February was so filled to the brim with good memories and exciting moments that I need to break it into two posts (maybe even three!).
Visiting the Wards...
Chris has this fabulous friend from college (JB Ward) who married an equally fabulous woman (Bethany) and together they are fabulous Young Life leaders in New Martinsville, WV. It is always so fulfilling to see the homes of our friends and family--- to drive around their town, see their Wal-mart, visit their church. It enables us to imagine their surroundings when we pray for them or think about them. A couple years ago we had the opportunity to see JB's home.. aka "bachelor pad." However, we knew a revisit was a necessity after JB married the sweet, talented, creative, and extremely resourceful Bethany. What once was the epitome of a bachelor pad (you know...the towels for curtains type of thing...) had been "Bethan-ized"...or so JB said :-) We had to see this for ourselves so we scheduled a visit, packed our bags, and headed to the great state of West Virginia for the weekend.
The Ward's know the art of hospitality. We were greeted by not one but 2 welcome signs! The theme of the weekend was "from scratch." Although I sadly do not have any pictures of our morning drink, we began the morning with orange juice "from scratch" (i.e. freshly squeezed, delicious, amazing!). For lunch we feasted on taco salad with a shell made "from scratch." And we ended the day with ravioli "from scratch" (we didn't even use a pasta maker!!!).
Pictures (top row): We may or may not have entertained ourselves by attaching a pillow to Mark's pants.
Pictures (middle rows): We drove to the top of a nearby mountain to enjoy the breath-taking view of the valley of New Martinsville. I could not believe all the beautiful mountains that surround them! Bethany may or may not have chosen to wear her open back shoes therefore needed to be carried through the 8 inches of snow on the ground :-)
Pictures (bottom row): other cute moments
Ravioli from Scratch...
A definite highlight of our visit was making ravioli. It took us about 2 hours of mixing, kneading, rolling, cutting, folding, etc, but good times were had by all throughout the process and the finished product was unbelievably delicious. We were so excited about eating our masterpiece that we forgot to take a picture of it. Oh well. You'll just have to believe me that it was as beautiful as it was good :-) Thank you, Wards, for an unforgettable weekend!
Awesome! We had just as much fun and we're so glad you came to visit. We can't wait to see you again soon!
ReplyDeleteWe have been waiting weeks for this post! Glad it's here. Love the picture collages. You just had to use my GQ picture didn't you?
ReplyDeleteIt was a great weekend. I guess we'll have to get together again, so that we can be featured again on "Drinking From Our Saucer"!