I got the wedding photos! well, I only got about four hundred of the thousand that is being sent to us by mail! our day, our big day was such an incredible day, and these photos are amazing! so much better than I ever imagined. I am so thankful for all of the blessings and people who made this day happen, and made us feel more blessed than we could ever imagine!
THANK YOU! to all who have been involved in our lives, who have loved us, supported us, shared with us... thought of us. You are so appreciated, and thank you to those who came to our day, and we missed those of you who couldn't make it.

Love always! Nicole & Cam

Photographer: James Moes (HolyHolyMatrimony-http://blog.jamesmoes.com/)

I just had to add this picture! There is Nantina and I at my stagette party before I tied the knot! I have been thinking about her lately, she was my maid of honor and she is my best friend and she just visited me on Thursday at work, it was a surprise and I LOVE it when she surprises me like that. I can't wait to actually have a night out with her... sometime soon, eventually! hahah... our schedules never match, and we both can't stand the phone! I LOVE YOU NANTINA! you're the bestest ever.

okay I got the BEST NEWS EVER! yesterday...
IM GOING BE AN AUNTIE AGAIN! well... correction: There is either another niece or a new nephew on the way! Mikki is pregnant (Cams older sister) and yesterday she called and I was screaming (well not literally) I am SO EXCITED for her, and Scott and Jackie. so CONGRATS to you guys! and yay for a new baby in the family! And Mikki you HAVE to keep me updated with everything, miss you :'(

in other news:
I got my hair cut. FINALLY! short hair again. Its cute though, and I love the change, I really needed it. My long hair was getting so gross and annoying, always in knots and always dry. ewwww!

Work is work lately, Im getting tired, and its getting harder for me to be there... but Im very thankful for the job during this recession, I am very thankful that God has blessed us with finances coming in. Please continue to pray for my parents, my father was laid off... as well the entire Vancouver Nokia department that he was involved in, he is passionately looking for work with nothing promising. Its a very scary time for our family but PRAISE GOD that my parents Surrey home was sold! :D and the best family bought it, we love that we were able to give over the keys to them.

I think I really need a night out tonight, some girl time and a hug.

Blessings!

O... and I still don't have the wedding photos yet, they are coming! And once James emails me the website I will post some!

so one of the goals I have as a housewife is to be the best cook I can be! My grandmother, Linda Wittrien was the BEST at everything she did in the kitchen. Its unforunate that I was too young to appreciate her recipies before she died, but her cooking was literally the best around and she always had the itch to host. My mother, while we were all youngsters, would host bible studies and dinners all the time. Her simplistic recipies always had people coming back for more. So for myself? I want to be the place that everyone is eager to come for dinner, or dessert. I want to learn to cook from scratch, and to cook well.

I don't exactly want to create my own dishes and test them out. But I do want to learn how to make the best roasted chicken dinner, the best roast, the best mac n' cheese, the best chocolate cookies, the best sangrias. I want to learn to cook for those I love and host christmases, holidays and just "saturday night dinners" because I can!

Tonight, for the first time I had some friends over for dinner... what was on the menu? ceaser salad, garlic bread and a home-made three cheese pasta bake or aka. mac n' cheese fancy style! Everyone kept going for seconds and kept complimenting me on my cooking, so it must have been good! :)

One of my most favorite things is cooking for those I love. So when Im home, I always ask Cam if he wants something to eat, because making him food is one of my favorite things to do. And most of the time Im not even interested in eating what Im making. Im more interested that other people will like it!

Next thing Im making... Beef stew with biscuits, butter chicken and waffles... all made from scratch!
I already perfected sangrias, pizza dough and mac n' cheese!

O... and I want to make the best cheesecake too!
if you have any recipe suggestions for me, please comment and let me know!

too bad I missed a picture of my meal... it was gone before I remembered to bring down the camera!

okay... so people have been bugging me to see some wedding photos. Unfortunately I have not recieved them yet, but Im not bugging James for them either. He's the pro, he'll get them to me when he does, and well... he has lots and lots of weddings to do lately anyways. He is an up-and-comer photographer that I would recommend to anyone in a heartbeat for any occasion. He was like another friend at the wedding instead of a photographer and he was with us for TWELEVE hours! literally from start to finish, he got to Cams house for 9am for "getting ready" photos and then left once every guest was gone and the chairs were being stacked. Talk about a guy who loves to get involved. He even suffered through soaked through shoes to give me his gum boots so that I wouldn't cry any longer, the wind chill on my feet and sore toe was brutal and so I had Trevor hold me up, Nantina kept my dress out of the snow... and James was taking photos of it all! It was great and sooo comical. There were tonz of photos with my broken toe nail.
It was halarious though, James comes to do photos at the house and I yell at him "James! I tore off my toe nail!" and he says back to me "don't worry! I'll photoshop it back on!"

