Aaron & Tanya Jansen

A Lot Of Time Has Passed. . . OOps

2008-10-07T11:38:00.000-07:00

Well, here we are in October already, and not blogging as much as I should. I am sorry to those who read this, but life around here has been busy. I guess first things first, both of my brother's are happily married, and we are so excited for them! It was a busy summer having them both getting married, but it was exciting!
As well we have been super busy with renovations. We have been laying the tile in our kitchen and then down the stairs into our porch. It was interesting to lay that, but I would say that it turned out pretty good.
Eventhough it has been a long while I will cut things a bit short, due to lack of time right now, but guilt that I havent blogged in a long while! So I will just put up some pictures of what we have been up to lately!

Our Family!

My sisters and me!

I am loving the fall weather and the wonderful sunshine that breaks through every once in a while. I just love the colors of fall and I am so excited that the beautiful weather has lasted as long as it has! Going for runs is so refreshing with the crisp air to keep you cool and the breaths I take fresh! I am not looking forward to winter yet, but I am looking forward to Christmas. I just love Christmas so I guess that mabey that is a start to things!

It's Been A Long While

2008-06-16T12:09:00.000-07:00

Well time has sure flown by and things have been getting busier and busier. I am enjoying life though and so many wonderful opportunities and things have happened in the past that it has been so great. God is so good and he does so many wonderful things in our lives!
Just recently I have gained an almost new sister again! My little brother is engaged and his fiance is Lindsey! She is a wonderful girl that I have gotten to know so much better and have had a lot of fun with. Derek has made such a wonderful choice, but so has Lindsey. I had the wonderful opportunity to take their engagement pictures, which was super fun, and I am finding such a great new love and possible career opportunity! Anyways, here are just some of the pictures I took!

They were a lot of fun and I just want to send COngrats to them! Happy Planning!

The picture updates!

2008-04-02T09:01:00.000-07:00

Our Kitchen partially finished!

CONGRATS DANIEL AND KIM!

just a couple of the pictures I took for their engagement!

Spring Is In The Air

2008-03-27T03:24:00.000-07:00

(pictures will come in a bit!)
Well all I can say is that I am really excited about spring and summer being here. I am just excited for the nice weather, even if it will be hot hot hot (i say that now). I have been enjoying an almost daily walk with my mom this past while when the weather has been half decent and neither of us have been working. I just love being outside. The fres air always does something to a person, it refreshes and gives a person that much more energy, even if you have just been getting exercise. I just thoroughly enjoy those walks that we are able to take!
As well with spring there is always new beginnings! Such as Daniel (my big brother) and Kim getting engaged! I am so excited for the two of them. I cannot wait and I know that God is truely going to bless them for the couple that they are and for the love that they show others and eachother. I am just excited to have another wedding in the family. I loved planning my wedding and would want to plan it over and over again! So I will send out a BIG CONGRATS to them!

With summer coming as well we are pushing through the reno's! Things are coming so nicely! Our cupboards are in, our countertop is in, our living room is done, our wall is knocked out, and now we are just working on the mudding of the arch way (if you call it that) between the living room and kitchen where we knocked the wall out. It is so much more open, and makes so much more sense. I just love it in there, it is a cute little house that i am so excited to be in with my wonderful husband. He is working so hard on the house, work, and school work, and I am so proud of him for that! It is coming along and without his hard work and effort that he continually puts in for me, it wouldn't have been this far! There is just flooring, finishing the mudding and sanding we are doing, painting, and little stuff in the kitchen left! I am very excited and I cannot wait!

God is so good and he continually shows us that He is truely there for us and He is the one that is in control. We went to a marriage retreat at Dallas Valley Camp and it was so great to get away the two of us and to just enjoy our time together. It's not like we have kids that we were getting away from, but just getting away from the busyness of life. No work, or anything around to distract us, but there was just the two of us to enjoy eachothers company. It was great. In the process of being there, we had forgotten our camera and winter jacket there. I was so worried and knew that i just had to rely on God and I knew that he did have everything in control, but there was still that part of me that wanted to control. I wanted to look everwhere "just in case" I wanted to find these items, because we couldn't figure out how we could have lost them! All in all God is faithful and shows us that yes He is in control and things will happen in His timing and not our own. Our stuff was just put in another room and we were able to get it within the next few days. But we must remember that God is the one in control and not to worry cause he has everything under control!

