Summer Wedding

It's been a busy summer with all the wedding festivities that have taken place surrounding Parveen & BJ's wedding, as I've shared with a lot of my friends and family. Here are a couple of pictures that were taken in some of the festivities.

Cheslea and Stephanie at the Maiyan and Juggo on the Friday night. Everyone commented on how they looked so much like sisters. Beautiful girls.
Family photo just before the wedding. Natalie's pose was priceless. She's cheering already.
My gorgeous matching girls. Mom and Gurpreet did an excellent job finding these outfits in India.
The lovely couple at the Temple. They look so beautiful.
I'm not sure why this picture is so small. Anyway, Gurpreet did a great job of getting us matching, yet unique, suits for the wedding.Natalie and dad at the wedding. She was great, Lois got her to fall asleep in her lap, which is virtually unheard of.

This was taken after they got married. They look so happy.

The throwing of the rose petals. They had us all line up and throw the rose petals as they came down the stairs. Makes for good photography.
My beautiful family. This was our evening look. I do love the fact that you wear so many different outfits to Indian weddings, and I'm glad I have a sister-in-law that made us look so good all week.

Parveen and BJ cutting the cake, which was made by Hank (it tasted awesome, he did our wedding cake also). BJ's outfit was stunning for the reception. The entire reception was beautiful.

Chelsea and Dad still smiling at the end of a long day (long week). This is such a nice photo of the two of them.

This trip down motherhood, again...

When I was pregnant with Chelsea, I had a strong feeling that I'd have a girl, and I was right. With this last pregnancy, I was so sure we were having a boy, and we had a boys name picked out. We really struggled with coming up with a girl's name, but a week before our due date we finally settled on two. So when the doctor told us it was a girl, I was shocked. It was not what I expected. Out came this bright eyed, rather large little girl, Natalie. So started Natalie's journey, and mine.

I was expecting this new motherhood to be simple, as it seemed so simple when Chelsea was young. Natalie, though, has an ability to consume all of your energy, and I'm eleven years older so I have a lot less to give. I was exhausted, which lasted for the first six months. Not thoroughly drained, just unable to feel like I had enough energy to do as much as I really wanted to. I had plans for my year of maternity leave, I wanted to be one of those crafty efficient moms who plans play dates and has other moms over. I could barely get enough energy to clean my house, let alone entertain much. I would look at other bright and cheery moms and wonder how do they do it?

Now, Natalie can move, and I'm either moving stuff out of her way, or moving her from where she shouldn't go. I've got this little one in my sight at all times. She discovered she can climb stairs, so I think I need to buy a gate. This new energy that I need to give is more mobile, so maybe I'll get into shape, but its a constant state of being on the lookout. Nothing is safe. Now I have to plan my cleaning up around Natalie's napping or Chelsea's free time (Chelsea is the BIGGEST helper ever, and she's available to babysit now too - for those that are interested).

I guess it was my expectation that motherhood would be easy that is letting me down. Expectations are my downfall; they keep me from fully enjoying life. Maybe someday I'll learn to give up my expectations and just enjoy what comes my way. For as much energy that it takes to care for Natalie, when she looks at you and smiles, everything that I've gone through is worth it. I've been blessed with a second daughter.

Motherhood, again; not exactly what I expected. But I trust that the Lord will bless me with more unexpected moments, as they are the treasures in my life.

Here is a little of Natalie... (I couldn't figure out how to upload a slideshow from Picasa, so a collage it is).

"I'm turning 13 next year..."

This is Chelsea's new thing, she's going to be 13 next year (she has yet to turn 12 though, she's getting a little ahead of herself). Wow, I cannot believe my baby will be a teenager before we know it. She insists that she's no longer my baby, especially since Natalie's come, but as Robert Munsch states...

"I'll love you forever

I'll like you for always

As long as I'm living

My baby you'll be"

My last post I mentioned a lot of accomplishments over the past 10 years. Well, the major inspiration for these was Chelsea. Circumstances had that I was a young mom, but this was the major driving factor in all that has happened since she's been born. I was truely blessed by God the day Chelsea came into my life. He gave me a reason to hope, a reason to live. Chelsea, I love you, forever!

Here are a few pix of Chelsea over the last few years. I've only been digital for 2 years, I could pull out the many albums of her, but I think that's a bit much. Enjoy.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

It’s me that’s kicking and screaming…

OK, OK, I’m 30, I accept. This birthday of mine was a difficult one to swallow. It’s a big, round number. I did spend my birthday sulking, although my lovely husband was trying so hard to make it a special day for me.


The concept of entering into a new decade of my life should be exciting, but compared to my twenties, I’m not sure what my thirties will hold. I had so many goals in my twenties, and I accomplished a lot. Looking into this next decade, I just don’t see what will be in store for me. If you’ll humor me, I’ll reminisce into the past 10 years to illustrate.


I graduated from high school a day after my 20th birthday (I went back late due to having Chelsea and all), I graduated from university four years later, and then graduated with my CA three years after that. I definitely accomplished a lot of schooling. I started my career as a CA student and moved up to manager. And I did all this while raising a daughter (with a lot of help from some amazing people in my life). I met and married my best friend. We had another baby.
There was a lot of stuff I accomplished in the past 10 years. As I look forward, I just don’t see the same level of goals over the next 10.


What I am realizing is that I am entering a new phase in my life. A phase that needs to accept a slower pace. I chose to slow down and have more children because we wanted that blessing from God. I chose to slow down because before you know it, Chelsea will be off to university and I want to be there for her in these critical years of her life. I chose to slow down because I love my family and I want to be the wife that God has designed me to be, and the mother that God wants me to be.


I guess that cannot say that I will not accomplish much over the next 10 years. Speaking truth into my children’s lives is accomplishment. Being a godly wife is accomplishment. I need to shift my view of what accomplishment is. I have succeeded in so many of my goals; now I need to press on as I have so many more goals to go… and I have a feeling they’ll be a lot more challenging than in the past 10 years.

Totally new to the life of blog

This is my first post here. I've been trying to figure this blogging thing out for a while, so hopefully this works.

Purpose: to document and share our life. Its so easy to let life just pass by without filling others in on the details. So, here goes. Hope you enjoy!


This is the family. This is my inspiration; the Lord has truely blessed me.