Air shows, cabins and Church talks

Memorial Day weekend was so fun! I'm going to attempt to go through it without boring anyone to death while still hitting on the best points.

Thursday was my last day of work which meant Friday was the beginning of a wonderful weekend. I drove up early Friday morning to Syracuse to meet up with Meg and her family for a quick breakfast before we went to the air show at Hill Air Force Base. This was a fun new experience for me and I loved it! Also Meg and I were called to speak on Sunday with a high councilor from her home stake up in Syracuse.

Lindsey and Adriana - Photo taken by Megan McFarland

Thunderbirds

Photo by Diana McFarland

On Saturday Meg and I went and finished registering, went back to Syracuse, finished our talks for Sunday, had dinner with her family, went to Adriana's piano recital (she did a great job btw), and played a most wonderful game called "Don't eat Pete!" You set out a few M&M's and one person closes their eyes while everyone else decides which M&M is Pete. The person then proceeds to eat M&M's one at a time. When they reach for Pete everyone yells "Don't eat Pete!" It's a wonderful game.

Don't eat Pete

I ended up sleeping up in Syracuse Saturday night so Sunday morning I got up and showered and put some finishing touches on my talk. We then headed off to 11:00 church to give our talks. It was such an amazing experience. I love speaking so much, especially when I get to speak with Meg. She's a wonderful speaking and it's such a joy to listen to her. After church we got ready to head up to drop Lindsey off at Oakcrest girls camp for the week and then continue on to Meg's cabin. It was quite cold  up there. So cold that there was snow on the ground when we got there and tiny snow flurries. We made a great fire and roasted Meg's home-made marshmallows. These were also used in our hot chocolate. So good! 

Meg's Cabin Sunday night

The view off the back porch with snow 

flurry

Diana roasting one of Meg's chocolate-chip marshmallows

Monday we cleaned up the cabin and got it all ready for the summer. Later in the day we went on a walk up to a little waterfall. It was so beautiful up there. I loved it. I spent a lot of time just lazing around, napping, cuddled up to Megan, and reading. It was so relaxing. I also think it's noteworthy to mention that there was a crane up there right off the back porch sitting on her eggs. Pretty neat.

The crane on her nest

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Puck loving life at the cabin

Photo by Diana McFarland

The waterfall - picture by Diana McFarland

Mountains and Laugh attacks

It has been a while! So this last weekend was such a great one. The only problem with it was that it seemed to make the beginning of the week go by so slowly as I was anticipating Friday. It did finally come and it was up to my cabin to spend the night. I was looking forward to spending some time up in the mountains because that always seems to do me good and on top of that, I was looking forward to a storm that was supposed to roll in on Friday night and drop some serious snow. I was happy to share my beloved cabin with my friends and I hope they enjoyed it. I'm always a little worried bringing people up there for the first time, especially in the winter because of the small and simple fact that there is no running water (therefore you have to use the outhouse up on hill beside the cabin which can be a little uncomfortable in the winter) and it tends to be a bit on the chilly side in the cabin because of how old it is and how poorly insulated. (as a little side note, I hope everyone reading this enjoyed that crazy run-on sentence.)
Sunday evening I headed over to a great pre-Thanksgiving dinner which was pretty great. Following this Meg and I headed up to "the house" to do some homework. I was working on my Religious Diversity in America assignment and Meg did some Spanish and some studying for Anthropology. After a bit Meg decided it was time to get going on her muffins so we went on a walk up to her grandparents house to borrow some eggs and say a quick hello. It was actually quite enjoyable. They were happy to talk for a bit and I ended up with some amazing cookies and a little ice cream sunday. Once we got back I headed over to game-night. I felt bad I was so late because I'd promised to come...which I guess I did but I didn't make it in time to play any games.
Then it was back to Meg's and I got there in time to help her pull together everything for her muffins. She let me separate the egg whites which is always fun. They were super tasty muffins. The best part of the whole evening, and possibly the whole weekend was when Meg had an uncontrollable laugh attack which promptly spread to me. To say the least, we both ended up sitting on the floor of the kitchen a bit worn out.

(Photo taken by Meg)

Now, today has been a crazy day and a bit to stressful for my taste. I think it has to do with how tired I am. Once I can get some of these homework assignments out of the way the burden of life will be so much lighter to carry.