Happy New Year!

Well it's 2010 now. The start of Bindi's second year of life and our third year as a married couple. A lot has happened since the last post. We went to Gridley for Thanksgiving and Christmas. My mom and brother came down from Texas to see us. Jesse had to return to Japan after spending Christmas with us. It was great to see him, it's been a year and a half since we have. My mom seemed to really love seeing Bindi, we're just sorry that her visits are so few and far between. For our second anniversary Derek surprised me with a trip to San Francisco. Unfortunately I got food poisoning the day before and ended up being too weak and sick to do all the activities Derek had planned. We even missed seeing 39 steps at the theater, which Derek paid quite a bit for and was nonrefundable. So we decided to try and celebrate our anniversary again at new year's. Unfortunately, Derek came down with some sort of flu, but we went through with our plans anyway. I guess we're just not meant to have time to ourselves this year. In other news Bindi had her ear surgery and came out just fine. In fact she seems to be able to hear better and be in less pain now than she was before her surgery. Not that she seemed to be in much pain before, but she has been less irritable since. She had a really great first Christmas. She's really going to be spoiled with all the toys everyone got for her. There are some cute pictures of her opening presents that we'll attach. Derek is already into a new semester - wintermester now and spring semester in a couple of weeks. It's going to be a busy time. That's about it for now, at least that's all I can think of. Hope everyone had a great holiday and happy new year!