Okay, so Christmas is already over (sigh), but we do wish you a Happy New Year! As most of you know, we celebrated this Christmas in Canada. We tried to start some of our own traditions this year. One of those included waking Evan up at 8:45 am. I don’t mind if he continues that tradition for a very long time. I also made monkey bread, and I think that will be our Christmas breakfast for many years to come. (I don’t know why they call it “monkey” bread, and I don’t think I want to know, but I do know we enjoyed it!) We also had a wonderful time reading the Christmas story of the Bible and singing some of our favorite hymns and songs as Joe played the guitar. Evan was especially fun to watch this year since he is now old enough to open his gifts with only a little help. Evan enjoyed his gifts…even before he opened them!

We certainly missed our friends and family back home, but we also felt blessed to share such a special day with our friends in Canada. We enjoyed Christmas afternoon at a friends’ home (with 24 other people, I might add) eating delicious food, some of which was new to us. We also had fun playing games, laughing, and well, eating some more. Even after all of the eating, there were still leftovers! We had a very Merry Christmas, and we pray you did, too.

Blessings to you in 2007!

The Thomases

One of Evan’s favorite gifts was his new alphabet magnets. He only wants to put them up as high as he can reach on the refrigerator and when he takes them off, he takes two of the same letter!

So, after many inquiries, Suzanne has finally convinced me to set up a blog. Missy just asked her (this evening) about our web site. I wasn’t there, but she must have said something like, “I keep checking your website, but it’s never updated.” I feel your pain, Missy. And yes…I’ve neglected it. And it still hurts.

So, Suzanne’s reasoning is very reasonable (hmm). She says (and I agree) that we really need to keep our families and friends updated on what’s going on with us. I guess the next question is “Do they want to be updated?”

Anyway, I had hesitated to set up a blog like this before. Now, it isn’t that I don’t want a blog. Actually, there are many instances when I think, “If I just had a blog, this would be a great thing to post!” The problem has been a mixture of two things:

1. Time (or lack thereof)
2. Desire to have a more robust website

So, though I am working on our own site when I have time (no, you can’t see the design yet), welcome to our new (and hopefully fairly temporary) site. Suzanne picked the theme, so you’ll have to take that up with her. It seems rather girlie to me, but hey…I thought it best to keep her happy.

Keep comin’ back. There’ll be more. Suzanne’s gonna be posting, too.

UPDATE

Okay, so…we changed the theme. So, if you didn’t get to see it before, it was really flowery and girlie. But, Suzanne wasn’t really insistent on using it. Phew! (wipes brow and sighs)