HELLO WEEKEND

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It's Friday and here's to hoping on scoring BIEBER TICKETS at 10am!

Tomorrow I'm going to a pie making class with my momma and sister and I cannot wait!! We each leave with a pie and I'm hoping that we also get to sample lots and lots of pie....mmmmm.

James comes home in two days...BOOYAH. I've found this tour the hardest..probably because when he's away it's only me looking after our students. On the last tours if I was super tired after a long day of work, I could make a smoothie or eat a bowl of cereal and call it a day...not so much with international students...

Another reason why I'm so excited for James to come home is CHRISTMAS DECORATING can begin! He's going to build a mantle for our fireplace and I can't wait to decorate the junk out of it!

"Yes the world is scary as hell, love anyway." <------ yes. Love is what He asks of us, isn't it?

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!!

xo,
laura

P.S. Sorry I haven't posted as regularly as I usually do! I've been feeling a little bit under the weather...hopefully next week I'll be getting back to 3x per week! I still have lots of photos from our vaycay to share with you and oh my goodness, let the Christmas baking games begin!

AUSTIN, TEXAS

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I seriously cannot believe that two weeks ago we were in Austin! And one week ago we were in St. Thomas and now it's 4 degrees over here in lovely Victoria, BC. (insert crying face emoji) 

Today I'm finally showing photos from our trip....Jet lag has been doing a serious number on me....last night was a miracle because I went to bed at 9:30pm...the past two nights were 8pm and then BOOM 5:30am wide awake! 

We had such a lovely time in Austin visiting Joy (James' sis) and her hubby, Ryan. They are the loveliest and are expecting baby boy Sebastian in January! The weather was super warm the day we arrived and then the next day BOOM flash flooding...which kinda did a number on our trip because of rain we ended up missing our cruise but I'll get to that at a later point lol....I would still do the Austin portion all over again because our time with them filled our hearts oh so much!

We had so much fun exploring Austin. And the food was something else. Serious food babies all around. Thai-Kun had amazing vibes and we finally got to try Shake Shack! And oh-my-goodness on our last night we experienced true Texan BBQ at Salt Lick....soooooo good.

And oh my goodness how cute is Joy's baby bump?

Oh Austin, you were fun and we will definitely be back!

xo,
laura

LEAVING ON A JET PLANE

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Away we go! Tomorrow James and I are off on our fall holidays....yipeeee! It's been a mad fall with work and just finishing conference last weekend (which was AMAZING by the way!!). I know I've been real bad about updating this space but life has been so FULL! We're off to Austin to visit James' sister and husband for a few days (yaaaa!) and then we fly to Florida to cruise it up for a week on the Caribbean! I CANNOT WAIT! 

I feel like I've barely thought about this holiday because things were so cray cray right up until we left. I'm currently still packing and still have to do a bunch of stuff and it's almost midnight and we fly out at 9am...but hey...we'll be able to get lotsa rest on the cruise!

We won't have wifi on the cruise but I'll probably send a few updates in Austin...hello TEXAS BBQ! So be sure to follow along!

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XO, laura

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

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Happy Thanksgiving to all you Canadians out there! I love thanksgiving because it gives us all an excuse to hang out with ones we love, eat lots of turkey and take a moment to be thankful for all the blessings around us! I have so much to be thankful for....my loving husband, family, the best of friends a girl could ask for, an amazing church and of course JESUS <3

Hope you have a wonderful day and eat lots and lots of turkey!!! My amazing mother in law is hosting dinner this year and I am so thankful for that :)

XO,
laura

HELLO WEEKEND

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Hi hi hiiiiiiii. Oh m gee, I am soo sorry I haven't posted in forever! I'm still alive! Just have been unbelievably busy! Last weekend we were in Vancouver at James' cousin's wedding. It was at the most beautiful old mansion just off Granville and 16th. From the picture above you could see the water!! 

19 days until we go away (!!!!!!!) and TWO WEEKS TILL CONFERENCE! I kinda feel like my brain is going to explode but ITS ALL GOOD because God gives us all that we need every year and He won't let us down this year. 

It all of a sudden got sooo cold here and I just want to live in a sweater like this one.

I watched this video and bawled last night. So beautiful to see organizations on the ground, helping refugees in an unfathomable time.

On Saturday we're taking our students to a pumpkin patch! And I'm really hoping to make these Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls.

Next week I will be back to regular programming (3 posts per week!). Thank you for being such amazing readers. 

Love you to the moon & back!

-laura

Oh and I got a new phone so follow along....
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