Honeymooning Begins - Maui

Eddie and I got married on May 19, 2007, and this is the start of our honeymoon.

(I don't have pictures from the wedding yet, those will follow later!)

We drove the road to Hana and saw the most beautiful lush country side, full of waterfalls and breath-taking ocean views.

We took a boat ride to Molikini to snorkel, then went swimming with sea turtles! So amazing!

And we lounged at our fantastic resort, enjoying the sand and surf at Polo Beach, right outside our door step.






And of course each evening was finished with spectacular cuisine at some of Maui's finest establishments.


Now we are off to Kauai!

Med Girls Shower

So my dear med girl friends threw me a shower the week we were all in town for the exam review. Tin and Laksh were the hostesses, there was tons of food, even more prizes (Tin even had personalized party favors made!) and a lot of laughs. It was fun because all the girls know Eddie really well too so the games about 'how well do you know the couple' were a big hit.

One of our games was a toilet paper dress contest--which group could make the most runway appropriate wedding dress out of TP!

They also dressed me in TP after for fun...


I have now had three wedding showers, one more to go! I am so blessed that my friends and family care so much to keep "showering" me with gifts! It is way more than I ever expected.

Life Update

Here is the scoop: we have moved out of Regina (yay!) and back to Saskatoon. This past week Eddie and I have been organizing the condo we are renting. He doesnt actually live here yet, he is staying at his parent's place until after the wedding. It has been a lot of fun so far--its hard to believe that this is going to be "our" place. It has taken a while longer than I expected since we are sorting through our combined stuff and deciding what to keep and what to donate to siblings.

So that is what I have been up to. Next week I have to start studying for the dreaded exam. I will post some pictures of our new place once its all finished.

Bridezilla within

I have discovered my bridezilla within.

I thought I was immune to becoming bridezilla.

I was wrong.

My demon bride within is too concerned, too obsessed with her own appearance, to the detriment of myself and others around me. I can only hope that recognition and admission to my own failings will be the first step on the road to recovery back to my normal self.

Whirlwind

Some days I feel like my life is a whirlwind and that it is creeping along way to slowly all at the same time. This week has been full of those days! To recap:

Wednesday March 14th: Find out we matched to Saskatoon. Ride to Saskatoon with Eddie after work for the Match Party with all of our classmates. Ride back to Regina with 15 of my drunk classmates in a 20 passenger limo arriving in Regina at 05:00am.

Thursday March 15th: sleep from 05:30am-10:00am. Get up, go to the hospital. Come home go back to sleep!

Friday March 16th: Catch a ride back to Saskatoon after work with a classmate. Look at ads for places to live with Eddie, (he as Mr Wonderful had pre-screened the pool of potentials and made appointments for Saturday).

Saturday March 17th: Look at townhouses all morning. Stop for lunch to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Look at townhouses all afternoon. Decide on place to live! YAY! Go to Symphony Saturday night. Go out with Mark and Cheryl after symphony.

Sunday March 18th: Go to church in Saskatoon. Drive back to Regina!

So in summary we found a place to live next year! And all the details worked out beautifully. We got the moving date we wanted, and our place will suit us very well, with lots of space for us to spread out in. We are SO EXCITED! Less than three weeks now until we are moved into our new place. I get to live there until the wedding and then Eddie will move in after the wedding. Now we are starting all the other stuff that goes with moving--address changing, disconnecting and reconnecting services etc. Never a dull moment!

Match Results

And the Match results are
....

Saskatoon!

I know this may seem like not very exciting or that it was obvious that we would be in Saskatoon, but we are very excited. We have classmates who are moving all over the country as of yesterday: Vancouver, Prince George, Victoria, Kelowna, Calgary, Winnipeg, Hamilton, London, Toronto.... . To know that we are officially moving to Saskatoon was a huge relief, because that is what we had hoped for!

So we are going to be home hunting this weekend :) I am SO excited for us to pick out our first home together. It wont be a house, and it won't be something we buy, but it will be our first home together so that makes it "stinkin' awesome!" After we are done rotations we will move back to Saskatoon and I will live in our new place and Eddie will live with his parents until we get married (which is almost 2 months away :)

So that's the update!

First Shower

No, not my first water shower--my first bridal shower.

I went to PA for my first bridal shower this past weekend. My aunt threw me a lovely shower with most of my great aunts and several of my mom's first cousins present, as well as some close family friends.

It was a new experience that is for sure! I am not used to opening presents in front of 25 or so people! I also had the joy of getting to model and then wear for the duration of the shower a wedding dress made of toilet paper. Yes I did say toilet paper. It was a like a new variation on the paper bag princess. It was all in good fun though, and I think my grandma got quite a hoot out of seeing me all dressed up in toilet paper :)