Happy Monday, friends! Did you have an amazing weekend? Because I sure did! We had an EPIC blizzard hit on Friday and it snowed for 36 hours straight, which naturally made me run around the house like a sugar-filled five-year-old. We got 2.5 feet of SNOW! And our neighborhood still hasn’t been plowed, which means the idea of driving anywhere is totally out of the question, so we’ve been loving being homebodies. We have two sets of friends from our church that live within walking distance, so there’s been lots of trekking back and forth for snow day board games and shared meals. I LOVE this part of being a grown up!

watercolor Canon AE-1 | Abby Grace

A full weekend off couldn’t have come at a more perfect time- registration for A Practical Wedding Workshop Live closed on Friday night at 8pm, and we’d been so busy with making sure the launch was running smoothly that we’d barely had time to breath over the last few weeks (actually, more like months). Being forced to STOP and simply BE was so needed, and I’m going into this week feeling far more rested than I have in a long time.

As always, lessons learned/events that transpired over the past week!

  • Snow days are the perfect time to make crockpot meals. You pop ingredients in that morning, drool more and more as the day goes on, and then BOOM. Dinner’s ready by 6pm.
  • The pastel, multicolored JetPuff flavored marshmallows should be illegal. We bought them without realizing they were fruit-flavored and used them to top off some hot chocolate, and let me tell you- that was not a pleasant surprise.
  • I finally got to play with watercolors this weekend! When the snow started on Friday afternoon, I exclaimed to Matt that we had to go to the craft store NOW so that I could get a set of paints to play with over the weekend. I’m so glad we did, because I spent Friday night, all day Saturday and most of Sunday afternoon painting in my grown-up, Paris-themed coloring book that Matt got me for Christmas, as well as doodling and drawing everything in sight (see picture above)). I’m not very good at it, but I love it, and that’s what counts!
  • One of the downsides to being a photographer is that if you’re anything like me, your phone’s memory is CONSTANTLY on the verge of being completely full, meaning you can’t take any new photographs unless you delete old ones. And yes, I know you can just back them up on your computer (or the cloud, like we finally did this weekend), but WHAT IF I NEED ONE OF THOSE PHOTOS and it’s no longer located on my phone? Like what if the perfect situation arises when I need to show-and-tell with a particular iPhone photo I took in Scotland last year, but for the sake of freeing up space, I deleted it? And because I can’t show-and-tell my Scotland photo, I miss out on an amazing opportunity for more work in Scotland, all because my stupid iPhone couldn’t handle all my photo hoarding?
  • ^I might need counseling.^

Snow day portraits, because OF COURSE! (Thanks for the photos, Alan!)

Snowzilla Virginia 2016

Monday Mash-Up

January 25, 2016

  1. Jean says:

    Sweet photo of you and Matt! I didn’t know the colored marshmallows were flavored. Thanks for the heads up. Enjoy your snowed-in time. It was epic for your area. We got about 12 inches and we went out to lunch today and grocery shopping.

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