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Holiday Version

Dec24
2009 Kristi Written by Kristi

Tomorrow afternoon, Rob’s brother Chris arrives from Oregon.  We’ll be driving up to pick him up at the airport and then heading over to my sister’s for Christmas Eve.  We are really looking forward to having Chris here and letting him enjoy the holidays with my family.

This week has been crazy busy, again, still, forever busy!  As soon as we launched Salvation Army’s website, we took on yet another project for our friend and photographer, Aaron Draper. We have been nothing but busy for the last 6 weeks or so and right now, it’s looking like our first quarter of 2010 will be slammed with client work.  We are excited about returning clients and new clients who have just recently found their way to us.

In addition to work, we made our way to San Francisco yesterday to shop a bit and see the decorations.  It was a nice day away, the weather was gorgeous and we didn’t even need jackets!  It was nice and necessary to just walk away from the office and just be together.   It’s interesting now that we work together how we sometimes forget to spend time together as a married couple.  Yesterday was a chance for us to reconnect.

So tomorrow, we begin a few days of being with family to celebrate the birth of our Savior.  We are blessed beyond compare.

Posted in Family and Friends, Travel, Work

December Goodness

Dec09
2009 Kristi Written by Kristi

The next several weeks are busy around these parts, not including the major website I’ve been working on for a non-profit here.  Today, we did our annual baking at my mom’s where we spend lots of time with sugar, eggs, flour and various types of chocolate.  We didn’t finish so we’ll continue on tomorrow and again on Thursday, when we go up to Sacramento to my sister’s house and then celebrate my birthday that evening.  Sunday is my dad’s family Christmas celebration so much eating and socializing will ensue.

On the 19th, we’ll help do Christmas baskets for the Salvation Army and on the 20th, my mom’s family will have their family shin dig.  On Christmas Eve, we’ll be at my sister’s again and W00t!  CHRIS ARRIVES!!  The Brother will be here for 4 days to celebrate Christmas with us and we are so excited for him to be here.  He hasn’t been to Modesto since the wedding and we’re looking forward to showing him Christmas done the Jepson/Taylor way.  My mom’s already made him a stocking to hang up at their house so he’ll be spoiled with goodies to open on Christmas morning.

This is our third Christmas together and it’s been entertaining to look back over all of them.  In 2007, Rob was fresh off the plane and so completely overwhelmed with this whole family-who-does-Christmas-BIG thing.  He hardly knew anyone and it was such a huge adjustment as he was leaving behind his life to be with me.  And last year was sort of the beginning of a big mess for me at work and December was far from stress-free.  We’ve always managed to turn toward each other when times are tough and this last year has been no exception.  As pleasant as the holidays usually are, I did not enjoy Christmas last year because the spectre of “You might lose your job” was looming over me.

But so far, this December has turned out to be pretty darn good.  We are healthy.  Happy.  Working.    Tucker is still alive.  Samson still drives Rob nuts and Ruca still pukes up her dinner near my side of the bed.  We’re a happy little family.  We’re excited to watch Natalie enjoy her first Christmas, buying her toys she will love that will annoy my sister.   We’re involved at church, making new friends, reconnecting with old friends.  It snowed yesterday but not enough to stick on the ground.  I still have some shopping to do and wrapping of gifts but there’s time for that.

And with that..in the wise words of Dr. Seuss.

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?”

May we all remember the true reason of Christmas this year.

Posted in Everyday Life, Family and Friends

www.WHATTHEHELL

Nov08
2009 Kristi Written by Kristi

The last week has been super busy around these parts, mostly with work.  This whole not-teaching-anymore thing has meant there’s a lot more time to do what I want and figure out what I like.  In the course of getting back to our regular life after all the disruption of this year, we’ve gotten back into the routine of church every Sunday and me singing in the choir again.  We sort of went underground this spring and summer and stopped going because there were a lot of things I just didn’t want to deal with.  Like questions.

So, one of the things we’ve noticed is how crappy our church website is.  I’d link to it but it’s best that no one see it.  It’s that bad.  It was originally designed in 1999 and it deserves to be dead and buried.  On Sunday, I started talking to our pastor about some of the things we’ve noticed and some concerns we had.  The week previous I’d created a Facebook page for the church because let’s face it.  If you’re going to have a web presence, it should include facebook.  But I digress.

In the course of our conversation, I pitched re-designing the website and was met with a lot of approval.  We went home, started investigating software and what other churches are doing online.  To say I was inspired would be an understatement.  By 9pm that night, we had a functional comp to share with our pastor.  We met with him on Monday to show our ideas and he was enthusiastic.  I was feeling more confident with what we were proposing and everything has just fallen into place.

This last week has been a huge blur of learning software, how to code, design elements, and writing copy.  I was so keyed up that I didn’t sleep more than about an hour on Thursday night.  It’s this huge puzzle to get all the pieces working together and making something look fabulous.  I am surprised at how much I’m loving doing this project.  I’ve had a few hurdles to overcome this week but the pieces are coming together.

I get to work with my husband at home.  I’m doing something new, interesting, and challenging.  Life is so very good.

Posted in Work

Overheard, Part 16

Oct19
2009 Kristi Written by Kristi

Outside of our house where a large limb of our city tree still sits, awaiting cutting and disposal by the city.  Participants are unknown to us.
“What’s wrong?”

“I don’t know!”

“Did we hit something?”

“Oh. My. God!”

“What?  WHAT?”

“We’re parked on a fucking tree.”

Gee, what was your first clue?  The illumination of said tree by your headlights? The feeling of going off-roading while on a paved city street?  The loud crunch of wood?

Posted in Everyday Life
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