Christmas Draw!

We drew names today for Christmas. There were none of the same ones as last year that we could think of.

Ross buys for Jen
Kate buys for Corey
Geoff buys for Doug
Ashley buys for Rob
Corey buys for Geoff
Doug buys for Ashley
TJ buys for Ross
Jen buys for TJ
Rob buys for Kate

We decided to include anyone who is living together, so that's why Kristen isn't on the list for this year. Hope that's ok!

We're bad at this!

Hi guys, I just was looking at the blog and realized nobody has written since last year and it's already the end of june!

So I'll start :)

I'm gonna be a DADDY!
You all know now anyways but I just wanted to say it again... TJ has her first doctors appointment on tuesday, not sure yet if her family doctor delivers babies or if we'll find an obstetrician.

We're both very excited about it. Definitely didn't expect it would happen this quickly though. Just in the first couple days after we moved in we started talking and decided that we'd just let nature take it's course and see what happened... well nature took about 4 days... lol.

Got any advice for us?

Much Love,
Doug & TJ

From Doug

Hey everyone, since all of you have been posting like crazy I figured I should too!

Not a whole lot really new with me, except my jeep, it's pretty much my whole life... lol...



That's how she sits now, except there's some windshield lights that I just finished installing so I don't have a pic yet.

Other than my jeep, school's going good. I was really sick for the first 2 weeks of the semester and missed a lot of classes, but I'm better now. I had my first test this morning, it was for my human sexuality class and the test was really easy. Hopefully that trend will continue and I'll bring my marks up this semester. They're not bad but it'd be nice to be a bit higher and give me a better shot at getting into Physio.

That's pretty much it for me, I'm glad everyone seems to be doing well. Good work with the job and all your future plans ross, good to see you getting excited and ambitious at it.

Anyways, I'll talk to you later and hopefully see everyone soon!

Love,
Doug

Updates

Hello to all, nice to see all your updates, I think there is more on here this month than in the last 6 months. Mostly this is just for Ross. Buzzy we are all so proud of you. You have all of our love, and best wishes up there. I hope you are having some fun. Please be careful, take care of yourself. We would love to see some pics if possible. Not sure if you have much internet access though. I love to see your longterm plans. The house idea sounds cool. Take your time, your young and don't need to rush into anything that is going to tie you down. Make the money SAVE it and when the time is right you will be set. As for firefighting I like the idea of trying it out on a volunteer thing first. You so freaken smart some days it amazes me. Then there all the other days lol Just kidding. Hope all is going well up there and cant wait to see you and hear all about it when you get home. Lots of love Ashley and family

Riggin it.

Geoff! Don't ruin your life! go kick a ball around you can't waste this talent. man up!

I don't know whats goin on with anyone. I'm in red deer alberta, staying at an old army base, I go out to my Rig on friday or saturday, I'm saving 12 grand for firefighting school in texas. then saving 40-50 for a down payment on a house of my own in kelowna. then I'm going to do a paid on call firefighter for 6 months to a year before I decide whether I want to go to school or not and continue with firefighting. I should be able to make the money for school and a house by next summer, this money is going to be nuts! hope everyone is well, quick update because im in starbucks and I'll let you guys know whats next, update me on your lives please!

Love you guys more than you know! 

Ross

life today

hey folks.
rob, that suit is sweet, i have a similar one in my video game but yours is way cooler being real and all that.
jen, the kids look great, i hope things are going as good as they look. thanks for your help with the house. sorry things are going slow i haven't been all that on top of it but hopefully next week we can sort it out.
ashley and corey same to you guys and i hope things are going well.
mom i'm excited to see the new place when we move you next weekend.
ross i'm glad to hear you had your first scare and made it out without a scratch, i'm sure there will be more scares along your travels but hopefully you'll continue to walk away unscaved. i was talking to ashley about your firefighting idea and i think going to work on the rigs for a bit is a great idea to pay for it, i don't know if you're in a hurry to get into firefighting school but i was saying to ash that it might be a good idea for you to get into fighting forest fires for the summer to see if you like the whole firefighting idea, plus you'll get some experience and make some good jake too. just an idea. and it might help with your decision to pursue firefighting before dropping 8g on the course.
as for my crap. school is going pretty good. i have one reallly cool class where we just learn how to be good PE teachers. my other 3 courses are going to be ok but arn't as interesting. things with kristen are going pretty good. we don't see eachother as much now that we're in school but it's still good. you'll be suprised to hear that soccer hasn't been my entire life lately. haven't been as excited about it and i even got benched last weekend and only got about 15 minutes today. getting benched was a bit of a wake up call though, hopefully i'll get back into it soon. anyway just thought i should throw my two cents out there. love ya'll

Ross again.

WOW, the man's gettin serious about his hunting! such a cool suit! and Josh looks even better than Rob haha. I forgot to call on Katie's birthday! tell her I'm sorry and that she doesn't get her present until I see her, Kids are looking great Jen! 

 Ok, I leave sunday for red deer, do some training sorta stuff there for a few days and then I'm out to my first riggin job. I'm going to work the rigs until I make $8000 because thats how much the firefighters course is. oh yea, I was talking to Jen on the phone yesterday and she reminded me of how I wanted to be a firefighter since I was a kid. Being as I have no life and would still love to do it, I'm goin for it. So I'm workin the rigs, coming back here to Kelowna for snowboard season, while training to become a fireman (just by myself going to the gym to get ready) and then I'll try and enroll in the may program because i'll have gotten rid of my N and thats one of the requirements of the program. so looks like I'll actually be kinda busy for the next couple years, compared to the rest of my life anyways. 

I also have a biker story for you guys, don't worry, already told mom about it.

So, the other day, I was sitting at kate's place trying to figure out what I'm going to do with my life, and I got really frustrated and decided to go for a ride. I was about half an hour in, riding on a back road to winfield, and I saw a rock about the size of a large grapefruit on the road, right then I realized that I wasn't paying enough attention to my riding because I was thinking about other things in life. and I've learned that when your riding, it's not like going out for a cruise in the truck to think and relax, it has to be all about the ride. anyways, I ride about another ten minutes and I'm back to thinking about life, when I round a slight corner, and BAM! just kidding. but I round this corner not paying enough attention and find myself drifting off the road into the gravel, there were cars infront of me, behind e and coming toward me. I skidded along a gravel truck rut for about 25 feet just trying to stay on my bike. I managed to keep it on two wheel and stay alive. but it really made me realize how important it is to stay focused. I was absolutely pissed off at myself! after all the traffic was gone I turned around and rode home and haven't ridden since, I told myself I wasn't going to ride untill I knew I could stay completely focused on my riding.  

One more thing! dirtbikes ride sitting up straight, feet under you, and cruisers ride sitting back stretched out feet up, and I feel like part of me not being able to stay on the road by just quickly turning back into my lane was my seating position. It's a really weird feeling to be sitting in the cruiser position and lean over into turns and it's also hard to do quick maneuvers, It made me feel like maybe I'd be better riding a crotch rocket just for the reason of how at home it feels because of dirtbiking. I'm not sure, but I sure wasn't happy with myself after that mess up!