Update!

I feel the need to list things accomplished.

-Picked up my bridesmaid dress for my brothers wedding

-applied for a million positions

-got my wedding band

-sending out invitations this week

-place is booked

-chairs and tables are booked/borrowed

-wedding dress alterations are done

-Justins outfit is complete

-3 out of 6 bridesmaids have there dresses

-moving on July 1st

-got my full G License

-wedding registries are almost complete

-favours are figured out

-my grandfathers heart is healing itself

-my godmothers surgery went well

-Justin got a job that he loves

-I'm volunteering at church again

-I graduated with honours

-I'M GETTING MARRIED

thats all I can think of for now:)

Life is good!

God Bless

Tracey

Carly Rae Jepsen

Why I haven't Been Updating:

• Planning my Wedding
• Helping with my Brothers upcoming wedding
• Dealing with the fact that my grandfather (mom's side) is classified as end of life
• Dealing with the fact that my grandmother (dad's side) is now classified as end of life
• Just found out my wonderful godmother has cancer
• Supporting Justin with new transitions
• Trying to find away to be able to help support myself and Justin (aka a job)
• Packing
• Basically trying to keep going and keep pushing even though it feels like I won't make it.

A
- Available: ENGAGED!
- Age: 18
- Annoyance: tailgaters!
- Animal: dolphins

B
- Beer: Not my fave
- Birthday: April 5th
- Best Friends: Sarah/Justin/my mom/Amber-Jean/Jackie
- Body Part on opposite sex: smiles!
- Best feeling in the world: Loved
- Blind or Deaf: Neither
- Best weather: right after it rains or warm
- Been in Love: I am :)
- Been on stage?: Constantly
- Believe in Magic: Define?
- Believe in God: Heck Yes
- Believe in Santa: Nope

C
- Candy: Fuzzy Peaches or Swedish Berries
- Color: Red
- Chocolate/Vanilla: Vanilla
- Chinese/Mexican: Chinese
- Cake or pie: Cake
- Continent to visit: South Africa (where my grandparents came from)
- Cheese: Havarti or Mozzarella

D
- Day or Night: I'm a night owl
- Dance in the rain?: Sure :)
- Do the splits?: Yep

E
- Eggs: Yummy Protein
- Eyes: Brownish/Hazel
- Everyone’s got: a special spark
- Ever failed a class?: No

F
- First thoughts waking up: Bed.. is.. Warm..
- Food: Kraft Dinner, or cheese

G
- Greatest Fear: Being alone.. in the dark
- Goals: be a great mom and wife
- Gum: keeps the jaw busy
- Get along with your parents?: Yep
- Good luck charm: Don't have one

H
- Hair Color: Brown
- Happy: Mostly
- Holiday: Summer
- How do you want to die: Of old age?

I
- Ice Cream: vanilla
- Instrument: Violin, piano, trying to learn the guitar

J
- Jewelry: wish I had more
- Job: Dance Instructor

K
- Kids: Keeping my fingers crossed..
- Kickboxing or karate: karate?
- Keep a journal?: use to.

L
- Longest Car Ride: to Florida
- Love: Justin
- Letter: !?!?
- Laughed so hard you cried: Love it when that happens

M
- Milk flavor: Normal
- Movies: according to Sare.. "Man Movies"
- Motion sickness: A horrible disease I have

N
- Number of Siblings: two
- Number of Piercings: 6 (three in each ear)
- Number: 18?

O
- One wish: to have lots of flexibility

P
- Perfect Pizza: Cheese
- Pepsi/Coke: either

Q
- Quail: kay?

R
- Reason to cry: stress reliever
- Reality T.V.: rather read
- Radio Station: whatevers playing good music
- Roll your tongue in a circle?: can't
- Ring size: Justins Pinky finger.. no joke

S
- Sushi: yuck
- Skipped school: dude. i was homeschooled.
- Slept outside: think so
- Smoke?: have
- Skinny dipped?: maybe
- Shower daily?: yes
- Sing well?: sure?
- Sing in the Shower?: sometimes
- Swear?:did
- Strawberries/Blueberries: strawberries.

T
- Time for bed: whenever.
- Thunderstorms: sometimes like

U
- Unpredictable: would rather know

V
- Vacation spot: rustic cabin

W
- Weakness: fuzzy peaches
- Wanted to be a model?: I wish
- Where do we go when we die?: Depends
- Worst Weather?: ridiculous Canadian Winters

X
- X-Rays: No problem?
- Ex’s: Generally stay friends

Y
- Year it is now: It’s 2009.
- Yellow: Granny :)

Z
- Zoo animal: are cute?

Man oh man I could use some now! I'm loving planning my wedding but wow it takes a lot out of me at times. I'm trying to make sure I can get things done know so that I don't stress my self out to much when its mere weeks away. I love each moment that I get to cross something off my to-do list! I don't think I could do it without my wonderful Bestie Sarah though<3>

Oops!

So we just found out that the location we wanted is already booked for that day so we've gone with our second choice, which is actually bigger the main difference is our first choice was more secluded. Oh well! Just as pretty! You'll have to excuse the poor quality and lack of photo's. I didn't take as many because I didn't think we were using this shelter! Hopefully i'll get some better shots later!

Wedding Location!

I'm fairly certain we've made our decision on where Justin and I shall be wed, now all we have to do is book the shelter and figure out money/costs. You'll have to excuse the quality of the photo's. I was snapping them in a hurry and didn't take time to get the right settings.

