something new

It's been a nice Christmas break. For my birthday, Mike and his other family members surprised me with an iPod Nano, which is really tiny and weighs approximately 0.000000001% of the ancient MP3 player I had before. We had a good time with family, too. This was probably the last Christmas for a while during which it will be easy for us to travel, so we saw as many people as we could. By far the coolest gift we got was a pair of table lamps designed and handmade by my brother for his summer design class at Virginia Tech. They're the first gift I've ever gotten that also fulfilled a class assignment. At Mike's family celebration, Nathan and Grace demonstrated their new piano skills with a duet.

So far Mike and Helen have spent the entirety of 2007 playing MarioKart on our new Gamecube.

We have officially reached the midpoint of the pregnancy (20 weeks), and we should find out tomorrow if the baby is a boy or girl! Now I have to stop putting off all the planning and stuff-buying and start getting ready for this child. In the past few days, Mike has been helping me get up to speed on new (as in newer than my 1997-era) HTML and CSS conventions, so I'm almost done with the new website. With that, finishing the music I'm working on, keeping up with my German, getting involved in our new church, and preparing for Baby, I don't know how I'm going to have time to work in the next 4 1/2 months. Suddenly my very boring life has become very busy.