sorry so long

obviously i haven't been here to write to you in forever. i won't fill you in on all the details of life since i last wrote but will tell you our holidays were great and our new year has been great too.

right now we have been back on track decorating and "fixin up" the house. our kitchen is completely finished and i love it! just this week we (well, mostly brooks) worked on our dining room. it is now orange with brown accents..definitely beats the bland, boring white walls. next we want to work on our bedroom and our half bath...plus throw a yard sale in there somewhere! the other day i asked brooks what we were going to do with ourselves when all this house stuff was complete...we'll be bored!!!

we are trying to take it slow a little longer before a busy march and april creep up on us. however we are looking forward to our anniversary trip away in a few weeks.

happy holidays!

just thought i would share one of our christmas pics for this year! hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving holiday!

finally...

...things have started to slow down. we moved in to our new house at the end of september (pics to come soon!). and this month we have moved more stuff, unpacked tons, and redecorated our kitchen. the next huose project will be our bedroom :) also this month we have been to gatlinburg for a family vacation - which was completly wonderful, ruth went to atlanta for a conference, and this past weekend we were in the mountains for our annual apple picking weekend with our best friends. now we are back home, into a house that is finally feeling like a home, and getting exciting about the cool air and upcoming holiday season!

things are looking up...

well....we are moving this weekend (well, hopefully we'll get it all done) AND we have a new (used) vehicle! yay!

pray through the attacks!

funny that in the last post i wrote that things could get crazier....b/c that's just what happened. wow was that a hard week. the night i wrote the last post my mom broke her collarbone (the week before she broke a bone in her foot). then two days later brooks had a car accident. he is okay (thank the Lord), it wasn't his fault, but we are currently looking for a new vehicle :). two days after that was a week of vacation which was VERY needed after the insane weeks we have been having lately. on the way to the beach the train my sister was traveling in engine caught on fire. so it took her an extra eight hours to arrive. needless to say once we all safely made it to vacation it was very restful, and a good time with the family.
keep praying for my family as we seem to be being attacked from every side. and also be in prayer for Body Shop athletics where we work-out b/c one of the employees there was killed in a tragic boating accident. these are our friends and i know they are going through a hard time.

we praise you Lord for you are good. we trust you Lord and thank you that you are in control of every situation.