Merry Christmas ...from Sonoma!
 

 

 We are loving our one-bedroom "Funky Cottage" and feeling more settled. 

 

We enjoy the first "real" Christmas Tree in seven years, all three-feet-high of it

 

We are LOVING living close to...

 

...our Kids, Hans and Anne Marie (here w their Mom)

 

 

...Hans' wife, Vickie (on left, w her Mom)

 

...and, of course, the GRANDKIDS!

 

Here are Hans' and Vickie's boys, Jason (l, age 5) and Calvin (r, age 7)

 ...having a fun w their Dad's iPad

 

Annie w husband Aaron and granddaughter Olive (age 2)

 

...and Olive enjoying her Great-Grandmother's (Ed's Mom)100-yr old rocker

 

...which we got out of storage this year when we moved here.
 

 

This Christmas, we join Christians all over the world in proclaiming Good News;
that even in a world filled w contention, loss, and the shadows of strife ---

 

"The people who walked in darkness

have seen a great light;

those who lived in a land of deep darkness--

on them light has shined." 

--Isaiah 9:2

 

"When the magi saw that the star... they were overwhelmed with joy.

On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother;

and they knelt down and paid him homage.

Then, opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts
 of gold, frankincense, and myrrh."

--Matthew 2:10-11

 

 

... We wish all a Merry Christmas and a Blessed 2014 ...

 

---Ed and Karen