Laura, Andy, Nick and Noah family New Years Card

We have been getting Christmas cards for the last few weeks. Thank you to all those who'f sent them. Our card will be in the form of a blog post. In fact, this very blog post.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

As you can see, Nick and Noah where EXTATIC to sit for our little photo shoot. Maybe some year, we'll have kids who pose and smile. I hope your (whoever reads this) Christmas was great, and your new year what you wish it to be.

Andy, Laura, Nick, and Noah

Just a book idea...

I just finished a book that I thought you all might enjoy. It is a biography, not too long and lots of good stuff to learn from it. It's called The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch. You can find info about it here http://thelastlecture.com/. I especially thought of Mike R. while reading it. He would like it.

Also, I recently found out that you can order emergency/food storage like freeze dried foods from Sam's club and Costco. I thought you might be interested in hearing that.

Lastly, I did not get around to Christmas cards this year. It's just not happening, but wanted you all to know that we love each of you dearly and wish we could see each other more often. Mikayla and I were scrap booking some photos from our family reunion, yes I know it was 2 years ago, but I'm a bit behind in my scrapbook. We had so much fun together and loved playing in the backyard and the wii and everything else. We are so looking forward to getting together this summer. I hope it works so we can all be there!
Anyway....

Merry Christmas!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

A few weeks ago we were trying to get family pictures taken for Christmas cards. I looked up from trying to get the camera ready and the children had taken this pose. They are sillies! You should all be getting Christmas cards from us in the mail eventually. Some have even been mailed already, but not all. I ran out of stamps...
We are excited for this Christmas season. We are frequently reminding the children of the real meaning of Christmas. I made Austin change his letter to Santa where he wrote X-mas. We talked about how important it is to keep "Christ" in Christmas.
We love you all and pray that you will have a wonderful Christmas!