Blog Vomit

So...it's been way TOO long since I've blogged...but in all honesty, it's a rather daunting task to cover the craziness of the past month and a half. Therefore, I have avoided it. But I just summoned up the internal fortitude to give it a half-hearted whirl so that I can move forward from this point on.
The past 6 weeks...let's see....here's what it's been:

- Set a date to close on our house.
- Were told that we weren't going to get the house.
- Oh wait, now we can buy the house.
- CLOSING!!!!!!
- Moving in to the aformentioned closed-upon house.
- Immediate stripping of wallpaper in two bathrooms, dining room and kitchen.
- Painting of master bathroom.
- Becky, Nathan and Carson and Corbin (and baby #3 Marks - which we have now joyfully discovered to be Baby Girl Marks!! Woo Hoo!!) came for a visit, which included a trip to the highly overrated and somewhat sadistic Tank Musuem, as well as an all out wrestling match versus Samson (i.e. Corbin Marks). And oh yeah, Samson gave us a much-needed life lesson about not laughing at people, because quite simply, it's just not nice.
- Josh left to mingle with the buffalo in South Dakota! (pre-trip for our college mission trip this summer)
-Josh came home and then we turned right back around and headed for hot, humid and flat Florida. (pre-trip for youth mission trip this summer).
-While in Florida, Josh and I got to partake in C&K barbeque, Ocean Star, Peaches and Giardanos...it really doesn't get much better than that. :)
-The day I got back from Florida I headed up to Lynchburg with 3 of my college students for a BCM (Baptist Collegiate Ministry) conference.
- Painting of half-bath (and have I mentioned that I have been the one to mount all towel racks and tp dispensers to the wall?? Yeah - I'm pretty amazing with a drill.)
- Anna Peterson and Kelcey Bolduc drove 4 hours from TN just to hang out with us for a night - and a fun night it was. :)
- In the midst of our night of fun with Anna and Kelcey, a little field mouse decided that he, too, wanted to join in the jovial time. Yes, folks, that's right. A mouse. We thought we had escaped living with rodents, but alas, we are still enduring their nightly terrors. We have successfully trapped two of them with no further signs of more at this juncture. Let's hope and pray that's all there are!
- EASTER!!!! (and yes, at age 28 - soon to be 29- both Josh and I dyed Easter eggs and got Easter baskets. You're never too old!)

Phew...and I think that pretty much brings us up to date for the most part. Now the next big thing on the docket is shipping me off to Honduras (well, not so much "shipping" as in "flying" - but you get the point) this upcoming Saturday, which is actually TWO days AFTER my birthday - for those of you who have no problem remembering my 29th birthday and needed a point of reference. :)

And there, my friends, was a whole lot of blog vomit. Glad that's out of the way and that we can move forward from here!