Marriage is an adventure:)

Time has just FLOWN by since my last posting, my goodness! There are many pictures on my facebook account from the wedding and honeymoon, so those of you that have facebook are more than welcome to see those pictures! If not, well I will post some pictures on here soon. The wedding went wonderful but there is SO much to explain, and lots to tell! The honeymoon was incredible and moving into our new home was such a blast. Lots of work went into all of these things but they all turned out great in their own special days;) Our wedding day was incredibly beautiful and such a blast, just different than we had expected;) The morning of the wedding we got a call from Deepwood saying there was 70% chance or rain, so they wanted to set up the reception under the tent. Little did they know we would be moving everything under the tent for the ceremony as well. Rain began to POUR about ten minutes before the ceremony was supposed to start, so we had to make some drastic changes. Everything felt extremely chaotic to me at times, but so much fun others. We were so blessed to have all the people we loved under one tent. Thank you to all of you that came and celebrated with us!








We have now settled into the home and are loving this new world. It's just so fun being a wife. Dinners are fun to make, and cleaning...well...I enjoy it...when I'm not working. I've started working at Lynden Chocolates, an adorable little specialty chocolate shop across the border in Washington. It's such a fun place to work! Learning to make coffees and milkshakes and then the difference between an english toffee truffle and a turtle is such blast! It's a good thing the novelty of the chocolate has worn off! I just enjoy my morning coffee:) I am really enjoying working with people and getting to know them! Jason has started school again full time and I am going part time, it's nice to have a schedule!

Hope you are doing wonderful! Would love to hear from you!

Britt

Love is in the air!

Well, I would have to say all that I think about is my WEDDING! HONEYMOON! NEW HOME! NEW LIFE! People have been asking me if I have had a hard time being away from Jason, and honestly yes, it is difficult to be away from him. Yet knowing that I am going to be his bride in about six weeks makes the wait just that much more worth it. We both are keeping extremely busy with work and preparing the wedding, or our life up in BC in Jason's case. I am truly enjoying the time I am spending with my family, for all of you know how much they mean to me. This time at home has been such a precious gift and I will cherish this summer for my life! God has blessed me with the most incredible family. Thank you Lord!

I have been spending some hours here and there, wish it could be more, yet then again I am very thankful for the time I am not working, at Craft Warehouse! It has been definately a new thing for me, and for the first time in a long time I am...well...having to allow time for friendships to begin. Normally I can come into a place and immediately make some type of connection with people. Everyone there is really nice, just took a bit to be able to be myself with my co-workers. I am now enjoying work a lot more and honestly I love every one of the regulars that come in that store! Let me tell you, there are a lot of regulars:) It's been really nice getting sweet ideas for my wedding being surrounded by lots of incredible things! Hard to save money in a place full of my hobbies!

That's all for today's update. Jason was here last weekend and it was amazing! Loved spending time with him:) We spent Sunday picking out our wedding bands and finding the right tuxes and he's gonna be a stud! :) Like usual of course:)

I am just loving the place I am in life. Now I just need to find a good job once I get back to school in the fall, def keep that in your prayers!

Have a wonderful Memorial Weekend! It's my 21st b-day this next week, crazy how time flies! It's def not the same celebrating my birthday without some of my closest friends that are all across the country...yet I am blessed to spend such precious time with my family. I love them! Alex gets to be home with us and that is such a blessing as well! We will cherish EVERY moment we have with him before he heads out on his next adventure.

Christ's love

Britt

Quick Update...

Well, since I am trying to keep this thing going and really get into the world of blogging, I am going to update! It's already past time. Lately I have just been getting the wedding invitations put together and that is quite the job! My Mom has been an incredible help and Cyndi (Mother-in-love)REALLY helped us with getting everything started. Thank you Cyndi:) Hopefully they will be ready to be sent out on Thursday! That's our goal...and I would like to meet it! The rest of the wedding plans are coming together really well:) Just so much fun! I've definately got more than enough to do before the big day, and in a way it's a little stressful! But I know it will all be done.
I did get a job at Craft Warehouse! YAY! I start this week, and am hoping I will learn everything quickly. I will only be working there for a short time of course, but it is a true blessing to have even gotten the job. Thank you Lord!
Today I had my final fitting and got to take home my wedding gown! I just LOVE it:) Can't wait to wear it!
Well, this is it for my quick little update. Jason and I are both really looking forward to all the wonderful things that are coming up! God is so good:) We feel so blessed with a wonderful place to move into in August. Our first home!! Jason has an amazing job for the summer, so he is really looking forward to getting that going. We are also heading to Hilton Head Island (I think that's the area) for our honeymoon. We are in a condo for the week and then spending two nights in Savannah Georgia at the Hamilton-Turner Inn. Check it out! It's incredible! So everything is coming together beautifully and I am SO excited to see everything play out:)

Hope all is well with you and I would love to hear from you!

Britt

This is for you Chris!

