While most use either the solar or lunar calendar to denote the start of a new year, I've decided (for pragmatic purposes of course!) to try out the retail fiscal calendar -- with the year going from July-Jan and then from Feb-July. This seems to make the most sense for me right now, with the holidays having been such a hectic time and with this January culminating in my parents heading overseas this past Sunday.  
Yes, that is Paul and I seeing our folks of at JFK... A farewell dinner this past Sunday with our grandparents at Dad's choice -- an old favorite K restaurant of course... 
And so its with a heart teeming with gratitude that I'm heading out west for my first vacation of 2007.
My hope is to have about a day of quiet and reflection, and then three days of awesome chillin' and snowboardin' with some of the coolest peeps around! Yet before I head out to LGA in about six hours, I wanted to simply to pay a quick tribute to a few of the great times and fantastic people who have made the past few months such a great journey along the way. Enough said! Hope the pictures bring you a smile! May the good times ever roll! 
One Summer Salsa Night
 
The Original Juggernauts -- placed 2nd in our first season! ...With some of our #1 Fans! We love these guys!!!
And the parties (i.e. this one's New Life's New Years Bash)
With supra-real moments of being caught in Reality...
 
And others of simply seeing how hard it was to touch the sky...
  
Mom's classy birthday at the Boathouse... Compliments of sis' as usual of course Missing our other sibs (but enjoying the extra food it left for me!)
  
And there were a ton of other parties (i.e. house parties, Rick's 40th, etc.) Especially with the Bo-Man
And while this mini-sampling doesn't do justice the tasty trips (go Asia de Cuba!), the Copa nights, surprise birthday parties, late night weddings, January movies, hangin' with "The Interns!", caroling at Park Terrace, YY's incredible swimming, Bo's Christmas flaun, TP's farewell, outdoor volleyball in Jan!, and a host of other delectable memories, tomorrow is a new year and a new day -- with the chance to learn from past mistakes and to seek to ever continue living fiercely in His delight and glory. "If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics... if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak... We are far too easily pleased."
-- Lewis, The Weight of Glory (Preached as a sermon in the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, on June 8, 1942)  | 
Gracias mi amigos! Even with the "interesting moments" it was awesome!