"So do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow
will take care of itself. Each day has
enough troubles of its own."

Matthew 6:34

I Miss the Warmth

2008-02-28T08:48:00.001-08:00

Well, we are back now from our holiday to Puerto Plata in the Dominican, but I do miss it. We had such a wonderful time, and I would definitely love to go back right now. We met some wonderful people and were able to make some great friends. It was so nice to go and relax and just enjoy the company of each other.
We did things like laying on the beach, laying by the pool, kayaking, pedal boating, boogie boarding, swimming in the ocean, and so many other things. The weather while we were down there was just wonderful and we never had to wear pants once! The only time that it rained was during the night, or else during the day for only 20 minutes! It was just great! Full sun, and at times full strength humidity! The temp, without humidity and such, was around the 27 mark, but then plus humidity felt like about mid 30's.
We also took an excursion to the the town and saw some of the real dominican life. It was defiantly an eye opener for us, but was an enjoyable time. I sat on a 1.5 ton bull, held a boa constrictor, saw someone doing carvings out of petrified wood, swam at a private beach, horseback rode, and saw where they filmed some of the Jurassic Park. It was a beautiful country side and as well was very mountainous. It was wonderful. But enough of that, here are some pictures.

...mmm beaches...

2008-01-23T18:57:00.001-08:00

Well, all I can say is that God is so good and I do not thank him enough. He continually provides for us and I fail to give Him the thanks that he deserves. I am so thankful for the everyday things like water, shelter, food, clothing, a warm car that I can drive, the fact that I can drive, work that he provides, wonderful and interesting people to work with, opportunities to witness and live for Him, wonderful friends and family, and the list continues on and on. Most of all I am so thankful for my husband. God has blessed me so richly, and I think of this everytime I think about what a blessing Aaron is to me. He is such a wonderful husband to me. He is there for me through anything and always remains joyful and faithful. He is patient with me when I am frustrating, he is loving to me when I need it the most, or even just in general. He is there through the thick and the thin and I could not thank God enough for that. It has been the most wonderful two and a half years learning and growing with Aaron and For God.
THANK YOU LORD
As well about the title! Aaron and I are heading down to the Dominican coming up fast here, so if you could remember us in your prayers that would be greatly appreciated. We are down there for a week and are so excited to spend that time together. We are going just the two of us for an extended honeymoon. We went to Banff for our honeymoon and had such a wonderful time, and would not take it back, but we always told ourselves that we wanted to go again somewhere farther. So that is what we are doing. It will be wonderful and I am so excited for it! God is just simply amazing and we are so excited to just go and see the world that He created.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2008-01-01T22:57:00.001-08:00

Sorry for the late pictures. With a busy but wonderful Christmas I have had no time to post the pictures. So here they are.
ENJOY!

Just a few Christmas Photos as well!

Tis the season. . .

2007-12-14T23:22:00.000-08:00

Well it's true. Tis the season, of busynes that is for sure. These past few weeks of no blogs i appologize for. The weeks have been busy and filled with things like. . . Getting my flooring in upstairs! Getting my bathroom done upstairs! Getting baseboards and trim on upstairs! And the most wonderfullness of getting Christmas decorations up. I was working on those all day today and I am close, if not done putting them up. IT was so exciting and I just LOVE CHRISTMAS so much. Everything about it. Even the hustle and bustle is alright sometimes. I am done my shopping and so the gifts are under the tree and our living room looks and feels so cozy and like "HOME". Which is super nice to have. After not haveing much in order and being in reno mode for the past almost four months it is nice to have things done. We are just waiting on our cupboards to come in, which won't be until end of January or begining of Feb. It is too bad, but our fault too for not ordering them sooner. Then we have the flooring to put in and do finishing touches on the rooms. I am just so excited to decorate and find more decor to put up on our freshly painted walls. The living room we have painted "wet sand" which is a golden yellowy color. And as well "hungarian paprika" which is a reddy, orangy, rusty color. It looks super good and I am super excited for it. It goes great with our laminate flooring that we carried throughout the upstairs. The bathroom I had painted with Flexrock, which I would highly recommend for walls that are in rough shape. IT went on pretty good, but hides all and I mean ALOT OF ALL the imperfections in the walls. Then we placed a fibre floor down. The shower upstairs is so soo nice compaired to walking all the way downstairs to use the shower. I am so excited, but I don't have access to my pics right now, but when I do I will truely post them.
Other than reno's Christmas is coming, which means I am getting more shifts at the hospital than I was before. There is a pretty good schedule coming of shifts, but I still managed to keep my Christmas week off so we can do, besides our christmas with just me and my hubby, 6 other christmas' in 6 different places. It should be good times traveling, as with working and Aaron studying we will be in good need for some good travel time together to chat. It will be nice to see friends and family over the break.
Aaron is busy studying for finals now as well. He has written two exams so far and has three left. As well we are both working at Home Hardware still and we were doing renos on the side. It has all been paying off nicely though. Well I best be off for now, sorry for the late update (especially Auntie Shelly, who so diligently checks our blog!). I will try and get the pics up shortly!

