A quiet day....

Usually when the weather is wintery it makes my phone really busy.  Confirming appointments, moving appointments, canceling appointments...but today since there was just so much snow coming down this morning....it made the decision really easy, and thanks to text messaging/email and some on the ball parents, my day was wiped out pretty quickly.  I would rather work, but if I'm not going to...I want to know first thing, so I don't spend all day about to go to work, and then not going...

I got up this morning, worked out (I later made and ate strawberry bread...so that cancels the work out...out!), cleaned, straightened, watched TV, turned the TV off, sat in the quiet and then drank more coffee.  I normally don't love silence, I like a little background noise, but today with the snow....it was nice to just sit for a few minutes in complete QUIET.  I should probably do it more.

I braved a wal-mart trip.  The wal-mart trip was awesome, I waited until the roads were just slushy enough, and wal-mart was NOT busy at all.  I snagged some things for my wedding scrap book and a few more pictures I printed for it.  One of my sweet friends at work got me the scrapbook as a wedding gift, and I knew I would get around to it one of these days.  I drug all my pictures and supplies out last night, on the chance I would have time to work on it today, and I did!  I got two whole pages, sort of done.  I want to add a little more info to them, but I will probably have to wait until I'm in my Carmen's major scrap book room to get the finishing touches on.  I don't have the fancy tools like she does! :)

By late afternoon, I felt like a kid....wanting someone to come over and play.  Stomping around in the snow and attempting scrap-booking would be more fun with company.  B had to go to work, like many people....so I was the queen of the castle....but the queen got lonely by around 3:00 this afternoon! :)

Happy snow day!

First Snow of 2011!

We got our first snow since we have been in our new house this week.  I ran outside this morning, while I was attempting to get my schedule together for the day, and snapped a picture!  I LOVE snow, but we needed a bit more to make it look really pretty!  I'm sure I'll get my wish before winter is over.  It's always a bit annoying when there's just enough to cancel school, but not enough to justify staying home all day!  Happy semi-snow day!  :)

Girl's Baking Night

We had a baking night the week before Christmas!  We listened to Christmas music, ate pizza, and had lots of fun!  Our line up was Carmen's Cranberry Pistachio Cookies, Kati's Snickerdoodle's, and I made good ole' chocolate chip cookies!  We also made oreo balls, puppy chow, and dipped ritz cracker and peanut butter sandwiches!  

 Showing off the cookies!

 Puppy chow!!

 Filling the tins!

 SO good!

 Group picture!

The finished product!!  

We did all this after work, so we were a bit tired by around 9:00pm.  Next year our plan is to try and do it the weekend before, so we won't be so exhausted!  

WOOOO PIG SOOIE!

Even though it wasn't a victory, it was still awesome to be at the Sugar Bowl, and if fan support and the number of times people randomly started "calling the hogs" determined the win, we would have won!   

Top 10 from 2010

Here's 10 of my favorite pictures from 2010!

 Playing in the snow!

 A random stop in Australia.  

 Loving my friends in New York City!

 A fun summer afternoon on Beaver Lake!

 My toes in the sand!

(and what beautiful toes they are!:)

  

My friend Mike and I batting at Miracle League!

Ma, myself, Mom and Hadleigh June on the front porch!

Two of the LOVES of my life!

Bryan and I at the Bellagio for our anniversary weekend!

Sweet time with my bestie.  It's hard being so far apart.  

 2010 has been a year of learning, seeing, and doing!  I'm learning how to be a wife, how to be a better friend, a better listener....and how to hold my tongue.  I fail miserably frequently.  I've also seen and experienced things this year that have changed my life.  I have held, hugged and loved on children....from my niece and nephew here in Arkansas, to children in orphanages half way around the world.  I have seen "need" and I have seen "excess" this year.  

I have bought a house, circled the globe, vacationed, visited friends, laughed...and cried along the way!  

I really, really love New Year's! It's such an exciting time to make plans for a fresh year.  And I love any holiday that involves champagne.  I also love a NEW planner (yes, the paper kind you use a pencil with....) and a new calendar hung on my wall!  So clean and new.  It's right up there with new school supplies, which also make me very happy.   

I can't wait to see what 2011 brings.  

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old lang syne ?

For auld lang syne, my dear,

for auld lang syne,

we'll take a cup of kindness yet,

for auld lang syne.

Princess Shoes....

It was a great Christmas weekend.  Lots of family, eating, and relaxing.  And did I mention, eating? 

On another note...Santa knows me too well.  I was very excited about my new sparkly shoes.  Someone else also really liked them, and she got her own pair of princess shoes for Christmas from her Aunt Katie.  

And here she is showing Papa and Grandad the princess shoes.  I love Grandad and Papa's expressions.  Pretty priceless.

I told Had today, to make sure her foot grew to a size 9, because she was in line to inherit my shoe collection when I'm too old to wear them.... :)    

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Christmas fun in pictures!  More to come...

 Hadleigh and I in front of my crazy pile of glitter tree! :)  I've given up on her looking at the camera most of the time...she's too busy.  

 I LOVE having a house full of friends!  I'm blessed with lots of good ones!

 Bryan and I, and I am sporting my "carrot top" earrings, a special gift made for me by my friend Greg!

 Jami, Monica, Lindsey and Shawn!  

 My Carmen, myself and Kate-o!

My sweet friend Jarah!

 Myself, Kati and Whitney at the Bullington's...

TEAM party! 

I LOVE these ladies!

 Having fun and being silly at the TEAM party!  

Amanda, myself, Kelly, Whitney and Kati!

Cuddling on the couch at Mamaw's with the pups and my girls! :)

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas, and takes time to slow down and remember Jesus, and the miracle of his birth.  This Christmas season I have read and heard several things about the shepherds.  I have never really given them TOO much thought, they were just out in their fields, watching their flocks...and then an angel came and gave them the good news of the Savior's birth!  But I've really been thinking about what it must have been like for them, going to see Jesus, and then spreading the word about Jesus' birth.  They weren't religious leaders, or mighty influential people....they worked in the fields.  And God picked them to tell first.  I love that he picked the common, lowly people in society's eyes, to tell about the birth of Jesus.  A great reminder of no matter what your position or place in this world, you can do mighty things through Him.