5 years ago today...

...Mike & I were married! :)

(now if only we were leaving for Antigua tomorrow...)

happy birthday, grandma!

I have been blessed to have grown up close to both sets of my grandparents and today I want to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my grandma (mom's mom). Today she is 82! The picture above was taken about 2 weeks ago - do you see the family resemblance? :) I love you grandma!

Oh, yeah, Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! :)

Until next time...

he's home!

Mike is finally home! He left last Friday morning around 4am to go with a group from our church down to the New Orleans area. They worked with a sister church of ours in clean-up from Hurricanes Katrina & Ike. This is not the first time Mike has been away for over a week, but it was a lot harder for me this time around (I don't know why, but it was)!

But, he's home now, the trip went very well, he has made some great new friends (watch out, Brittany, he says he now has a replacement little sister!!!), and all is right again with the world! :)

Until next time...

1st snow!

Okay, I am not a huge fan of winter (I prefer to call myself a "tropical fish") but even I get excited about the first substantial snowfall of the season (oh, and don't get me wrong: I also enjoy the occasional snow day)! Today's snow was perfect: light enough that I only had to scrape my car 2x (instead of digging it out), soft enough to be beautiful, and it was warm enough that the roads weren't that bad (although the paper said that there were 45 accidents in the county today!?!). I couldn't help but take pictures, starting on my drive to school! :) Stay warm!