So Lisa What is your new job, where are you working?

This is a blanket congrats to everyone for all of their great news!!!! What a wonderful family we have - and so technically minded as well. Others should be so lucky! Lestie was mostly correct with my contact information for anyone that is interested. My home phone is 208-737-9635, not 36. I always enjoy getting phone calls (and placing them as my phone bill will attest to). Merry Christmas everyone. - Jarom.

I would like to know if anyone would like to get together to buy mom a nice gift, it may be a little late for Christmas but I ws thinking it would be nice to do something really great for Mother's Day- her birthday? By the way congrats Angie and Drew! That is wonderful.
My only announcement is that I am still looking for a nice job for my hubby, something that wouldn't require as many Sundays. Just keep your ears to the ground, for some reason this seems like the best way to find something. Anyway, if you do not receve a Christmas card from us, I am about two months behind ( I think it was the bed rest!) so look forward to a valentine! Merry Christmas to all, and If any brave souls want to spend the holiday in Polson you are all welcome!

What is Jarom's phone number? Does anyone know it? I am trying to put this Christmas party together for Saturday and I need to give him his assignments. Ben, it was really nice to talk to you. It is sad to think it is so difficult to keep in touch as a family. There is just too many of us! But oh, what fun when we do get together! I love my new job! I have been there a whole two days and it keeps getting better and better, now that the scary part of being new has worn off a bit. Congratulations to Angela! Anyone else have any other announcements to make? Polly, thanks for the Christmas card. I sure love all of you and appreciate what great people you are and how nice it is to know that we all care about each other and support each other, even if there are too many of us...

Ben if you sent to my Netzero account we stopped checking it because it got so much spam!
We are staying here for the holidays again. We are hoping to see everyone in Feb. for Joey's farewell.
We wanted to thank those of you who sent us presents. We can't wait to get Christmas over with. I hope Andy at least gets Christmas day off. But we will see. I have failed at sending out my Christmas cards. But maybe I will get out some e-mail cards. We hope you all have a great holiday!
Congrats to Angela and Drew. I will gather all the stuff that I have to give you. That is so exciting.

Yes this time of year is quite crazy when you add finals to it. I had two yesterday and I have a really awful one left for tomorow night. In between I have YW and a Christmas party and all the other stuff that goes with it. It is getting a little bit crazy in our house this year. Come Thursday I am going to be running to get everything done by Christmas.
Drew and I got some interesting news yesterday. I was not going to tell anyone for awhile but since Missy knows and she is terrible with secretes, I better tell. We finally figured out where babies come from and we are going to have another in August! Anyway we are pretty excited for us. Our spoiled children will have to learn how to share and everything. Hope you all have a great holiday. I sent all of you something if i am not going to see you in the next few days so let me know if you don't get it.

Lisa, I am jealous. Today I filed my intent to graduate papers for this Spring. It felt really weird, having actually satisfied all of the requirements, except this last class I'm starting in January. It's like in the back of my mind I just know they're going to come up with something that I forgot at the last minute and make me continue another semester. Everyone's had that nightmare. Most of all, congratulations on finishing. I don't know how many times I have almost quit. In the back of my mind I knew I wouldn't, but it just seems so inconvenient. Kissing up to professors that, at this point, I feel like I could tell them a few things about the real world. I think I really am getting too old for this stuff. So, I especially admire people who take a long break from school and then go back. It's just that much harder to take.

I hope you get a great job, or whatever you're intentions are. I'm still employed, but if I do lose my job, my hope is that I'll be more employable with an advanced degree. That's the theory, anyway.

When you're in school, Christmas really sneaks up on you, too. You just finish a final, and after you finish, you are euphoric for only a brief time, then you realize how many things you've got to get done before Christmas. It's crazy. Hopefully, never again. I also realize how much work I have let slide trying to finish my school projects, and now I have to catch up. What fun.