February 28

Pretty church, pretty sky.

February 26

The view out my office window. Snow, yet again.

February 25

Cathleen and Janine both have birthdays on the 27th, but will both be gone, so we had their birthday celebration today. I made the cake - chocolate layer cake with strawberries and icing between the layers. Yummy!

February 23

The wise man built his house upon the rock... I built mine on a slab of quikrete!



Tomorrow's lesson is about the wise man and the foolish man, so we are going to be wise builders and make houses on rocks. So tonight, I get to make 30 quikrete "rocks".

February 22

Tonight was the singles' bowling event. A few pics...

A strike...

And a gutter ball!

Jerry in action!

Dancing Lessons

February 21

Julie was at prayer meeting tonight. I have missed her so much! She brought Sofia, so I got a quick picture. Look at those cheeks! Don't you just want to squeeze her?!?

February 20

TBP#2!!!

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I picked up Amanda and her friend Melissa from work today and we headed over to TBP#2. I finally remembered to take a picture. We've been a jillion times and everytime I've forgotten to take a picture.

February 19

Ashley and Amanda are still sick. I found out I'm dehydrated but eating solid foods again. None of us felt like cooking. We saw a Pizza Hut commercial. End result...



It was sooo yummy! We couldn't even remember the last time we had pizza, so it was a nice treat.

February 18

Ashley and Amanda are still sick. When I got home they were camped out on the couches, so I decided to join them for a little movie.

February 16

My two sickies...



Both Ashley and Amanda came down with whatever has been going around. I don't know how I've managed to not get it, both the girls at work had it, now both my roommates. So, we stayed in and watched movies all evening... how great is Pride and Prejudice!!! I think that's our new favorite. We had fun family time... well, except for the snot and coughing and tissues!

February 15

Happy Friday!


This is my coworker Janine getting ready for the weekend by eating Vidthya's flowers out of the giant margarita glass.

February 14

Happy Valentine's Day!



Don't I have the greatest roommates ever?!? Look at all the fun Valentine's prizes I got. I'm super excited about the peanut butter twix... they're my favorite!

February 13

This is kind of a weird picture I guess...


Ashley and Amanda were both out, so I got to spend an evening all to myself. I camped out in my favorite chair with a couple books. It was really delightful, very refreshing for the middle of a busy week.

February 11

I cleaned out my closet tonight... well, part of it anyway. I am very proud that I was able to part with so many things. I probably should have put quite a bit more in this pile, but... maybe next time.

February 10

Yay! I finished my hat today. It only took me a week. I don't think that's too bad for my first one.

We're contemplating a little puffy ball on top... Any opinions?

February 9

I didn't get a picture yesterday, so I got 2 today...

Lee was in town today, so we grabbed lunch.

After lunch, we went out to see Julian's basketball game.

February 8

Tonight the prayer band went out to the youth retreat... I didn't get a picture.

It was, as always, a wonderful time spent with the Lord. Brother Willie prayed for me, seemingly out of nowhere, that God would be my diligent protector. That certainly spoke right to my heart.

February 7

PRAISE THE LORD!!!

I am officially a Burdashaw again!

Again, you ask? When was I not a Burdashaw, you ponder? Well, let me explain... Quite a while ago, I was stopped for talking on my cell phone while driving. When the officer took my license, he noticed it was still a TN license (bright fellow). After playing a wonderful round of 20 questions, he determined that I am in fact an IL resident and gave me quite a lecture on the 60 day window to surrender your out of state license. Since I had been here about 2 years at that point, I was given a court date instead of just a citation and was instructed to get an IL license before the court date. Being the good citizen that I am, I went straight away to take care of it. I didn't notice for several weeks, and it may have actually been Ashley or Amanda who noticed, that they spelled my name wrong. They made me "Becky Burdshaw". It doesn't even look right! Well, I registered to vote at the same time, so sure enough, my voter card has "Becky Burdshaw". I had to do some training for work and they needed a copy of my license. That's right, all the documentation came back "Burdshaw". I even had to fly as "Burdshaw". How terrible!

For the last four months I've lived as Becky Burdshaw, well no longer...

I haven't been feeling well and I had a dentist appointment, so I took a sick day and decided it would be wisdom to get this fixed today since they have such accomodating hours. So, praise the Lord, I am officially a Burdashaw again! License, voter card, maybe I can get those work documents fixed now...

February 6

Behold Yarn-Man!

I seriously need to get a life. Amanda was with Pippie and Ashley was with Kristen, so I sat on the couch to do a little reading and knitting. It doesn't really look like I got too much done, but my skein of yarn is steadily shrinking... enough so, that I squished it into a ball to sit the hat on top of. Then I thought, hmmm, that kinda looks like a head with a hat on. So i added pearl eyes and a ring for a nose...

Someone please help me!

February 5

I worked on my hat again tonight. It's actually starting to look like a hat!

February 4

We've had snow for days. Today we exchanged the snow for crazy fog. It looked really eerie walking across campus. The picture didn't turn out as good as I had hoped. It was so foggy, I couldn't even see downtown as I was driving down Lakeshore Drive ~ no park, no fountain, no museum campus, nothing but fog!

February 3

I started my hat today. It's more like a yamika or coaster than a hat, but it'll get there... I hope!

February 2

We started Story of Love rehearsal today. Afterward, I went out to eat with April and Honey. We had such a lovely time laughing and sharing over burgers and fries.

February 1

Pamela came over tonight for dinner and games. Her she is with her Scattergories card (she had never played before if you can believe it) and her jock itch cream (you'll have to ask her about that one).