unknown.

yesterday i had the book, the sacred romance sitting on my desk.

the dean of my department walked into my office and just started talking about the book, the authors, the author's wife's books [who wrote captivating] and all about some great christian books that she has read lately. 

later in the day we talked about another book, what's so amazing about grace by philip yancey.  i was telling her that my sister-in-law recommended it and she said that she was going to go buy it tonight.

seriously, such an awesome thing to learn about her.

squuueeeaallll.

birthday.

today is my college roommate's birthday.

she is wonderful and amazing and i just wanted to highlight some of the last few years :)

just to give you an idea before we start, i have about one picture out of 100 where both of us are smiling and being semi-normal [as close as we can get].

over the last five years there have been many:

 concerts in the car...

many afternoons spent in cameron and joe's dorm room. watching joe play ddr, watching 24 or falling asleep....

banana songs in the grocery store...

being commencement marshals and getting up at an insane hour of the morning...

[after using the deluxe owen showers]

plenty of 'club sidewalks' - a term we coined describing the act of blaring the music in your car and jumping out of the car and having a full blown dance party on the sidewalk.  regardless of who was watching and what time of day/night.

lots of late night beach trips.  two hour drives at two in the morning just to wiggle our toes in the sand and splash in the waves.

even in february...

tons of photographic moments...

ha.

80s parties...always so much fun [apparently missed the memo to leave my double chin at home...oh wait...is that more than double???  let's not talk about it...k, thanks].

and tons of nights just being stupid.  going ice skating, to the movies, shopping, making cookies, rolling down the hall [don't ask], playing dress up [again, don't ask]...and just loving every second of college.

seriously, college would not have been the same without her. 
we always had a blast and she will forever be a best friend.

love you kcl....hope your birthday is wonderful and amazing!

o christmas tree.

a couple weekends ago ken, barbie, worker man and i went to get our christmas trees.

we spent the night at my parent's house on friday night and then went to hillsville, va to get our tree.  it snowed all day saturday.  seriously, it was wonderful.

as soon as we got there, barbie discovered that her boots might not work so well in the snow.

and i discovered that dandruff is not my look...

neither is opening my mouth that wide.

the guys felt like it was necessary to mark their territory.
i know, that's gross....but i had to document it.

look how gorgeous!

here's worker man with what we thought was going to be our tree.

no, he was not a cheerleader - although he's got great form with his 'hands on hips' pose.

here are the guys with our tree. 

it was freezing.  thus, the reason they look frozen in that position.

and oh the joy of a porta potty.

as you can tell, barbie was so excited she could hardly stand it.

we had such a good time.


i'm thinking this might just become a tradition!

three generations.

two of my favorite women [mom and grandma] came to spend the night with us this past weekend.  we had a lazy saturday morning drinking coffee and just hanging out and then we went christmas shopping.

we had such a wonderful time.

seriously, i could not ask for a more wonderful family.