Exciting Update!!!

Geremy's sister Yolanda just called, and they welcomed their beautiful baby girl at 8:17 pm tonight

Welcome to the world

Chloe Margaret Messervey she was 7lbs 10oz

Congrats Yolanda, Marty and big sister Mackenzie

I'm so excited a baby nephew and baby neice all in a week!!!

Not Much Time!!!

I've been a bit busy lately with everything going on in my life, so there hasn't been much time to post anything on my blog.

This past weekend was Thanksgiving weekend. It went pretty well!! Saturday we went Apple Picking at Orchalaw Farms in Norval, with our friends Jeremy, Brittany and their son Noah who is Ethans age, and Geremy's Aunt Rita, Uncle Edwin and his cousin Christine came too. It was lots of fun and I'll post some pictures later. Then after that we went to the trailer for the night. Sunday we had Thanksgiving dinner at the trailer and came home later that night.

Monday morning started early with a phone call my sister Terri-Dawn and her boyfriend Stephen welcomed their 2nd son into the world.

Ryder Calvin Gaius Sparkes was born Monday October 13th, at 5:18 (I think) weighing in at 7 lbs 8 oz.

Congratulations to my sister, Stephen and Big Brother Sidney!!

I can't wait to get to Newfoundland to see them both. Auntie loves you both Sidney and Ryder!!!

Also Geremy's sister Yolanda, her husband Marty and their daughter Mackenzie are awaiting the arrival of their 2nd child too. It'll be any day now, and i'll keep you posted. So exciting so many babies :)

I promise to post some pictures soon!!

Wedding Bands!!

One of my favorate wedding traditions is the exchange of the Wedding Bands. I don't really know why by I think its one of most exciting parts of a wedding, besides when the Bride is making her grand entrance.

Geremy and I have purchased the cd George Jones "Greatest Hits" and on the CD is a song "The Right Left Hand" I love the lyrics, and everything about the song, its a song that is played OVER AND OVER in our car. Take a look at the lyrics!!!

George Jones

"The Right Left Hand"

I've cried a million tears, down through the years. Searching for that special one. And the vows I took before, where all forever more, but no matter how I tried they came undone.Then the good lord finally gave me the true love of a lady, someone who believes in me. And she lets me know each day, that love is here to stay. I finally found someone who'll never leave.

CHORUS: I put a golden band on the right left hand this time, and the right left hand put a golden band on mine. When our hair is snowy white, time will prove I'm right. I put a golden band on the right left hand this time.

I'll never have to reach for the love that my heart needs, she'll be close enough to touch. And when the nights are long and cold, she'll be there to hold, all dressed up for one more night of love.

CHORUS: I put a golden band on the right left hand this time, and the right left hand put a golden band on mine. When our hair is snowy white, time will prove I'm right. I put a golden band on the right left hand this time.

Below are some pictures from our wedding of us exchanging our wedding bands.

Above photo taken by: Cyball Photography

Above Photo taken by: Cyball Photography

Exciting News

Recently me and Geremy have talked about moving out of Brampton, theres a few reasons for that, having a 2 year old made us look at Brampton awhole new way in the past couple years, theres to much going on, and we don't want our son going to school here.

So we considered Fort McMurray, which sounds really good and its where the money is. But I haven't been to Newfoundland on over a year, My mom has only seen Ethan a week in the past year, and the rest of family has only seen pictures its been over a year since they have last seen him. If we moved to Alberta it would be longer before we could go to Newfoundland to see anyone, or come to Ontario to see family and friends. Another thing if we were to decide to go to Alberta we can't just pack up and go, Geremy would have to go for a month or so before we could, and find a apartment, job etc, so that would leave me and Ethan in Brampton by ourselves for awhile.

So our final decision and our big exciting news is.......

We're moving to NEWFOUNDLAND!!!

We talk everything over, and we decided to go for it, so this Christmas is going to be our first Christmas with out families in years, and their first Christmas with Ethan.

Also I haven't met my nephews Sidney and Austin, and my sister has another little boy on the way in the next 2 weeks. So i'm really excited about meeting them, and Ethan can play with his cousins. Then theres Riley who I haven't seen in the past year, and I bet he has gotten alot bigger since the last time we seen him. Ethan can play with Riley and Austin when we get to go see them. Then theres also Geremy's family he hasn't seen in years, he's exicted about seeing them again, and I'm excited about meeting his family, and for them to meet Ethan. Ethan on the other hand is 2 and is to young to understand, but he does ask to go see Aunt Bess so he can very soon.

