Slovenia!!!!

I can't believe I am finally here with Jamie!!! I will admit though...It was NOT an easy task having to pack my entire life ( sorry Nik Smith...this is my 2nd actual year doing this..we can't all be pro's like you) into a limited amount of suitcases. I asked my friend Katy what they do and she had told me we were allowed 3 bags each but i'd have to pay a small fee ( well the team...) WELL...here I was at the airport with a hugee hockey bag, 2 big overweight suitcases and a small carry on...everything is peachy... a little akward but thanks to Christy & Cindy the dear souls that brought me to the airport, we managed to make me look a little less akward...

I get up to the counter and the lady looked at my bags and says "oh no...you are only allowed 2 bags ( well I have 4!!!!!) the third one will be 225$"...so i'm in a small panic trying to figure out what the flip I am going to do!!! The lineup behind me is huge and people are offering to help ( sweater came off and away I went trying to put everything into the hockey bag....finally after lots of sweat and on the verge of tears, I did it ( don't you wish you were a fly on the wall for that one..)

After a long flight to Germany & to Italy, I am finally here and loving every second of it!!!! My jet leg has been medium...I was fine the first night but the second I was up until 5am drinking my 1.95 bottle of wine. We live 5 minutes from downtown and the walk there is beautiful!!!! I thought Jamie was lying when he said some of the guys said this was the best city to go to in the Austrian league...I found out he definitely wasn't!! I am starting to think that the people here just don't work. Everyone is so young and willing to drink all day. There is soo much to do downtown you are almost overwhelmed by everything going on around you.  I THINK I can even get away with cooking this year ( I know Andrea...I shouldn't let my skills go to waste) BUT going out for dinner and drinks is so cheap!! We usually spend about 40-50 dollars going out for dinner in Canada where as here, for both of us to eat and drink, it comes to about 18 to 19 euros...It's cheaper to drink wine and beer then it is to drink pop..so as my friend Nik says, clearly not going to waste my money on pop...coffee and wine is a part of living here and they almost judge you if you don't...clearly I NEED to fit it.....AND they don't tip here...If you do, which we still will, they think you either want them or they almost feel like they can't accept it. For those of you planning on coming during the winter time, thats apparently the time to come because downtown is crazy and they serve hot wine, hot chocolate and cider by the water.  CHRISTMAS MARKETSSS

I ventured off like a big girl by myself today while Jamie was in croatia getting his visa. I must admit in Houston it took me a couple of days to get the courage. There are just so many people around that I almost feel like I can't get scared here. I went to this cafe place right down the street from me and the guy gave me a huge hug when he found out I was Canadian. I think he felt bad for me so he gave me english magazines to read and begged me to stay to have coffee and wine. He came out with slovenian cookies and told me they were on the house...I mean... clearly I have a new 80yr old crush.

Everyone here speaks english except the lady that was ringing our groceries at the grocery store. She looked at us like we had four heads ( i'm sorrrrry I didn't know we had to weigh the bananas and put them in a bag)... AND they play re runs of the jersey shore....I love Slovenia!!!!

I only took pictures the one night we went out but here are a couple from our first night downtown :)

Our Big Day

The night before the wedding, my wonderful american friends came down early to hang w Nielder, Shay & I before the big day. We had a delightful slumber party at the hotel and watched the fireworks...which...probably wasnt the best idea seeing as all I wanted to do was go out and show them how AMAZING Sarnia is...Jamie & I had given Sarnia such rave reviews during the year that I clearly couldnt dissapoint them...Nielder did her duties and told me we had curfew...she is so wise that woman! It was SO amazing to have some of my favourite human beings all reunited in one room. Shay got to work on my nails as Katy continuously told me I was getting married the next day ( didnt make me nervous AT ALL)...The only bad apart about all of it was I was soo excited that everyone was there that I didnt sleep a wink and my eyes had a mind of their own the next morning.... my mini eye was out in FULL force!!

If only I could relive this night.....

Katy is smiling with her eyes...


July 2nd....the hottest day in the history of Sarnia/ of all time. Thank God for my prediction that Jamie was going to pass out from the heat...switching the whole wedding to indoors one month before the wedding was the best thing I could have done!! All the girls met at the Hair Professionals in the morning for some breakfast, hair & makeup....Papa Prev even made a guest appearance...

