winter

i forgot how crazy it is to get back into the swing of things after the holidays! this post has been sitting in my "drafts" folder for about two weeks! we've just been busy with fun things, i can't complain!! we had an incredible new year's eve...we went to the beach with some friends and were able to stay at a ridiculously huge and beautiful beach house with them. we watched football, ate a lot of seafood, told stories, played apples to apples, watched the hangover, and played with a couple of cute babies. we did not want to go home after that fun and relaxing weekend! but our dear friends monica and shey were on their way to hang out with us, so back to atl we went! and basically all we did with mon and shey was laugh...so perfect! conveyer belt of love, what?!

then the BLIZZARD OF 2010 hit atlanta!! ahh, quick, everyone go buy all the milk, bread, and batteries!! hilarious! we got a dusting of snow and the whole city shut down. i thought it was so funny...until i tried to drive to work and couldn't make it out of the neighborhood!! ricky had to come push my car out of an intersection...whoops! my parents had 3-4 feet of snow piled up at their house and they got to work just fine. but apparently atlanta doesn't have the equipment and manpower to salt all the roads...so SNOW DAY for the macdonald's!

that night the bailey's made there first trip to atlanta as a married couple!! ricky and i went to a wedding saturday, so our weekend was super short, but so fun! i love that we live in driving distance from each other and just being as weird as we could be and freaking out ricky and ruffin on saturday morning was the highlight! and big pie in the sky pizza, yummmmmm!

and this weekend is our first middle school trip of 2010! we're taking a great group of students to pigeon forge for a conference and an indoor waterpark...because who doesn't want to be in a swimsuit right after all the holiday food? but i'm so excited and ready to hang out with kids! pray that it will be a time of laughter and joy and growth!! and ricky is holding down the fort with hunter...a weekend of chinese food and madden, poor guy!

oh yeah, and GO CATS!! although obviously i prefer the nickname "the bram" over the "octagon of DOOM".