As always, we wish you a “Merry Everything” from our family to yours!

I hope 2010 has been good to you all and that you are looking forward to a wonderful year in 2011.  As many of you know from past years, we decided a few years ago to begin distributing our holiday cards and the ubiquitous “holiday letter,” for the most part, online.  If you would like our card to join your collection, please feel free to print it and let it keep company with the others- I hope you’ve been blessed with a great many cards to enjoy this year.  (If you click the image you should be able to view it full size.)

If you don’t do a holiday card display, then please let the fact that the production and distribution of this card consumed very little resources and you won’t be sending a copy to the landfill this year warm “the cockles of your heart.”

Our year was probably a lot like yours- we said a few goodbyes, we had a lot of good times, and we felt incredibly blessed.  Our son,  in his own words, “grewed and grewed and grewed,” and will proudly tell you he “used to be a baby but now I’m a BIG BOY!”  In other words, he’s three, and loving every minute of it.  His fascination with farm equipment (especially John Deere tractors), construction sites, and anything with a wheel on it is still in full swing, and he’s added pirates, Romans, dinosaurs, and too many others to name.  We’re ridiculously proud of him, but we try not to be boring about it.

Please feel free to browse the archives at www.semelesriches.blogspot.com if you want details of our exploits- it’s been a great year.  We were able to share parts of it with so many of you, and for that we are grateful.  I hope we’ll see all of you in the New Year- and we’ll definitely be expanding our circle a bit when Baby #2 arrives in May.

Love to you all!
Meghan, Michael, and Ian