Karl and Angela Rees

Here they are, our holiday pictures and videos. Most of them are of us opening presents at our home before we left for DC, and on Christmas Day, and a few days later when Amy and Susie arrived, and once again at the Duncan house on New Year's Eve. Some of them are of us eating on Christmas Eve. Some of them are of us hanging out in D.C with Susie and Leyna. Those aren't the only things we did, of course. We had tons of fun with the Rees family in D.C, and with the Duncan family when we got back for New Year's Eve.  read more »

“Spirit, hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been . . . I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. . . . I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”

- Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”

Merry Christmas everyone! We just spent our first Christmas together as husband and wife, and it was fun. Well, we sort of spent some of the holiday season together last year, and out in DC too, but we weren’t quite engaged yet. Being out here at this time of year brings back a lot of memories of the week before we got engaged. That was such a fun time.  read more »

Just in case you hadn’t noticed yet, there’s only six more days until Christmas. This has us very excited, of course. We’re even more excited now that Karl’s finals are out of the way. (Technically, he still has to turn in a brief before Christmas Eve, but he’s not so worried about that). His last few finals proved extraordinarily stressful. He had a multiple guess final on Thursday afternoon that was just way too hard for the courseload. Then immediately after he finished that test, he started a 24 hour take-home exam, which ended up being a 20 page essay.  read more »

"Winter just makes us bleah, doesn't it?"

- Karl to Angela, after a night of doing nothing

We both really hate finals, now, but fortunately they’re almost done. Karl had finals last Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning, and Friday morning, plus a take-home final (which sounds a lot easier than it really is) that he did this weekend and turned in just this morning. Now, all he has left is another take-home exam and a final on Thursday afternoon. Plus a brief he has to turn in before Christmas Eve. For those of you who have never taken a law school final, count yourself lucky. But Karl feels that so far he’s doing better than he did last year.  read more »

"People havn't stopped going to Italy just because Pizza Hut is around the corner."

- From "Bride and Prejudice"

It's just us, trying to take a good picture in front of our first Christmas tree so we can send out our first Christmas card. Which picture do you think we should use?

This has been a very busy week for Karl. He worked on a paper most of the week. A draft of it was due Friday by Midnight. This weekend he has been studying for his final on Monday. He is studying by listening to some of the classes online. He also has a final Tuesday morning. Angela kept herself busy Christmas shopping and working on a puzzle.  read more »

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

-C.S. Lewis