weekend success.

happy monday! i hope your week is off to a good start. today i'm at work and still recovering from a busy (but amazing!) weekend. on friday we got all dressed up to celebrate the wedding of our very close friends. it was a great day filled with love, laughter, and dancing. (congratulations alex and fred!) on saturday we packed up for a belated anniversary getaway. we stayed in richmond and went to vancouver for the day too. more details on that later... and then we wrapped up the weekend with a family bbq celebrating my favourite 11-year-old cousins birthday. all in all, a very successful weekend.

ps. did you notice david's new glasses!??! i finally took the plunge for him and bought him this pair for an anniversary present. another success in the kobes household.

summer bucket list update

well, it's officially august. only one more month of summer! so far we've crossed quite a few things off our summer bucket list but we still have some more to go. here's where we're at:

• walk to the movie theatre and watch a movie
• repaint the desk
• go to jam in jubilee
• have friends over for a bbq
• go to seattle vanvouver for a night (next weekend!)
• go to cultus lake and swim (i have to specify ‘swim’ otherwise david won’t)
• make nightstands
• go to whistler 2x
• read a book that’s not a textbook (in progress)
• work lots/make $$$ (so far so good!) 
• go to the gym/work out 2x a week (complete fail so far...) 
• keep our plants alive
• do the abby grind
• go (real) camping
• get good grades in summer classes
• go to burnaby mountain and watch the sunset
• go to the driving range
• richmond night market (planned for next weekend) 
• celebration of light

next weekend me and david are planning a belated anniversary celebration by spending a night in vancouver. we plan to hit up the richmond night market and do lots of sitting by the hotel pool. 

i hope you all are crossing lots of things off your summer bucket lists! have a fantastic weekend :)

weekend in whistler.

hey everyone! today i'm back at work after an amazing weekend in whistler with my family. we stayed in a condo with my parents and my two sisters and their families. it was great to spend some quality time with everyone, especially my adorable nephew silas! just look at that face!

me and david drove up on friday after work. it was a rainy and trafic-filled drive but we made it up before 7pm. on the way we stopped at britannia mines and a couple of viewpoints.

the next day we braved the rain and went for a walk around lost lake.

we also walked into the village for some coffee. the rain cleared up a bit and we got a view of the peak 2 peak gondola. you can kind of see it in the picture below.

on sunday we watched the netherlands game (hup holland hup!!), and we won so that set a good tone for the day.

and then the sun came out for a bit so we hit up the pool and hot tub. it was so fun taking silas in the pool, he loved it!

we also did some more walking and found a cool park with some serious yarn bombing.

overall we spent the weekend playing games, walking around, swimming, and eating delicious food. can't wait to do it all over again next weekend with david's family!

and just because i can't resist, here are a couple more pictures of silas.

hope you all have a fantastic canada day week!

summer bucket list.

school is officially over and summer has begun! me and david are both taking summer classes but they are condensed so they’ll be over by the end of june. even so, it feeeels like summer is here. it helps that it’s 25 degrees today and super sunny.

me and david have big plans for the summer. it’s our first complete summer being married and we’re going to milk every second of it.

here’s what we want to get done by the end of august:

• walk to the movie theatre and watch a movie
• repaint the desk
• go to jam in jubilee
• have friends over for a bbq
• go to seattle for a night
• go to cultus lake and swim (i have to specify ‘swim’ otherwise david won’t)
• make nightstands
• go to whistler 2x
• read a book that’s not a textbook
• work lots/make $$$
• go to the gym/work out 2x a week
• keep our plants alive
• do the abby grind
• go (real) camping
• get good grades in summer classes
• go to burnaby mountain and watch the sunset
• go to the driving range
• richmond night market

anything else we should add?

i think it's going to be a good summer.

ps. we're on the look out for cheap patio furniture. preferably a smaller table with some chairs. let me know if you see any deals!