A new year

My, it's been way too long since I've posted anything to the blog. Things have been pretty okay, Christmas was very nice. Two of Joe's daughters, Ree and Sonja, spent some time with us. We did an "after Christmas" holiday dinner, with them and Debbie and Rachel. Fun to watch Rachel opening up gifts. Then the new year wasn't off to such a great start. A friend of mine, ours, and a co-worker of mine, committed suicide a couple of days before the new year. That was really, really difficult. Very unexpected, and no one would have had any idea he would do this. He was one of the most happy, smiley and funny people around. We miss him a ton. But, now we move on and forge ahead to make 2008 a really good year! I promise to write more often in the new year. Cheers for now!