Girl in the Goldfish Bowl

Tonight is our first show in front of a real audience... and I think I might be sick. haha

I'm SO excited for this show, you have no idea.

If any of you are interested in coming, here are the details:

Location: University of the Fraser Valley, Chilliwack Campus

Preview Shows: January 19th & 20th at 7:30pm

Matinees: January 30th & February 6th at 2:00pm as well as February 3rd at noon.

Evening Shows: January 21st, 22nd, 27th, 28th, 29th, February 3rd, 4th & 5th at 7:30pm

Ticket prices range between $10-$18.

If you're interested, call the UFV box office 604-795-2814

...Showtime!

web "window shopping"

So, I couldn't sleep this morning. I don't know if it was nervous excitement or if I was stomach sick! haha. Anyways, it caused me to venture to the living room to watch "rich bride, poor bride" and browse the internet. I landed on modcloth.com and thought I'd share some of the cute dresses and tops I found:

Cute, right?! I know.

Karla Lee - January 5th, 1961

Today is my mom's 50th birthday. I wrote this for her:

The first person I ever knew was also the most influential person in my life.

My mother has been a mentor, coach, confident and friend

and has faithfully guided me, like a lighthouse, towards truth, love and a life worth living.

She taught me how to walk by faith and to pray when my faith was scarce.

Most importantly, she taught me to trust in Christ when I had almost no faith at all.

My mother has modelled kindness, strength and perseverance

and has taught us what it means to live selflessly.

She has made me who I am and I hope to someday be

a mirror-image of the woman who gave love and life to me.

A Wonderful Christmas Time

I'm a tad late with this one!

I had a wonderfully magnificent Christmas. It was full of fun, family and festivity (and who could possibly ask for more?!) We were at our church for Christmas Eve, and I read from "the Jesus Storybook Bible" from a big arm chair onstage. It was like story-time with Aunt Jay - I should have pushed my glasses down my nose a bit! When that was done, we headed over to Uncle Grant and Aunt Connie's house for Saip family Christmas. We ate lots of tasty food and played the present-stealing game (White Elephant?). Aunt Edna ended up with a bottle of Fireball...

We stayed overnight at Dad and Muttie's house and enjoyed a leisurely morning of opening presents, eating dad's goulash (yummy), drinking coffee and, of course, reading the Christmas story from Luke chapter 2.

At around 11:30 we headed over to mom and Lyle's to have our family Christmas there - we ate mandarin oranges and turtles (it's tradition!) opened presents and lazed around. Uncle Guy and Aunt Terri came over for Christmas dinner and we enjoyed our usual ridiculousness joking and laughing around the table, eventually retiring to "jam" in the music/living room.

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I'll have you all know that I remained in my pajamas ALL day.

We left for Kelowna mid-morning on the 26th and enjoyed our Dyck family Christmas as soon as we arrived! We had an awesome time of relaxing, playing games (TTR, Settlers, Dominion) and I read about 50 percent of "Little Women" on my new Kindle! (I'm now at 80 percent).

We even enjoyed some outdoor theatre and a sleigh ride (right up my alley!) in Armstrong - we had an awesome time.

It was fabulous. Just fabulous.

Merry Christmas, friends.