3 months today

hello all just letting you know that it is 3 months till our wedding and I am excited. Anywho gtg off to go camping.

Mary Riker is 92 days

Happy Happy Happy

So here is the good news. Matt and I finally found an apartment in Welland. I am so happy and thrilled I cannot explain. He gets to move into it on Aug 3rd. Anywho this week has gone by fast BUT not complaining cause this August long weekend I'm meeting my family for camping. They've been up there since July 22 and I usually go for the full 10 days but I'm working. Oh well at least I get to go this weekend. :0)

Can't wait to go bake in the sun
Soon to be darker shade of white,
Mary

WHOO HOO 2 digit Zone

Well today embarks that my wedding day is getting closer. We are offical out of the 3 digit zone and onto the 2 digit zone. 99 days today. I'm sick I have strep throat...poo.

Off for now

Sick

*~POOF*~ another week gone

I cannot believe that it's Thursday and the weekend is almost gone. I don't know about anyone else but it's going by really really fast. Anywho the faster it goes the fast my wedding will arrive. Still in the 3 digits zone but not for long :0)

About this heat... I love it. I don't know if I am crazy but I go like this weather. Sometimes it can be really over whelming but I prefer this over cold snowy weather.

On the stressful side. We still do not have an apartment and Matt has to be out of his apartment by August 1. Do you see a problem? Yeah so do I. I'm just getting all annoyed. Matt has been working LOTS of hours. And within the next 2 weeks he will be working 92 hours. CRAZY I mean it's great an all but we really need a place to live and I am getting really discourage. Could who ever reads this please pray with us so that we can find a place to live.

Going to go read and clear my head.

Sighing discourage and impatient
Mary

Life right now!

So it's been what a week since I've blogged. Oops but I've been really busy with work and cleaning a lot of houses and getting home pretty late. So I've really enjoyed this weekend.

Just to update we are still looking at apartments but may have found one. It's really big and a great price and location. But Matt wasn't able to view it today so he might go back on Monday to see it. We finally registered for our wedding at Walmart, Sears and we have to go to Canadian Tire and that's all. There isn't much on our registry because we both lived on our own for a while and bought most of the thing we needed. Oh well, such is life.

Well that is all for now I'm going to go and watch some TV and maybe have a bath to relax.

Off to soak the night away,
Mary

Well Matt and I are still looking for an apartment to live in once we are married. He will be living in our apartment in August so that once it gets close to the wedding we can start moving my things in and then when we come back from our honeymoon we are moved in and settled. Cause there is nothing worse then coming back from your honeymoon and it's just cluttered and messy. I want to be all moved in and settled. We saw some place a couple weeks ago but they were really small places and really meant just for once person cause with the 2 of us it's too small. Monday we go to look at an apartment and it looks nice and spacious and we are also looking at 3 houses that are for rent. Good price and location so a house might be a better option for us. It's amazing how things are working out when ya pray. I mean not everything is going to go smoothly in life what fun would that be and what would you learn in life it everything when smooth? But I know everything is going to work out according to HIS plan. Matt and I are both working lots and it's great cause the Lord has proved, us with a jobs and which means we can afford things in life. Like a place to live. Which we hope to find soon cause Matt has to be out of his place next month but I not freaking out at all which isn't like me. Normally I would be freaking and stressing out but I know it will all work out with God beside us and that really makes me calm. And it's a great feeling not stressing I think I've finally learn that "don't stress God will take of it" lesson. It some area's of my life I have and I'm sure those others will come with faith and time.

I am really looking forward to being married. Even though people say it's great being married but I bet it is also challenging. Which a challenge I am looking forward too.

Off to eat some super
Mary

4 Months Today

Well 4 months today and we will be getting married. How fun and fast are these months going. It's wonderful and I love it . Nothing else is new. I've just been really busy with work because it's Canada Day Friday which I have off, so all the houses that we clean Friday get shoved in this week and next week. So I've been getting home later and I'm way more tired. But it's work and it's gonna get done.

Matt's been working at his new job for the past 2 weeks and he's loves it. The only sucky part is that I don’t' get to see him a lot cause sometimes our schedules clash. Like today he's worked from 7-3 had a meeting from 3-6 and I just got off of work at 6. (Worked from 7-6) So I won't see him today or tomorrow and I have to wait till Friday. This is poppy. But I know this will all change once we are married which I cannot wait.

Well all for now going in the pool.

