Dave and I are getting MARRIED!

I was feeling quite sentimental this morning as the smell of bacon wafted through our crisp cool house.  Probably the last few years I lived at home, my dad made a huge breakfast, including bacon, every single Sunday morning without fail for the family.   The other thing he liked to do on Sunday mornings was  CRANK the worship music around 7 or 8 am.  Me and my teenage brothers would be enjoying a good sleep in- and sure enough you would hear the base rattling through our old floors.  A few minutes later you would hear my dad harmonizing up a storm in his deep boomy base voice, and stomping around the house in his shoes or boots, getting ready to head out.   Then- he would leave.  The door would slam shut and I’d know he was on the way to the store to get his choice breakfast ingredients, or maybe a newspaper, or pink peppermints to munch on during the church service.  But he almost ALWAYS left the music blaring for our sleeping house hold.  My mom usually worked the night shift and got home a bit later.   Sometimes I would crankily stomp downstairs and turn it off and then jump back in bed. Sometime I would just pile the pillows on my head...but I could always hear the base as the music came from underneath my room.   The bacon mended the wounds and won me over every morning, though. 

So, in the spirit of sentiment, I thought I would undertake another sentimental task today. A friend of Dave and mine from university emailed me a few weeks ago.   She is getting married in the new year and remembered a video I had made and played at our wedding over 5 year ago.  She was hoping to do something like it, and asked if I could post it so she could get some ideas of what to include in hers. 

I put this together just a few months before Dave and I got married.  Having only dated 10 months, then being engaged for only 10 months, many of our friends and family outside of university didn’t really know many details of “our story,” or too much about us as a couple.  So, after everyone was seated, we played this video before the wedding ceremony started.  It is light and fun, and we received lots of good feed-back from people.   Especially those who didn’t have much time to spend with us a couple.  I realized the other day that most of our Ottawa friends and family don’t know our dating and engagement story, either- so I thought it would be kinda fun thing to share.

So, I think I uploaded this properly onto you tube, and this should be the link!

There you go, Jessica, and I hope the rest of you get a few laughs.

Thanks for reading, I’m out.