feb.

i had such high hopes of being an up-to-date blogger but yet again i have fallen behind! so because february was a pretty lame month (minus a few parts that i will tell you about later) it is mostly all going into this post. 

highlights of my work life included our netpals (internet pen pals) coming to take a tour of our company, hanging out with the after school club kids to make robots, and being introduced to turntable.com and thoroughly enjoying our "vecnitian's unite" room we created (so we can all listen to each others music).  

another highlight was president hoer being in the ensign again. they love this picture so much!

i had some delightful facetiming with (some of) my sisters and their kids. 

i experienced "storm nemo" which was actually pretty great. 

we woke up to about two feet of snow one saturday morning so we decided to walk to the charles river to see the damage. it was freezing but so beautiful. 

(people were just skiing. nbd)

since many of the streets weren't even able to be plowed we trekked over to our nearest friends house to watch a few flicks including "seventeen again" which had been on my to-do list for a very long time.

good luck car

just mounds and mounds of snow everywhere!
i don't think i have seen anything like that in a city that wasn't tucked away in the mountains. 

church was cancelled for everyone except those the university ward because they all live pretty close to the church and could just walk.  we live like 1.3 miles away so we decided to make the journey too. it was quite the adventure because as you can see above, sometimes there would just be like 6 feet of snow in front of you and the sidewalk would disappear. 

pictures don't even do it justice, it was so bonkers. 

#8 on my 26 before 26 list: find something i like at a thai restaurant other than phad thai

pad see you at sugar and spice? yep. check. 

snow beer, cards, and the sweetest roommate heart attack

more highlights from work: going into the machine shop for the first time ever, will being so THRILLED to show me the cookie monstor call me maybe parody, and downing one million cinnamon twists from trader joe's. 

and then there was disney on ice. 

brandon and i thoroughly enjoyed it

i felt really happy to go with other twenty something adults. delvique (who is on the far left), however, felt like a child molester, borderline hated her life the whole time, and wondered if disney on ice was a "white person thing" hahahah 

i channeled my inner child and made these sweet construction paper birthday cards for my parents

natalie had a half birthday so we celebrated with chipotle and taking a picture with this luck of the irish dream car. we had seen it earlier that day and she was way happy it graced our presence again.

#11 on the 26 before 26 list: hang pictures up in my room

it turned out a little more out of control than i anticipated but i like seeing all of those pictures every day so i feel good about it. 

have i ever told you that two out of my four roommates served in taiwan with me? living together was completely random and none of us knew beforehand. we kept saying we would take a picture and send it to our mission president..it only took us like 6 months.

last but not least, j-man had a birthday. once again i channeled my inner child and made him this really good looking pan of brownies. 

on that note, february was fine but i say good riddance! i need spring.