TTFN
Mary

They will say "I Do"

Today is the day that Megan and Caleb will say 'I Do". This will be a day they will both never forget and forever cherish in there hearts. This day will change their lives forever, as they both become one. All the best Megan and Caleb I am so happy and excited to the both of you as you take on this new journey (Matt and I in 4 months)

Also this same day today my big sister Brenda married her husband of 11 years. So this time 11 years ago she was getting ready and excited and wondering "why am I marrying Tom" hahah just kidding. I remember getting ready 11 years ago this day. I was getting excited because my sister was getting married and I got my own room back. ;0) But it's amazing how fast 11 years has gone for Tom and Brenda. And along the way they had 2 beautiful crazy boys. Anywho Happy Anniversary you 2 crazy birds. Enjoy your day and watch you wedding video again.

Mary

Ducky Pj's and sales

It's been a while since I blogged...sorry about that but I've just been busy with work and then I get home and I do more things outside and then mom and dad were gone camping for a week so I had to cut the grass and water all the plants and flowers and keep the house clean. So I really didn't have much time to sit in front of a computer and type but don’t fret I am here now.

I trained a maid this past week and now she will be working fulltime next week. Super happy for her. She was really nice lady and a lot of fun to work with. Speaking of work Matt is finally working now. Thanks be to the Lord. He worked monday and tonight and then he has a night shift tomorrow night and then thursday off and then we work friday and then saturday...IS MEG AND CALEB'S WEDDING!!!!!!!!!!!! I am really excited about. Finally their wedding day is arriving and I bet they are both so excited. I know am for them I cannot wait. I wish I lived back in ptb so I could see Meg more but I guess there is e-mail which so isn't the same. I miss her lots. Oh I have to get wedding wrapping paper...can't forget to do that.

So tomorrow is another day of cleaning. Only 3 houses but have to wake up at 6 to start cleaning at 7 or so to do that dr's office, them cleaning our houses which are thankfully all in Niagara Falls tomorrow so YEAH!!

Well off to e-mail Matt and then go to bed. He's working tonight from 2-11, so didn't get to see my monkey, oh well no the end of the world. I got lots of shopping done and I got me some fun ducky summer pj's which btw I love. Also got some other things and great shoes that were on sale. :0) I love sale.

The girl that loves sales!!!

I'm going camping now I'm on my way

Well I'm heading out to go camping, in a matter of minutes and I'm super excited. I will be back Sunday night...late. Fun fun double fun.

Off to the wonderful land of sun tanning and swimming I go.

Mary

*~*BOOOOOOOOYA*~*

I can't believe that it's thursday already. Seriously where did my week go?!? I'm kind of not liking this whole "where did my week go" business. It's going too fast, and before you know I'll be the one getting married and counting down the days. BTW it's 142 days till we get married and I know I am still in the 3 digits but I can still count down the days plus, I'm happy! I'm finally getting married to Matty-poo brain. Since we are on the topic of weddings... my wedding band came in the mail (we ordered it from online) and it doens't fit. I'm annoyed. I've lost over 10lbs now and what the ring doesn't fit? What the flying donkey? So it's going back on monday... for a bigger ring size. :0( Oh well glad we ordered them now, not closer to the wedding cause, the good Lord knows that if this happened 2 weeks before the wedding I'd have a bird.

Get this, as you may know who ever reads this I am a horrible speller and I apologize, but get a load of this. I just got Matty-ruffle snuffle to read my first paragraph, and he found lots of spelling errors and I said "well I still have to spell check it" and Matt said " well spell check isn't perfect" BBBOOUUWWAHHH?!? It isn't? How much do I feel like a donkey now? Here I sit and type and type away with many more spelling errors I don't see.

In other exciting news, I'M GOING CAMPING TOMORROW!!! I'm so excited. I love camping and sitting at the campfire, going walking and biking and the best part of all, going to the beach. *sigh* I can't wait just one more sleep.

That is all for now from the desk of Mary.

This weekend.

Nothing is new and exciting. The weekend was really nice and some what relaxing. Friday Matt and I went to Hamilton to pick up my sister so she should come down this weekend. Then we went shopping there also. Saturday was garage saleing day. Didn't find anything though but apparently we didn't go far enough in Caledonia, which was poopy. Oh well there is always other saturday to go garage saleing. Then after that we came back home and I help my mom and dad plant and water tree's. That's a lot of work and those trees are heavy so I got me a good work out. :0) Also my sister Marlene trimmed and highlighted my hair. Now I'm really blondish and I LOVE IT. This weekend was fun but now it's sunday and I'm thinking now "where has the weekend gone?" This really saddens me. I love my weekends cause sat and sun are the only days that I have off, so I like to do nothing, if I can help it.

