Happy New Year

Happy New Year!!!!

A new year has officially started. I hope everyone enjoyed the last 61 seconds of 2008 (yes, I said 61 as they added an extra second to account for drift). Happily, LeAnn and I both are safe and happy. I was asleep (big surprise) and LeAnn stayed up.

We both took it easy yesterday, trying to enjoy ourselves before going over to a friend's house for an open house. We did eat and play lots of dominoes. I was sick as usual.

The day before new year's, we went up to Katie's house to do some repairs and pick up a freezer from my grandmother's. I repaired her drawers, her doggie door (which I installed the last time I was up there, re-keyed her locks, and fixed her thermostat). Katie was not feeling well, so we tried to keep the noise to a minimum and allowed her to get some rest. She was feeling better on the 1st.

LeAnn is working today and forgot her badge. It was not a big deal, but it involved 2 trips to the hospital. It happens occasionally. We will get over it.

I return to work on Monday. I enjoyed my time off, but I enjoy what I do more.

I hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Years.

Please pray for Stan and his family for the loss of his father. Continue to pray for Katie and Donna and their health.

David

So, This is Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

It is really early in the morning and we are getting ready to go to my parents house for Christmas. I am looking forward to spending some time with my parents and LeAnn's. Donna is celebrating her 29th birthday again.

My grandmother is in town with my family as well. She came over yesterday to view our new house for the first time. She loves it. It is hard to believe that we have lived here for 9 months already. Time sure does fly by.

Back to Christmas. LeAnn and I opened our presents to each other last night. I got movies, tools, and some other goodies. LeAnn got clothes (which she wanted), a book, roses, movies, and a gift card for the Melting Pot (one of our favorite restaurants). LeAnn thinks that I went overboard, but I think that she got what she deserved. I love her and she loves me, that is what matters.

Grammy's was another enjoyable Christmas Eve. Nearly everybody was there. We shared our presents, spent time talking to each other, and eating. The normal assortment of sweets were available, along with chile, corn bread, and tamales. Unfortunately, the food did not like me, so I don't feel to good. Oh well, 2 hours of sleep will have to do.

I have to go, as we are leaving. Hope everybody has a Merry Christmas.

Please continue to pray for all of our families and those who are traveling during this busy time. I hope that you are all safe and enjoy Christmas.

David

Blessings

This year amid the hustle and bustle of preparing for Christmas, David and I had the honor of taking some time out to deliver gifts to our fellowship group's Adopt-A-Family. The family was truly grateful for all the gifts small and large. Their jaws dropped as they realized that in addition to the gifts that halfway filled their tiny living room we had also brought them a double stroller, a toddler bed for their son(who slept on the floor previously), and a dresser. They were thrilled and truly speechless. As we witnessed their joy it was brought home to me how blessed we are to both be working at good jobs, to be living in a home with plenty of extra space, to have enough money to go to the grocery store and buy everything that we need, to have the support of friends and family both near and far. We were privileged to be able to share the abundance that the Lord has given to us this season. We pray that the Lord will bless you abundantly this Christmas and through the coming year. Merry Christmas!
Love,
LeAnn and David

2 weeks before Christmas

It is almost 2 weeks before Christmas. Aunt Lorna and Uncle Stan have come and gone (after a very eventful trip here). I spent about 2 days with them. They arrived several hours late, but got here safely. We watched the U of A / ASU Football game over at Dena and Juan's house on Saturday. We all left a half time, due to exhaustion. On Sunday, we had a huge family BBQ. Almost everybody was there. We all shared time with one another and spent the day playing games and watching TV. Everybody had a good time, and it was especially good to see Lorna and Stan. Maybe some day we will be able to go see them instead.

LeAnn is working yet again. Her December schedule is really messed up because of holidays and things that we have planned. We will survive and get through it. She is still enjoying her job, and is looking forward to the holidays.

I am still enjoying my job. The principle thinks of me as a minor miracle worker, getting stuff done that she wants to talk to me about before she has the chance to do so. It is not my fault that she ends up being the last to know about problems. I try not to get her involved too much, so she can do her job. I do mine better than I think they expected. My transition to Technical Services has gone smoothly. I am now full-time and am enjoying it all. I have still been learning the layout of the campus, as I keep having to go and find the network equipment with no direction as to where it is. I keep telling myself that I have 8 days left (we end school on the 18th and have to report on the 19th).

Please continue to pray for Katie, as she didn't get to see Lorna and Stan due to illness. We continue to pray for all of the family who read this and all of our friends as well.

We continue to wish you a Merry Christmas. I will post something again soon.

