busy (and exciting) times...

Where to begin?! Ok so i suppose i'll start with 2013! I've already explained how awesome Christmas was in my past blog post, but i'll blow your mind with how awesome, busy, and adventure-filled 2013 has really been for Alana Tosh! Ok so when we got back to Kelowna, Jeff got a job like the next day! He currently works at "Canadian 2 For 1 Pizza"!! (which was a total answer to prayer) Then on the weekend of the 18th i was "kidnapped", by Jeff and our good friend Dan! We started driving and i didn't get to know where we were going until we were sitting on the ferry that was heading towards Vancouver Island! We were going to VICTORIA!! And gosh, was it ever fun! We went to a beach, walked around downtown, and we got to see Lindsey Fehr! It was so sweet seeing where she's going to school down on the Island. You might be thinking "wow, this sounds like an awesome January! what more exciting things could possibly happen?" And folks, that's what i thought too. Until 2 days later. Me and Jeff had decided early afternoon on January 23rd that later on in the evening we would go for a walk! So it was no surprise when he suggested we head down to the waterfront for a walk! We bundled up and head out. As we were walking there were ducks and canadian geese everywhere! It was really cute. We continued walking down along the boardwalk beside the water. We were going to start heading back and i was looking out at the water, when i looked back i saw that Jeff was on one knee!!! WE'RE ENGAGED!!! YIPPEE! After we calmed down (and after i cried a bit) Jeff also told me that he signed us up for a bridal fair that was happening that coming weekend in Kamloops! So when Friday came we headed down to Kamloops, surprised my dad (who didn't know we were coming), and went to the bridal fair!! Needless to say, January was a crazy exciting month! So the end of January was pretty crazy cause we figured out a ton of things regarding the wedding (location, date, etc), but it got crazier. Beginning of February we decided to head down to Kamloops on the weekend because there was this crazy wedding dress sale where wedding dresses were as low as $99!! After enduring the bizarre line up at 10am, pushing and shoving of brides hunting down their dress, and 4 dresses later... i have my WEDDING DRESS! I love it!! It was the first dress i grabbed from the rack, and i held onto it the rest of the time. Love at first sight i guess you would call it! The rest of February hasn't been super crazy bizarre exciting, but it has been fun! However, this last week was Global Awareness week so on the weekend my church had "Global Children's Village"! We recreated a slum and had that set up in the church! Complete with smelly garbage, slum houses, and actors! I had the privilege of being and actor in the slum! It was pretty intense! Anyways, now you are currently up-to-date with Alana's life! It's been an amazing few months! I'll be sure to write again soon!

spring is coming!
Al.

Oh, and remember our friend Dan? Yeah, he's a photographer! So he was hiding in the bushes when this happened haha