It is now May. This is the month we have been waiting and waiting for. My maternity leave started this week and I am officially nesting. From sewing curtains for...

There is a section on our bookshelf designated just for kid's books. The collection started long before we knew we were having someone to read them to. There is a...

Our apartment is starting to look like a baby lives here…or at least that one is on the way. This weekend was fairly productive on the baby front. We found and...

It's Valentine's Day, so why not post about lovey stuff? You'll remember that Mandy and I got married last year. There was also something about being Orthodox...

As the story usually goes, I was late. After a week of trying to brush it off I finally caved and took the test. I was at work. It was about 10 in the morning. I...

Until recently we hadn't been making a lot of effort to get outside. With so many cool places to go here it's almost criminal not to. So, officially, last weekend...

We started this blog originally to share in the process of planning our wedding. It then morphed into a log of funny projects we were working on together. So now it...

Arts Umbrella (one of my pro-bono clients at work) is hosting a contest to win 2 free tickets to their upcoming Art Auction and Gala, called Splash. All you have to...

We've been working on some little home improvements lately. 1) Important Artifacts Museum We started a very small museum in our apartment. Currently there are four...

Dear Friends, We've entered a contest. We need to get the most likes for this image on Facebook. PLEASE LIKE OUR PHOTO ON FACEBOOK! Instructions: 1....

I like ham sandwiches. Tom likes salami. That works out well.

East Van Kitty from Tom Froese on Vimeo. Every month at Cossette (where I work) we are given a little after school project to complete – some kind of creative...

… and finally, pictures taken from our Diana Mini, gifted to us just hours before our honeymoon from our friends Aaron and Brittany! We refrained ourselves from...

We had planned a Seattle Trip but ended up in Harrison Hot springs to go swimming in a warm pool. Arriving in Agassiz. SO EXCITED. Had really good sandwiches...

Last night we snuck into the Industry Preview Night at Emily Carr. Our friend Desmond Wong was unveiling his critical design project called Elysium. We have...

} April was a little wacky in Mandyland. I had A LOT going on at work. One of the big culprits was a pop-up store that I designed (and built with along with Nick,...

The Evergreen Escape! Unfortunatley, our escape was pretty delayed by ugly border traffic. By the time we finally made it to Bellingham we were both pretty hangry...

Tonight is date night for the Froese's! I gave Tom three choices to pick from with visual hints. Stay posted to see which secret top notch option he chooses.

Our friend Henry turned one this week! I helped his mom plan a rip-roaring rodeo party to celebrate. We made a poster to invite everyone out, followed by a little...

Aside from our iPhones, we only brought film cameras to document on our honeymoon with. We used a Diana Mini for black and white, and a Yashica Electro 35...

Lot of nice people came to our wedding. Take a boo at the who's who. These are all the guests that our photographer was able to find that night. Apologies to...

A regular Saturday afternoon. Mandy bought some glasses; I tried some on but don't wear glasses so I didn't buy any. Then we ate grilled cheeses at Hellen's.

After much anticipation, we finally received our wedding photos! Here are our top pics. We'll be posting the who's who photos next time. Of course, we must give a...

In case you all forgot about us, we're back from our epic honeymoon and still kicking. We owe you two posts: one from the wedding and one from the honeymoon. We...

Friday's over, Saturday's here, and there's ONE DAY LEFT until we tie the knot! The immediate family has arrived, as have a few friends from afar, and the wedding...

Source: The Weather Network As temperatures plummet far below zero in eastern Canada, Vancouver holds true to its form with wet but mild weather. Our guests from...

This afternoon my sister hosted a very adorable little wedding shower for me. Both of my grandma's, most of my aunties and girl cousin's were in attendance. Tom,...

Cute as our invitations may be, they have incorrect address information for the Reception venue. The correct address for Murrayville Hall is 21667 48th Ave. We...

My friends gave me the party of a lifetime last night. I'm talking about the bachelor party. I'm not sure if I'll post photos of this one, but let's just say...

This is a retrospective post. It's been almost one year since Mandy and I officially started dating, and a little over a year unofficially. Here are some memorable...

As the big day approaches, its meaning increasingly shifts from a concept to a reality. What was once a harmless distant plan is now staggeringly nearby. The...

This is Ryan. He lives a few doors down from the parish that Tom and I attend. When we discovered that he was a very talented Goldsmith we commissioned him to make...

36 more days to go. Hope you are getting as excited as we are! This morning I started to compile the list of songs we'll be playing to get all your winter bums...

This has absolutely nothing to do with our wedding, except maybe the teamwork aspect. I needed to make a human-sized hand costume for a project at work, so Mandy...

I have never been to an Orthodox wedding. Which means that ours will be the first one that I attend. I don’t imagine it will be entirely foreign, but from what...

At our reception, Amanda and I plan to have a slideshow—the kind with actual slides and a slide projector. We are boycotting the powerpoint multimedia...

It's official, I have a wedding suit. After about two weeks of shopping (maybe that's not that long for suit shopping), I found it. It began in Toronto, where,...

Armed with a gun we trudged through aisles of bed sheets and cabinets stocked with precious china. As instructed by our commander (or Hudson's Bay representative)...

Mark J. recently sent me some photos he shot at our surprise engagement party, which our friends Jeremy and Shari-Anne held for us a while back [scroll down for the...

Mandy met my family over Thanksgiving weekend. We flew into Toronto on Friday morning, and by that evening we were sitting at my Brother's family's Thanksgiving...

It's not often you get three weeks off work and are almost required by unwritten laws to go on a vacation. We're taking our honeymoon pretty seriously. Knowing...

Otis is my cat. He is just over a year old and weighs nearly 20 lbs. He is a tuxedo cat with the build of a panther. He loves being around people and follows me...

Welcome to our first ever guest post. I guess I can't really say "first ever" because this blog hasn't been around long enough, but it's exciting nonetheless. ...

Today, we went to our official Martens family engagement party. Future mother-in-law is a talented florist. We were welcomed with some of her work. I met a lot...

A sampling of our MCC finds from last Saturday. T

Finding a wedding dress is nuts. There are literally thousands and thousands to choose from and can cost thousands and thousands of dollars. I will admit, once...

This is not the invitation design. Just a cheeky piece I made in response to a lot of wedding invitation designs out there. Not to say ones that use these...

Since our engagement, together we have been the recipients of so much warmth, so many blessings (in that people bless our engagement), so much shared excitement...

It's 1:12 am and I'm up. I've been trying to wrap my mind around investments, compound interest and the sort. It's not tax season, but it is grow up and be...

Every time Tom and I sit down to talk about the wedding we end up with yet another list; guest list, stuff to find list, people to talk to list. So much thought is...

Here's a hard topic: Mandy and I have spent considerable time working on our guest list. We want to invite EVERYONE we know but of course we couldn't feasibly do...

Most people get married on pleasant, fairweather Saturday afternoons. Well, what happens when you get engaged at the end of the summer and spring is far too long...

Tom and I met about 7 years ago while we were both living in Toronto. We had what I call a false start and later parted ways – Tom to Halifax and myself to...

This post marks the first of what we hope to be a series of posts about our engagement and wedding planning process. As we are simultaneously new Orthodox...