Pretty Good

It's only Tuesday, and I've been waiting for the coming weekend for two days now. By the time Sunday night rolls around, I'm always ready for Friday afternoon. We had a pretty good weekend this past weekend, but I definitely should have gotten more done.
On Friday, we went with Lauren and John to watch the AAAA Upper State basketball games at Littlejohn. It was really strange to see a game there when Clemson wasn't playing. I always love to watch good basketball games, and both the boys' and girls' games were exciting. Lauren and I also got to talk to a cute old man who was there to watch the games! By the time the games were over, Lauren and I were fading (as usual), so we all went home.
I was so happy to sleep until almost 9:00 on Saturday morning. How wonderful! I got up, watched my guilty pleasure Cashmere Mafia, and then went to the store to pick up a few things. Wes left to go to the Clemson baseball game with Jeff, and I decided it was time for me to rest. I only planned to watch one episode, but I ended up watching the entire first disc of How I Met Your Mother. I wasn't even supposed to watch it without Wes! I really think I have an addiction. I felt so guilty lying around, watching my show, but I just couldn't stop. After I ran through that disc, I decided that I should get out. I left to run a few errands, and I met Lauren at Barnes and Noble. We had a good time checking out Eat This, Not That! I also tried to plan a dream vacation that Wes and I will never take. I was so enjoying our time at the bookstore until I suddenly realized that it was 7:00. That was a little bit of a problem since Wes and I were going to eat at 8:00 and I hadn't even taken a shower yet. Yikes! So I pretty much just ran out on Lauren.
I did make it home in time for us to go eat at The Peddler. It was perfect! I love the atmosphere at The Peddler so much that I don't even mind waiting for a table. It's so cozy there...especially in the winter.
After church and Pete's on Sunday, Wes and I finally went shopping for a new TV! Later that night, we went and bought our TV. Now we no longer have a red screen. We are so excited, and now we can actually have people over to watch March Madness.

It Really Happened!

I'm just a little over a month late, but I have to blog about the actual snow that we had since it may never happen again. I never listen to snow rumors, because they don't ever seem to pan out. So I was just pretending that it was a normal old day. We went to Wednesday night service at church, and then Wes left me with my mom and dad so that he could go to choir practice. We were so excited when the preacher's wife ran in and yelled, "It's snowing." It was so neat to walk out of church with my parents as the snow was falling. All the way home, it snowed, but nothing was sticking yet. I went to the grocery store, not to stock up on milk and bread, but on Diet Cokes. By the time Wes got home 45 minutes later, the snow was starting to stick.
We took Wrigley outside, and she was so confused. She didn't know what to think of all of the white stuff. She was really funny when Wes threw snowballs for her to catch.
We played outside for while, and I was trying to figure out if school would really be cancelled the next day. I had to finally get in the bed, because school had not been called off, and I was afraid we would only have a delay. Wes came upstairs a bit later to tell me that he was going to take Wrigley back out into the snow. I'm so glad that he did! I put a big coat on over my pajamas and we headed back out into the snowy yard. Wrigley seemed to enjoy the snow a little more by this time. We walked her around to the front yard, and Wes took her running in the snowy street. We absolutely love when it snows! We had to take a picture of ourselves in the snow so that we could show it to our children one day! I loved the prints that Wrigley made in the snow!

Red Day

We enjoyed Valentine's Day this year. We started our celebrating the night before Valentine's Day at our church's Valentine's banquet. The youth serve at the banquet to make money for mission trips. The idea is to tip your waiters, but you can also pay money to have someone do something funny. Only five minutes after sitting down, one of our tablemates had his silverware taken from him. He then had to pay to get his silverware back. Wes received a giant Mexican sombrero complete with dangly decorations that he had to wear while eating dinner. We had to scrounge up some money to have a waiter take it to someone else to wear. The highlight of the evening was when Wes was forced to sing to me in front of all of the diners. A lady at our table got the idea for him to sing and she would not give it up. She wrote down the chorus of "Your Song" by Elton John and made BOTH OF US go up to the front of the fellowship hall. I had to sit while Wes got down on one knee and sang to me. He was such a good sport about it, and his singing was as great as ever.
On Valentine's Day, Wes brought beautiful yellow roses to school. I think yellow roses are so pretty; Wes knew that I liked them so much better than red roses. My students were so sweet to me, and I have enough chocolate to keep me sated for a few years. Two of my students even brought me Peanuts-themed chocolates. (Those are the Peanuts of the Snoopy/Charlie Brown variety, not the peanuts that George Washington Carver is famous for). The best gift of all from one of my students was a.....SALAD from Zaxby's!!! If you know me at all, you know that salads are my kryptonite. It was such a sweet gesture, but I didn't know what to do. I worked really hard to act like I was immensely enjoying my salad, but I'm afraid that I just didn't fake it well enough.
When I got home from school, Wes and I exchanged gifts. He surprised me with a Little Women house to go with my Literary Classics collection. My set is almost complete now! I was even more surprised by tickets to see Michael Buble in Charlotte! I can't wait! Wes and I don't really like to go to a fancy restaurant on Valentine's Day, so we cooked a quick meal at home. Then we went on our favorite Valentine's Day outing - we went to the Clemson basketball game. We did this two years ago on our first Valentine's Day together, and we were so excited to do it again. Clemson beat Georgia Tech by enough that the scrubs even got to play. This was probably the best and least stressful Valentine's Day we've had yet!