FEBRUARY ADVENTURES

Don't let this photo fool you...I know that David looks pretty excited...BUT sadly things have been pretty low key here in "the falls" since our snow extravaganza!

There has been nothing major going on, but there have been some great little things have made the weeks enjoyable...

***having days off from school to be cozy at home

***enjoying a night out on the town together, taking in the local minor league hockey team and dinner at the Olive Garden (thanks for the great gift certificate, Alisa)


***working at Starbucks...I have now worked about 12 shifts (about 17 hours a week is the average I'll stay at until school lets out for the summer) and feeling like I am slowly but surely getting back in the groove of customer service, coffee making and hard core cleaning during the closing shift.

***sitting in the backyard after school and in the evenings in 77 degree weather, reading a book and throwing the tennis ball for Mac

***eating Chinese Take-Out made for a perfect Valentine's Day celebration on Monday

***gathering last weekend with friends meeting for our monthly Supper Club....the theme was Mediterranean...the menu included a great wine, a filo pastry puff with feta and spinach, shrimp with garlic/white wine/spring onions (brought by us), lemon/chicken soup, Greek Salad (brought by us), hickory smoked lamb, squash and cous cous with baklava for dessert. It was a delicious meal and a relaxing evening with friends!

***taking LONG walks with McCovey in the park--letting him run off leash and get his energy out! All the while enjoying the sunshine and the vast openness that Texas landscape offers.

***seeing a childhood friend (who I had not seen for 15 years) who was passing through Texas, as he is moving from New York to Colorado and needed a place to stay. David and I offered and thankfully he took us up on it and joined us in our home for a night! It was such a joy to see Sean and to offer respite after a LONG week of driving and staying in hotels! We wish him all the best in his next chapter!

***becoming more intimately connected to our church. It may seem silly to some, but for David and I it was a concerted decision to engage in a church! We decided on which mass we would go to every week...which area we would sit in every week...and sure enough two months later after mass the Deacon asked us, " are you new to the parish"? Yahoo, we aren't visitors anymore...we talked to someone! It feels good to be connected to something bigger than ourselves and this is only the beginning...we would really like to join in with the church community, and we will....but as with anything...it just takes time :0

As I said, this month's excitements haven't been about big things going on, but the small things that keep us going in this crazy Texas adventure that we are on!