I was just reading through someone's blog and they had repeatedly apologized for the lack of blogging. Well, here I go....I'M SORRY! There is so much to update on this blog that it's just absolutely ridiculous that I even have one! Don't people with blogs update them? At least once every couple of weeks? So here's for a toast-to blogging, it's time to enjoy the point of you in the first place and I'm going to use you more and more and more and more. It's important to me that you all know what's going on in my life and well, soon this will no longer be the sweet life of Britt, its going to be the sweet life of Jase and Brit! Actually, for some odd reason he thinks this is a lame title. Made sense when I was a freshman in college:) But I would agree, it's time for a change! Especially if I will be actually using this wonderful resource!

So, here it goes!

Life is WONDERFUL! Everything that I have dreamed of over the last ten years of my life seems to be coming true. God, you are so good:) The last blog that I had was pictures of Jason and I. At that time, we were just friends getting to know each other, and well, falling in love. God has written our story out so beautifully and perfect for me, and I praise Him for it daily! Over the summer we spent a lot of time talking on the phone and traveling back and forth from Canada to Oregon to spend a few precious hours together. We had made our relationship official for those who desired a label for the two of us, and well, for myself! It was killing me that I couldn't call Jason, mine. After coming back to school in September, it was amazing to be able to be closer together again and in January we got engaged! January 1st to be exact:) I'll have to post the story of our engagement on here too. Jason did an amazing job making me feel like a princess that's for sure! And it even matches the ring he got me:) After the excitement of being newly engaged settled, we began our planning of the special day. It's coming together SO beautifully and the day is going to be one more dream come true. We look forward to standing in front of our God and those whom we really love and cherish and making the commitment to honor and cherish each other for the rest of our lives. Only three months to go! Next year we will be living here in Abbotsford finishing up our final times at CBC and just growing together as a couple. I'm so excited to turn that blessing of a condo into our own little home. Yay:)

As for this summer, Jason will be staying here in BC working and spending time with his friends and family, as well as gearing up to be a husband! It'll be really nice for him to be able to take a break from school and just spend time with the friends that he can't see as much during the school year. I will be going back home to Oregon and spending that time with my family, just soaking in those last few months as a single girl (not single, but you know what I mean) It's going to be such a blessing being close to my family every day, for they are truly amazing people and I love them so much! God has truly blessed Jason and I both with amazing families. Next year Jason will be back in school full time and I will be working and taking a few classes as well. In about two years we'll both be finished with school and heading into whatever God has for us!

Right now I am studying for my last final tomorrow (environmental issues) and just packing up this adorable little basement suite. It's been so awesome living with my best friend Nikki. We've honestly had such a blast and we look forward to being each others maid-of-honor's!

God is so good and I hope that you are taking a moment each day to thank him for what he has given you and the incredible earth that we live in. Don't you just love seeing all these flowers coming out?!

There you go Chris:)

Britt

Othello Tunnels

Finals are finished! It was the last day being in Abbotsford so Jason and I decided to go on an adventure to the Othello Tunnels. They are some very old tunnles mining tunnels from the early 1900's. We had heard they were something that we had to see so even though the weather wasn't too great, we made our way to Hope B.C. After about 20 minutes in the car, I looked down at my feet and realized I only had on sandles! So as we were driving through the mountains that still had snow on them, we had to laugh at my moment of ditsiness and continued to make our way to the tunnels. After getting lost in the crazy hills of Hope, we finally found a deserted parking lot. So we did a little walking and exploring until we came upon a locked gate with signs all around saying "DANGER", "FALLING ROCKS", and some more things that made me NOT want to go in. Beside this barrier, there was a small trail that people must have made to go around the gate and that was exactly what Jason planned on doing. I was thinking...in the mind of a scared little wimp...saying "There's no way I'm crossing this! We'll get killed from 'falling rocks' or something scary inside those dark tunnels. Plus, 'they' say we can't go during the winter time. But Jason, being the man on a mission, he decided that no matter what we were going around this gate. We ended up having a blast looking at the beautiful waterfalls and rapids that were surrounding the tunnels. It took me a while to warm up to the creepy, long, dark tunnels. But I still loved it. We had a blast! Enjoy th pictures. I'll put a video up so you can get a taste of what Jason got to experience everytime we went through the scarey tunnels. Ooops! I'm a wimp:)

Last days of Adventure

Time for an update! I'm sorry it's been so long. School is now completely finished for the summer and I'm really looking forward to this break. It's been an amazing second year and CBC and I have seen such growth in several areas of my life. Brit's finally growing up:) Maybe...;) These pictures of from a few weeks ago when finals were coming up. Jason and I were needing a break from the bubble on campus so we spent a few hours relaxing at his house in Surrey. We made some yummy Choc. Chip cookies:)

Time to get Beautified

*Old beautiful roommate, and the gorgeouse girls I share a bathroom with*

*These two are the girls across the hall...two of my best friends at CBC*

This was on the night of our Christmas banquet at school. It was an absolute blast and I loved every minute of the night! I have more pictures that I will download and show you later. But this is a quick update for ya'll. Merry Christmas!