Engagement Photos Part II

Here are some more of our photos from this weekend. Our photographer got all of them done and edited in two days!

Shae J Photogrpahy.

 

Happy Valentines Day!

Hi, Dolls!

How was your Valentines Day? I'm a little late posting this, at 9pm on Valentines Day, but it's still the day of love for three more hours, so may as well=)

I luckily had today off, so I slept in until around 8, and Ryan stayed home for a little bit, too. He surprised me with a gorgeous heartshaped box of Purdy's and a single red rose.

I love the classic heart shaped box of chocolates =)

Ryan had to head to work right after, so I spent the first part of the day with myself.

I ended up walking down to the post office and sending off all of my wedding save the dates - glad to cross that off of my list! After that I walked around the neighborhood in the gorgeous weather, bought Ryan's gift, and came home to relax and watch some tv.

At around 6pm, Ryan came home with our dinner; my favorite sushi from my favorite restaurant, Kinjo. We got mostly Volcano rolls, a few scallops, and a couple octopus (for him).

I love my take away sushi =) Of course we had a nice bottle of wine as well.

AND

Ryan got me an amazing Valentine's gift! He's so thoughtful; I've been wanting one for awhile, but never said anything .. and when he came home today he had a big box with him. I looked at it closer and saw it was ....

A Tripod!!! For my camera  =)

I'm sooo happy =) Now I don't have to keep asking Ryan, "Babe, can you take a pic of my outfit?"
It was actually quite strategic on his part to get me this gift =P

Happy Valentines Day!

30 Day Blog Challenge! Current Relationship

Hi Dolls!

How are you? Happy it's Friday?

I know I am!

Sorry for my (again) lack of posts in the last little while!

I'm introducing this 30 day blog challenge which will hopefully get me back on track with consistant posting!

I saw this blog challenge that one of my fave bloggers, Rasha was doing, and decided to be a little copycat and do the same!

I've seen a lot of blog challenges out there and debated participating, but the questions on this one were really up my alley as I feel they'll tell you a lot about me, which since you're here, you (hopefully) won't mind knowing! I knew I had to do this myself=)

I'll still be doing my regular beauty/fashion inspired posts, but these questions will go a little deeper to reveal more layers about me.

So, from the pic about, you can see that question is :

Day 01 - Your Current Relationship - If Single Discuss How Single Life Is.

If you know me, you know I am definitely NOT single! I'm engaged and getting married in six months! Crazy, right?

To describe my relationship I would use the word, HAPPINESS. I know, not very creative, right?

But that's the emotion I feel most when I'm with Ryan.

I'm always laughing and enjoying myself when I'm with him.

He was/is completely different than any man I've ever known, and within weeks of meeting him, I knew I'd be marrying him!

He's super sensitive, (he's an artist), but also has a masculine ambitious side (an o&g geologist during the day) that is SUPER protective .. I always wanted that! Like me, he has huge dreams and aspirations and I can't wait to be there when all of them come true. He persued me like crazy when we first met, and he honestly DOES make me feel like the only girl in the world. *Cue Rihanna song*.

I've learned that anything in life can change in a heart beat, so I try not to take this amazing love I've been given for granted. I'm living for today and fully taking advantage of what we have, as tomorrow is never promised.

I really do feel like we were made for eachother. Of course we fight/argue from time to time, we are human! But at the end of the day, the bumps in the road make us stronger than ever, and I honestly look forward to having a best friend for the rest of my life.

Hopefully you didn't gag too hard reading that, dolls!

Feel free to comment on your own relationship in the comments!

My Birthday Fun!

Yesterday, January 6 was my 26th birthday! Yikes, I feel like I'm getting old, but doesn't everyone say that on their birthday?

{Boots were an early bday pressie to myself from the weekend}

I didn't want a huge kerfuffle this year over turning another year older ... for some reason I just wasn't feeling it! Last year I had a super fun party at my place where we danced til dawn, but this year I slid under the radar a bit - I have nothing planned this weekend either! That's not to say I didn't have lots of fun yesterday though! It made me appreciate every little detail of the day =)

Starting with this sweet email I got from Ryan in the morning:

Then a cute little card from the peeps in my department

At around 10am I got a lovely birthday surprise. My order from Amazon came in!!

