The complete note (with pictures) will be sent in your Christmas card, but if you can't wait, here is the blog version.
CHRISTMAS 2006. As we look forward to the approaching holidays, we once again review the year that was. Although “stay the course” isn’t a popular theme nowadays, much of the past year was just that for us. You could easily re-read our past Christmas letters and get a pretty good idea of how life has been here.
One high note was our summer vacation. This year we flew to Seattle, WA and had a wonderful time touring around the Olympic National Park. While in Seattle, we also got to spend some time with Jane's childhood friend and her family, which was really nice. We spent most of our time in ONP exploring tidal pools, hiking through alpine meadows and gawking at the huge 1000 year old trees that grow in its’ rainforests. Things went without a glitch—not sure if it was luck or the fact that I planned this vacation rather than Jane—probably luck had a lot to do with it.
Elroy and Judy are high school juniors and doing well. When not flexing their academic muscles, Judy is still pursuing cross-country and Elroy wrestling. Judy's XC team qualified for States this fall and it was fun to go and watch all the great young runners. Both started learning to drive this summer and after only four months behind the wheel apparently completely understand the rules of the road. However, when we're out driving there's still a lot of "you're not coming to a complete stop", "slow down you're going too fast", and my favorite…"wasn't that a STOP sign back there?" Anyway, now that we’ve recovered from their earlier driving efforts we’re planning for them to get some highway driving experience during our trip home to Cincinnati this year. We'll see how that works out.
Judy and I are fine and still in our same jobs. At home, we're slowly evolving into digital, wireless, and satellite TV people--an adaptation to our children's lives that we're becoming more adept at. To keep in touch you can go to my blog, Over the Hill, at http://experiencetk.blogspot.com/. Don’t be confused, I use aliases to protect our identities in the blogosphere. This site also has links to two other blogs we like.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,
The Jetsons
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