Stephen’s Blog

Happy New Year to all my family, friends, and co-workers. I pray God’s blessing be upon all of you in this new year.

Wishing everyone a blessed and prosperous 2008.

A belated Merry Christmas to family and friends. Amber, Colin, and I are staying warm in snowy Colorado. We have had a blessed Christmas and have enjoyed spending time with Nanna, Papa, and Auntie Amy. Our journey here was, for the most part, uneventful. We did stay the night in Amarillo due to road conditions. If you ever have to travel through or to New Mexico they have a website devoted to state road conditions. I will link to several sites at the bottom of this post.

We bypassed a big pile up on our way into Amarillo on I40. It happened about two hours before we arrived and luckily we were able to get off of the interstate and avoided getting stuck in traffic. East bound I40 was closed for a good portion of the day and West bound was shut down for several hours. According to the Amarillo paper ~80 vehicles were involved in the pile up. We stayed the night at a Holiday Inn and spent part of the night shopping. The west side of Amarillo has seen a lot development and there are quite a few nice stores. In fact, in the future if my parents are still in Colorado we will probably plan on splitting the trip up by staying the night in Amarillo. Amber was enamoured with the Cost Plus World Market. Hopefully, I will have some pictures to put up later this week.

Road Condition Links:

• Colorado
• New Mexico
• Oklahoma
• Texas

1. God
2. A wonderful wife
3. An amazing son
4. Our family
5. Health
6. Good Friends
7. My job