he only smells a little bit and i’m selling him real cheap!
mom and dad came home last week with a new toy for me in the form of a puppy.  an 8 week old white miniature schnauzer puppy to be exact.  they think he’s cute (i hate to admit he kinda is) and they fawn all over him and try to get us to play all the time.  mom has been going camera crazy and it seems like in every other picture she’s trying to somehow get me involved, too.  don’t get me wrong, i love posing for the camera, but doesn’t she know that means i’d actually have to sit next to the little monster?  …

As Lucas mentioned in his recent post, we have moved! We lucked out and found a gorgeous new house that was just recently built in a newly developed neighbourhood. The house was finished being built a week before Christmas, and thanks to the help of Michelle, Jeff, and Jeremy, we successfully moved in last Saturday. It took two full UHAUL trips and a lot of blood, sweat and tears… but we’re finally mostly settled in. The house is so new that it doesn’t even have grass yet, much to Oliver’s disappointment; the builders plan to lay the sod for our yard in the spring. It has hardwood floors throughout the …

we moved this last weekend, on account of the rash of burglaries in our complex (including our own) and the murder down the street last week. this means the drive to and from work is new and exciting – there’s a particular spot about halfway where the highway goes over a river, which from the right angle is framed by rolling foothills to the left and right, and the rocky mountains straight ahead.
yesterday, as i was passing this point i noticed a young lady pulled over on the left shoulder with her hazards on. i slowed and pulled onto the opposite shoulder and noted that she had a flat tire, poor thing. it’s -60F outside, …

Happy New Year!  Hopefully everyone had a relaxing holiday and got to spend plenty of time with family and friends.  As previously mentioned, Lucas and I spent Christmas in Indiana with the Means family.  We had a very nice Christmas and a good time in the Hoosier state with them.  I picked up some sweet new scrapbook software and put together a 13 page album of our adventures over the holidays here in our gallery.  We’d like to do more scrapbook pages and eventually get a digital scrapbook up for easier browsing, but that will require Lucas’ coding genius.  Maybe after he finishes another programming project he’s currently working on we can pull something like that together.
When …

Warmest holiday wishes from our family to you and yours! We’re busy getting ready for Christmas by finishing last minute projects and shopping in preparation for our trip to Indiana. And as if Christmas preparations weren’t enough to keep us busy, we’ve also been working on the early stages of wedding planning on top of that! Last week we officially booked the wedding chapel in Las Vegas that we wanted for our date and time, but that’s about where the official plans end and lots of ideas that have yet to be nailed down begin. You can follow along with us as we sort out all of those fun details on …

Today Lucas and I took a day trip out into the Canadian Rockies to see how pretty they are now that more snow has fallen. We wanted to see something new, so we went to Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park. It was a really quiet, beautiful lake in the mountains with a small hiking trail and signs everywhere warning us not to feed the mountain goats. We pulled into the parking area and a little family of mountain goats greeted us. We pulled over and got out, and they walked right over to us and started licking the Neon — apparently they love the salt the car has collected from the …