The man I am going to marry

So its late right now, close to midnight and I'm just getting ready for bed, doing my usual routines.....checking my email, doing a little reading, checking facebook, again, doing a little reading, thinking about making a post on my blog, but not really having the ambition do to it...etc...etc.
But then I started thinking about this guy that I just said goodnight to about 1/2 an hour ago, who will be my husband in t-minus uh...60 something days (What kind of a bride am I? I don't even have the countdown number running through my head!!) and realizing that I don't talk about him to the 'blogger public' enough and how much of a wonderful man he is. So I decided, right here right now, I would write a little tribute to my husband-to-be.....
Well, first of all...just look at this guys' face! He exudes happiness! Brad is one of the happiest guys I know. He is content in any and every situation and strives to find his happiness not in things or experiences but in just being. He is also one of the hardest working people I know. He is task oriented and when he gets an idea, he sees is through to completion....and not just completed...but completed the BEST way possible. Any job he does, he does to the best of his ability. He has this amazing ability to figure out almost anything he sets his mind to. He wants to know how things work and how they are put together and chooses to do a task on his own for the sake of learning. Brad is a really thoughtful, caring person and although he sometimes forgets certain things, he'll totally surprise me the next time with this crazy little detail he remembered that I totally forgot. He is the kind of guy that will go out of his way to meet somebody's need and sacrifice his time and efforts in a heartbeat. He is always doing something and helping out in anyway he can.
So there you have it.... a little glimpse into the man I am going to marry. Our engagement is flying by, just like everyone said it would. This Sunday June 3rd will be 3 months that we've been engaged and 2 months until we're married....so that means....as of tomorrow it will be 66 days left to go. See there, I fiigured it out...

Facebooking, Gardening, Flying and other distractions...

Well hello to all my blogger friends. Sometimes I am not quite sure if I still have blogger friends, but I was told to update this thing by one blogger friend so I know at least she reads it!! So as you can imagine, things have been a little busy this past month what with owning a home and planning a wedding and such! We have had a great month working on our house and are excited about the changes that are happening so far. I have mostly been in charge of all the outside work which I totally love. I am so excited to have our own flower and vegetable gardens. The previous owners left a lot of gardens to take care of, including many rose bushes, so I have been busy doing the usual spring clean up stuff, trimming, edging, making NEW gardens, taming the crazy raspberry bushes, planting all my vegetables and as of yesterday, a bunch of flowers! Oh wait, and my favourite...mowing the lawn. No seriously, I really like mowing the lawn! Can't really explain it, just really enjoy it. I think I got my diagonal line pattern all figured out by now. I'm such a geek! On the inside, Brad has been busy renovating our bedroom. We tore out some funky panelling on the one wall, re-trimmed the whole room, re-painted and put in new laminate flooring. My job was working in the bathroom tearing off the beautiful butterfly wallpaper! And for anyone who has done that job before, you know its not a fun one. It is quite addicting though and I was quite determined to get it all off ASAP. So, next up is the completion of the bathroom. At first we were just going to paint, but you know how that whole snowball effect happens and before you know it, the whole bathroom is apart. So, that is what's happening tomorrow....the purple tub and toilet are going to go. At first we thought we would enjoy them for a while, but their time is up and we're on to cleaner and brighter bathroom fixtures now!!


You can kind of get an idea of what the wall colour and flooring will look like in our room. The floor is now offically all done, but I don't have a picture of it yet.
For those more curious as to what the inside actually all looks like, I did put a bunch of pictures on my facebook profile....which leads me to the next thing has has been causing a distraction in my life lately. Yep...none other than FACEBOOK. I knew I would succumb to the trend at some point, it was only a matter of time really and in some ways, its a little more appealing than blogger. I was thinking about it though and realized its more of an short term appeal really....its great to find out what friends are up to, but once you know, its not quite as exciting anymore and you can just as easy pick up the phone and call them. Blogger, on the other hand, has more of a long term appeal as thoughts, experiences and opinions are documentmented over time. Either way, I'm not ready to give up this thing yet.
The other part to my title has to do with what Brad and I did this afternoon. We went for a helicoptor ride over Niagara Falls. We had been given a gift certifcate for this Niagara Helicoptor Tours that expired next week, so we wanted to use it up. Now Brad goes up in a helicoptor fairly often for work but I have never been in one before. I am not a roller coaster or heights person, so the idea wasn't too appealing to me. I mean, I wanted to see the view and everything, I was just nervous about the motion sickness and panic that could strike as we hovered hundreds of feet over rushing water!! Needless to say, the view was amazing, I didn't throw up and I learned I have an amazing Kung Fu grip!!