a YL weekend

we are SO excited that after work today we get to spend the weekend at sharptop cove! we have a lot of love for young life and it's such a blessing to be able to be a part of what God's doing through YL when we get the chance! stoked! we're going to be head leaders & hope you'll join us in prayer for the high school kids and their leaders as they spend the weekend in fun, laughter, and deep conversations about the God who loves us more than we can comprehend! woohoo!

more snow!

today was a great day! i got a new haircut! much shorter than expected but i was ready for change.

ricky asked why i was giving him peace signs like 50cent...solo pictures are awkward so being gangster always helps!

and we have yet another BLIZZARD!! but we actually might accumulate up to 4-5 inches which is huge for atlanta! we already have a couple at our house! people are hilarious about it. on my way home i drove by a church that had the sign: parents night out cancelled due to panic. love it!  but for real we'll be stuck at our house tomorrow because they don't have the equipment to clear the roads. it's been a long time since i've seen the trees absolutely covered like this and it just reminds me of northern arizona. to me, nothing is more beautiful than the trees & mountains there when it snows! but one thing that i absolutely love about the south...magnolia trees! covered in snow? obsessed.

happy love day to you all! we're thankful for your presence in our lives!

flashback!

i've been meaning to post these pictures for a while, oops!! i've been missing kc lately and i was hoping to visit this month for no reason...since the past several trips have been for a specific purpose and therefore jam packed. and i was thinking february since two of my besties celebrate bdays in february...but sometimes you just can't do it all.

dear economy, would you mind turning around so i can do what i want?

bach party fun

he put a ring on it!

my best friend is adorable.

 hottie.

bram fam fo life!

parents don't come more fun than this!

the baileys!!

love it.

this describes how i felt that night!

i really didn't get all that many pictures of the 2nd best day of my life, but lucky for you my dear friend scotty did! seriously the best wedding pictures i've ever seen. check them out. but if you read this blog you've already seen all of them and left hilarious comments on the fb album.

worthless post, but it gave me a chance to relive this incredible night! we are so blessed to have libby and ruffin in our lives!

winter retreat

this one time, we took 80 middle schoolers to an indoor waterpark in gatlinburg, and they all got folliculitis. awesome.

so glad i stayed out of the water.

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".