Dad, you can quit sending me reminders to post on the blog!

Here's a life update for the Batch and the Holly the last few months.

We're very well settled in our house in Houston and loving it. It has a wide open floor plan and we've thrown some parties already and have two more on the books at the moment- a Baptism party for a friend's son and a Christmas Eve celebration- the Spirits will flow at both (pun intended). A big shout out to Dad and Carolyn for making the all night road trip from Starkville to Houston to be here for the first celebration, a housewarming party in October (they say 70 is the new 20, right dad?).

Holly has been enjoying her work with Christ the King Presbyterian Church and survived her first Capital Campaign which successfully secured funds to build a permanent facility for the congregation. She's in a bit of a lull there at the moment, but expects things to begin to pick up speed as we get closer to beginning construction.

I'm preparing to begin a new position at my company, much different from the consulting work I've done in the past. I'll be directing the front line customer service team for our software business, basically leading the team that is the face to many of our customers.

We had a very busy November, traveling to New Orleans early in the month for a company meeting and service project (pictures here) and at the end of the month making a trek from Houston to Jackson, MS/Birmingham, AL/Fayette, AL/Starkville, MS/Biloxi, MS and back again (not to mention that I-10 was closed between Baton Rouge and Lafayette, LA).

We've got a vacation planned soon to Turks & Caicos with three other couples from college to celebrate one of the couple's 10th anniversary. Then we'll be back home again in time for Christmas and then we're off again for a few days to catch family and friends getting married just before the new year.