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Hay all,
Well it is obviously a New Year and I hope everyone had a great Christmas and Holiday Season. We celebrated together quietly and healthy and then the kids took off for Disneyland without us. They were escorted to the Magic Kingdom for 4 amazing days, including New Year's Eve by Aly Baker and Joey Williams. Aly and Joey are engaged and good friends of ours...and the kids are crazy about them too. It was a fantastic success and these two people will restore your faith in young people if you had any doubts before about our up and coming generation. They are wonderful Christan role models and we are truly blessed to have them in our lives.
Laura and I drove down and picked up the kids on the 1st of January after spending New Year's Eve alone (it was great). We stayed at our friend's house, the de la Vegas, and went on Friday to the Simon Wiesenthal Museum (http://www.museumoftolerance.com/) with the both families. That was cool and I highly recommend it. Tommy and I then took off for the Lakers/Jazz basketball game (Tommy's Christmas present) and that was even cooler!! Kobe/Gasol/Jack Black/Jack N. all in attendance...very fun as I had not seen a pro game in a long while and it was Tommy's first. The girls chose to shop at the biggest mall they could find since SLO is lacking in that area and we all slept in the next day tired from all the activity.
I am doing pretty well and my visit to Stanford on the 9th was unremarkable. It is a slow grind to the end of all these medications and tests. It will be a decade before I am ever given a clean bill of health but work should be a reality soon and I feel pretty good. I look forward to it but the red tape and logistics needed to reenter take time. March is my one year anniversary so my docs were right about the timeline I guess. I heard today that my sister/donor has a close friend with my exact same leukemia-found out recently. I offered any help I could and will keep all of you informed (if it is ok with him/her) so we can all pray for the family and lend our collective support. It hit close to home for me and I realized how blessed I am...again.
Please enjoy the New Year and 2009 and maybe make your resolution a simple one.
Here are three good ones:
'Be Here Now'-Buddhist philosophy
"How do you make God laugh?...Tell Him your plans"-Old Hebrew Joke
Read Philippians 4:6-9 each day
Feel free to drop me an email anytime. Thanks again for all your continued prayers and support. I still need them and use them as a source of strength and encouragement each day...I really do.
