Happy Birthday John!

Happy Birthday to the best brother ever!!! I love you John!!

John spent the day in sunny Florida where he said it was 80 degrees while we were hiking to the top of Camel's Hump wearing snow boots - what a difference! Hope your day was wonderful!

xo!

John was here

Happy Monday everyone!

We had a great weekend filled with beautiful sunshine and temps in the 40s and 50s for John's visit. It felt great to wear a t-shirt outside when we hiked and to put on sunscreen for skiing! Today we're back to reality as we're supposed to receive between 3-5 inches of snow. Ha!

We spent a lot of time this weekend watching basketball...Go DEVILS! DUKE has advanced to the Sweet 16 - yipee! Congrats to Coach K on 900 wins!

John arrived Thursday while I was at work. I had class Thursday night so I left John and Matt to fend for themselves for dinner. I arrived home after class at 8:30pm to this scene.

John and Matt had dinner at Al's Fries. John ordered this extra large chocolate milkshake and finished the entire thing in one sitting. He could barely move.

On Friday, John and I went back to my favorite place - Mt. Philo :) It was so sunny and warm, I was in short sleeves by the time we reached the top!

Will was there :)

On Saturday, we went skiing here.

It was an amazing day once again. Beautiful and sunny!

We hiked to the top of Mt. Mansfield from the resort to get this beautiful view...

John was excited to get back on his snowboard...

A great day :)

Let's see..what else? We made John tag along to supper club with us so he could see what social life is like once you're married and no longer 24 years old :) I think he had fun! We had dinner with cousin Jess...We walked around down on Church street...and then John had to go home! We squeezed a lot into 3 days as usual.

This week I'm busy working on assignments for class and packing packing packing! We're supposed to close next Wednesday the 30th if things go according to plan. That means we'll move in less than 2 weeks. Yikes!

Love you John!
xoxo

It was a good day

I'm coming down with a cold. Boo :( I guess I have a pretty good record considering this is my first cold of the season and I work in an elementary school. Advice I received on my first day...don't drink out of the water fountain.

I fell while skiing yesterday. Twice. I'm sporting matching bruises on the insides of my knees and strained a muscle in my right arm that hurts when I try to lift it over my head. I've self-diagnosed it as an injury to the infraspinatus and my research told me I could treat it with ice or heat - good thing I made that rice heating bag :) The thing that was hurt most was my pride. I hoped I was better able to handle all types of conditions...

I'm just trying to keep it real and not paint a picture that's too rosy. Obviously, those aren't the things that made today good.

These are.

1. It wasn't cloudy or raining. Hello Sun! How I've missed your bright and shining face! It was also 36 degrees today so my face was the only exposed part of my body, but I'll take the Vitamin D any way I can get it!

2. My love for Daylight Savings knows no end. Who cares if you lose an hour of sleep on a Saturday night when the sun stays around until after 6pm! Yipee! It is dark when I leave for work at 6:30am but I don't have anything to do at that hour except drive anyway.

3. John is coming! John is coming! He's supposed to be here Thursday...Keep your fingers crossed that the rain we're supposed to get this week turns to snow in the mountains or we'll be doing lots of this :)

4. It's official! We are approved! We received final word today that our financing went through so we're one step closer to closing on our new house...