Karl and Angela Rees

Here we are another week closer to Christmas.  We are looking forward to the holidays.  Karl was busy this last week so he could get everything done before we leave for Texas.  Hopefully he will be able to wrap things up this week.   read more »

Thanks to Becky and Wayne babysitting for us, we went on our first alone date in a long time. We went to a Christmas Party for Karl's firm at the Fairmont in San Jose. Karl sang in a firm singing group (an octet, they'd been practicing for months). Angela got a caricature done. It was fun to be on a date again.

Tuesday night Angela went to Enrichment, where they had pizza and fun.  Angela participated in a Christmas tree ornament swap—she came back a little disappointed because she had bought a nice one, and ended up with one that she didn’t like very much.  But she didn’t want to trade it away because she didn’t want to make the person who brought it feel bad (nobody else was trading either—guess most people either liked their ornaments or didn’t want to make people feel bad either).  Karl meanwhile watched Thomas and put him to bed.  When Angela came back, he went to play in his  read more »

Well we did it, or should I say he did it. Thomas is able to fall asleep on his own for bedtime. Actually, he hasn’t had too much difficulty going to bed at night since we began an earlier bedtime. Usually he is nursed to sleep then gently put in his crib.  read more »

This is the most exciting geek news I've heard in a while, and the sad thing is that it took me more than a month to find out about it.  Guess that's what happens when you get a kid and a real job.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/sync-your-inbox-across-devices-with.html  read more »

Here we are decorating the tree. Thomas did most of it himself :).
Update (2/24/08): Added Video

These are pictures we took outside the home of Angela's Uncle's Brother in law.
Update (2/23/08): Added video.

Karl worked a lot at the beginning of last week to get everything in order for the holiday. But we had a lot of fun hanging out together over the holiday. Wednesday night we played games with Wayne and Becky.  read more »

Have you ever noticed how, perhaps moreso than any other holiday, Americans obsess over making sure people have "a place to go" for Thanksgiving?  This thought occurred to me in my interactions with co-workers last week?  As with most holiday work-weeks, conversations inevitably turned to what we were doing for the holiday--but, more often than not, the discourse revolved around the question of "do you have a place to go for Thanksgiving" as opposed to "are you doing anything special for Thanksgiving."  The assumption, of course, appeared to be that NOT havi  read more »

For people looking to get us movies, or for people just curious about our tastes (and please keep in mind that we is plural--so, for example, there may be a few movies in here that I wouldn't ever own by myself or that Angela would never watch):  read more »