Merry Christmas to all, family, neighbors, and friends ...
May you have bountiful blessings -- all the best that God intends.
And may your life be filled with abundant good cheer
to carry you through every day of next year.

This year, we have prepared two different versions
of our annual Christmas letter
... one mostly for fun version ...
and another with more substantive content.

To see the mostly-for-fun version, click this link:  2009 fun
To see more substantive content, click this link:  deeper
To go straight to the photo gallery, click this link:  photos