It didnt really hit me that I was getting married until I made a small cheers with the girls before we were heading out...I got choked up and couldnt finish my friendship cheers ( I mean...I dont think thats ever happened before...) I looked at my moh Nielder and I knewwww she could feel how nervous I was... the thought of being infront of all those people and trying to keep it together terrified me...Thank God for papa prev that dear soul thats had to deal w 6 ladies in the house... he managed to make me laugh walking down the aisle telling me how excited he was to give me away ( 1 down, 4 to go)...The ceremony was beautiful. We had two wedding singers ( Kalie & Johanne) who took my breath away when they sang marry me by train as we made our way down the aisle...When asked by our officiant if we wanted to know the secrets of how marriage works...Jamie answered that he`d prefer the cliff notes....clearlllyyy he knows ALL the secrets already...and then we became... Husband & Wife.

Apparently peoples cameras werent big enough to capture my entire wedding party.. Lyns & Jen are hiding somewhere to the left....

Once the ceremony was done, we headed into our 28 passenger limo bus. We were soooo excited to be our own people and drink in this beautiful limo we ordered...Ohhh but wouldnt it be soo nice if life was easy and everything went as smoothe as we planned? Well... our flippin limo was a SAUNA. They failed to tell us they had a small leak in the air conditionning ( clearly would happen on a 110 degree day) SOOO my dress is sticking to me, my nephew is experiencing a small heat stroke...everyone is heading in a coma....SOOO... clearly our pictures had to be short lived...and what bettttttter way to spend my wedding day then in a flippin ARENA!!! If anyone had asked me the last place id want to be on my wedding day, it would be an arena ( dont get me wrong I love hockey and all... but summer means no hockey/ no arena...period!) BUT I embrassed that arena and almost took a swan dive as soon as I seen the ice...I was determined. NO BRIDEZILLA.

I wish we could go back to our reception over and over. By far the best night of my life! You couldnt have peeled me off the dance floor if you wanted to.. I was glued to it!! Our photographer ( Brooke Leitch...one of my new best buds) set up a photobooth which ended up being such a hit... between that and the dance floor I was the definition of "being ur own person" so much so that I had a personal drink gettter ( Nielder... ur double rye and diets were delightful!!)...Our dance party lasted the entire night and we almost got our dj in trouble for wanting an encore when the lights came on... thank you Nellie, you were amazinggg!!!! I mean.. I mayy or may not have broken my dress dancing/ skippin on an imaginary skipping rope trying to out-do Jamie...Our MC`s Katy & Andrea did an incredible job...nobody would have known they both threw up before they got up there..thats true love ladies..I cant say enough about how unbelieveable our wedding party was...Im not going to go into detail about each of you ( Ive already described my love for each of you on a previous blog)...you were all amazing!!! As for my maid of honour... Nielder... you have a way with words... touched my heart. And....Dave, you are right... I take my career as a teacher so seriously that I DID marry a guy with a learning disability (ps... you blew any best man speech out of the water with that comment)... I mean... you can`t help who you fall in love with, right? ...Im forever grateful for everyone that made our night so so so amazing!!!! Marrying my best friend and sharing our special day with our favourite human beings ( minus a few that couldnt be there)  was the perfect fairy tale ending as a PREVOST... I cant wait to wear my new nickname as FRAZ better than Jame.
Heres a few of my favourite stolen pictures and a few sneak peak pictures from our photographer :)

My tripping incident....

 Little sisters

Papa prev dancing with his girls

MOH

My 4 sisters and I

The in-laws :)

Thank you!!!!!

Typical Guy

Sooo... I wake up at 2:30am from my blackberry ( new phone had to name drop it...im up to par with technology..FINALLY!) ringing. I see "Jamie Fraser" on the screen... I indirectly get nervous because its a wednesday night and he knowwws I teach in the morning. So, I figure its an emergency or he decided to crush a case of beer by himself because he misses me ( right?)... First thing he says to me is "hey, I miss you" ( cute) butttt clearly I respond w " Jame its 2:30 in the morning... I have to teach in the morning"....then he starts off by saying "I know I know but I have a proposition and i've hard a hard time asking you all week...I wrote out a list of pros and cons on the computer that I could read out to you...you are going to get mad and I dont know how to ask you...ive been thinking about this since january and ive even talked to my parents about it... I have been nervous to ask you ever since because I dont know how you are going to take it... or if you are going to be upset with me... ive saved so much money and I just dont know how to tell you this..." Sooo... I am clearly soo confused at this point and I ask him if he wants to quit hockey, if hes calling off the wedding... whats a girl suppose to think?? It takes me a lot to get mad so what could he POSSIBLY be waiting this long to tell me... welllll this went on for 23 MINUTES!!!!! Finally.. after 23 minutes of him telling me hes nervous to ask me something... he finally spits out... that he wants to get another golf membership..only at Sarnia Golf this time.... Sooo.. you can  JUST imagineeee my response...likee really?? it took you 23 minutes at two thirty in the morning to spit out you wanted a golf membership????