Thanksgiving 2008

Hi everybody and Happy Thanksgiving. I am home with LeAnn, who was called out due to low census. We had an eventful Thanksgiving this year. Since LeAnn was supposed to work tonight, she slept all day while I was over at her parent's house working on their new surround system. I installed the wires last year, and now they upgraded. Good thing I did that before hand. Their surround system is semi up and working (needs a few wires, but works for now). We will be having Thanksgiving with them tomorrow, and then my parents on Sunday.
Donna was working on pies all day today. They smelled wonderful. Too bad they will all be gone tomorrow. My parents are having Mexican food when we go over there. My dad is sick, so they couldn't go and visit my grandmother in Phoenix. They are going to try and see her on Saturday.
We are NOT going shopping tomorrow. We did this one year, being at the store at 2:30am. This year, we have most of our shopping done beforehand, but are going to go later in the day to get some things that we just purchased at a lower price then return them.
Tomorrow, I am also going to install Steve and Donna's Christmas Lights. As Katie will be down, I feel that we should all work together and get the Christmas Tree up and the lights up. This will be a simple undertaking, but take quite a while, especially with cherries on Saturday and dinner tomorrow (with LeAnn possibly working).
One very important thing that I forgot, the dogs have been destinkified. We gave both dogs a bath and trims. They now smell so much better.

We are ALL looking forward to Lorna and Stan's visit within a couple of weeks.

We wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving and a enjoyable Christmas Season.

Please pray for all of our families and friends during this Christmas season. Pray for Katie, that things will be good for her including her job. Pray for good health for my parents and Donna.

David

Nov 20th Update

I have finally, I think, started my 8 hour job, after waiting over a month and a half. It is nice being able to work full-time. The only issue left is who my supervisor is because I am now under a different department within the district. That will happen tomorrow, when I meet with the head of Technology Services. That meeting will be fun. It happens at 8am. I have also been working hard to expand the school website. Thanks to those that have checked it out (and for letting me know of issues that have occurred).
LeAnn is at work tonight, caring for sick babies. I have not been able to see her much these past 2 nights because of work and my parents being out of town. I have been getting off around 430 and having to stop by my parents house afterwards. It is ok, as my parents will only be gone for 2 more days. Tomorrow is her last day of work this week.
We plan on going to church on Sunday and visiting her cousin Selina and her 2 kids. I am going to fix her computer and LeAnn is going to visit. We will have a good time. When I was working for Trico, I saw the outside of her house. It looks nice.

I hope everybody is having a good fall, as it has been unusually warm here. Continue to pray for Katie, Donna, and the rest of the family as we all begin to enjoy our holiday season. We hope to see and hear from many of you over the coming weeks (Yes, that includes seeing Lorna and Stan in December).

David

November 15, 2008

Greetings

It has been nearly 3 weeks since we last updated everybody. I have been at my job at Rincon High School for over a month. It seems like so long ago that I started. I am very busy (mostly trying to get my pay paperwork corrected, which should happen on Monday). I have started to update all of the computers on campus (this will take several months due to the fact that they have been neglected for nearly 2 years). At the same time, I am running the website (yes, I created the whole thing), monitoring the computer lab, building several new labs, and running all over campus with various problems. This past week, I had to attend manditory training on software that I have been using for nearly a month. I didn't really learn anything important, but it was nice to get away from campus for several hours. I did monitor my site while I was away, and ended up fixing a couple of problems while I was there. As part of the website duties, I get to take a lot of pictures. My goal is to take nearly 3000 pictures by Christmas break (December 18th) and have them all displayed on the website. This will be quite a task, considering everything else that I have to do.

LeAnn has been working a lot. She just got off her 8 days off, but we had a yard sale and other things that we were doing. We got rid of some items, but need to give the rest of it to charity. Last night, LeAnn told me they had 33 babies, with a lack of nurses to care for them. They were REALLY busy. She said she was very tired today. Luckily this is her last night for several days. She has to work on Thanksgiving (Wednesday - Friday nights), with possible call on Tuesday. Luckily, she does not have to work on Christmas. She has also been applying for a day position. God willing, this will happen soon.

We plan on doing Thanksgiving with the family on Friday and Sunday. On Friday, we will be over and Steve and Donna's house for our traditional Thanksgiving. Then on Sunday, we will celebrate Thanksgiving with my parents.

As my parents are currently out of town, I pray for their safe return and travels. I also pray for Katie's health and safety, as she had the flu this week. I also pray for Donna and her health, and for Steve to have the love and compassion to help her as needed.

We send our love to all and Kisses from Max and Lucky, especially Max.

David