Weekend February 15 - 17 , 2013

This weekend was an easy family and game weekend. Here's a few pics:

Baby Luke

 

A little blurry but you get the picture ...

He looked totally '80s!  

Miss Priss

Game Day with Amber, Sam, Josh, and Tyler.

It was way to cold this weekend to get out and walk/run (I'm not counting Friday!) and I didn't eat anything fantastic. I did however, really enjoy the company this weekend!

Game Weekend

This was a pretty good weekend! My father-in-law came to visit and we played a lot of games and ate some good food. Here are a few pictures of the events:

Keith and Josh playing ping pong. Glad to see the dining room table get used for something!

My first game of Small World. Getting my geek-on.

My game choice: Life.

Amber and Tyler came to play on Sunday.

Me and Josh

Bojangles is making heart shaped biscuits :)

My father-in-law brought me the cutest little heart and star shaped cupcake maker. We did make some today, but we ate them too quickly to get a picture of them. I'll try to take some pics next time. As for running, that didn't happen this weekend!

Hello February!

Today is already February 1st! January went by so quickly, I still feel like I am spinning. January is usually a tough month as you calm down from all the family gatherings for the holidays, recover from the spending crazy and paying Christmas bills, and settle back into a normal work schedule. This January was special because it welcomed a new member to our family when Carrie had Baby Luke. That was a nice distraction!

The weather was absolutely crazy! We've had at least 3 snow "storms" - meaning snow fell. Luckily, I was able to work from home on two occasions and the third was such a minor drift it was easy to travel and actually melted within a few work hours. I didn't even take a picture of it. It snowed on the 25th and was 60+ degrees three days later just to dip again.

Snow #1 1-18-13

Snow #2 1-25-13

Snow #2 again

Our big news of the month is we officially started going to a new church. We had been visiting Movement Church for a few months but decided in January it would be our home church. It's very exciting as we went to our first community group meeting this week. It's very similar to the small groups we are used to from the Bridge in NC. We meet once a week, share dinner and fellowship for an hour, then do a study of some type for an hour. It feels good to start branching out and getting to know people here in VA. I've missed connecting with other believers. We had such an awesome group of people in NC (Bohanon's, Church's, Tate's, Bailey's, Perkins' ... so many ...) and that left a whole in my heart. It's cool how certain people in our new group already remind me friends back home! I look forward to growing closer to God and these new friends over 2013!

Otherwise, nothing new going on here. I've been baking and loving it! I hope as Spring gets closer I can start walking/running again. I'm trying to not hold myself to a schedule cause that feels too much like work. I should enjoy it more and feel guilty less. We'll see how that goes! I walked the two really nice weather days and it felt great once it was over.