...a day of silence for cohen..

I know that I haven't blogged in a long time but I thought that this was too important not to post. Please continue to pray for Cohen and the entire Marshall family.

"so much to be thankful for"

As I sit here in my kitchen with my parents and brother, molasses cookies baking in the oven, Christmas less than three days away, I have to take the time to pause and count my blessings. Yes, we might have been stuck at home for the past four days (we finally got out today) but it was so nice to spend that time together, especially during the Christmas season. I am so thankful for my family and need to spend more time counting my blessings and less time complaining about the little things. I'm going to leave you tonight with a song by Josh Grobin. It describes how I'm feeling tonight perfectly! I'm thankful for all of you, too :)

cabin fever

Hi girls! Well, after 2 1/2 feet of snow and over two days in my house later with my parents and brother I am ready to get out of here!! My dad and I went Christmas shopping Friday afternoon and the snow started to fall and it didn't stop until yesterday evening. Being snowed in wouldn't have been too bad however we lost power at about 10:30 yesterday morning which made for a very long and cold day at my house!

This is my backyard. I have never seen this much snow in my entire life! We spent most of the day yesterday reading and staying huddled by the fire. It was nice to spend the uninterrupted time with my family but after continuing to be trapped inside today we're all pretty sick of sitting around staring at each other.

The snow was so deep it wasn't even fun to play in. It came up to my knees! After sleeping with two down comforters on my bed last night I woke up this morning just in time for the electricity to be back and the heat to cut on! They haven't plowed our road yet or even the main roads in my town so who knows when we will get out, it might be Tuesday! If it wasn't for my Blackberry yesterday and Twitter updates from my local news station I'm not sure what we would have done! The snow did put me in the Christmas spirit though. I just hope our roads are clear by Christmas eve so we can still go to church and dinner and have our family and friends visit on Christmas day! For those of you who were hit by the storm I hope you're able to leave your house and for those of you who didn't get any snow, enjoy the pictures! I hope you all had great weekends :)

can't stop, won't stop

..eating these!

I figure..if I'm going to be sick I might as well indulge myself in some holiday treats! Thanks for all of your well wishes, they really mean a lot :)

go away flu

Sorry for the lack of posts and tweets! I have been sick with the flu since Thursday and I feel like it's the kind of sickness where you get worse before you get better. I haven't had a good nights sleep in at least 4 nights and this is pretty miserable! I did attempt to tough it out yesterday and load myself up on medicine in order to go to one of my sorority sister's weddings. It was a beautiful wedding and I'm glad that I was able to be there but I didn't even last long enough to see her cut the cake!
But now for some good news, after I posted the other day about needing prayers for my grandfather he too got worse before he got better. It turned out that he was having some internal bleeding from the heart surgery that he had three weeks ago so they had to operate on him again but everything seems to be great and he's in good spirits. They are moving him from the ICU today to a regular room so progress is being made! Thank you all so much for your prayers and good thoughts. They really helped!
Last but certainly not least I wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH to Alyssa over at It Aint Always Pretty But It's Real for the adorable package I received from her yesterday! I won her Christmas giveaway and it was a FANTASTIC package so thank you so much girl, you made my whole day!!!

celebrate!

I accepted a job this morning!! I start in January!! I'm so excited :)

On a sadder note, my grandfather has been in the hospital for over a week and they can't figure out what's wrong with him but this morning things have taken a turn for the worse..so any prayers that you could send his way would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for being so great, love yall :)

finally!

WAHOOWA!

wii fit

Hi girls! I am thinking about buying a Wii Fit. Not necessarily to use it as any sort of work out but more as something fun!

Does anyone have one? I would love to hear what you think about it! Thanks :)

obsessed

I am obsessed with my new Nike+ transmitter! It's really making my running a lot more fun, if you can believe that. It tracks your speed, your distance, calories burned and has different training programs. You can also set it up so you can make a "power song" for when you are really out of steam. When you're done with your run you can load your info from your ipod onto Nike's website and track your stats! It sounds so nerdy but I really like it and would definitely recommend it!

America the beautiful

This is where I will be celebrating the 4th!

I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend :)

I also hope that my very patriotic red, white and blue dress comes in before I leave on my little trip!

God Bless America :)

God Bless America

Look at the adorable dress I ordered from Lulu's today for the 4th of July!I'm so excited, I hope it's as cute on as it is online! I'll let you know :)