August laughter and tears

I know it has been over a month since my last posting. Over the past month we’ve experience lots of emotions… from hysterical laughter to tears of sorrow. He is a short recap of life with the Tremeres.

At the first of Aug we had an amazing weekend camping in the eastern point of the Island! We stayed a small campground, and enjoyed an outstanding view of the beach, the ocean, and all of the beauty of God’s creation.

We then had the pleasure of attending the beautiful wedding of one of my bestfriends, Sara Lyriotokis to Steve Anstey. The wedding was absolutely breath taking! I was honoured to be asked to sing during the ceremony, and afterwards we enjoyed a fun reception at the Stanley Bridge Resort. What a fun weekend. Congrats to the new couple!

A couple weeks after the wedding, Corey and I started our vacation, and had the joy of travelling to Montreal, spending sometime with another one of my bestfriends, Angela Fay and her husband Dave

We also took in a Celine Dion Concert (more photos at ocean100.com), we watched U2 World Tour in 3D at the Imax theatre (great show!) and we enjoyed walking around historical Old Montreal. It was a wonderful weekend.

We arrived home at about 2am Monday morning, and crawled into bed after a long weekend in Montreal. A few hours later, we got a call from Corey’s sister, telling us that Corey’s mom was in the hospital, and she wasn’t doing well. We rushed into Charlottetown, and shortly after 1pm that same day, Corey's mom Judy left us. It was one of the most heart wrenching days I’ve ever experienced.

I want to take a moment and thank everyone who sent us cards, came to the wake or funeral, sent us a comforting email/facebook, and called us to just say ‘hello’. Judy was buried on Thursday, August 21. It was a beautiful ceremony. I was so proud of Corey, Jason, Jayne and Step; they are such a strong family unit. For those of you who couldn’t make it, instead of a single person going up and giving a eulogy, the four of them stood together at the podium and Jason and Steph both shared words about their mother. It was so heart felt…and simply beautiful .

Life will never be the same without Judy, but since the funeral, we have tried to stay strong, support our family, and continue living life to the fullest.

Corey started back to work last week, and was overcome by the support of Islanders during their annual Food drive. The morning show hosts of Ocean 100 commit to stay locked in the studio until it is full of food donations. They lasted there 28 hours, and raised thousand and thousands of dollars worth of food donations.

Last week we also got a new addition to our family, a new bunny rabbit named Bun. He is a handful, but he is just so cute!

Now that labour day has come and gone, the autumn season is quickly approaching here on PEI; I don’t go anywhere without a sweater close at hand. Work has been very very busy this week, all in preparation for the looming federal election I presume. I will keep you posted on how September squares up for us Tremeres…who knows it might include: concerts, birthdays, our 3rd wedding anniversary, rosh hashanah (I don’t know what that is…but it’s on my calendar for September 30), and loads more!

Thanks for reading, and love you all!