Hello World!

As an avid blog reader, travel lover, and recent transplant to Northern Alberta...I decided it was time to join the masses and finally start my own blog.

Without any real vision for this thing other than as a means to keep friends and family updated...hopefully it will morph into it's own being.

But first, perhaps we should introduce ourselves lest there be any unwitting readers unfamiliar with who we are. We are the Bird family. Jim and I were married July 2nd 2010 in the Vancouver BC temple. It was pretty much our perfect day with lots of friends and family. We honeymooned in San Diego, and came back to work and school. Fast forward to October 2011, when we learned we would be welcoming a little one into the world somtime in June of 2012. Jim Graduated law school in April of this year and almost immediately after we made the move to Grande Prairie, Alberta. We had both secured work here, and so, hard as it was, we loaded the u-haul, hugged our families goodbye, and we were off on our great adventure. Sam, Jim, and one big belly :)

We arrived unpacked, and got settled. While very different from our island home, we've decided that we like it here so far. The people are kind and generous, the summer has been fabulous, and we're really starting to feel "at home".

June 8th 2012 I went into labour (an unexpected 4 days early). And on June 9th at noon we became 1st time parents to the beautiful, handsome, gentlemanly Adam James Bird. He weighed in at 8 lbs, 5 oz and has been the joy of our existence ever since. One of the most difficult aspects of this move had been that in Victoria, I was cared for by registered midwives and had been planning a natural, home water birth. There are no such midwives in Grande Prairie and so we were forced to amend our plans to a doctor supervised hospital birth. While I still hope to have a home water birth someday, we did manage to pull through on the natural part. What an experience! A post on that may or may not follow later.

We hope you enjoy our rants, raves, stories and videos of our family and adventures in the Great White North!

Well...I guess that will have to do for an intro for now :)