so here is a sneak peek from photos that have been posted on facebook, which I love! :)


okay so I guess I'll tell the story!
I was up at 7am on my wedding morning, and my mom and I the previous day did a quick costco shop for some yummy breakfast food because Steph & her friend were coming over to do our hair and makeup (so nice to have them come to the house!) everyone else as well was coming for 7:30am too. So to help my mom out, I decided to clear off the island in the middle of the kitchen. Since we're still getting used to the new house, I opened up the door to the mud room a little harder than needed, and without realising were my foot was I "stubbed" my big toe, only to realise that it hurt A LOT more than just a little harsh tap. I actually tore off my big toe nail, gross huh? I fell to the floor and noticed that the nail wanted to come off and it was bleeding like mad. I called my parents and my dad, shaking his head could only exclaim. "NICOLE ELISABETH!" He calls this my last "kroeker klux move". haahaha... Im sure that there will be more "Stehr cluxy moves". However, I feel that this was, although a sucky thing that happened a really obvious reminder to me to give up control and allow the day to happen the way it was meant to and let myself be pampered and taken care of without trying to step in and take over. I didn't feel it all day long, Im serious! The whole wedding it didn't phase me. Until Cam and I left the reception and my foot thawed out in the car under the heater. I started crying and it throbbed, so we went to Walmart for supplies for the honeymoom. Now, its fine! :)


Some before ceremony fun! Cam and I had met before the wedding ceremony started, in our own private meet with just James, his co-worker (our photographers) and Trevor (cams best man) It was such a brilliant idea. Because we did most of our photography before the ceremony... and then could enjoy our entire reception and "in between" time, before ceremony time, practically the entire day together! The first thing that Cam said as he walked up towards me by the barn? OOOO mercy! :D He was thrilled.



Family photos! I almost cried while standing there at the ceremony... my mother mouthed to me "I love you" thats what made me almost loose it. My brothers were groomsmen and cams sisters were bridesmaids (and his brother a groomsman as well) it was the best decision to have our families involved.


Dad was super emotional... but very very sweet! Our dance will forever be such a fond memory of my big day, I can't wait for those photos.


Yay! we're married!!!!! I was looking at Nantina right here... she was instructing me where to go and what to do.. hahaah, apparently I wasn't paying attention at rehersal.

Okay... now I can finally update you on the honeymoon. As you know, we went to the Caribbean... the Dominican Republic to be more specific. And it was so gorgeous, bright, hot and pretty. We did not want to leave, although the food sucked (seriously sucked!) the rest of the resort was magnificent! My husband did such a fantastic job, looking for, finding and booking this insane place for our honeymoon. Our room? the closest you can get to the beach without being apart of the time shares offered. And Cameron up graded our account to "privilege" which was fantastic.

What was halarious though is that because of my ripping my big toe nail off my foot on my wedding day morning (entirely different story all together) we couldn't do any of the "water tours" cause of my open wound and the salt water. So... we took most of that saved money for the tour and put it into tipping the employees of the resort like crazy! (the people there make less than $30 a month) so the "housekeeper" kept coming in at like 9am every morning. And because of the time change (they are 4 hours ahead) our sleeping patterns were OFF! and well... ummm... well, you get it.

But seriously, white sandy beaches, staying in my swimsuit all day, tanning!, swimming (while I swam in the pool with tonz of tape on my toe to keep the nail on) Cam swam in the ocean with seriously blueish green waters. And we had employees come up to us in broken english (they speak Spanish) and asked us what we wanted to drink, so margaritas & pinacoladas for me, beer for Cam! soooo much fun!

Our plane was delayed though coming home we were supposed to leave DR time 11:25pm, but didn't actually leave until 2:30pm DR time. 8 & 1/2 hour flight and landed here in Vancouver at 7am BC time. To what? SNOW! lots and lots and lots of snow. My parents picked us up to take us to the Ens place for our car (they were so nice to let us leave it there and skip paying to leave it at the airport). We were then told that the Kroeker Christmas was canceled and other family members on the Stehr side were either delayed big time going back home or had to stay in BC for Christmas! WOW! while we relaxed on the beach, Vancouver was having the worst winter on record.

We couldn't have picked a better date for our big day. The whole day was clear & sunny with lots of hard snow on the ground, so the photos will be incredible. wind chill of -13 though! eeeekkk.... that was "interesting" to say the least, I did end up wearing gum boots (my photographers even!) SO MUCH FUN! I kept saying all day that Jesus loves me lots and lots because every single day for months I was praying for a clear sunny day and snow on the ground. Then that night about an hour after guests started to leave, it started to blizzard & snow! sooo pretty and perfect :)

I will blog about the big day soon... garanteed. But now I need to figure out what to make for dinner, cookies and M&M's just don't do it for me. .

Loves, hugz and blessings!


Our pretty resort, yes, this picture was taken from our room balcony! amazing right?


So this is the pool... ah yes, relaxing was wonderful!


Do we look like we just got married?! :D

hello all! so... we finally have internet! and we're finally back in Canada! the wedding? AMAZING! seriously, the best and everything I ever wanted. I will be posting pictures once I get them. I will posting an update soon too! but married life is seriously THE BEST!!!! I LOVE my husband so much, and doing laundry, cleaning the kitchen, its so much fun.... because its MY house, that makes all the difference in the world.
we got lots of kitchen toys too as presents, man did we get SPOILED rotten!

better go... grocery list is growing and we only have cookies in the house to eat. Yay! grocery shopping, my favorite. O, and Ive already been to Costco which is so much more fun when you have a spouse next to ya.

Blessings! and more to come, I promise.