Long time, no talk

yes, we're still alive, i know all of you were holding your breath to see if i would return on the blog....
well we survived our first holiday season together, and i might say it was pretty fun. we spent christmas at my family's house and nate's family came over for dinner, played games, opened gifts, it was pretty relaxed. for new year's we went to dinner at some friends' house and then went black-light bowling at the alley, which was super fun! i didn't think i would make it to midnight being that i had to be up the next morning to work, but i did and the next day wasn't too bad. thank you Jesus!
now we're settling back into "normal" life, whatever that means...working, eating, sleeping, having fun. i think our biggest challenge at the moment is the fact that the house we're renting has been on the market for the last 3 months and we've been what feels like sharing a house with a realtor! we have a realtor showing the house at least once a week which means the house should be some-what clean. i also don't really like having to leave the house for 15 minutes when in reality they never know when the prospective owner will show up so..the 15 minutes always turns into 1 and 1/2 hours! and of course i always seem to do the grocery shopping the day before so i don't have anything to do, and it's on my day off....anyway, we're praying that God will bring a buyer soon so that we can really settle into life and not share a house with realtors!
but enough complaining, i digress...
God is good!!!