What I Did || Country Livin'

May I just say right off the bat that I loved this past weekend? It was warm. (In the 50's!) It was beautiful, and I got to spend a lot of it with my boy. Wonderful. 

Sunday after church I saw my cousin at the one and only Bliss Store and he told me about his Uncle Phil going out to tap trees for Maple Syrup. Well, I obviously had to run home, put on my Hello Kitty Rainboots, turn on Ugly Truck 3 and get over to Uncle Phil's house! 




The only bummer was that I had to leave after about an hour to head off to Bible Study. It was actually a really good study from a Nooma video, called Bullhorn. Rob Bell spoke about how there are always going to be people putting a bad spin on the Christian faith, like the Bullhorn guy who was standing in the middle of a crowd telling people they were all going to hell. Sure, he may of had good intentions, but wrong is wrong regardless of the intentions. But because the youth group was going to do the evening service at church, all of us Bible study kids stayed to watch practice and then go to the service. Half way through the practice, though, Hunter, Michelli, and I decided to take a little walk. Have I ever mentioned that Hunter can take really amazing photographs? Cause he can. 

After the evening service I went to take the lovely Michelli home, but... my dear old truck got stuck in calf deep mud. Eventually after calling my Uncle to come help me we got 'er out. 


All in all, it was a wonderful Sunday (and weekend!) full of happiness and fun. 

gonna wish you had a storm warning

Over the weekend us Northerners got a boatload of snow. A boatload meaning roughly twenty inches. For Michigan we had a pretty mild winter, up until now. It's absolutely crazy how much we got in twenty-four hours. The snow storm started on Friday night at around six and lasted until late Saturday. Thankfully Sunday it quit all together, but by no means does that mean everything's great now. 


I thought that the mailbox picture really showed how much snow we have. The sun was really pretty Sunday night, too. 

The view from my truck... and this is after futile attempts of cleaning of the windshield. Let me tell you, it's awfully hard to move your truck for the plow when you can't see out the back or front. 

Although I've experienced minor difficulties this weekend, such as the power going on and off all night and the lack of a land line and Internet there were people in my area who had been without power for over twenty-four hours and still don't have it yet. And when it's 10 degrees outside that is not a good thing. I'm so thankful for my house full of electricity! 
As horrible as this weather is (and just when I was trying to beckon spring, too) I cannot deny the beauty that is in it. 

born & raised in a summer haze

Uncle Phil

Brad{ford}

Sorry for my paleness.

Little Tanner

Bonfires in Bliss during the winter is very fun, I tell you. All you city slickers will never be able to fully enjoy bonfires like we do out here in the boondocks. Bonfires where you have to put your SUV into four wheel drive just to get back there, & you still run the risk of getting stuck. 

This weekend ended up to be pretty great. Bonfire on Friday night, & a whole day with Hunter on Saturday. I love having him & me time. We watched movies, cuddled, played some chess, & some volleyball. One thing I forget to do when I'm with him is take pictures. I'm much too busy having fun. Maybe next time.