Happy New Year Everyone!

Well, the holiday season is over and a new year has just begun. I think I will recap our year in one long paragraph...here goes:
We started off the year in Park City Utah with the Eric, Ruth, Steven (ph?), Lisa, Nicole and Brian. That was a blast. Lost my job at EDO Corporation (no loss). Worked with RICO for 5 months...thanks Eric!! Moved to Seattle. I am working for PSE in Bellevue WA and we reside in Renton (Jennifers birthplace). Jennifer is now a full time mommy...she loves it. We found a really cool church. We are adding a new member to our family (due in June). Everyone thinks its going to be a boy minus me. Our visitors for Christmas included: M & D Andrist, Jason Andrist, Mom Marotta, JJ Marotta (aka Cave Troll), Mike and Kate Bandamer and of course Hailey Bandamer. It snowed on Christmas!!! How cool is that.

2008 began with a suprize for me...see below for my new pal...Captain Barbossa. We just call him Bossa.

Do I really have to think of a title?

Seven days left until Christmas. I haven't done one day of shopping. In eight weeks, my wife has done the following: decorated our home (normal living, Thanksgiving and now Christmas), hosted a family of four (friends from Ventura) for 5 days, her parents have been here twice, hosted 3 or 4 dinners, weekly grocery shopping trips, daily mommy activities with a very active Kaela, took one 5 day trip to San Diego, daily house chores (our house is always tidy), makes dinner 5 or more days a week, makes breakfast and lunch daily for two (sometimes 3), entertains a small dog daily, she is starting to do a bit of school with Kaela, bills (ew!), keeps us on budget, knitting projects, baked 5 or 6 dozed cookies for Christmas (don't ask about how they were all ruined!!), all the Christmas shopping, made a curtain for our room, spent an afternoon painting our living room and dining room, scrubbed the house down from top to bottom when we moved in (did i ever mention how disgusting the house was when we moved in?)a couple of mommy dates with friends from church, did everything for Kaela's Birthday, umm...oh yeah, did I mention she is pregnant????!
Cheers Jennifer! You are the best!

"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave."

- Martin Luther

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