Bucharest, Romania

Jeremy's work sent him to Romania for a week to visit team members from a company that is contracting software engineers to NEC. Several engineers will be working on a project that Jeremy is working on. Here is a picture of a church across from his hotel. Doesn't look that cold does it?

Wham-O!

Here is the passing of a great American. No doubt our frisbee club owes him and his deceased partner a big thank you. These guys knew the meaning of having fun at work!

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-knerr17jan17,0,1584494.story?page=1&coll=la-home-obituaries

Their picture in the article says it all.

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!

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Here's wishing everyone a wonder full and prosperous new year!!

Dog Bed

Earlier this month our Dallas Dog and Disc club had our annual Christmas Party. The gifts are, appropriately enough, for the dogs. This year we scored a very nice dog bed. When we got home we set the bed down and guess who immediately claimed it?

That's right, we know who the real master of this house is!

JOJO SLEEPING POSITION #3

A Boy and his Guitar

Jaden's Grandma and Grandpa Schmidt gave him an electric guitar (sized down for kids) for Christmas. This afternoon after our hike, Jaden sat on the floor and strummed on it for about an hour! Not the correct way of course, but he thought he was jammin' out! It was funny because we were in the kitchen making dinner and we heard him start singing "we will, we will, rock you!". Freddie Mercury would have been proud. Here is a little clip of his guitar playing. Can you guess who's tail that is at the end?

Hiking on Parkside Property

Today Jeremy, Jaden, the dogs and I went hiking on our property in Pilot Point. Jennifer met us there with her two dogs. We walked the perimeter and took our cutters to trim branches and thorny vines along the path. It's pretty overgrown again among the trees, but the open field areas looked nice. Jaden was excited to wear his brand new Camelbak. It can hold 35 ounces of water. He thought it was so cool because it looked like daddy's hydration pack. Here is a pic of Jeremy and Jaden with their Camelbaks and also of the dogs enjoying the hike.

We hope everyone has a very safe and happy new year!

Christmas in Big Vic

Dec 23-26:

We all went to Victoria this year for Christmas - Jaden, Jeremy, myself and the two dogs, Sprite & Lucky. It was an opportunity to see my brother again since I last saw him in the hospital in Houston. He is now living with my parents and they take him to therapy Monday through Friday. He is walking and can move his right arm up and down. He can not move his fingers in his right hand yet and he still has a long way to go with his speech. He can understand just about everything you tell him, he's just having a very hard time taking what he's thinking in his head and getting that point across because he can't say the words and he can't write the words. There is a connection missing. But we all feel that with a lot of time and patience he will be able to strengthen this connection and hopefully improve it.

The weather was beautiful in Victoria! Temps were in the high 60's, low 70's and the days were sunny. We swung by downtown Victoria and Jaden ran around the gazebo in the center of downtown (don't all small towns have a gazebo in the center of downtown?). Here is a picture my niece, Tifany, took of Jaden and I in the gazebo.