A Snowy Morning

Hi friends! Did you miss me? I've been in a bit of a blog slump lately. I love my blog and all my friends I just haven't had any motivation to post. But today, today it snowed! And I had to show it to you. And it was gorgeous, friends! Or still is gorgeous. =) The sun has come out but the snow is still on the ground and I love it! The roads are finally clearing and for that I am grateful, because driving to work this morning, not so fun... The roads weren't plowed and there was a thin layer of ice underneath the snow that made it just a bit slippery... I drove 20-25mph the whole way in to work. Good thing my commute is less than 5 miles.

This was the sky yesterday afternoon before the snow began to fall that evening.

Leaving my apartment for work.

You can kind of see the sun trying to peek through for it's sunrise.


The main road in our apartment complex. Completely unplowed...

The snow still coming down outside my office window about an hour ago.

It's been such a pretty morning. I love the snow like this. It's light and very fluffy so it's easy to clean off and it's just pretty enough and there's not a lot of it to cause any issues. I do love when we get snowed in, but my wallet doesn't like that so much since it means Collin doesn't get paid if he doesn't work.

We're supposed to get some more snow tomorrow so we'll see what happens! But for now, I shall enjoy this beauty. Did you get any snow where you're at?

Cindy

SNOW!

So apparently all that spring-like weather we'd been having was just a tease. It's SNOWING today! It's so, so beautiful! And the best part, it's not sticking to the roads so it's not a really threat. It's just gorgeous!

I hope that wherever you are you had a good weekend and are enjoying your Monday no matter what the weather may be like! And I am so glad to know that my friends that were in areas affected by the super severe storms are doing okay. I was thinking about you all this past weekend and I'm so glad to know the tornados didn't affect any of you. I'm grateful myself that we only had rain. But please, keep all those that were affected in your prayers. There was some severe devasation throughout our country this past weekend.

Cindy

My Week via Instagram

Since I haven't really had too much of a "real" update in the past week or so, I thought I'd show you what's been going on in my life!
I bought some new shirts at Old Navy last week and they are so super comfy!
My daily reminder here at work.
This isn't the best quality picture, but that bright blob is the moon. It was HUGE and sooo bright.
Think it's time to take my Christmas tree home from the office?
(just so you know I took it home that afternoon)
Chocolate peanut butter drink. It wasn't a milkshake and it wasn't a smoothie. It was basically chocolate peanut butter milk. So good!
He gets so cozy and actually loves being covered by a blanket.
The sun was extra bright on my way to work Friday morning. The sky was filled with orange.
I love wearing blue and I especially love it when my hair is wavy.
I much prefer to sit barefoot at work.
We watched an IMAX movie called Sharks and Stank was intently watching the tv. During the movie there were 3 (out of 4) animals sitting with us. Collin playing around on his ukelele.
It snowed Saturday night! Just a dusting but it was pretty on Sunday morning. My boys napped on the couch after church while I addressed my Valentine's.
Addressing the Valentine's I made on Saturday. I made 14 cards!

It's been a fun week! I didn't document any pictures of my card making with my friend Jeannie, nor did I document any pictures from our evening with Jeff and Jeannie. We went to Olive Garden for dinner with them and then back to their apartment to play some games. We had a blast! And then yesterday after church our youth group made 120 Valentine's to deliver to a local nursing home. The kids really enjoyed making the cards and I should have taken a picture of them in all their creative-ness. It was so fun to watch!

Anyway, what have you been up to this past week/weekend? I hope it's been filled with lots of fun and happiness as mine has been!

Cindy

Wedding Weekend Extravaganza!

This past weekend Collin and I headed up to a tiny town in The Poconos called Jim Thorpe, PA. My friend Rachael from college was getting married and she had asked me to sing with 5 other friends from college in the ceremony! So early Saturday morning Collin and I packed up the car and began our 5 hour journey north!

Comfy clothes for traveling


A road trip wouldn't be complete without a trip to Cracker Barrel!

For the first time ever I beat this dumb game! I've gotten down to 2 pegs before but this time I actually beat it!!
And then it started snowing. While the sun was out. And there was already some snow on the ground from a storm they'd had on Thursday.
This was the coolest thing! Icicles hanging from the rocks on the side of the road. Oh it was so neat to see all over the place!

The wedding took place on Sunday afternoon so Saturday evening was the rehearsal and dinner. Afterwards a bunch of us met up in my and Collin's hotel room for some rousing rounds of Pictionary Down the Lane which caused so much laughter we thought we would disturb the neighbors! We had a blast playing and it was great to spend time together with my college friends!

The wedding was above a museum in an auditorium type room and the ceremony was very nice! Our group sang "You Are the New Day" which is sung by The King's Singers. I think one of my favorite things about the day was that the recessional song was "Married Life" from the movie Up. It's the one that's played when it goes through their love story at the beginning. It was so special and they had the exact instrumentation for it live. =D Anyway, the reception was filled with lots of fun and dancing! And it was great to be seated with my awesome Messiah friends. We had a blast. I can't wait until the next wedding for when we all get to see each other again. ; ) Hopefully we'll get together before then though! I love those friends!

Jon with the fun shaped pineapple

That was a yummy cake!
The cake toppers were handmade treble and bass clefs!


Alicia, me, and Mary Lee

This about sums up Jon, David, and Andy. =)

A "normal" picture of the three guys.

Collin and Jackie, the two non-Messiah grads in our group
The sextet (singers) and Messiah friends!
The Messiah crew with the addition of Collin and Jackie (Andy's girlfriend)
All of the Messiah group in one picture!

The beautiful bride, Rachael!

The back of her dress was so pretty, too!
Jackie and me. I wish she lived closer because I think we would hang out all the time. I love her!

The girls I hung out with all weekend. Alicia, Mary Lee, Jackie, me

On the way home on Monday the icicles hanging off the rocks on the sides of the road had grown because it snowed a little more on Saturday night. And it was SO cold the whole time we were there. I don't think it got above 25 degrees while we were there. Much, much too cold for my liking! But we still had a great time!

I hope you had a great holiday weekend like we did! And I hope that whereever you were it was not nearly as cold for you as it was for us!

Cindy