baby shower

My friend May is having her baby at the end of May.. I made a wonderful spread of delicious brunch foods. Here was the menu:

Veggie dill Dip with fresh veggies

mini quiche

Baked brie inside of Crescent Dough

Spinach Artichoke Dip

Chicken Salad Croissants

Banana Pudding

The decorations:

Fresh Flowers everywhere

I used white card stock and stamped a mason jar on it and in each mason jar it had a letter which spelled It's a Girl ;)

So fun!

perserverance

I am at the end of my rope... the end of my classes..the end of the half of the semester of teaching. The end never looked so good and hopefully by 8am Saturday morning I will have finished 2 grad classes in 8 weeks while training for my 10-miler and working my full time job. What was I thinking???

Regardless.. I was doing my Bible Study that I am doing with Kiristen who is coming to Hungary with me this summer.. God told me to expose myself to him, to get ready to be burned, open, destroyed so that my flesh can see God. What a great thing it is that he wants me. I've learned in the last 8 weeks that I have to prioritize all of my things so that I can spend time with God because it is the most important over all my activities.

Next week, after my 4-day excursion to Baltimore, Philly and DC with my students I am going to have a 5 day Sabbath of God, Will, friends and quiet. I'm looking forward to it more than you know. I just need to push through these next 24 hours and get all of my work done.

Krispy Kreme

I didn't take many pics this weekend but I did take pics of Krispy Kreme. YUM. The hot sign was on so to Will, it is inevitable that I was going to want to stop.. oh we did and it was an utter delight.

What a wonderful weekend with Will .. just hanging out and eating, watching movies and cooking together. It was so fun and I was sad to drive back to Lynchburg. But alas, there are reasons God has us do things to be uncomfortable and calls us to sacrifice. Will is growing spiritually and seeking God and right now that is one of my sacrifices..not having him around every day ;)

snowwwww

We have had so much snow this year! It is really quite unbelieveable!

Here are some pictures from the madness...

Valentine's Day

Will and I went to an amazing resatuarnt for v-day and enjoyed exchanging nice presents ;)

He surprised me with a great new Dooney and Bourke bag which I've been eyeing for ummm 4 months. He's great.

Here are some pics from the day and this is where we ate... http://www.mangiaontheavenue.com/ yummmm

another favorite restaurant

One thing I love to do is eat ;) Check out that amazingness ;)

Surprisingly, there are some great restaurants in Lynchburg.

We went to Waterstone Pizza where they have brick oven pizzas and a micro brewery. We got to meet Nicole's boyfriend who lives and works in Seattle!

What a fun evening ;)

Rebecca and Lee

I got to meet Lee, my old college roomate's finacee! He is wonderful and they are getting married on May 31st! 5 months from today!