He clearlyyyyy thought this all out... typical guy....he got me realllyyyy early in the am ( sleepy and so out of it) and he started off the conversation with I miss you. Oh and he ended the conversation w babe you can have my truck to go to work and back ill run there and ill run to the gym ( thatll be short lived...) ANDDD "ive matured... I wont golf on your days off or the weeekend..." Ummm yaaaa Ill keep you posted on that... So boyssss...dont push it!!!!

Jamie.. you are a dear soul!!!! Happy Golfing..... CLEARLY i wont be joining you hahaha

Wife Material

I can FINALLY take a break from life and annoy you with my blog!! The title of my blog is wife material for the simple fact that I am going to be one veryyy shortly and I want to show the world I am no dud!!!

First of all... As you have all probably read in my Life In Texas blog, I have acquired some culinary skills thanks to the fantastic Andrea Disalvatore who took me under her wing & made me her sous- chef ( the veg cutter and salmon skin slicer).. I was honoured she trusted me with this task ( I almost want to think I am better than her at it...sorry Dre ( in life...you are better at everything else.. I mean you WERE the soccer captain at one time) .. but you know I can cut a mean onion!!!)   I observed her with her little red measuring cups while internally taking notes and studying... I have to admit papa prev wasnt a fan of my first salmon & mama prev wasnt a fan of my homemade peanut butter bread... BUT everyones taste buds are different.. mama prev loved the salmon & SAME w Shay... so i`ve got a little work to do....at least I know tin foil doesnt go in the microwave!!!....I realized I am not going to be a pro overnight.. but man have I upped my game!!!!

In the cleaning department... Jamie would tell you that I leave my towels hanging around SOMETIMES... BUT does he wait a month for me to get to Houston & do his laundry.. I mean...maybeeee....yet waitttt apparently I shrink all his shirts BUT he stilll waits for me to do it ( annnoying!) I consider myself a neat freak ( except for my room) but every girl except for Nielder has the same problem...We cant all have a perfectly tidy room like her...The one thing that drives me nutsss is messy counters..I have a small obsession with wiping counters over and over. In general, I believe my cleaning skills are pretty flippin good/ enough to be good housewife material...I may annoy Jamie because I dont roll the toothpaste...I squeeze it in the middle instead...but thats when you buy one for him & one for her & compromise!

Sundresses. I mean... when I picture a wife...I picture her in a sundress...SOO...I mayyy have collected a couple in the last year...I'd like to think of myself as plain jane..but ever since Nikki Smith blogged about fashion ( you need to creep her.. itll change your life ladies http://athoughtinthemindof.blogspot.com/) I pretend to be somewhat stylish... I mean in life, Ill always just be Medium.. but I am okay with that.. I think that makes me wife material because I dont feel I need to impress my strawberry blonde love,...even though sometimes I feel like I need to Jazz it up a bit for him...let him see what he fell in love with ( very important ladies!!)  He clearllyy sees me being my own person.

Realizing I am getting older & noticing a lot more... I realized that food likes to stick to my body twice as much as it use to!! Sooo... wanting to prove to my athlete of a boyfriend that I WASNT a dud & I too could be athletic...I joined a bootcamp....I mean...If I knew it would leave me cripped & give me leg spasms through the night I may have thought twice....BUT thanks to CJ for actually kicking my butt and counting every single move I am doing ( I am sooo annoyed at the time & I am SUCH a cheater!)...Oh and Nielder for sending me the bridal bootcamp info, I realized I clearlyyy needed it... You know what they say...you get a little comfortable & dont realize you`ve fallen off the old wagon'... Jamie, you dear soul...you could have given me some hints!!! Soooo bootcamp 3 times a week & Jillian whenever I think about her ( I could use a reminder here and there)....the things you do for love...well indirectly, I want to be able to sit with my wedding dress on.. so thats a bit of a motivator :s Hows that for wife material hey???

Finally, in 3 months from now...I will be cooking pregame meal & cleaning on side (women are all multitaskers)...while wearing stilletos in my sundress waiting for my second half to get home..noww how is thatttt for wife material!!!!

"Honeyyy I'm home......"