Say YES to the Dress!!!

One New show that I really enjoy is TLC's "Say Yes to the Dress"! For some reason I just love looking at wedding gowns. They are the epitome of elegance and womanhood to me. I don't know why, but they are. One designer that I have started to fall in love with because of the show is Pnina Tornai : Many in her line have a lingerie' look (see through) So many of the Brides that purchase the dresses have them altered so that you cant see through them and they look FABULOUS! I really love her line. Another Designer I love now is Eve of Milady: The next dresses are by Melissa Sweet:I also Enjoy Kenneth Pool's Line:The last dress is from the 2008 line of Lazaro, and this is actually THE dress that I would have purchased for my wedding had I had tons of money (and sleeve alterations). Of course, I say this now, but had I actually tried it on I may have said otherwise. I must admit, I did LOVE my dress that I wore my wedding day. :)

This is All for now, I just love wedding dresses! I would buy LOTS if I was a millionaire!

Love Always,
Mrs. Fray Fray

Work?

Now that it has snowed, and the temperature continues to drop each morning, I am getting less and less work at D'Arcy. I have been searching for the past few days for job positions available, but there certainly are not as many listing for jobs now, as compared to what there was this time last year! One word. Recession. Which equals, Destruction...on me.

And one bad thing about me trying to get anything RETAIL this year is that I HAVE to be upfront and honest with potential employers about me being gone during blackout days! And Dec. 26th here is Canada, is like Black Friday in the States. You CANNOT NOT be at work? You HAVE to be available during that time to work, and normally, it would be NO problem. But to my dismay, this year, Whitney is getting married in California! And DURING the Blackout season for retail stores! Oh Whitney...It's OK, I don't blame you, I blame your fiance' ha ha J/K. I fear that I will not be able to obtain ANY job until after The new year! which is TOO long for me to be out of work! That's TWO months with no work! And that is unacceptable to me. So, as the saying goes...Beggars Can't be Choosers. And I think for me that means. If I still have to work outside in the cold, or flip burgers, then I guess that's what I'm gonna have to do till the New year rings in. But hopefully I will not be doomed to doing that kind of work once again. I hope I can be blessed with a GOOD, FUN, and ENJOYABLE work environment.
I probably just sound a tad negative today because I'm stressed. This too shall pass.

Love Always,

Mrs. Fray Fray

Belly Dancing

Tonight I start BELLY DANCE!!! I am SUPER Excited! There will only be ten classes, but that's o.k. I think it will be fun! Plus I really need to do some exercise! At work I CAN get it, but they've been sticking me on the Sidewinder (A type of mower) and I just sit there. Every now and then I can get off to push a rake into the bunker, but by that time I am too lazy to get off, so I use my machine to push it in.

But yeah. It'll be nice to meet some new people and to get my body moving! I love to take dance classes. It's relaxing for me. In a different kind of way. Mentally relaxing. It's not really physically relaxing. Ha ha.

The season at D'Arcy Ranch is nearly over and I will be in search of a new job soon. I applied to one place so far, but that's about it, so I'll have to get a move on that pronto. And I REFUSE to do outdoor work this winter. The summer was cold enough for me to learn that sitting outside all day in the cold is no fun!

Love Always,

Mrs. Fray Fray

Zoom Zoom

We got a new Car!!! So...James and I decided that we need only one vehicular device while we live in Boise. So...We've just been checking out the market seeing what we'll be expecting to pay and so on... Well, at first we found a killer deal on Auto Trader.ca BUT, as we further investigated into and thanks to MacKay, we found it to be a major SCAM!

I mean, why would someone from Alberta be selling a car with a Virginia Licence plate? and WHY on earth would they produce the same information and the EXACT same photos as a person FROM Virginia selling their vehicle on E-Bay? Weird?! And then why would they push a sell BEFORE we received the product? Oh and this is the best part. We wanted to SEE the car (which was "Supposed" to be in Alberta at the time). But the seller then told us, "Oh it's out in Toronto." So we said, "we have a cousin out there that can check out the car for us" they then replied, "It's already packaged to be shipped" ? O.K? FiShy FiSHy FishY! They also stated, AND I QUOTE;

"I have a reputation to protect and a good Christian and I do not want to be imprisoned. You have my word and good faith on the fact that I'll keep my end of the bargain. I have never lied and cheated anyone and I will not risk my career, my freedom and my future for anything in the world!I would rather close this deal with other person than to know that you'll be very stressed hoping that I am a honest person, until you receive your car. Your peace of mind is a lot more important than this deal!!!"

HA! What a load of Crap. And THAT ladies and gentlemen is what you call an Internet Scam. We reported them to the website and shortly after their profile was no longer listed on the site. BOO YA! (If it looks too good to be true, It probably is...)

Anyways, Back to our new car! :) Yesterday we test drove a car in Calgary and...for a 13 year old car it was pretty sweet, but they were trying to rip us off at the dealership (typical). So we then looked at another car from one of James' buddies. (It was a BMW two door '98) It was reasonably priced, BUT if we ever needed to get repairs on the thing it would cost an arm and a leg because it's a BMW. Then we got a call from another one of his friends and we decided to go and have a look at and test drive his Mazda Protege 2003 (Orange, the picture is of a yellow one, so obviously this isn't OURS, but this is what it looks like).It was AWESOME! It was SUPER fast and really sweet! I Loved it! It felt right to get it and it was the BEST deal we had come across for the quality!!! SO EXCITING!!! WHAT A BLESSING! WHAT- A- BLESSING!!! We are SO thankful for this! SO THANKFUL! I only hope that we can do something so generous for our friends in their times of need. I want to be THAT kind of a person to others. Giving good deals to people who need them. A type of deal that we can both benefit from, in one way or another. (Spiritually? Temporally?)

