is it really january?

as the post-holiday blues slowly loosen their grip on our emotions, we're emerging from a food-induced coma, the likes of which we've never seen before.

living up to her nickname, my girl was lucky to have two four-day weekends in a row, so we took advantage of the time by baking (we made our BEST cupcakes EVER!), cooking, popping jiffy pop popcorn on the stove (which i'd never done before -- see picture below), movie-watching, people-watching, neighborhood-exploring and enjoying each other's company.

oh, and for the first time in 80 years, it snowed in portland on christmas day! it was so beautiful to watch the flakes lazily fall outside our window!

but now it's back to reality, back to the fitness center, back to the dreaded winter rain, back to working five days a week, back to life as we know it.... thankfully, our trip to atlanta is less than two weeks away, so we're excited about visiting family and friends.

as always, we're sending lots of love and hugs across the miles...the girlz