Merry Christmas 2011!

Another year gone by -- very quickly, of course -- as LittleBear is now a walking, reasonably fluent two-and-a-half-year-old. (Compare the picture below to his first Christmas in 2009 and last Christmas.)

As we did last year, rather than a traditional Christmas letter, we invite you to look back through our blog from the last year and enjoy (perhaps for the second time) a taste of what life has been like at our house over the past year. If you don't want to read the whole blog (and I don't blame you), here are some of the highlights:

• The year began with LittleBear's first haircut.
• We visited Florida family in February, enjoyed a lakehouse vacation with Texas family in April, visited San Antonio in August (just the three of us) and Los Angeles in December (just the two of us -- LittleBear stayed with Grandma).
• Bethany began a garden in April that lasted into December (see what it produced here).
• LittleBear turned two in June and got a big boy bed in August.
• Bethany began homeschooling LittleBear in September (see weekly recaps here).
• Treat Night at Baylor saw LittleBear as Yoda for Halloween.
• Bethany's "30 Days of Thanks" took us through November.
• And now it's Christmas!

You may notice that Jeff didn't blog as much on this site this year... That's because he was busy blogging away at his day job, helping save the Big 12 and win a Heisman for Baylor (among other things). He also lucked into writing two of Baylor Magazine's four cover stories this year (here and here).

We hope you enjoy the blog, and of course you call follow all three of us on Twitter (@equusbeth, @astrosjeff and @LittleBearB) or find Bethany and Jeff on Facebook. If we haven't heard from you in awhile, drop us a line! We'd love to hear what you've been up to in 2011.

Until then, we wish you a blessed Christmas season and a happy new year!

(As luck would have it, we had an extraordinarily good photo shoot [thanks Robbie!]. You can see more of our Baylor/Christmas photos here. Sic 'em!)