Well, our store is officially open!!!! August 6th was our GRAND OPENING! It's almost been a month, and the store is doing GREAT!

Pete working hard :)
Some Transformers......just a TASTE of what we have...

Our "mascot", Wonder Woman.... Come check us out, on Salt Lane, Langley :)

Everything with the store, is moving forward. Papers have been signed, hands have been shaken, and the rest is all blood, sweat, and tears! LOL! The store is just off of Fraser Highway on the one way street in Langley. The address is 5496 Salt Lane. I was hoping to take before and after pictures, but our landlord already tore everything down from the piercing shop that was there before. I'll take before and after pictures of before the store is filled up and stuff. This is so exciting and scary! LOL! We are hoping to start moving in showcases etc. , next Monday!!!!! Opening day is set for Monday, August 1st. WOOHOO!!!!

Well, it's official!!! Pete is opening a store in Langley!!!! Pete has owned two other stores in the past. We've been praying about which direction God wants us to go, and it seems like this is the direction. It will be (as before), a collectible/vintage toys and games store. The store is on Salt Lane. It's a cute little lane, off of a one way street. The building was most recently a piercing place, and before that, it was a jewelry store. Pete will be working with one of his former partners. The store will be opening in August! Right now, shelving, display cases, and magazine racks are being purchased :) Pete and his partner have LOTS of store stock already, so all they really need is display cases etc. I am planning to take before and after pictures. I will be helping out in the store, so I'm pretty excited! So, that's our BIG news :)

We have BIG news on the horizon! It's been in the works for a while and we still have some details to finalize, so keep checking back for the big announcement in about 3 weeks or so!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETE!!!!!!!

We started at Denny's for Pete's free Grand Slam breakfast. He's loving the coffee!
Later, we went to a matinee, "Your Highness" and then afterwards we went to Boston Pizza for dinner :)

Then it was home for cake! Pete LOVES McCain Cake, so that made it easy for me :)

I found these great candles!

Enjoying his cake! ;)

Pete says that this is one of the best birthdays he's had! I bought him 3 dvd's he wanted, an engraved pen with his name on it, gift certificates for the movies, and took him to a movie and dinner :)

This past week, from Monday to Thursday, we went up to 100 Mile House, to visit Pete's parents. Pete's brother David was visiting from Calgary as well, so that was awesome. Pete's dad is very sickly, and has recently had another stroke and lost vision in his one eye. He also still has his brain tumor, and has awful side effects from that as well. He is SUCH a trooper! Always singing and laughing, telling jokes and stories :) While we were there, we ate LOTS of great German food, and sang LOTS of songs, mostly German, so I just hummed along :) It's kind of funny, Pete's mom has two spare bedroom, one with a twin bed and one with two single beds. Well, we got the room with two single beds, which was funny, because Pete and I pushed the beds together, and Pete's mom told us she didn't want "any funny business" going on! LOL!!!

Pete and his brother David, are really close, and they were being SUCH "brothers" during our visit. Lots of teasing, ear flicking, wet willies etc. :) One day when we were going into town, these deer, were grazing on the side of the road at Pete's parents church. We were able to get up really close in the SUV.

The little fawn was SO cute!

Very recently, our good, sweet, wonderful friend, Michelle, passed away from a brain aneurysm. She was 36, and left a husband and 3 kids behind. It is still such a shock. She was one of the funniest, loving, giving people, that I have ever met. Our friendship started at the Shell gas station by our home, where she worked. She was our favorite cashier. She worked afternoon shift. She ALWAYS had a smile on her face, and always had something witty to say to Pete and I. Last spring, her hubby and kids started visiting her at work, so we met the family. Michelle told us that she wanted Pete and I to come hang out with her family at THEIR house. We accepted the offer, and the rest is history. Last summer her job at the Shell ended, but our friendship just kept getting stronger and stronger. Her family lived (still does) just up the road from us, a 4 minute drive. Her kids are my friends on Facebook, and it tears my heart out, to read their status updates, since she has passed away. They miss her SO much, and they long for her, especially the two youngest. Michelle had many struggles in her life, and had a hard life, until she met and married her husband. I know that he is still in shock, as we all are, but Pete and I are going to take the family under "our wings", and look out for them, I know Michelle would have appreciated that. During the day, I find myself about to text Michelle or send her a message on Facebook, and then I realize she's gone. I feel that a really "good" part of my life is gone now. We went for coffee just 3 weeks before she died, and we laughed SO hard together, and she told me some things, from her heart, that she felt were important. In a way, I think God was preparing her, in His own way. My last memory of her, is her walking to her front door, from my car, she turned her head and said good-bye, and was laughing SO hard because she was struggling with her shopping bags but didn't want my help. I'm glad I have that last memory of her :)