Since I've been having them ship my orders to the downtown office it's almost cut my waiting time in half. I wasn't expecting this til the 12th so I was uber excited to get it on my bday =)

My workmate Emily who I sit beside all day took me for a bday lunch at Moxies and Ryan accompanied. I had a yummy appetizer (mosaic dip) and club soda with a lime =)Thanks Emily!

After work Ryan took me out for dinner.

We had dinner @ The Keg.

I hadn't been in awhile, and I took Ryan there for his birthday a couple weeks ago. We liked it so much we decided to go back for mine. I usually want sushi on my birthday, but I forgot how good the food at Keg is - especially for a chain restaurant!

Vegetarians cover your eyes, the following pic is Rated R!

This is Ryan's dinner .. are you kidding, I could never eat a slab of meat that big.

I did have the (small) Prime Rib also though. I'm normally not a dark meat person but decided to give it a go and loved it. Their mashed potatoes are to die!

{HAHA remember this?}

The Wine

January has been my cleanse month and I've loved it! Never felt better ... but for my bday and with such a meal I HAD to have a nice Shriaz. It complemented it beautifully. 1 glass of a spectacualar wine with a nice dinner can't be beat. New Years Resolution #1 : Sip & Savour more!

Chocolate Brownie with vanilla icecream, hot fudge and whipped cream!

Haha, I was laughing so hard. Me and Ryan are always joking about how cheesey it is that I pull my camera out and take pics of absolutely everything. So he decided to get super excited about the sundae in true Kim form.

Birthday Pressies:

^This peculiar looking contraption is actually a massage pillow and it rocks! Ryan got it for me before Xmas as an early bday gift. I have a bad neck that I'm always stretching and cracking it, trying to relieve any tension that I can. This has helped immensley. Thanks Ryan!

And to make sure I had a little somthing to open on my acutal bday he got me this bottle of Halle perfume that I also used to have.

>>I bought this perfume right before our first holiday together, in Cuba, and I loved it! It's a really nice scent. Well while we were there it got knocked off the dressing table of our hotel room and smashed all over the place. After I'd only had it a couple days! I was pretty sad. He said he'd get me a new one and over 2 years later ...... he did! So now when I smell this new bottle I'm instantly in Cuba at the start of our relationship again=)

And that about sums it up for the Birthday Re-Cap.

I am going for lunch with my family tomorrow, but this is it for the actual day.

Do you go all out celebrating your birthday, or do you prefer a more low key approach?

I hope you have a good weekend. I'm going to be doing school work all weekend, blech! But oh well, it has to be done. I'll just stay in my pjs all weekend and watch my new Keeping Up dvd in between assignments =)

Have a good weekend!

Some Thoughts On Marriage...

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

"The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous. The way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous."

-Henry Louis Meckin

"Love will die if held too lightly; love with fly if held too tight."

"A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year."

-Paul Sweeny

"Marrynig to the right person, you are complete. Marrying to the wrong one, you are finished."

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

-Lord Byron

"If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping."

-Mignon McLaughlin

"In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage."
-Robert Anderson

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

-Josh Billings

"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."

-Joseph Joubert

"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly."
-Peter De Vries

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Me : I'm just eager and excited to see what the journey of marriage will bring

What would be your best advice on sharing your life with the person you love?

I Want a Pug!

*I would love to sleep in with my puggy every weekend =)*

While I cherish and love all animals, there is no critter on the planet that has captured my heart like the Pug.

I'm helpless against completely melting when I see their adorable faces and chubby, pudgy bodies.

There's a lady in our neighborhood that I've seen walking her chubby pudger a few times, and it makes me want one even more!

It's my dream to one day have one all for myself.

I would get one now, but we already have two cats in a small condo. I bought the condo for myself two years ago, and have added a fiance and two cats since then=P. There is no way I could add to the zoo yet.

We are planning on buying downtown in the next few months, but it will be in a high rise condo, so still not suitable for a puppy and 2 cats.

My guess is we will have to wait at least another five years, when we buy our first house together. Then my dream of owning a Pug will come true! It's part of my bucket list: have a Pug.

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Thank God It's Friday!

Tonight is the one year anniversary of me and Ryan's engagement, so we are going out for dinner, then some shopping, and having some champagne at home after. Can't wait.

To read more about how he proposed, click here =)

Have a great weekend!