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December 20, 2008
Hey friends!
We're having so much fun receiving cards and updates from all of the people that we care about during this festive season. I've never, in my life, written a Christmas letter, so I'm shaking with nervousness as I embark on this most hallowed holiday tradition. I can feel the eyes of generations of Christmas-letter-writers upon me as I make my first attempt at a colorful, yet factual recap of our family's year.
Chad's 2008 wasn't terribly eventful. Poor thing, his primary responsibility still remains keeping a roof over his little family's head. He continues working at Connection Pointe Christian Church in Brownsburg where he oversees the Family Life Team and also ministers to middle school students. We're both amped about being a part of the church family there. We've seen God work in some amazing ways through the people that we're lucky enough to be congregating with. Chad became a small group leader for Financial Peace University at the church, where he spreads the budgeting gospel while secretly dreaming of a world where he could have an unlimited allowance for buying Apple computers and periphery. He is a true servant in my eyes. If he's not helping out at church in some way, then he's giving Cash a bath, or running to Taco Bell at 9:00pm because his easily distracted wife forgot to eat that day. Chad Johnson is, in a word, my hero.
I, Hannah, have had a year that could best be described as a year of "dabbling". Yeah, I've come to realize . . . I'm a big-time dabbler. My full-time gig is still taking care of Cash. I developed a need for mental exercise to break up my days at home, so I started spending a ridiculous amount of time on new hobbies; photography, graphic design, reading, running, knitting or sewing eccentric accessories, part-time wedding coordinating at the church, and the scariest of them all - creative writing. My biggest challenge has been trying to think less about my own needs and wants, and trying to focus more on others. This is something that I haven't come even close to achieving yet, so I'll be carrying that goal over into the next year . . . or two . . . or ten.
Cash turned one year-old in February and left the world of infancy to stake his claim on toddlerhood. Anyone who has seen him echoes the refrain of how much he looks like his daddy. I thought that he was showing signs of having some of his mommy's reserved personality, but those hints of shyness vanished a few weeks ago. In the last month he has completely come out of his shell and loves putting on a show for anyone who dares to step foot into our apartment. He has been slow to speak, but quick to climb furniture, and I anticipate extreme sports in his future. He also knows how to growl when we ask him what a werewolf says, and he dances a strange leg twitching dance that resembles something that Elvis would get kicked off of TV for doing in the 1950's.
Our family's hope for the New Year is that we will finally discover our latent super powers and travel the world, tipping the scales toward good in the epic battle that we each find ourselves facing everyday. Since that may be unlikely, we instead continue to put our trust in the plan that our Lord put into place a few millennia ago when he sent His Son to our planet to save it for us. We rejoice when we remember Jesus' birth, the life that he led, and the ultimate sacrifice that he made to reconcile us with our glorious Maker. We hope that the assurance of the promises that God has made to his people will bring you hope and peace in an otherwise chaotic world . . . and give you that warm, fuzzy, Christmas feeling.
Merry Christmas!
Love,
The Johnsons - Chad, Hannah, and Cash
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I'm supposed to be Troy Smith (a great OSU quarterback) but Chad said I'm more believable as a wide receiver or defensive end. Cash was head coach and sweater-vest-wearer, Jim Tressel. Chad's costume is pretty self-explanatory.
I don't know about you, but I think I make a pretty handsome dude! |
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We're having a fun weekend. We came up with our halloween costume ideas and I started work on those. (not telling what they are, just in case I fail miserably)
Cash hung out with his grandparents yesterday and Chad and I got to clean the apartment and go to the park. Last night we had dinner at Smokey Bones! We haven't been there in forever.
My writing skills are way off, and I'll tell you why. I conducted some research on the subject. I've been doing a little bit of writing and A LOT of photoshopping and I found out that after I've been playing in Photoshop, I CANNOT write. It's seriously impossible, I just stare at my computer screen and can't get my brain to focus, so i did some online investigation and found out that verbal skills and creative skills are on opposite sides of the brain. So yesterday, Chad and I went to the park and played with my camera. we came home and I did some editing to the photos that we took, then I tried to write and I couldn't. Now logic skills are on the same side as verbal skills so I thought, hey I need to turn on my Logic/verbal side of my brain, so I pulled out some logic puzzles (yeah I have books of logic puzzles, but that's not the point) and started in a puzzle. Usually these puzzles give me hours of boundless joy, but my brain couldn't handle them either! It was so weird! It was like I was a completely different person. I wanted to try some math, but I didn't have any on hand, so i played Zelda instead and waited for my creative brain fog to wear off. It was crazy and made me want to study neuroscience.
So the point is, this post is incoherent because I was just editing that picture above. |
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I needed a new desktop
Olivia and I rewrote the ending to the twilight saga. Bella runs away with Jimmy Johnson (an annoying Nascar driver) and ruins his career by starting a love triangle with him and Chad Knaus (his crew chief). Then Edward and Jacob join up with the Justice League, whose members include Superman, the Green Arrow, Aquaman, etc. They spend their lives fighting evil, one of them hooks up with supergirl, not sure which one, and somehow Kasey Kahne and Dale Earnhardt Jr are involved . . . that will be worked out later.
widescreen computer monitors make everything look cooler. |
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