Soon another month has gone by

2007-11-24T08:46:00.000-08:00

Well here we are another Saturday, but a nice one to sleep in finally. This past month has been great. We have been able to do so many things and to work on the house as well. This past week is the start to all the Christmas busyness I do believe. We went to the Paul Brandt concert on Tuesday, which was super exciting!! He puts on such an amazing concert!! Each song had a message in it, it was such easy listening and tear jerking. Then he also sang the song that was at our wedding "I DO" and during that song he gave a guy out in the crowd the opportunity to ask his girlfriend to marry him. It was so sweet.

As well renos on the bathroom are coming along. I have done flexrock on the walls and we have gotten a new shower and sink to put in. So here are some pictures of the bathroom in progress as well as the living room being torn apart!

As well on Wed I went to a BUGirl youth event. It was only for girls and it was such a good time. God was definatly at work in the teams hearts as well as the hearts of the girls there. We did games, pedicures, singing, a speaker was there, had pizza, and it was such a good time. It was talking all about the hurts in our lives and the different "enoughs" that we hear. Like I'm not pretty enough, Im not tall enough, etc. So it was super good and a great time by all. There was tears, laughter and definately some freedom from hurts that evening. All in all it has been a great week and I am super excited for Christmas to come. I have started decorating, I have gotten my outdoor christmas lights up, and possibly working on indoor today!
All for now
Tanya

It sure has been a while

2007-11-08T07:38:00.000-08:00

Well once again I have lacked in the posting area. We are busy as ever. Aaron just finished his bought of Midterms and I am continuing on working. I have been getting more shifts which is nice, in hopes that mabey in the new year I am able to get a position. There is another LPN retiring so I am hoping to get that position or at least move up to a part time position. It all goes by seniority though so I am affraid that I will be beat out. I will give it my best shot though. In the mean time I will continue to pick up as many shifts as I am able to and continue to work for Dad when I am not at the hospital. Other than that our flooring was put in our bedroom and down the hall and into th office/spare room. As well our plumbing was finished and our shower, sink, and toilet ready to go in. I am excited for that when it happens. Aarons wonderful parents came out last week for a few days to help us with the house. They so wonderfully laid the flooring and finished up helping Aaron with the bathroom. It is looking super good and I cannot wait until it is finished(pictures to come later). We have also ordered our new windows for our kitchen and as well ordered our new cabinets for the kitchen. I am super excited about them, it is going to look suppurb I hope. So lately we have just been trying to tie up the loose ends and get things ordered cause it sounds like our cupboards wont be here until January sometime, so much for my goal of having them done by Christmas. Oh well, I guess I will just have to decorate the basement.
In other news, We were able to go to the Rider game last Saturday with Daniel and Kim, which was super exciting. It was great to hang out with them and watch the game, but was just to bad that they lost though. None the less it was good times. We are expecting company for the weekend though so I must be off to go and clean the house, sorry for the late update, but I will try and include pics later.
As well a very much due CONGRATS to our dear friends Ryan and Nancy who had a baby girl a couple weekends ago. Congrats and we will be praying for you guys!
Enjoy the snow!

One Down, still more to go

2007-10-03T19:17:00.000-07:00

Well at last we are almost finished our master bedroom. It started off with wall paper, holes everywhere in the walls and seiling and as well smelly stained carpets. But none the less we are one step closer to being finished. We are just waiting on the flooring and then the trim around the room. We like it a lot and the closet is really nice to have bigger doors on, which Aaron framed himself! But I will let the pictures describe it!
BEFORE!!!

