Yes, the New Year is here and with it the last blog entry on our family website.  With the increasing size of this site it has become too cumbersome to keep updating the blog part of it.  

But for

We had the honor of being invited to the Marine Corps Birthday Ball commemorating the 233rd year of existence.  Did you know the Marines were established in 1775 - one year before the declaration of

November 3rd was our anniversary!  Dana, our wonderful babysitter, watched our kids while we went to a place called Cafe Calma, where you can get a bite to eat, and then walked the evening streets

You know when we came here some years ago Julia wasn’t born yet and now she is 5!!!  We celebrated the week before her birthday and on the day of her birthday and then the weekend after just to make

Well it is almost the end of August and I am thinking of the statement you can hear at the end of every Car Talk radio show “Well you’ve done it again - waisted a perfectly good hour listening to