February Festivities Filled (w) Fun.

This is Carli, my adorable sister.

February is quite the month. 

Tons of action going on here.

Firstly, and most importantly,

My day of birth was celebrated 

(and ground hogs day). 

(Love you Phil.)

This was a big one. 

I left my teen years behind me.

Weird. 

Sometimes I feel like I'm still stuck in 18.

But I'm not, I am now TWENTY.

Two. Zero.

This year was kinda of odd,

This is Me, Logan, and Carli when we first moved here.

Lafayette was hit with a freak snow storm.

I think it was a total of 8 inches.

Decent amount,

Enough to cancel school!

For TWO WHOLE DAYS.

Happy Birthday Me!

This is what we did during the snow storm:

Carli slept over!

That was lots of fun. I love her oh so much. 

We ventured out in the icy snow

to our nearest Family Pantry.

We then cuddled and watched Robin Hood.

Then we fell asleep,

Carli on our couch, Curt and I in our bed.

Carli didn't want to snuggle with us. :(

But we woke up to my BIRTHDAY.

I am reliving it all right now, and I love it.

About to go sledding.

Our cars are stuck.

Can't go anywhere.

What's the first thing we do?

SLEDDING.

with our dear friends. 

The problem was we had no sleds,

neither did any department store in the entire Lafayette county. 

Doesn't make sense. 

They could've made lots of money from us.

Eventually this woman,

Debbie,

from good ol' General Dollar gives us beach tubes

FO FREE.

THANK YOU DEBBIE.

unfortunately beach tubes don't last too long on frozen snow.

We still appreciated the gesture.

So sledding was kind of a fail.

But the day is not over yet. 

We then have a Lord of the Rings Marathon!

Super great. 

we still need to watch the third one actually. 

AND THEN,

Curt and I went to the OB.

we both are big big fans.

After our tummies were very full,

we opened gifts! yesss

Curt surprised me with artsy things,

an eisel and canvas,

and cooking pans!

and this cute bird door hanger. 

I absolutely love it.

Curt, you are the best. 

So that was my birthday.

But just wait...

We actually celebrated it TWO more times. 

One with Curt's fam and yesterday we celebrated it with mine!

It just never ends.

I LOVE have family so close. 

Then we had Winter Fest 2011. Whoop Whoop.

PEFCU knows how to party.

We ate some good food and danced the night away.

We looked cute too. 

And we can't forget Volleyball Night. No siree.

We heart Volleyball.

Especially when our lovely new bff's come.

They make everything more fun.

I just hope February never ends.

Just Kidding.

March you are going to be super fun too.

Jacksonville, we can't wait!

Needles and Frozen Windows

Today is December 1st. November is gone (what a great month, we will miss you dearly). And December wanted Lafayette to announce his arrival with snow. How sweet of him. So today, I wanted to thank December for the many great things he does for me. Thank you December, for giving me a reason to wear my mix-matched mittens. Thank you for inspiring holiday music, which I believe should only be played when there is snow outside. Thank you for making hot chocolate ten times more valuable in my life. December, even though Curt seems to dislike you (along with lots and lots of other people) mostly because you are paired with freezing temperatures and shortened days, I think you bring a wonderful element to the year.

ALSO. I have never ever gotten a real tree for Christmas. Crazy, I know. But my family has always chosen the easier, cost efficient way -- by using a fake tree. I don't mind this at all, don't get me wrong. We would always find the correct color branches and fluff them out together as a family. Good times. But I always wanted to experience picking a real live tree. And so we did. Curt and I went on an adventure to Ace Hardware store. Here we found trees of all sizes. Big trees, teeny trees, fat trees, perfect trees. Of course, we picked the perfect tree, which is fluffy and about 6 ft tall. I love it. We stuck it in the back of my Accord and hauled it away. It now sits in our living room, tall and beautiful. All it needs are some lights and ornaments. We will get to that another time.

Breathe of Fresh Air.

I absolutely love when we are able to open all the windows in our apartment, turn off the AC and let good ol' Mother Nature ventilate fresh, cool, fall air in.

I also love when trees begin to change color. It's so exciting.