We also bought season 5 of the office two weeks or so ago. IT WAS HILARIOUS! by the way. My favorite episode is the one where Dwight does the office fire drill with the CPR training. I could not stop laughing! So funny.

Love Always,

Mrs. Fray Fray

1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!

HAPPY 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!! James and I had our one year anniversary on the Seventh of August 2009. And we had a BLAST! I took the weekend off of work to be able to relax and enjoy myself with my AMAZING Husband! I Went to a salon in town and they cut, colored, and did my hair! It was SO exciting! They even put Fire engine red in my hair! I can't wait to put more in. I only did a few highlights of Red for now. I loved the French Braid head band in my hair. I wish I was better at the french braid, otherwise I would have a head band in my hair like that WAY more often!

After my hair was done we drove into Downtown Calgary and checked into our Sweet in the WESTIN. (James has a friend who works there and he got us the room for $120 and it was an AWESOME SWEET! in DOWNTOWN! That would have been A LOT of money if he didn't have connections.)Our Sweet had JUST been newly renovated! The bathroom had a T.V. IN THE MIRROR!!! It was AWESOME! If you turned the T.V. Off it would become a mirror again! I loved it! The walls were textured the tile was sweet looking and overall, I loved the room! There was a balcony and our view was the river and skyscrapers! It was an AMAZING weekend! It was magical, and I felt so special:)

We walked around Downtown Calgary and looked into all the shops then, We ate dinner at "THE TOWER" which is Calgary's version of the Seattle Space Needle. We went to the viewing deck first and then enjoyed dinner in a rotating restaurant. After dinner we went back to the Hotel and ate our cake topper and after one year,...it was FREAKIN TASTY! It was still good! I loved it! I wish James hadn't finished it off the next morning. We also watched two movies and his friend took the movies off of our bill. It was sweet. I love my Husband VERY much! I had a blast this first year and to tell you the truth it doesn't even feel like we've been married that long! I hope we have fun in round two of our marriage and hope to have 100 more rounds before we hit the grave. I Love you James. You're my Best Friend and LOVER tehe Literally.

Love Always,
Mrs. Fray Fray

Family Reunion 2009

The Family Reunion this year was at "Anderson Ranch" near Boise Idaho. It's one of the Reservoir's that Boise has. The water level this year was at least double in the river and it was way higher in the lake versus two summers ago! The boat dock was ACTUALLY in the water this time! and it made for easy hassle free floating down the river. Two summers ago you had to walk every 30ft in the river to get to a deeper spot to float. This time there was NO stopping, unless of course you wanted to stop. Janae, Jeff, Carisa, James, Gage and I all floated down the river together. Twice! The first time we went (driving up the road a ways to have a longer float)there was some interesting things that occurred that made me laugh. Well, we were all on different types of floatation devices. I was wearing a diaper (a life vest on my butt) AND was lying on top of a lay down floaty. Janae and Carisa I believe were on round black tire tubes and well...I cant quite recall what everyone else was on. I think Gage was on the Red boating tube and James was on a lay down floaty like myself, yeah, it was Orange and it popped half way down on the first run ha ha when ... well ... let me tell you. We were all floating down the river and there were LOTS of mini-rapids. One particularly strong current was around this bend where it would shoot you out and then you had to PADDLE HARD (with your hands of course) or else you would be sucked into this huge spruce tree. Well, we were all lucky to get past except Janae. She didn't go into the tree, but her tube sure did.
It was wedged in there so good that it would have been difficult to save her tube and not get pulled in herself. She was about to leave it for lost when James came barreling down the bend and went STRAIGHT into the TREE!We all thought he was doomed and watched in suspense and horror! Was he drowning? Was he stuck!? Did he need Help!? Then all of a sudden he triumphantly pulls out of the tree, exclaiming, "HA!" with his right arm in the air holding a miniature canoe paddle?! What the? That was random. But hilarious. It was so weird? But at least he then rescued Janae's Tube and all was well. Except James' floaty. Which is now in floaty heaven where all the popped floaties go. Running into the tree ended up popping his floaty. If you hadn't already guessed. We enjoyed our stay at Anderson Ranch. There were natural HOT SPRINGS that flowed into the river and you had to build your own hot tub or use the ones others had made and with collecting the Hot water, in order to make it cooler, you had to let some of the river in to cool your collection pool down a bit. There was cliff Jumping, Mountain biking, Kayaking, Boating, Horse Shoe throwing, Catamaran-ing, fishing, the men went golfing, and all sorts of things to do there. James and I both didn't really get burned until the last day there! Due to the use of a crappy brand of sunscreen that we used that day. Go figure. I'm just glad we didn't get burned before then! Which would have resulted in a crappy week! Thank Goodness!
James did a barrel Roll on his tube when he and the guys went tubing together. They had a BLAST! He tried to do a barrel roll when I was there, but would barely miss the landing. He also had the best Wipe out with the guys. I guess he flew a good 30 feet or so on his back skimming across the water.
Camping is so much fun! I can't wait to see what is in store for next year's reunion! I love getting together with Family and doing weird stuff and making fun of each other, it's what we do best I think. I love everyone very much and hope to see more people at the reunion next year!
Grandma says that there is to be abstinence (AKA no biblical relations) with spouses for certain months of the year because too many couples are having their babies DURING THE REUNION! So keep that in mind every year!
P.S. James, Dad, and I hit up Craters of the Moon National Park before the Reunion. It was Sweet! (thousands of years old) Lava Flows through Idaho!

Love Always,
Mrs. Fray Fray
MORE PHOTOS AND VIDEOS TO COME. Just don't have time now.