Hi there everybody, this is Jonathan writing an update from a balmy (71°F!) Cedar Park, Texas. One thing you can always count on here is to not count on the weather - it can be 30 degrees one day and 80 the next, as we found out last week! We have been very busy lately, which explains the long hiatus between posts. Sorry about that!Our Christmas Day yesterday was relaxing. We started the day off by making coffee and hot chocolate with cookies for breakfast, and then opened presents with just our family for the latter part of the morning. We had a great time, our dog Teddy even got a present - his own frisbee! Later in the day we went to Salado to visit some good friends of Taj's whose mother, Beverly Mitchell, was an absolute angel to Taj during all her visits to M.D. Anderson in Houston over the years. We had a nice time talking with them and eating chocolate fondue (but mostly just talking)!
As you can see on our Dopplr widget on the sidebar of this site, we will be at Bev and Dave Olivers' (Taj's parents) in San Antonio tomorrow through Monday morning. We will also be joined by John, Kim, and Hannah, who had already visited us earlier in the year when we went camping over Thanksgiving break. There we will have our traditional Christmas dinner, followed by games and movies. Should be a relaxing weekend as lately everybody has been rather spread out on weekends between work, swimming, schoolwork, and what-not. We're looking forward to it! Hope you all have had an outstanding Christmas full of fun and fellowship, and we hope you have kept your focus on Jesus - the reason for the season. With all the religious "neutralization" of the Christmas holiday there has been lately, sometimes it can be easy to take our eyes off the originator of this whole universe. Just a reminder. God Bless and we hope you all have a blessed 2009 as well!
One quick announcement I wanted to make - I have made it a lot easier for anybody to comment on our website and my website. Now, anybody that has a Facebook account can use that account to post comments on any post. Just click on the post title to get to the comments, scroll down, and click the button that says, "Connect With Facebook". Once you do that, your comments will show up on your Facebook newsfeed (and we will be able to see your comments on this site), but you can of course change the privacy settings within Facebook if you desire. As always, we LOVE LOVE LOVE when people post comments, so go right ahead! We're thinking of this as our new "CaringBridge Guestbook", so don't be bashful! ;) Again, hope you and your family is doing well this holiday season. Thank you for all your prayers and support. Until next time...
