So I got looking through old Christmas pictures and found these two pictures that brought up a lot of memories. The first is of the boys on Christmas Eve in their new jammies. It was Jaimin's first Christmas, he was only 5 months old (man has time gone bye). This was a fun Christmas, Jones was finally at the age where they start to enjoy opening gifts. The one of Mark brings a lot of memories, but not very many fun ones. As you can tell by the picture we weren't very happy. We were in downtown Sacramento, California looking for a place to take a family picture for our Christmas card. The thought of being away from our family for the holidays was very depressing and it didn't help that we were already depressed. I actually think this is before we knew we were going to be transferred back. Anyway since Mark, as you can tell, and I were not very excited about taking a picture, we didn't take one that day. I think we waited until our neighbors dragged out of our house to take their picture, before we wanted to take one of us. Anyway thinking about California brought back a lot of bad memories. I know we were only there for 10 months, but it felt like 10 years. California definitely changed all of us. Luckily my family was very helpful in us getting through the whole experience. They called and talked at least once a day, and a few that were able to came out and visited. Without all of them I think we would have ended up in the Sacramento River. So Thank You Covieo's, Buehler's and Shivers' for keeping us alive through one of the hardest times in our lives. We love you all for it!!