Happy New Year, y'all! :D Wow...I can hardly believe it's 2009!! Remember when the world was going to stop at Y2K? That doesn't seem so long ago--certainly not 9 years! So, I'm kicking off this new year the way I usually do--looking back on the last one and looking ahead to the year to come. To get started, here's a video of random photos of various events in our year. It had to be seriously condensed to get it short enough to upload on our slow internet connection, so there are quite a few events not represented. Maybe I'll get around to an "addendum" later...for now, here's the video: If you can't see it, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-6ZVy-qI5Q to watch it! Looking back on this year, I think the only way to summarize it is: through sunshine and rain, my God is still the same. Whether in the times of laughter on an extended vacation up north or a (colorful) trip to Six Flags, or the pain and heartache of watching our grandfather weak...