Hectic Holiday Season

Whoa, has it been a busy holiday season or what?!

My husband has been busy with his grad school classes. He is taking his finals this week, so he's been holed up in his office procrastinating studying for his finals.

I've been working so hard in my Etsy shop. Just a month ago, I was bragging about reaching 300 sales... and now I'm at over 460 sales. Yes, it's been a CRAZY month of custom orders, buying a new printer so I can make my prints at home, and lots and lots of magnets. It's well worth it, though - I've made a substantial chunk of change, and we're planning on using it when we hopefully make it back to Europe this spring.

We've also hosted our family for Thanksgiving, babysat the cutest little boy from good friends, taken way too many pictures of cats, enjoyed donuts at the cutest little shop, made six dozen cookies for the Wright-Patterson Cookie Drive, served in the youth group at our church each week, almost completed (this week!) our 12 week course at church to become members, saw the Nutcracker, attended the AFIT Holiday Ball, and drank copious amounts of coffee.

It's been hectic but fun.

It's been a busy month and a half, but it's been fun as well! 

• What have you been up to this holiday season?
• Do you prefer to be busy all the time or to have free time?

We're Baaaaack!

Okay, so we've actually been back for a few weeks, but since we weren't planning on being back, I decided to continue my break from blogging... just because everything has been so overwhelming that I haven't had any time!

Let me catch you up.

Since my last post with our wedding recap, we have:

• driven from Colorado to Missouri to drop off one car and leave the cats with my grandma
• flown to Pennsylvania to watch a couple friends marry each other
• gone on our AMAZING month-long European honeymoon
• traveled back to the USA (Oregon) last minute to say goodbye to Dan's mom
• walked a mile and a half to In N Out Burger from the LA airport for lunch
• packed up our entire house and moved out within five days (and let me tell you that there WILL be a blog post about our first (awful) PCS experience
• driven from Colorado to Ohio, with stops overnight in Kansas, Missouri, and Indiana
• unpacked our entire new house
• flown on a private C-21 from Ohio to Maryland Space A for my birthday... just because we could
• found a church in Ohio to go to (and it only took two tries - the first one was NOT for us)

Phew! We are exhausted after this crazy summer, but my handsome husband in-processes for his graduate school program this Friday, and things will return to normalcy (or close enough) once we have structure. I can't promise any blogging in the next week or so, but I hope to make it a regular thing once again.

Thanks for bearing with me this summer as I have not posted once since the very beginning of June. Oops.

Life Lately {CRAZINESS}

Life has been all over the place lately.

We received some interesting news from the Air Force, which I will hopefully be sharing soon... interesting in a good way, don't worry! ;-)

Easter was a blast. We had a great time at church and then hanging out with some amazing friends.

My first marathon is on Sunday, and I am anxious / nervous / excited... and I can't wait for it to be over with! I just want to be able to think about something other than the race... my entire brain is filled with running thoughts.

Also... Dan recently turned 25, and Gilligan turned seven just a week later! I had to make collages for their birthdays, of course... so enjoy. And there are a couple more cat pictures just because I couldn't resist.

Has anyone else's life been crazy and hectic lately too?