It seems like forever!

Greetings and Happy New Year!
Time sure has flown by since my last post on this site. Cindy and I had a good 7th wedding anniversary back in September, I went on my very first missions trip to Santiago, Chile in early October (Cindy & Robbie stayed home), Robbie is continuing to get more words added to his vocabulary (one of which is "Dude!") and is beginning to get closer to that oh so important season of POTTY TRAINING!. It has been a very good time for all of us as we got things put together to put up our Christmas tree, decorate the house a bit (done mostly by Cindy) on the inside, purchase gifts for everyone without going broke in the process and running up a large credit card debt, and get Robbie a few birthday gifts too! As most of the sports world would find out that a pro football team can lose all their regular season games (the Lions a purrfect 0-16) and place themselves in the elite of folklore for ages to come, thus insuring that the only way to look is up and even 1 win would improve their record for the next season (and very likely get them another number 1 pick overall in the draft like this next season). We also saw for the first time in American history, an African-American elected to the Presidency of the United States! However, Mr. Obama (and Congress) will face a huge uphill climb to find a way to get America back on its feet as he will inherit a very sluggish economy, home foreclosures and unemployment in the double digits for the first time in over 15 years. While all this may seem kind of bleak, the fact that God is still in control makes things a bit easier to deal with during this time.
We also celebrated Robbie's 2nd birthday back on the 29th of December and went out for pizza (one of his many favorites!) with my mom. He had a very good time with it and will have a party this coming Saturday with some of his friends at a place that has inflatables indoors and fairly inexpensive too!
Well, that concludes this entry for this blog. Here are a couple of updated photos of Robbie and the fun things he gets himself into at times!