Also I think being in Newfoundland with family will be a good thing, and Ethan will have lots of places to run and play. The only thing is Geremy isn't use to a small town but I think he can get use to it, and he knows what to expect.

So as of the end of November or early December we're packing up and moving east. (We've already started packing)

My Maid of Honor Laura......

I have to post a few pictures of my amazing Maid of Honor enjoying herself at our wedding......Just because I love her, she's one of my best friends, and the fact that SHE'S GONNA KILL ME....when she see's the pictures. But oh well she deserved to enjoy herself...not only for being my maid of honour but for being my best friend, the person who I can call late at night when everyone else is sleeping just to talk about random stuff, the person who the minute Lucas tells Peyton shes the one he wants to marry I rush to the phone to make sure she didn't miss it, and when Lindsay ran out of Church, or when Jamie fell in the pool....or any other major moments on One Tree Hill. The one I chat with online and then one of us will phone the other because we're tired of typing. The person who went shopping with me for NOT ONE.....BUT TWO Wedding Dresses and I did the same with her for her Maid of Honor dresses, went to Bridal Shows with me, Who gave me advice, even when I didnt need it and I do the same for her...lol the other person who understand ALL our inside jokes, one of very few people who besides myself likes Sourz Green Apple, Cranberry Juice and Vodka and most of all for HELPING ME DRIVE MY NEW HUSBAND NUTS.....with the calls, all the wedding details, times we had to run out to the mall, or store and whatever else we did to drive him crazy!!!!


So heres to you girl.

Our Best Man!!!!!

Later in our wedding while I was eating a peice of our yummy Strawberry Cream Wedding Cake, our best man started complaining about how he didnt get a peice of cake, so I asked him "Ronnie would you like me to go and get you a peice of cake" to which he replied, " I would love if I could have a peice of the cake"

So Ronnie here's to the saying "YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO!!"

I got Ronnie his peice of Cake........ha ha ha!!!!

and Ronnie got it!!!! Love ya Buddy :) (He said it tasted good!!)

Catching Up!!

It's been awile since my last post, and since that time we are now MARRIED!!!

My wedding day was all I dreamed of and more, I woke up early that morning, went and got my hair done, then make-up and got ready for one of the biggest days of out lives. I was super exicted :) My groom on the other hand, although he may never admit this was Super Nervous :P......and I guess it didnt help that I was umm as our videograper taped in the video....lol I was 20 minutes late, will the ceremony started 20 minutes late anyways. But I guess like the saying " Always Late but Worth the Wait".

After the Ceremony we headed to the park in Norval across from Nashville North, now know as West 7, for our pictures, and I must say, we had the most amazing photograpers, Christa and Holly, you both done such an amazing job, and the pictures are absolutely beautiful.

The reception was also amazing, great food, everyone did such an amazing job, and we had a really good turn out. Then on to the basic wedding details, cake in the face of both the BRIDE AND GROOM, its not a cake fight unless its both people. First dance, which Geremy had alot of trouble trying to decide what song we were going to have for our first dance. It went from Alan Jackson "Remember When" to Clint Black "When I said I do" to Big and Rich "Lost in this Moment" and he finally decided about 2 1/2 weeks before the wedding to go back to "When I said I do" by Clint Black.so had our own little entertainer.....Ethan danced to the Newfie Stomp along with his buddy Ralph and it was so funny and cute, he did an awesome job. Myself he gets his dance moves from his mommy......lol.

I also want to take the time to thank my wonderful wedding party who help in every way they could and were there for us on our special day, Thank you Laura, Jillienne, Brittany, Amanda, Ronnie, Scott, Jeremy, Harry, and also Emma and Ethan who were the cutest Ringbearer and Flowergirl ever.

I also want to thank everyone who helped decorate, helped with food. I want to thank our DJ, MC, Photograpers, and anyone else i'm forgetting.

Will I hope you like the pictures. I know I do :)

4 Months & 3 Days Away

We have gotten so much done in the past couple weeks. I can't believe how fast time flys by, but we're gradually getting everything done.

