This has been a great year for blogging.  Kelly started a private girl’s blog. Christian started a tech blog.  I found all the entries from when I started blogging in 2004 and was able to add them to the front end of this blog.  We are even going to spend the evening with our good friends Troy and Youngin who started their blog just this month.  It is one of the best blog starts I have seen with very interesting posts on their recent trip to Argentina.  One of them features a list and beautiful pictures of the many different birds Troy saw while he was there.

We are getting together with Troy and Youngin to finish out the year making tamales.  How much better does it get than that?  Lorena bought all the ingredients yesterday and was hard at the preparations last night with more to follow this morning.  I have made a lot of mistakes in my life, but marrying this particular Mexican woman was not one of them.

Picture of tamale stuff Picture of Lorena
Tamale stuff Mexican wife

Update: Oops. I just got the following note:

Good morning! Not to be picky or anything but… I started my blog in 2007, and I don’t know if you should link to it. But I don’t think anyone could get into it anyway could they???? Because it has a password and all that. Anyway, just a heads up. Happy New Year’s Eve! Love, Kelly

I am WAY sorry I got the date wrong! No one can get into it. It is password protected with a good password, but it will be a good idea to remove the link.

Update II:  One more time.  Kelly writes saying, “And Christian started his in 2007 also I think.”  He did.  Sorry Christian.

Update III:

Making tamales 1 Making tamales 2
Dad gets a lesson on how to cook tamales