During!!

This is the closet that Aaron framed it!

The redish color is called the Baked Bean but it is kinda a bad picture of it, and then the greyish color is just the primer that we used. I will post finished product pictures when we are all finished.
I am so excited for thanksgiving, it should be good, the whole family is out and we are able to relax and spend some time together. It should be good, Thats all for now!

In The Process

2007-09-22T17:14:00.000-07:00

The last weekish has been busy, but a good busy. Mom and dad were off to Ontario, which they had a wonderful time, but that caused for the staffing load to be less at the store because he took a few employees with him. So I was at work last week with short staff, which made the days fly by. Renovations have been on the go, finally things are starting to look more like there is progress. While mom and dad were in Ontario they ordered some flooring from the market for our house, so we have to wait until that comes in and then we can make more of a progress on things. Right now we are still working on the Master Bedroom, cause the renos were kinda put on hold for a while. So we are just oin the process of doing the last go about of mudding and sanding. I worked on that all morning, due to lack of TLC in the past. I also picked out colors so that will be nice to get some of that on the walls. I picked a baked bean and tangible. They are the colors that we actually did in our last master bedroom in our other house, so we shall see how it looks in this room. Our master bedroom has a huge window in it so it shoud be nice for lighting.
We were able to go fishing last week as well. I definatly had the luck that night. I caught five decent sized fish, Aaron only caught two. But oh well. It was good times, windy, but good times. Thats all that is new for now, I will post some reno pics when things start to get done! If anyone has any ideas for colors let us know!

Getting Settled

2007-09-13T16:42:00.001-07:00

Well we are pretty much settled into our house. There are a few boxes laying around but some progress has been made. We have ripped the carpets out and have started to paint. Things have been going well at the Jansen residence. Aaron is almost in full swing of school, he still has one more class that he hasnt't started yet, but thank goodness though because the homework load he has now is enough! As well he has started working at Home Hardware a couple days a week, and enjoying it. I as well have started at Home Hardware once again to work in my off time from the hospital. As well I am helping out coach the volleyball team here in town, which is exciting.
Shifts at the hospital are coming few and far between this week, so here is to hoping that people want to take vacation time, and cross your fingers, that they would like to retire, in hopes of me getting a position. But for now I guess it is alright.
We just celebrated my brithday last Saturday, as well as our second anniversary on monday! Two beautiful years. It doesn't seem like it has been that long at all. We didn't have a huge agenda planned, so for my birthday I ended up working all day. In the evening we went over to mom and dads, and the whole family made it home, so that was super special. Then on Monday we just slept in and then did some things around the house and went out for supper here in town. That evening Aaron had class so I was able to get some more stuff settled. Nothing to extravegant, but it was still nice to be together on our Anniversary.

Here are some pics of the recent good times we have had:

Me & Lindsey

Family Holiday @ Tobin

Happy 25 Mom and Dad!

Us In our NEW place!

Renos!

Aaron wakeboarding a couple of weekends ago!

The fish we caught that night!

We hope you all have enjoyed your summer and as well have a wonderful fall season!

Chapter 3?

2007-09-07T00:13:00.000-07:00

Well, I guess continuing with a theme from before, I would call this chapter three. I would because we are now back in Watrous with a house bought and pretty much moved in. It has been going good, there has been many long days and being tired, but none the less we are very excited. We have bought a little three bedroom house with a finished basement. The upstairs needs!! reno's so that is what we are up to. Aaron started school on the 4th, so he is full swing into it. He has only had two classes so far, but enjoying it none the less. There is only two classes a week, because the rest is correspondence. So that is going well, but is very different to have him home all the time. I definately do get more distracted than he does though. As well I am back to working at the hospital again, so that is going good, I am getting more calls for shifts, so that as well is good. The long nights, but as well the long days!
Well we also took my baby brother, two cousins, and my brothers girlfriend for their freshman (or first year) at Bethany. It will be so different not having him around. I do miss him already, but I am also super excited for him to be there. It will be great and I know they are all going to grow so much being there.
This will be a short post, due to wanting to post other things and pictures, but just wanted to give you all a quick up date. So thats all for now and pics and newer posts will come.