OUR INVITATIONS ARE DONE, and most of them are sent out, the only ones left are ones we have to hand deliver.

Since my last post we have gotten the Flowergirls dress, and jewelry, a few decorations, and I have decided on the centre peices for now, although that may change because I haven't bought anything for them yet.

Besides from that i've gotten most of the other little things, theres no major things left that I can think of right now. Today we went and registered for the wedding which was kinda fun. We just decided to register at WalMart, its one of our favorate stores and they a huge variety of everything.

Anyways thats all for now, its a nice outside today so we're going to have a bbq :)

Another Month is gone by......

As everyone can see we're getting closer to our big day, now we're down to 4 months and 2 weeks.

I'm starting to get really excited, but at the same time, I'm too stressed out with other peoples opinions and all the other stress that comes with weddings. But I can't say that I was never warned that other people are going to nag me with their opinions.....some days I just want to elope and get it over with, but I guess on August 16th when i'm walking down the isle its going to be all worth it.

We've gotten alot of stuff done since my last post that i'm pretty happy about.

• Our invitations are being printed this week
• I finally got the cake server, cake knife, garter (although I may go and get another one that I seen), the guestbook, flower girls basket & rose petals, my shoes....and a few other small things.
• I found new tags for the Party Favors that already have a versus on them
• We went and picked out our wedding rings
• Our flowers are ordered

The flowers and wedding rings were something that I didn't expect to get yet but now its done and over with.

Today i'm going with my maid of honour Laura too look for the flower girls dress for her daughter and while i'm out i'm going to look for the tuxes for the ringbearers.

Alright I'll keep everyone posted.

SO EXCITED

Ok we're getting closer to the day we're down to 5 months and 5 days until our wedding day.

We've gotten a few things done in the past 2 weeks that i'm really excited about:

We paid the deposit for the Church and we're just waiting for the call to start Marriage Councellig
Our Hall is officially booked (a different hall then we were originally going with)
We've picked out all the songs
All the girls have their dresses (except the flowergirl but still lots of time)

Things to come soon:

• Getting our invitations on Friday
• Cake Cutter/Server
• My Garter
• Wine Glasses for the head table
• Guest book
• Flowers

Anyways I just wanted to keep everyone filled in on all the details.

The Beginning of Another Month

5 MONTHS, 1 WEEK & 6 DAYS AWAY

We're getting closer to the big date, and so far we have a few things done.

• The guest list is officially done....
• All the girls have their dresses, and I bought a 2nd dress.....
• The Church downpayment will be paid tomorrow.....
• All the songs for the wedding including the church ceremony have been picked out.....
• I've got the something old, something new, and I know what the borrowed thing is gonna be and the blue will obviously be my garter....

Other small things we're hoping to get done this month, besides the hall being paid in a week and a half are .....

• Invitations
• Flowers
• My shoes (so I can get use to them)

I have made a month to month list of things that need to be done every month right up to the marriage license, and rings.

Will thats all the updates for now....everything is coming along slowly....but we're getting there.

This past week.

HAPPY FAMILY DAY

Today is the first year for our new holiday "Family Day", we're just going to stay home cleaning, laundry and later we might go visit our friends Jeremy, Brittany and their son Noah.

The wedding plans are still coming along, although we haven't gotten anything done this week, Saturday we were suppose to pay the hall, but that had to be put on hold, We were in car accident Tuesday morning on our way to work, so we had to go and buy Ethan a new carseat, and stroller Thursday.... the carseat he did have was obviously in the car, and once in a accident it's written off for the childs safety.

All the other wedding plans remain, this weekend me and the girls are going to get the bridesmaids dresses, and i'm going to buy a few things like the invitations and flowers for the bouquets.

Will that's basically it, i'll keep you updated with everything as we go.

More Wedding plans

Well I'm done to 6 months and a week until my wedding day.......

Today me and my maid of honour went shopping and got our dresses, she was shopping with her friend Tammy and they decided while at Sears to look at the dresses will Miss Laura decided to try one on and then called me to tell me what she was doing so.......She had to come and get me, cause she loved the Rose colour dress she found. (I'm going with a light pink for the girls dresses, but we want hers a darker colour) We went back, the 2 of us and Emma, and she put on her dress and I put on the light colour dress and I loved them......I could've stayed there all day trying on dresses....