So tomorrow I only have 3 houses to clean. YEAH!!!! So I hope to be home at a good time.

Tonight my sister Marlene, mom, Matty and I played rummy and Michigan rummy. Boy is that a lot of fun with my family. I know Matty really enjoyed himself. Glad he's a card/and board game person. Or else this relationship would work. I kid I kid.

But off to zzz zzz land I go.
Mary

WooHoo!

Well Matty got the job out here in Wainfleet. It's in a group home for handicapped adults. We don't know when we starts but we both hope soon. This also means that we can start looking a our apartment. :0) This is getting so exciting. eeekkk. Well I am off to bed I have a headache and I want to read the book that I got at the library tonight. Looks really good.

Happy and in Love
Mary

Can it be true...is the scale right? :0)

Well well well I've lost 10lbs and I'm feeling good about it. But I still have another 10 to go. But I need to lose the weight. With my height and weight it wasn't healthy. My heart start to do weird fluttering things and stuff it really scared me one night and that's when I made the change to lose weight. I don't want to end up with medical problems 10 yrs down the road just because I wanted to eat fast food and not cook and be lazy. It's just not okay for me to do that anymore. Plus it's all about moderation. You know how you go to a restaurant and there is a TON of food on your plate? Well don't eat it all, because they give you WAY too much food. As good as it may seem it's not worth it in the end when your heart start to flutter and you get scarred. I still have long road a head of me to lose weight, but can't lose too much more or else my wedding dress won't fit. hehehe and that wouldn't be good. But I know that if I lose another 10lbs I'll still feel better but will keep losing as time goes on.

Well off to bed I go I have to get up super early tomorrow to clean... :0& thank goodness for coffee :0)

A new healthier me
Mary

5 months today

At this time in 5 months Matt and I will be husband and wife. I know its 5 months away and may seem far away for some people but for me it is really exciting and wonderful . Something else that is wonderful is that this morning at church I finally got to meet Joseph. Oh how cute and sweet he is. I stared at him most of the church service while holding him. And little baby's smell so good. Matt and Ruthie are so happy to be parents. You can just seem them glowing as they look and talk about there new little one. Oh I can't wait to have one of our own... or can I. ;0)

Well right now Matt and I are starting to look for a place for us to live in while we are married. So far there are some but Matt doesn’t want to move in it to far a head cause we don't want to waste too much money while he is just living there, but we are hoping to find something soon like August soon. Which is sooner then I think. I just realized that August is 2 months away. CRAZY!!!! And before ya know summer will be over. INSANE.

This picture is of my nephew Haden and me in a field. Last sunday we went to London to visit my sister and bro in law and my 2 nephew's for Haden's 5th birthday and then we went for a walk through the field and to the bush and back again. It was fun and lot of work. But here in this pic I am teaching Haden how to make a whistle out of the long grass called "Timothy". He was so fascinated. He couldn't quite get it but I told him to keep on practicing. But I love this picture. Thanks Cindy and thanks for reading it to and Barb if you read it. They are my cousins. :0) They are great cousins. They offered a while ago to help Matt and I with wedding stuff and I'm gonna make sure they help lots. hehhe j/k ladies. They are also great camping buddies. Mmmm camping.




Anywho that is all for now going back to work tomorrow only 4 houses so I shouldn't be back home too late.

Thanks for reading who ever does.

God Bless
Mary a married woman in 5 months. eeekkk

Nice Weekend at the Web Wedding :0)

What a nice weekend eh? Jenn and Jordan's wedding was really nice and it got me all excited for our weeding. I didn't take my dad's digital camera with and I was starting to regret it but Drew had some on his blog. Thanks man :0) Our wedding is a little more then 5 months away it's gonna come fast. Which I don't mind at all. I kind of like that... alot. I'm getting more excited for our wedding which hasn't happened lately cause all the booking went so smoothly that there was NOTHING to get stressed over. But now we still have to find a pastor to marry us. So something to pray about that we find soon.

That weekend in over and back to work I went today. Very sleepy and tired and don't wanna go back to work tomorrow. Long day and I really want to go shopping. Really bad. But the weekend was great and their wedding was really nice and I can't wait for Meg and Caleb's wedding. :0)

I guess I should go to bed soon. I start cleaning a dr's off at 7:15 am. BARF!!!!!!!!!!!! Then 4 houses after that. What a horrid day tomorrow. Well the more I work the more I make. Can't complain. Right?!?

