From Camping to Cruising and beyond

this is the original "black pearl" ship that was used in the pirates of the carribean movies

well, our camping trip was a blast and a nice relaxing weekend too. we went to hume lake with a couple of our friends, we either were relaxing at the site, on a raft in the lake or out on a lil fishing boat attempting to fish. the only one who caught a fish was nate, it was too small to eat but we had fun anyways.

i took my mom and sisters on a super fun cruise to mexico. they have never been on one beofre and they all had a grand ol' time! we went to cabo san lucas and took a kayak/snorkel trip and then up to ensenada and took a cooking class, we learned how to cook some basic mexican dishes, ie salsa, tostadas, tamales. it was hard coming back from the luxuriousness(?) of not having to cook or clean for a whole week!! not to mention it was a relaxing trip to boot.

what else....we're still looking at houses, we've found a couple we like and have put an offer on one, but haven't heard yet. we're learning to be patient and wait for what God has for us. He'll give us something we're sure of it!

(sorry about the pictures, they're all kinda mixed up, but hopefully you can figure them out.)

Alive and Well

We're here, we're alive, we're well....here's the news,

let's see our apartment was sold back in april, to a great single gal who just now is moving in...it's awesome she works at a SJ hospital and is a Christian to boot! It's great to see God working in awesome ways. what else...
the cool news, we went to a silent auction a few weekends ago at baymonte and bit on a few things and actually won a couple, ie digital memory card, ski lift tickets....but the neatest thing we actually won was a 7 day condo in cabo san lucas for 4 people!!!! we thought for sure we would be outbit for the trip, but turns out we won!!! :) so now we're figuring out when we can go...and who we wanna take...any takers????? lol

upcoming events: we're going camping at the end of june with some friends, can't wait, i haven't been camping in several years, it'll be fun. i'm also taking my mom and sisters on a 5 day mexico cruise to baha at the beginning of july. THAT i can't wait for!!! i'm sooo excited. i decided to take my sisters and mom on a cruise about 3 years ago and have been saving since....being that my youngest sister is graduating high school, my middle sister just 'cuz ;) and my mom because of all the work she does for me and has done for my wedding....oh yea, and 'cuz i love them all!!

we've recently been looking at houses for sale...we're getting closer to when we want to seriously consider buying. we're both kinda scared and excited at the same time because it's a new leaf of our life. please pray for patience and strength for this new leg...and that we'll find a steal of a place.

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!!!