Colour of Laura's dress

So I grabbed a bunch of white dresses and started to try them on.....and by luck after 6 dresses I found MY DRESS :)


So thank you Laura and Tammy for finding the dresses :)


Other then that the other wedding plans are coming along so far we have decided on:
A DJ
Photographer
Meal
All our songs, Including the church (we don't want the normal organ/traditional church music playing)
Invitations (well we looked at the the exact style still to be decided)
Guest list is finally finalized



There is still alot to plan.


Our Wedding Goal for Febuary is to:


Pay Church
Pay Hall
Buy flowers
Get the other girls dresses Feb.24th
Get flowergirls dress
Get flowergirls basket
Flower petals
Invitations

I think thats pretty much it, and I have to be up for 5 am.......so I'll keep everyone posted on the wedding plans :)

Our Wedding plans

Date: August 16th, 2008

Ceremony: Salvation Army Church, on Bramalea Road

Reception: Moose Lodge, Advance Blvd.

Maid of Honour is Laura Slaney ~ Best Man is Ronnie Wilkins

Terri-Dawn (my sister) ~ Jeff Jacobs (Ethan's Godfather)

Jillienne Brake (Geremy's step-sister) ~ Scott Godfrey (Geremy's best friend)

Amanda Butt ~ Harry Butt

Brittany Lawrence ~ Jeremy Simon

Ringbearers : Ethan and Sidney

Flowergirl: Emma Wilkins (Laura's and Ronnies daughter)

The colours we're going with for the wedding are light pink, white and a little bit of grey.



This is our party favour we have
to give to our guests.

EXCITING NEWS

We got engaged May 26th, 2007

Ethan turned 1 May 23, 2007

Our friends Harry and Amanda Butt got married in May and are now expecting their 2nd child a little boy in March.

My Brother Mitch and his Wife Eudora, had another baby boy Austin in September and they got married in April.

My sister Terri-Dawn and her boyfriend Stephen had a little boy Sidney Tyler Eugene Sparkes, he was born October 2nd.

My nephew Sidney

Our best friends and Ethans God-parents Lisa and Jeff are expecting a baby, a little girl in May :)

Along with us planning our wedding, one of my best friends from Newfoundland Monica and her fiance Devon who are living in Alberta are also planning their wedding, and we'll be sharing the wedding date August 16th, 2008. Monica and Devon are getting married in Newfoundland.

Also then there's Jaymi and Donald. I met Jaymi when we were working at the Birch and Beaver, and we've continued talking since :)

ALOT OF CATCHING UP!!

Ok, its been almost a year since I posted on here. Since that our little baby has turned 1, he's now 20 months old and is growing so quick, he's had his 1st Easter, 1st Mothers day, 1st Birthday, 2nd Fathers day, 2nd Halloween, 2 Christmas, and so on.

Ethan's 2nd Halloween

Our little Gladiator

Big things in the last year, I've returned to working and was working part-time at the Birch and Beaver but however I found another more exciting job as an Administrative Assistant at Seatainer Terminals Inc. where Geremy also works, and will now his brother works there too.

Me going back to work meant finding full time care for Ethan for the first 3 weeks it was babysitters but September 17th, 2007 we took a big step as a family and enrolled him full-time at an actual daycare....this may not seem like a big thing to people who don't have kids but it is, it broke our hearts, well mine and Ethans anyways, but luckily he loves it, he's around his friends everyday, he's learning quickly, and its just awesome, I couldn't imagine a better place for him to be when I'm not with him.


At the daycare he does most things that a normal school would do with Kindergartens they have a normal schedule, and event plannings, pictures days, every week is a new theme where everything is based around that theme, and they even get book orders, and fundraisers for examples in October they were selling cookies dough. Ethan raised 325.00, and then they sold Chocolate bars and Ethan was one of the 4 runner-ups he won a giant ELMO....which he loves.



Other new things this year, while me and Ethan were in Newfoundland in August we got a puppy and we named him Newf.

Our puppy Newf

Also this year at Ethan's 1st birthday Geremy proposed to me and we've been busy planning our wedding which is August 16th, 2008 (this summer).