Life Lately

It's been a while since I have done this but there has been a lot going on lately.  Here are some of photos to recap our life lately.
Finally got my glasses and decided to rest my eyes from contacts for about 5 days.  This was last weekend when we met Crawford's family at Buffalo Brothers in Wake Forest.
This one is a big one.  I was scheduled for another infusion about 3 weeks ago.  I took off work for the afternoon and drove to Raleigh and was excited because my body was begging for medicine.  I had come down with a sinus infection that week and had just been put on an antibiotic.  The sinus infection sent me in to a flare and it had been a bad day/week.  I get to Raleigh and as soon as I sit down, the nurse asks if I am on any medicine.  I tell her about the antibiotic and she immediately had this look on her face.  She told me she would be right back and, low and behold, she came back and said I couldn't get my infusion BECAUSE I was on an antibiotic. Learned something new that day.  You would have thought they would have told me that little bit of information when I first started my infusions.  I was NOT a happy camper and had to wait a week before I could get my infusion.
Crawford stepped through our ceiling while we were trying to get our Christmas decorations down.  Thankfully, we have GREAT friends and Corey volunteered his time to come and help Craw patch the hole.  It has now been about 3 months since he stepped through the ceiling and it still looks like this.  Let me just say, I married a major procrastinator BUT at least he took it upon himself to fix it versus us paying someone $300 to fix it.
Superbowl Sunday, a bunch of the girls got together and we went to Artful Expressions in Rocky Mount.  This is a little bit different than Wine and Design as each person can pick what they want to paint.  This lady runs her little business right in her back yard and we had so much fun.  I loved the way my flower turned out and it is already hanging on my front door.  
**Disclaimer: I am not as talented as this picture makes me look.  All of the details were added by the owner.
Our Panther flag came in and I think someone else likes it just as much as I do.  I can't wait to fly this flag HIGH come August.
One of my best friends dad was recently diagnosed with brain cancer.  I know there are many people in the world that are going through difficult times but this family has been hit HARD over the past 1-2 years.  Maggie lost her father-in-law about a year ago to cancer, she has a young cousin fighting breast cancer, her dad has already beaten lung cancer, and now this.  Mr. John is like a second dad to me.  Something that he LOVES to do is make things from scrap wood.  His newest obsession is these beautiful crosses.  I am pretty sure every single woman in our church has one.  He even made one for all of the nurses he sees each day while getting radiation.    I am pretty obsessed with my spring table.  It not only makes me smile every day when I walk by but it also makes me stop and say a small prayer and reminds me that "God is God and only God is good at being God."  Praying for complete healing.









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2016 Ski Trip Weekend

I love to ski.  I have grown up my whole life going on yearly ski trips.  I remember being in elementary school and watching my dad chaperone youth ski trips and how I couldn't wait to start 6th grade so that I could join him.  Back then, our youth group was a little larger so we took awesome trips to West Virginia and would rent cabins for the weekend.  It was amazing and will forever be some of my best memories.

The last weekend in February, I tagged along with my parents and some of my best friends to take our youth to Cragmont and go skiing.  Cragmont is our denominational youth camp in Black Mountain, NC.  I grew up going to summer camps every year at Cragmont so this is also a place that holds special memories.  My best friend even met the love of her life at Cragmont and got married on the mountain almost 3 years ago.  
We drove to Cragmont after work on Thursday evening and arrived around 10:30 PM to a snowy mountain.  Friday morning, we woke up bright and early and headed to Wolf Ridge to ski.  It was still snowing a little and the ground was covered in a small blanket of fresh snow. Once we got checked in, we suited up and were ready to ski from 9-4:30 pm. 
Mom doesn't ski so she sat in the lodge all day and sat by the fire...you won't find her complaining.
The view from the top of the mountain was GORGEOUS!
Josh and Kelly were the only snowboarders.  
Most of the youth had never skied before so they had to take lessons.  This was a picture of them taken from the chair lift.
It's not every day that you get to ski with your 56 year old dad.

We left the ski resort around 4:30 pm and headed to eat at Cheddar's.  Let me just say...after skiing all day long and then going straight to dinner...we were a HOT MESS!
Saturday we woke up and I went shopping with mom and dad. Majority of the youth went on a hike but were sorely disappointed that the view at the top was nothing but a tree line and a shed.  After lunch, we headed to Montreat to walk around and take some pictures.
After we left Montreat, we headed to Hendersonville and went shopping for about an hour.  Then we headed to Moonshine Mountain to go tubing.

We had so much fun and this was definitely one of the highlights of the trip.
Sunday we woke up, had a devotion, and then walked around one last time.  This was such a great trip.  There was no drama and the youth have already started planning next years trip.  I did miss my husband and Hankers.  I have already told Craw that he has to go next year.