Well, it has been an interesting year already! 

The Christmas/New Year’s break was wonderful.  I was able to take about 2 whole weeks off work which was very nice.  It was so great to get that time with the girls.  It was also cool to be able to hook up my garage and even host a poker night in the newly found space.  The other thing I did was finished about 80 home videos!  I have been working for a few years to import all our video footage to my computer and now I’m able to go throught and actually edit down some of the stuff and produce little event videos.  Some day I’ll get them all online as well which will be fun, at least for me!

We also got our first dog!  Lacey, a little white poodle, 2rs old, cute thing.  The girls love her and we’re working right now, thanks to the Dog Whisperer, on training her better and geting her to live "within the pack". 

One bit of sad news was we heard on Friday, Jan 2nd, that Brooke’s grandpa – Robert Parnett – had passed away.  He was 81 and had definitely struggled with his health.  The little time I had with him I will say he was a remarkable man, so joyful, so faithful.  Brooke took off on Sunday of that week for Lake Placid, Florida, and was there through Wednesday.  Definitely made me very grateful for what she is able to handle on a day to day basis watching our cute little girls and now a new dog!  Needless to say we were all very grateful when she returned.

That’s about it.  Things are sort of back to "normal" now, just trying to get some money flowing through the ol’ company so we can get some money flowing through our checking account, but so far things are looking good for the new year and I feel very hopeful about the future.  One cool thing is I’ve lost about 15 lbs since December 1st of last year and on my way to having a much more healthy 2009.  I’ve been working really hard to build up my immune system and metabolism so as to not have any recurrence of the kidney stones or melanoma as I had last year, but also so we don’t get any new surprises!  

Happy New Year to you all, both of you who read this…