All In God's Timing

2007-08-19T21:13:00.000-07:00

As August comes to an end God is continually answering prayers. Our busy schedule has come closer to an end. I am done my week at camp which went great. Nothing to serious happened and God was working in so many ways. There were kids saved, but I am unsure on numbers. It was great to just be able to put a smile on their faces when you just gave them the attentuion that they were looking for from someone who could love them.
After the busy week at camp we were back to Watrous for some family time. I was supposed to work but developed a cellulitis in my leg from another bite, so I was out from work. My leg was swollen and throbbing, so I needed to keep off of it. Some relatives came out for the weekend so we spent it celebrating Mom and Dad's 25th Anniversary which was on the 14 of August! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MOM AND DAD!!! Then after spending some quality time together we were back up north for the week. But before doing that we were able to look at a house and make a deal on it.
So yes a huge answer to prayers, we are in the process of buying a house! We looked at it a couple times and were able to get everything figured, for the most part before we left, so please pray for everything to go through seeing as we are still up north and trying to get all of our finances and everything in place. As long as everything goes through we will have possession of our own house on Aug 31! It makes me so excited cause it is a house that both Aaron and I are excited about and feel at peace about. Everytime before this we have been looking at houses and praying about it and it would always end that we wouldn't both feel peace about it at the same time, or something wouldn't work out. But here we are with a house that we are both excited to make our very own and to have and build on together! We were able to get it soon as well cause right now there is no one living in it! As well Aaron starts school on Sept 4, which was another answer to prayers that everything went through. We are just waiting now for his books and everything to come in the mail. So we were so blessed to get this house in the timing that we did.
Once we were done there we came back up North where I helped out with VBS at the church. It was great and the kids were good as well. We did a variety of things and had a good time. There were 29 kids that came out, which numbers are down, but none the less it was a good time held by all. As of now we are building bins and just got back from holidays with my family.
We were able to head out to Tobin for the weekend which was super exciting. The weather was really windy but not too too bad warmth wise. We were able to do some fishing, wakeboarding, relaxing, playing games, and also a couple rounds of golf. It was good times, but definatly too short. It was sure nice to get away though! We hope that all is well with you all and feel free to gice us a call or leave a comment anytime! Excited to see you in Watrous!

Woops! It's Busy!

2007-08-04T01:24:00.000-07:00

Well here we are almost a month since my last blog,which could also be the lack of comments cause it may not be very interesting to log on and see that there isn't ever. . . ever a new blog. Well here we go. Things for us have been super busy and they are just winding down. I was working a ton of night shifts (8/11) this past week. So therefore I haven't had a whole lot of time, with the whole sleeping during the day and working 12's during the night. But, what can you do. I only have one left and then I am off for a week, from the hospital. I am off to Torch Trail Bible Camp for a week being a camp nurse. If you read this please pray as I will be the only nurse on staff for the week and it is to be the busiest week, so I have heard. I will be working a night shift on Saturday night and then sleep a bit Sunday and then off to camp Sunday as well. There for a week then, I am hopeing I could vacation the weekend, but if not, then I am back here on Saturday for another set of nights. It should be exhausting but I am really looking forward tot it. I got to see Aaron again Friday before I headed to work, which was super exciting cause a week just seems like way way to long when you are married, and all through your dating time you had to spend weeks apart! None the less it was great to see him. Besides Aaron building bins and me working here at the hospital not a whole lot has really gone on.
One point I guess would be that Dad got a new boat and wakeboard and kneeboard. Super exciting cause we were all able to spend a weekend at the lake and jsut hanging out and having a good time. It was great to be with family, as we haven't done water stuff (besides fishing) for a long time. Due to the lack of power in ol' goober (the old boat) and as well due to the fact of lack of supplies. It was great though. We were all able to get up, on at least something so that was good times. But let me tell you eventhough I am not old by anymeans I was sure feeling it more than when I was young! Oh man was I stiff and sore. But it was all worth it cause we were able to spend it all together as a family. Family times are some of my favorite times. Whether it is with my family, Aaron's family, or our family, just the two of us! I do have some good pictures, but they will of course have to come in a later post, as that seems to be the tradition for me! Well I hope you are all enjoying the beautiful weather, and take advantage of it cause in December when we are all sick of the snow we are going to be wishing we were back to today!
As well for an update as to the fall, nothing is really confirmed yet. We are still looking for a place and Aaron hasn't quite registered for classes due to the busy schedule, so we will have to keep praying and looking for God's guidance as to where we are supposed to be in the fall. We have looked into a few options, but there isn't really anything, and September is coming, which is when Aaron is to start school. Thanks for all the prayers as well through out the summer. Have a wonderful day!

