This was taken on a walk in the forest behind our new home a couple weeks ago. It was perfect golden hour and completely solidified (again) why what we chose is perfect for us.
We celebrated Christmas with our friends at home this year (our first time in Vancouver for the holidays since we moved here 3 years ago) and it was perfect. Christmas Eve in our new home, Christmas morning at Kim and Ed’s new home, Christmas dinner at Reilly and Miranda’s new home. If you’d said to any of us 6 months ago that we’d all be home owners before the end of the year we would have LAUGHED. SO. HARD. But then R&M started the process on the first place they were interested in and it got the wheels seriously turning for Josh and I. We knew we wanted to buy at some point, hopefully sooner than later, but hadn’t SERIOUSLY considered it until that point. And then we found out it wouldn’t be nearly as difficult as I thought it might be. And then we walked in the door of this place and it clicked. This was it. And we couldn’t be more thrilled.
I’m so happy we were all able to find and afford and move into our perfect homes before the end of the year. What a perfect way to end 2009 and begin 2010.
This has nothing to do with anything, other than… I like green.
I’m really busy at work and have a giant headache, but otherwise all is excellent. We moved. We have a home. We OWN a home (kind of… in 35 years or so). There have been parties. There have been meatballs. Snowboarding. Dance. Not much singing but I expect that to be remedied next week. Christmas planning and Christmas goodies (oi). We live in exciting times.
Sidenote: Huge big massive love and shout outs to MJ Ankenman and Chris LeMay for hooking us and everyone we know up with new perfect homes this year. 2009 was good for you guys!
I was reminded last night that I have yet to show off the photos Josh and I had done by Reilly and Miranda for our anniversary back in April. And given how freaking enthralled I am with how they turned out I really should have been showing them off sooner.
So! Here’s the slideshow they put together for us that makes me all squishy inside when I watch it. Tra la!
I’ve been on quite the nostalgic kick today, which means you get something from WAY back.
This was taken on my old Pentax MZ-6 35mm camera wandering with Kris around Lower Mount Royal in Calgary on a brisk winter day – I can’t remember exactly when, but this photo was one of the very first I uploaded to flickr in 2005 and it was taken at least a few years before that. I don’t really know what it is about this photo, but I love it.
