Yep, we're still here. :)

So 6 months is a long time between posts. I know. A lot has happened in our lives in that amount of time. Here's the brief update:

• Jeff started year 2 of being a Director of Major Gifts at Houghton College
• I started 2 part time jobs - 15 hours a week at the Houghton Campus Store and 16 hours watching a 2 & 4 year old.
• Campbell is now going to a babysitters house 3 days a week and loves it. I honestly think the adjustment to going back to work and sending her off was harder on me than it was her. She's so social.
• I'm helping co lead our women's bible study at church - a huge growing challenge for me as I don't feel leading/teaching is really in my gifting but I felt the Lord's encouragement to try.
• Campbell is going to Puggles (Awana's for 2 yr olds) on Wed nights while I'm in bible study - again, she LOVES it! Anything with friends. :)
• Spent Thanksgiving here in Houghton with my brother Troy and then drove down to PA and did Thanksgiving again with our friends Missy Davis, the Hanson's & the Loomis'. Nice to get away for a bit but in doing so realized how much of a homebody our adventurous little person actually is. Homebody and needer of routine. We didn't sleep much in that weekend away and crashed when we got home.
• Grammy came to visit for a couple of weeks in early December - Yay!!
• For the first time in 7 years we didn't travel for Christmas. We stayed here in NY and made our own family traditions. We had a very wonderful and relaxing Christmas - we did deeply miss our families though. We had a lot of fun because Cams really understood it all and it was all so magical to her.
• I suppose that's about it for the big things. We have busy weeks and recovering weekends it seems. Not really how I want to live life, and we're getting better at being intentional but it's taken a semester to get our footing under us with me working.

Here's a few pictures from Christmas: