what we've been up to...

 Nathan:

• Has been growing out a beard (sorry, we haven't taken a photo yet).  Apparently he looks old enough to vote now.
• Got a promotion!  He's now officially a "Product Development Engineer" and is taking the lead on a new project involving vitamin E enriched plastics.  
• Is tired of working on taxes.

Kristin:

• Is about to turn in chapter 2 of the dissertation...whoohoo!
• Heard from her advisor that the latest draft of chapter 1 is the best writing she's ever done (he called it a "breakthrough").
• Decided to give up makeup for Lent.  That was a tough decision, especially considering that she's teaching right now!  But, she's decided that she needs to be comfortable with who God made her to be...He doesn't mess up!
• Is almost through TAing for European history (last week) and is ready to enjoy Spring Break next week.  After that, she'll be TAing a class on gender and the family in early America.  As of right now, she only has 11 students registered for her discussion sections.  Should be an easy quarter.

Together we're working on building Kristin a jewelry organizer.  As of right now, her jewelry is all piled up and tangled together in her top drawer...not ideal.  She pitched Nathan some ideas, he drew up some plans on his fancy software at work, and we've gotten started.

 The only problem is that we haven't gotten very far.  We tried cutting our wood using a miter saw, but we ended up cutting through the miter block!

Nathan wasn't very happy about it.

Someday we'll have full pictures to show of the finished product (if we ever finish!).  Until then, that's what we're up to. :-)