Some Pics

2007-07-15T18:50:00.000-07:00

Fishin' on Friday!

July 1st Fireworks! They were great and good times as well!

Good times

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Lake Louise

The Ocean!!!

Our Hotel

The beautiful Scenery

Everywhere you looked it was different scenery no matter what

Aaron loving the snow!

There is our trip in photos!

We're Back

2007-07-15T03:19:00.000-07:00

Well, We are back from holidays, about two weeks ago, which I appologize for. I know that it has been a long time since there has been a post, well a little over a month now! We made a trip out to BC during the first week in July, and had such a wonderful time. It was so good to be away and just hang out and be together the two of us. Despite the fact that when we left Aaron was feeling a bit under the weather, and then none the less, by mid trip when the excitement was happening, I got sick as well. We are doing fine now, but was too bad it happened for the trip. We made a round trip starting with some fishing here, catching nothing! Then headed off to Lethbridge the next day where we spent our July 1, hanging out with our relatives, which were soo good to see once again and then of course seeing Cass. The fireworks we took in were great, compared to small town! Then the next day it was off to BC where we spent the night in a cute town called Revelstoke! It was a wonderful place a super cute. There was a live musical group playing on Main Street during the evening and the weather was beautiful! Then it was off to Vancouver following. Here we got to stay at the Pan Pacific Hotel, which was great!!! Five diamond hotel and heard it was the top 25 hotels in the world, which we got for a super good deal! It was nice to be spoiled every once in awhile. Which quite frankly Aaron does very often. Before we left for the trip Aaron gave me an early Birthday/Anniversary present of a new camera (a Canon Rebel XTi for you photgraphers out there). I was super pumped and loved it so much. Anywho, the hotel was great and we stayed there two nights and did some sight seeing, Ikea a couple times, Stanley Park, Vancouver aquatic center, and many other things! It was a wonderful time. Then we headed off to the states and drove through Seattle (I got through the border no problem on the way through!!) and then stayed the night in a small town along the way to Glacier National Park, which was our next stop. Oh Man driving to and through Glacier that day was beautiful, but also a trumendous amount of heat! Talk about a HEAT WAVE!!! It was so beautiful and for me never being to the mountains before it was definatley a first experience all of this and it was soo good to be able to spend it with Aaron. We stopped and took pictures and saw many waterfalls and SNOW! Which I would have to say was one of Aarons Hilights of Glacier! Then it was back off to Lethbridge and home from there once again! All in all it was great to be away and on our own and just having a holiday! We have been building bins for the past week now and it has been a scorcher, but now my shifts are coming at the hospital. So I guess I will trade in my tanning time with the bins for an AC building where I freeze! Anywho, both are wonderful and it is great to work with Aaron and see him all the time, but on the other hand it is good to be working at my career as well. I will post pictures later in a blog to come! Well that is all for now, sorry if it was boring but we had a great time and are feeling well and are home. I will be honest though, I did miss the flat parairies through it all! That is all for now! Take care.

~All Up To Date~

2007-06-14T12:37:00.000-07:00

I love the peace and calm of these pictures. We went to Tobin Lake to try our luck at fishing off shore for the evening last week. No results were caught but the beauty of the night was wonderful. In my brothers terms it was a "nothing night. There was hardly a breeze, hardly a temp, no mosquito's, and just beautiful. It was so good to get out and enjoy God's wonderful creation.

It is so good to just sit back and enjoy what is around you and to open your eyes and take in all of God's beauty and His creation. It is fascinating just looking around and realizing that He created all of this with his own hands and yet here I am only in little ol' Saskatchewan. There is a whole world out there.

This is my cousin's oldest Katelynn (on Aaron's side). We had the church picnic out at Torch Trail Bible Camp, which was very different from what we do out in Watrous, but none the less was a wonderful day. It was beautiful and sitting in the sun at pool side couldn't have been any better.

CONGRATS COUSIN!
On Friday it was Crystal's grad and she looked beautiful. I hope you have a wonderful rest of the year, and I am so proud of you! It was fun taking pictures once again and I am learning a lot about photography just doing it on my own.
Well that is all for now, and I hope to update sooner once again! Another grad tomorrow!

Almost an update!

2007-06-09T17:21:00.000-07:00

It has been a few weeks since our last blog and I appologize for that. We have seen and done many things these past few weeks, and it has been so good. The first week we were out there together we were able to witness a batch of 6 little kittens being born.
It was so remarkable to see just the motherly instinct this cat had to its babies once they were born just cleaning them and feeding them and being sure she wasn't laying on them, while still giving birth to many more. It was good to watch. There have been numerous bins built and at first we had a week of pure rain it seemed. It was nice to have a break, but everyone was itching to get outside and build. Since then we haven't really ever had a nice day. It has mabey been sunny, but it has either had a cold wind or else very very windy, which makes it difficult for us to build when the wind is blowing so hard. It has been great to work with Aaron, seeing him all day and being able to do things with him and talk to him whenever I would like has been great. When I am working at the hospital it seems different cause he isn't there and then I miss him! None the less it is all good. As well the first week when it was so cold and rainy Aaron had the "fishing itch"! So off to Wapiti to fish in Codette lake it was. It was a good day, but very cold and we only had an hour to fish, luckily we only had to drive for five minutes! No fish were caught but it was nice to get out and fish!

I love just spending the time out in God's creating, it is very relaxing and you can just sit there and think and hang out. It is nice to catch fish as well when you are out there, but none the less we didn't. Anywho, there have been other exciting things that have happened, but out of time for now, I will write again another day!
That's all for now.

We're Here

2007-05-20T13:55:00.002-07:00

Well first and formost I would like to start with a huge congrats to my brother, cause he is my most favorite little brother in the world so this one is for you buddy!

These are just a couple of the pictures I went and took with him and his girlfriend/escourt Lindsey!

CONGRATS!
So here we are at Gronlid and yes Sabrina, I am now Tanya Jansen from Gronlid! The moving took a long time dispite the fact that we didnt think that we had a whole lot of stuff. All week my wonderful mother helped me pack up our stuff. Aaron headed out here a week ago and I remained to finish up the packing. But we are out here on the farm and everything is packed up in storage. I arrived out here and spent the day unpacking on Wed, after jam packing everything I possibly could into my car. Our room is set up and we are having a good time. Well, it's definatly the end of May almost and we had snow up here on Friday, which is very hard to believe cause anywhere else we talked to there was no snow but we must of had about a few inches or so. But of course it has all dissappeared by now. I know these are a bunch of random thoughts but bear with me. It was really really good to get back to my wonderful hubby though. It was hard to leave my family though that is for sure. I love them all very much and I know that they will miss me as well. Also it was hard to leave our friends from Watrous and area, so if you are reading this we are thinking of you and we miss you all very much! But just the same we are excited to make some good friends out here and grow in our relationship together and with Christ, as well our relationships with the couples around here!

We attended the church out here today and the message was super good. It was about being content and being content in the good times and the bad. The passage was as follows "I rejoice greatly in the Lord that at last you have renewed your concern for me... I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation... I can do everything through him who gives me strenth." Philippians 4:10-13. This has made me think that and had the reminder that I need to have contentment no matter where I am if I am living in Watrous or if we are living in my in-laws basement with every inlaw in the family! I know that the summer will be wonderful and will be a great summer of growth, I just need to remember in whatever the situation I need to be content cause God is there for me whether in the hard times or the good. You need to change the inside of being content and then the outside will look a lot better. God is Good!

Well I think it is off to building bins tomorrow and then from there we shall see what the week brings! Hopefully warm enough so we can get some of the bins built. There is a huge job in Melfort, but it is half way complete, and then we are moving on to the next site.

Well that is all for now and I hope to talk to you all soon! Call anytime!

Chapter. . .2?

