renovations

feel free to oooo and ahhhh appropriatly at the overhaul on my blog. i like the prettieness of it and I FINALLY FIGURED OUT LINKS!! you'd think, working on a computer all day long and helping create the power to change website, i would have some knowledge of this, but i didnt. but blogger has finally made it dummy proof enough that my 10-year-old cousin could do it so i'm set. so please, check out my links, i think they're all pretty cool, hopefully you will too!
hawaii was lovely, thank you for asking. we enjoyed ourselves immensely and i will post some pictures here which will share the full story!
we hit christmas with the Juliens this year in S-land and it was ... hectic and perfect. we're now 9 cousins (including husbands) and 5 aunts & uncles/parents and when we squish into a room and rip into the stockings - its chaos. and i wouldnt trade it for the world! we're loud, we can be obnoxious and we laugh ... a lot. we played the wii and watched tons of planet earth. we went for long walks and ate WAY TOO MUCH.
and now january has come and almost gone and life is... nuts! matt's been working lots of nights and has started 7 classes (that's right, my husband is a freaking genius - you might want to get his autograph). i have filled my days with work and friends and church stuff. (if you're at our church, you should check out our cool wall!)
we've brought the term "scrimping and saving" to a whole new level and laugh at ourselves constantly. we're living for september and yet trying, day by day, to find life in to space and time God has given us. to not reach for the stone to make bread. to not just exist, but to remember we're crazy busy and poor for good reasons right now.
feburary here we come....