Christmas Day

Ahhh Christmas day - breakfast, snow, fun with family.  It was a great day!  I loved that the snow kept us in all day and that we got to just sit by the fire and watch it all come down.  Snow on Christmas is certainly one of my favorite things.

 Baked french toast with blackberries and bacon - perfect for Christmas morning!

 Mom- taking more pictures. 

 The snow starts to come down!!!  Sarah starts to get giddy!

Present time!

 Lots and lots of snow!!!

Snow Day #4

 I've been to work for a grand total of four hours since I left on Monday.  There's been a lot of ice, and now there's snow.  Snow is a lot prettier than ice - even if the one inch they predicted turned into five or so.

 

 

Snow (Ice) Day

Snowpocalypse 2011 equals working from home, fixing the heater, Nutella hot chocolate, fuzzy blankets, and PJ's all day!

Snow Goodness!

As I'm sure most of you know, it snowed last week in Dallas.  A LOT. I'm talking over a foot.  The kind of snow I'm only used to seeing when I'm at my parent's house.  It was intense.  And a lot of fun.  Until it started weighing down the trees and taking out power lines left and right.  Leaving our house without power for about two solid days.  It was an adventure to say the least.  I have a whole new appreciation for electricity. 

Thursday night, before the full extent of power loss had hit me, I went out and took pictures of my newly engaged friends Laura and Spencer in the snow.  I always love an excuse to play with my camera.  And they were loads of fun to take pictures of.  So, here's just a few.

Ski Trip

The week before Christmas I headed out to Crested Butte, Colorado with the high school kids from church.  I had four girls from my small group, one of their friends, and our favorite friend from Kyla's group in my room.  They are such a great group of girls, and I really did have a blast with them.  The skiing was great, the skits were hilarious, as usual, and it was just an all around good time.  I took my point and shoot camera, but the battery was dead, so I only have a couple of pictures from my phone, and a few I stole from the student ministries pictures!

The whole group the last night before we got on the bus.

Tori, Rachel & Aaron

Me & Mel.  In case you're wondering, it is quite fashionable to take pictures with goggles on top of your head.  Skiing is a very attractive sport.

Some of my girls are on that ski lift in front of me, but you can't really tell that! I love snow!

Fireplace in our room.  One of the nights during free time we stayed in our room, made a fire, baked cookies, and watched girlie movies!

Oh, Katie...

Me and sweet Sarah.  She was sick most of the time, which was VERY sad!  Thankfully she got well enough to at least enjoy some of the scenery!

And if you happen to be bored, one night at club the skit/video were Twilight themed, and they were hilarious!  Here's that video for that and the ski trip video so that you can see how much fun we had!

Let it snow...

I love the snow.  I got such a great surprise when I woke up this morning and the snow was falling.  I loved reading that Erin experienced equal joy.  We put up the Christmas decorations and just enjoyed watching the snow fall.