Invitations and Reception Cards in a package are a little expensive!  Who knew …

Personally I still like the idea of ordering them, simplifies the process, all we need to do is address, seal, and send.  Oh well, it’s as much her Wedding as mine, hah, who am I kidding, it’s all about her.

We were working on putting this day together ourselves (oh who am I kidding, this is all her).  After a period of time, um, a short period of time it became apparent that just like all Weddings, we were going to have some major cost overruns and other related Wedding – issues -. 

A Dream Away Wedding Planning in Kamloops stepped up to assist and provide knowhow, decorations and ongoing assistance.  A little later we’ll describe our thoughts and details for how we went through the planning and selections process for “our” big day.  Right now, just know that we have selected them for a great many reasons, the main one being, they do Weddings – the right way.  Experience always helps.

So, it was decided that All Saint’s Parish was the place to be.  It turns out there’s a caveat – the parish priest isn’t back from Africa until the end of August!  Oh oh, can’t set a firm date or anything really until we know we can get the permission we need for our ceremony to be held there.  That isn’t even the big problem.

The issue remains with the hall, we called must have been 15 different locations in Vancouver, Coquitlam, New Westminister, Port Moody, and Port Coquitlam.  This isn’t an issue, but apparently if your in the GVRD, you start planning for a date two years from “the day”.

Yes, it’s true, I finally asked someone to marry!  It was a long year past when I started thinking about it, Sarah went off to school in Vancouver and our son Aiden went with her.  While in Kamloops I spent my time working on the business AI, working on the house, trying to get the lot in order, took down 5 trees on our property, and finished a full third of our fence.  It was quite a year!

Two months before they came home I’d saved all my pennies knowing I’d be proposing upon her return and started shopping for “the” ring.  Hadn’t really though about when / where until she started planning a Canada Day / Welcome home bbq.  Then it just hit, this would be the perfect time, in the privacy of our own home, almost a year to the day we had moved them into the basement suite in Vancouver.

Needless to say, she said “Yes”, started crying a little bit and mentioned in passing that by now she thought I was never going to ask and was ready to remain happy and firmly attached by my side anyway.