a perfect start to the new year!

happy new year to everyone! we came up to buffalo, new york this past saturday to spend a week with family and friends. for those of you who don't know, i grew up in buffalo...we lived here until i was 13. we generally come up for about a week every december around the christmas holidays. as much as i don't like snow in georgia (because no one knows how to deal with it down there!), i absolutely love it when we're in buffalo. after the week is done, i'm ready to not see snow again for another year but for the week we are here, its fun. its not christmastime without snow...as far as i'm concerned! i grew up having a white christmas just about every year so coming to buffalo is pretty much the highlight of the season for me :)
we spent new years day with my dad's cousin's family at their cabin snowmobiling and playing games. i haven't gone snowmobiling since i was about 15 years old and we were in wisconsin for the holidays. i LOVE snowmobiling...its so much fun and i can do it for hours at a time. my cousin and i rode for about two hours today and it was a blast. the weather was only about 16 degrees but i was so bundled up that i was warm the entire time. it was a gorgeous day out....sunny and hardly any wind...perfect weather for riding. i was just in awe the entire time of how beautiful the snow was on all the trees and covering just about every surface that we rode past. we would go flying through the open meadows and i kid you not, i was just in amazement of the beauty of it all. God has created such beauty for us here on earth and i know that i for one take it for granted. today was a beautiful reminder of all of the many things he does for us and of the beauty that is all around us. here are a few pictures of our day spent snowmobiling and then playing games for a few hours. it was such a fun day and the perfect start to the new year! happy 2009, y'all!