that is, to sit in an obnoxious amount of 2 p.m. traffic on the way back from your eighth wedding anniversary lunch. (Big thumbs up for Stoney River, 
by the way.)So has half the world still not heard of the Web or amazon.com? The older Geert gets, the more he wants to scurry squirrel-like out of a shopping mall the moment he walks in.
But that's all secondary to the point of this post, which is to show off some cool pics as well as our quasi-official Christmas 2006 family portrait. While you check them out, here are a few quick updates:
• Britt only had to take semester exams for two of her classes. Girlfriend is acing the others and sprinting toward graduation in May.• Natasja has lost yet another front tooth, meaning she's now officiallly one lost tooth away from becoming best friends with cottage cheese and milk shakes - all day and night.
• Buddy is quickly becoming a Yu-Gi-Oh master and is dragging Geert into that netherworld of blue-eyed white dragons and lightning beetles.
• Sophia's phrase du jour: "I like you. You're very nice to me." And surprisingly, she doesn't say it immediately after she's gotten herself in trouble. (She has plenty of other things to say when she's in that situation.)
All the best to you and yours this season and here's a glass raised to kickin' 2007 off to a screaming start. Only 114 days till the green flag drops on the IRL season. Sigh...
