March Flashback

March started with a work trip to San Francisco.  The event we had last week in Pittsburgh will be in San Francisco next year, so I had the opportunity to go on the planning trip with my boss, Kelly.

It's really a very pretty and neat city.  We didn't have a ton of time to do touristy type things but we did spend some time driving around to get a feel for the city for planning purposes.

The Golden Gate Bridge - wow!

Alcatraz - we didn't visit but I hope to tour it next year.  This was my view of it from the piers.

We visited Muir Woods - the winding road makes it not an option to take our group to, unfortunately. Beautiful, nonetheless.

The view of the bay from our hotel room....

Again, so thankful for my job and the opportunity to do a little travel.  It's been a little weird not traveling with Daniel since he's been my travel partner since we met my freshman year of college. But, hopefully, he'll get to join me on some of the travel or at least tail-end it so we can have a few fun days together at the end of some of my events.

Are you impressed? Two posts in a week!
I'll try to keep it up but no promises. ;)

February Flashback

Since I'm so far behind, I'll give you just a few words of what's up now and show you some February flashback pictures.

I just got back from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Friday night from my work's Annual Convention.  It's the major event we plan each year on behalf of candy and chocolate makers across the country.  Each night (err, morning) as I went to bed I could do nothing but thank the Lord for this job.  What a great group of people! What a great opportunity to use my skills to help business owners! And, of course, chocolate! ;)

I don't have as many February pics as I'd hoped.  Here's the rundown:
We started out with lots of snow in February.  I actually did have a picture of this but didn't want to revisit the cold - even in pictures!

Daniel and I (plus Noah and Kobe, of course) went to hometown of Van Buren for Valentine's Day weekend.  We enjoyed some great family time and I had the chance to visit with lots of great Van Buren peeps by going to their first ever Upwards games.  It was not only great to see so many hometown friends, but also to see this awesome opportunity for lives and families to be impacted by Christ through the Upwards games.  See what I mean here.

Here's part of my "second family" including bro Jeff and two of his five precious girls, Grace and Chloe:

Honestly, I don't remember much else about February events at this point.  I'm going to go now so I can attempt to work on a March recap before August!