Night ya'll
Mary-Rose (as my mom says "it's not Mary-Rose you full name is Mary Jeanette Rose)
So this is for you mom

Mary Jeanette Rose

Babies and Weddings...could life get any better? ;0)

Who else can't believe that Jenn and Jordan are getting married tomorrow? At this time tomorrow they will be husband and wife for the rest of there lives. How wonderful.

Also Matt and Ruthie's baby is so cute. I cannot wait to meet him. I'm praying for her has she recovers from the epidural. But maybe she will be at church Sunday...but maybe not.

This is all from the mind of me. Just debating what to wear to the wedding tomorrow...*sigh* Oh well. Off to bed I go now.

Night ya'll

Mary

p.s. I want to be in the Gaithers singing group. hehe I just watched them on TV. Every Friday night at 8. Plus mom and dad have 2 of there DVD's. I love the Gaithers.

Long weekend almost here

Along week of work has almost come to an end and I couldn't be happier. I've cleaned so many houses this week it's insane. Its cause it's holiday Monday and we don't work that day so we've been getting more houses to clean all week and next week. OY.

But on more exciting new. Ruthie and Matt are finally parents. *sigh* How wonderful that is. I know they are both overwhelmed with Joy and happiness and maybe some nervousness. I'm praying for Ruth so that she has a quick recover from delivering little Joseph. Oh I bet he is so cute and loveable. Can't wait to meet him and see pic's. I know I can't wait to have a baby. I know that it might be a few years down the road but I still can't wait. I am so very happy for Matt and Ruthie, and Joseph for having great parents.

Well Jenn and Jordan are getting married on sat. It's gonna be a really nice wedding.Betch ya both Jenn and Jordan can't wait to be married and start there life together. I know Jenn's really excited. Haven't talked to her since last week but I know even then she was really excited and couldn't wait.

Nothing new with me. Just exhausted from work. Oh I got my income tax cheque...ooooohhh baby. Well most of it's going to pay off my student loan. No new clothes for me yet. :0( I wish I could get more clothes but I don't have the money. Gotta save for a future for Matt and I and I would rather have a house sooner then new clothes. Oh on the bright side of not buying clothes though it’s because I'm losing weight. So far I've lost 5lbs and doing well. It's not a diet but I'm just eating more veggies and fruit and less bread and snacks, and its paying off which makes me feel good. I even got move my belt hole over...WOOHOO!!!!!!!

Anywho off to watch some TV.

Chow
Mary

Small world after all

Well get a load of this. This morning Matty and I decided to go to our new church here in the Niagara Region. It's called Ridgeville Bible Chapel. So we get there for Lord's Supper at 9:30. We are sitting there just waiting for the Lord's Supper to begin and this man came up to us and we introduce ourselves and he asked Matt where he is from and Matt says "Peterborough". Well to make a long story short this man is Matt Cook's dad. I almost died. I didn't know what church Matt and Ruth went to until today. So once Mr. Cook told me that Ruthie was coming later I was soooo excited. So after the Lord's Supper was done, Matt and I went down stares to get a coffee and lo and behold there stood Ruthie, pregnant (still) and beautiful. It was so awesome to see her at church. Matt was in T.O. preaching so we didn't get to see him, which was too bad. I still can't believe that we saw Ruth at church. I've been meaning to visit her while she is still in the Niagara Region, and we did. Then after the reunion with Ruth we went to church at 11 and she sat with us then afterwards we went down stares for a potluck lunch. Good day to start going to our new church. :0)

Well all in all today has been great. We found a good church to attend too and got to see Ruth. I still can't believe that after so long I got to see Ruth. She does look really great for being so close to her due date. She glows so much and you can tell she loves being pregnant. I can't wait and neither can Ruth and Matt to meet there new little addition to the Cook clan.

This concludes my great day. I was planning on going to church tonight again at 6pm but I have a horrible headache so I just might stay home but I might still go. Haven't decided.

Still in shock
Mary

Today, May 11, 2005

Matt and I April 17 2005. I still look different I have a horrible problem with dying my hair. Now I have blonde highlights. So this is the recent pic of Matty and I. I was going to put this one in the newspaper but decided against it. We might go and get pictures done at Walmart. Anywho that is all tired just got done working out and tired from work.

ttyl
Mary

p.s. Happy 50th Uncle John