A Love Story

For Valentine’s Day I wanted to share a love story with you. Be prepared, you might get a little teary eyed. One of my favorite radio stations (k-love) had a contest for Valentine’s Day. Listeners could submit their love story to k-love and win their own love song written by Matthew West. Here is the story (written by Brenda Franklin from Graham, NC) that won :
Brenda's story:
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"God blessed me more than I ever deserved when He brought you into my life. You have relentlessly showed me unconditional love, unshakable faith, and proof that love can indeed bear all things, believe all things, hope all things and endure all things.
When you looked into my eyes and said “I do” 23 years ago, I’m sure you had no idea how incredibly bumpy life together would be. I’ve been continually blessed by your steadfast devotion toward me and toward God.
You had faith in me when I had none. You called me beautiful when I felt unattractive. You forgave me when I was undeserving. You have, time and again, sacrificed when I was unworthy.
When we faced infertility, you--without hesitation--opted for adoption and made me the mother of two beautiful and amazing girls. And when our family grew from two to four and your family turned away from us, you did not mire in anger, but led us forward with strength and determination despite your own grief. You have been my anchor, my soft place to fall. This year, we’ll have been together for 25 years!
Renewing our vows means more to me than words could ever express. I pray that God will bless us with at least another 25 years together, so every day, every minute, every moment until I take my very last breath I can show you how much I deeply respect, admire, love and adore you. Thank you."
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You can listen to the song based on this story at: http://www.klove.com/

Wishing everyone a happy Valentine’s Day!

Our Winter

The blog posts have been light because we have been busy! We are in full winter mode around here, with snow just about every day this last week and temperatures as low as -30 degrees! We have been taking full advantage of the weather and enjoying every minute of it. So in short, here is a summary of our snowy days:

Skiing at Breck! The snow is AMAZING this year, and boy does it feel good to get back on skis!

Craig's first time out in a good....20 some years. This man is a natural. I have never seen someone pick up skiing so quickly. He's almost ready to race me :).

After this first day....we were exhausted!

After skiing, we've made it our little tradition to fix ourselves a yummy snack...

And then head out to our favorite spot in the house...our hot tub!

Seriously...there is nothing better than coming home from a long day of skiing and hopping in this tub of hot.
And when it is too cold to go outside...plenty to do inside. This winter I've decided to teach myself how to play the guitar. I love it (and so does Goose)!

Or I just stay inside and enjoy this snowy view...

While Craig takes care of all the snow in our driveway!

This is only one day's worth of snow...and if you look closely, you can see Craig is smiling pretty big! He loves his "deere john" (as he calls it).

When ever it snows outside, Craig gets super excited to get out and plow. He even asks our neighbors if he can plow their driveways as well...for fun. :)

And then there are our Friday nights (aka date nights), when we want to go out to a nice dinner...so we head to Casa Bonitas. Now if you've ever been here, or if you've watched South Park, you probably laughed when I said "nice" and "Casa Bonita" in the same sentence. Casa Bonita is a Mexican food restaurant where there is a huge waterfall in the middle with cliff divers. It is all pretty cheesy and the food is terrible, but for us...it was a perfect Friday night (and we sang "Casa Bonita, Casa Bonita" South Park style all the way there!

"Yummy" taco salad at Casa Bonitas :)

So far, so good! I hope you are enjoying winter days as much as we are! Now...time for the super bowl!