DIARY // PUMPKIN PARTY
oh sweet weekends. i love you.
don’t get me wrong, i love my job. i am extremely blessed to be able to do what i love..but sometimes i get really, really, really excited for the weekends. come thursday 9pm my mind is in weekend mode.
this weekend was pretty low key..which i loved. lots of chill time with my man.
i spent my day off on friday doing loads of laundry and getting up to date on vampire diaries…ha…i did squeeze in a run around cedar hill golf course, breakfast at jam with my lovely sister, catrina and coffee at uvic with whitney.
saturday night we had our friends thomas + chenoah over for some pumpkin carving fun…
my cold-weather fave…baked brie + roasted garlic..mmmmmmmmm
here’s my creation…mickey!
i heart fall.
hope you had a fabulous weekend!
xo,
s.s.♥.
THAT TIME WE WERE 10 FEET AWAY FROM RYAN GOSLING
it’s fall. i love it. i love it. i love it.
i love leaves.
i love mist.
i love scarves.
i love pumpkin anything.
i love grey skies. i love it all.
oh, and i love halloween.
around halloween i get the urge to watch hocus pocus (best halloween movie) and eat lots of candy corn.
i also get the urge to listen to halloween music. this really isn’t halloween music but it really is halloween music. it’s not labelled as a typical halloween song but it’s spooky and talks about your body being a zombie.
have a listen…
spooktacular hey? and believe it or not, one of the voices singing is the ryan gosling. yeah, THE RYAN GOSLING.
so if you were a single girl circa 2009 and your bestie lived in vancouver you’d totally pay money to see a really, really crappy band just because ryan gosling was in it?
riiiiggght?
here’s how it went down…
inside our heads- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!noah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!it’s him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
outward appearance- oh sweet, i love this band, yep, total fan.
one of my friends, who shall not be named, went extremely kinda ballistic . it was really cute.
inside our heads- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!omgeee!!!!!he’s totally looking at me!!!!!!!!!!!
outward appearance- ohh, i love this song, it’s my fave. (doesn’t know any lyrics)
inside our heads- !!!! i’m so jealous that those stupid 13 year old get to stand so close to my future husband!!!!!
outward appearance- how artsy and unique of them, to use a children’s choir
happy wednesday!
xoxo,
s.s.♥.
DIARY // SALTSPRING
this past weekend james + i had the pleasure of adventuring to saltspring island. i had gone to saltspring as a young girl for soccer games but that was it. we didn’t get to see a ton of it, but what we did see was awesome. as i said on friday, we left for saltspring to stay the weekend at a friend’s cabin.
the cabin was sooo cute. rustic-chic. all wooden with a wood stove + a loft bedroom. it was a dream..and the view..oh the view…talking about it won’t do it justice.
that picture definitely doesn’t do it justice. it was magical. so very magical. we had a delightful weekend of feasting (my goodness we ate a lot of food!), playing many, many rounds of boggle, exploring around the island (loved the hippie market), listening to chronicles of narnia (bbc did an incredible recording of all the books, i highly recommend listening to them!) + resting.
rest was exactly what we needed and it has fuelled me for the week ahead. i’m very excited to practice sabbath living weekly.
so funny about this picture above… that morning james prayed that we would see crazy wildlife. we pulled over at this stop because of the cute historic buildings and then all of a sudden all these turkeys waddled towards james. they ventured right up to him, it was so crazy!
saturday afternoon we went into ganges and discovered that ice cream was on sale…i’m a girl who loves the sales, so i couldn’t resist! we caught the last day the shop was open! the owner closes up shop for the winter months and heads down to palm springs..what a life. ice cream was $1 (ridiculously tiny scoops though) and all candy was 50% off. ice cream + pop rocks..why not? deliciousness.
we also drank a lot of coffee. overall it was incredible.
hope your weekend was just as fabulous.
tonight we’re celebrating james’ parents 25th wedding anniversary. so incredible! + then i’ll be making butternut squash soup…i’ll let you know how it goes.
xoxo,
s.s.♥.
DIARY // SIGNING OFF
our conference speaker, joyce rees (who was absolutely incredible) spoke on sabbath living at our women’s breakfast on sunday.
sabbath. rest. i really wish i had my notes in front of me so i could reference them. but what i can remember is sabbath is for resting. sabbath is supposed to be good and fun, anything but work. sabbath is like a holiday (holy day) not a vacation (vacating somewhere). sabbath is a gift not a curse. sabbath can include feasting, ceasing, resting, + rejuvenation. now doesn’t this sound good?
she encouraged us to practice sabbath for a full 24 hour period. she also gave some suggestions for sabbath…enjoy God’s creation (going for nature walks), spending time with God but also spending time with your spouse/family/friends, eating good food, listening to stories, reading, etc …she said sabbath should be a day of NO OBLIGATIONS. that stuck with me.
so james + i are off to saltspring for a sabbatical weekend. we’re very excited to have no obligations, to turn off our phones + have no distractions or demands that would be sucking our attention.
i’m excited to rest in God, to dream, to get lost on an island where i don’t know a soul, to light a fire + cuddle up with my love. ohhhh, it’s going to be fun.
so in a few hours i’ll be signing off. the phone will be turned off + i will be unreachable. yipppeeee.
xoxo,
s.s.♥.