I know! Too long!

Please forgive my silence. It has been far too long. And this post is going to be merely a token one, because I am running out of time!
Quick - here is a picture:
This was our mini retreat on Orcas Island. We have been trying to have an annual retreat where we do oh-so-fun things like taxes, preparing budgets, clearing out files, etc.

Can you believe I haven't even put Christmas photos up on the blog? Here's another:

Our Christmas visit at the Foss home. This is a great picture of Grandma. Lately she is not very animated, or even fully sure of who it is that is visiting her. So, I love this picture.

We have had quite an adjustment in our little household: I have gone back to work full time at a new company! I am very excited about it - I have gotten out of consulting and I love how much more I am learning at this new place. But it has been hard. I have been working part-time for about 4 years and that has been so wonderful to spend 4 days in a row with Sammy. I mean, sheesh:

It's awfully hard to leave this little one . So I end up leaving before she wakes up so I can have more time with her when I get home.

David has taken on his role as full time Mr. Dad stupendously! It really seems like he and Sam are having a fun time together. Plus I come home to dinner on the table! Amazing!

Sam is walking like a champ and picking up more and more words. She's quite the little helper too:

She loves helping Dad clean up and wash dishes.

And one last picture for the road. It's kinda sad - we had about 80 pictures on our camera that we hadn't uploaded since the last blog post and about a third of them are completely fuzzy because we had a wrong setting on our camera - and we couldn't tell until we saw the photos on the computer. :-( But I do like this one. Sammy is getting so big!