It was a beautiful morning to get to check the place out though. My daddy came with the two of us and showed us the place he thought would work best. It's a gorgeous shelter. We're thinking of hanging icicle lights in the rafters for extra light and we'll move all the picnic tables outside and rent some chairs! AHH I'm so excited!

holy macaroni batman!!

Time for an update! So things have been really crazy! Let's start off with two days after I got engaged. So two days later I was still competing in Blue Mountain and I was in the middle of doing the Lyrical Group dance on stage when I suddenly fell. I managed to sprain my ankle bad enough that a trip to the E.R. was mandatory.

So that was then.. I'm still unable to do a lot of heavy jumps but I've been doing a lot better. I got off the crutches as soon as I could however I wear my brace faithfully every day. The only problem is I don't have many options when it comes to cute shoes because my brace would stretch them out.

Unfortunately around the same time I sprained my ankle, my grandfather (Poppy) ended up in the hospital with a severe staff infection and now has Congestive Heart Failure. Right now his status is end-of-life and going day-by-day.

Now I love my grandfather dearly and it would mean a lot to me to see him at my wedding. I also know it would mean a lot to him because I want to keep the ceremony/vows as the traditional Anglican vows(My Poppy use to be an Anglican minister). So because of all this Justin and I were talking about pushing our wedding date up from April of next year to this September. However we decided we would leave the decision up to my Granny.

When we went to visit her the other day we pulled her out into the living room of my aunt and uncles house (They live in a "Grandparent Suite" inside their house) and talked to her about it and told her we wanted her opinion and counsel. She blew us away by saying that, yes she thought it was a good idea. So we now have four months to pull everything together! It's going to be crazy! However if my parents can do it in two months I think we can do it in four!

So that's my exciting news! oh, and the fact that I graduated two months early is pretty exciting ;)

God Bless

Tracey

I know this isn't an update.. it's pretty lame but with everything going on right now I just haven't the time to sit down and write. Soon I shall write out a long rant/explanation but right now I just want to sleep and dream that my Fiance is beside me cuddling with me. So goodnight and God Bless.

P.s. I dedicate this photo to my Poppy (My Grandfather)

Photo Via Love Bot

Deal?

Via Le Love

The Day I Got Engaged!

Justin Proposed to me on Friday so I thought I'd share a the story with my blog ;)

It started out with Justin letting me in on the fact that the ring was on it's way but wouldn't be here until monday (the 20th). Yes, I knew it was going to happen and it was me that made him spill the beans on when it was coming (I can be extremely annoying and pester until I get what I want ;) )

Justin had me so convinced that it wasn't coming till monday that when He asked me if we could have a romantic day for celebrating on my day off from competitions, I said yes. Just to quickly explain this a little furthur in detail.. I was competing in Blue Mountain Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, and was under the assumption that he was going to propose on Monday, and he was playing along. So his excuse (I guess you could call it an excuse) for having the romantic day was that we both worked on the monday so why not celebrate it a little early while we both have a day off?

So late Friday morning he came over and picked me up and off we went shopping, out to McDonalds for lunch, a quick stop for Justin to drop something off then back home so I could change and then we were off to Bracebridge where Justin told me he had made reservations at a really cool restaurant.
On the way we stopped and took some pictures at a neat dam in Bracebridge (yes we will be posting photo's from Friday soon!) and then we were off so we would be on time for dinner reservations.

The restaurant was a really neat Japanese place called Wabora. It was really really really cool though! The table we sat at was one where the chef cooks alll your food in front of you and does some neat tricks for entertainment! My favorite was where he juggled some eggs and one ended up in his hat! :)

After dinner Justin told me he knew of this cool lookout spot where we could take some sunset pictures!
Now just to clarify.. I was completely daft at what was going on the entire time, I didn't even clue in when he mentioned the lookout spot because it was normal for us to do that kind of thing. We did it all the time at Wasaga! Anywho, off we went and it was GORGEOUS! we had the entire place to ourselves and the most beautiful sunset! We were taking ton's of pictures and then at one point I said "Why don't we set up the tri-pod and grab a few of us?" He agreed and said "Hey can you hold this for a sec?" he handed me the camera and I was contemplating how to change some of the settings and looked over to ask him and there he was.. getting down on one knee :) I flipped out/spazzed out basically :) :P haha it was really romantic, all alone on a beautiful lookout point, gorgeous sunset behind us and my beloved getting down on one knee to propose.

At this point I'm still a little fuzzy on the details as it seems like such a blur now but it did take me a while to actually say yes since I was dancing around, hugging Justin and getting twirled around:) However, eventually Justin reminded me I needed to give an answer and of course I said yes!!!

I'M ENGAGED!

Wednesday Morning Inspiration

I stayed up a little late last night reading a Martha Stewart Cookbook and now all I want to do is bake bread and make dinner. However, seeing as I need to finish packing up my room so that my parents can start working on getting it painted this weekend. Also apparently I need to clean the house today, oh yes and go to the grocery store so I'll have snack food this weekend at dance competition in Blue Mountain, and I have a meeting with the bank so I can start the process of getting a credit card in the works.
so I'll leave you with a pretty picture for inspiration to get motivated on this wonderful sunny morning.

Photo Via LoveBot

Belated Birthday

My wonderful/beautiful friend Corrina made a cake (by herself which was a huge accomplishment) just for me, and it was so good that I managed to eat about ten pieces by myself over the course of three days! She took a picture of the cake so I thought I would share her masterpiece with you!

A Cat With an English Accent