2007-05-14T02:37:00.001-07:00

Well here we are at the start of another week and definitely at the start of a new place in our lives. First and foremost I am super pumped for my dear neighbor/friend from Bethany Kendall and Sabrina who are expecting in November! God Bless them as I am super excited! Second, on the 4th my little baby brother had his graduation ceremonies from grade12 which I might add he looked mighty handsome in, (pictures to come in a later post),Congrats little bro. As well his escort looked just beautiful! I am definitely pumped for them. Thirdly, We also bought a 4 door Civic, so I am excited about that cause I love it, and do love driving it and will love getting used to driving it this summer going back and forth, which leads me to the fourth new start, we are moving out to Aaron's parents house, along with his brother&wife & then a bit later on in summer his sister & hubby. I am excited about this and I know that it will be good, but a very different summer. Not many married couples for 1 year and 8 months move back in with their parents. But we know that with God's guidance and direction this is right for us and He is going to do great things this summer. Not entirely sure about my plans for sure. I have looked into various options and there are other options for me to do other than building bins, but I know that it will be good times hanging out with my hubby and just building some good old Grain Bins as well! But none the less, besides still working in Watrous every now and then, I will be moving out there which brings me to my Fifth new start, that is making my mom and dad be empty nesters. I know it is not entirely just us leaving, but as Derek will be attending Bethany (carrying on the Bushman tradition!) they will be alone, and I know that my mom loves to just be there for us and she cares about us so much and shows us how much she cares. I will definitely miss the fresh buns, apple danish, all the good baking, but most of all the friendship that we have made as we have become so much closer over this past while. I will definitely miss them, but love them dearly. All in all we are excited, as Aaron is out there already and I am going to be leaving on the 15 probs so it will be a couple of crazy days this next while as I work nights on the 14 and then trying to sleep and pack the rest of our stuff up during these next two days. Oh well, it will all work out. As my wonderful Grandma used to say "just take one day at a time." Well that is all for now, pics will come later!
~Tanya

~Just a fraction of boxes waiting to be packed!

Just Us

2007-04-26T16:29:00.000-07:00

Well since I have not yet figured out how to add a picture perminatly, besides in a blog, I thought that I would add one in my blog. This is us in December on our cruise, which I have many wonderful pictures from, but too many to post. Down in Florida, wouldn't that be nice!

sprING is in the air

2007-04-26T01:21:00.000-07:00

Well, another week gone by and things are warming up so much, it is definately refreshing. Going outside and just enjoying the weather and taking in the fresh air is something that we have been taking advantage of! It is so good to get out and enjoy just the warm sunshine beaming down on your face while the cool breeze is there to make you the just right! temp. to go for a walk. As another aspect of spring I am enjoying, but will live for a short time is that wonderful sound of the birds chirping outside our window when I get up in the morning. I know that once summer has come and been here for awhile, I will then want to get rid of them, but it does remind me how amazing creation is and just every aspect of it, how God made each thing in this world, and how unique each is.
The week has gone good, it was good to see friends again at Bethany, whom I really miss, and others who weren't there which I miss as well. Aaron was able to head out to PRBI for the weekend and see his friends, so that was exciting once he came home to me. It brought me back to our dating days, when I was at Bethany and he flew home just to come and see me once, as a suprise (which I spoiled, oops)! There I was sitting in the airport, only this time was better cause I knew that I could bring him home with me instead of having to say goodbye at the dorms! But I do miss those Bethany days.
I guess that is all for now, Grad is coming fast for my brother, so definately lots of prep needs to be done yet! Please get out and enjoy the weather and possibly a walk, for me!

Here Goes Nothing. . .

2007-04-13T22:34:00.000-07:00

Well, here we are, starting in with the blogging. I definitely have found it to be good to read everyone else's blog to keep updated and such on what is going on, so I figured, why not join in. This summer we are going to be here there and everywhere so why not keep everyone updated on what we are up to I figure. As of now we are still in Watrous and it has been good for the past year and seven months and three days to be exact. I have been in school and done and now working at the hospital. Aaron has been working with construction since we were married. So, trying to figure out plans for the summer was definitely a challenge when we had options coming at us from all angles. But with prayer and God's leading we have decided to be elsewhere for the summer. Aaron will be building bins with his family, while I continue to commute to Watrous (2 1/2 hour drive) for work. Then from there, we shall keep you posted. God has definitely been good to us and we are excited to see where this road is going to take us!