Valentine's Day Minus My Valentine

So I was pretty bummed about not being with Spencer for Valentine's Day. I know it's not big deal...that it's sort of a made up and cheesy holiday...but I'm engaged! And to not be with your fiance on Valentine's Day just seemed really sad to me.

Spencer is adorable though! On Friday he texted me telling me Happy Valentine's Day and to go downstairs and look on the table. These roses were there! I love them! He apparently asked my friend Callie an entire month ago to get them for him and sent her a blank check in the mail to pay for them...he was so on top of things. It was really cute! And if that wasn't amazing already, on Saturday, I received two things in the mail from Spencer! One was Season Five of The Office :) and the other was a cute card he wrote for me. I loved it!



The past few weeks have been hard for me. I really am sick and tired of being away from Spencer...seriously done with the long distance. I know it's over soon, but that doesn't make the days go by any faster. With the week off of school that we had because of the huge snow storms, I just had too much time to be stuck in my house and sad about it. This is one of the longest stretches of not seeing each other that we've had since we started dating...almost two months...and I'm ready for it to be over. It helps to be back in school and busy again, but I just can't wait to go home next Wednesday!! :)

On another exciting note, Grace said my name for the first time this past week! She said "Car---ee" so cute! I hope she practices so she can say it for me in person next week! Can't wait to see her too!

Dear Sunshine,

Please come out and melt all of the snow so that I can get back to my normal life. This is day 7 of being snowed in at my house and I'm going crazy.

Thank you!

Carly




You can't see my car because it got stuck in the snow down at the bottom of my street. We got 2 feet last weekend and then another 10 inches Tues/Wed. And it's the really wet heavy stuff. We don't even own a shovel at our house. Above-ground metro is closed...there is no way to get into the city. I also don't own a pair of boots, so I've hardly been outside at all. There's just nowhere to put all the snow. They are heaping it on the medians in the road and most of the right-hand lanes are 10 foot snow mountains. It's really crazy. Church has been canceled the past 2 weeks in a row. School was canceled every day this week. If only I'd had enough advance warning!! I could have gone to Utah for 12 days without missing a single class...ugh.



Click here for an awesome video that shows the snow pile up over the course of the storm.

Superbowl Week

I read a fantastic article in the Washington Post today about the Tim Tebow Superbowl ad. (Written by a pro-choice woman). I couldn't agree more and wish for all to read. Check it out HERE. In today's world where sexual promiscuity seems to be the norm of celebrities, professional athletes, and politicians, I applaud the king of college football for remaining true to what he believes in and not being afraid to share it with the world. I think we could scrap one of the myriad commercials full of beer-drinking girls in bikinis and spare 30 seconds to listen to a REAL role model's message of courage, hope, and family. This world needs more guys like him.