I Wish You Have a Wonderful Happy New Year.

We moved in here on December 26th last year.
I was so busy preparing to move that I even couldn’t find a minute to do my weekly blog update on last Sunday.
Finally, a super hectic week for putting tons of chaotic cardboard-boxes in order has almost ended
I’m planning to be relaxed and enjoy new year holidays from tomorrow till my office starts an operation on January 5th.

I wish all visitors to my blog enjoy new year holidays and have a wonderful happy new year.
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A Happy New Year!

My office has been closed for about one week since Dec. 29.
I have been living very lazy days, without doing any exercise nor meaningful work.
I’ve kept eating, eating, drinking, drinking and eight-hour sleeping a day. I may have gained at least a few kilograms.
The only creative thing I’ve done during this holiday season is making a New Year’s Day postcard with pictures that I took in 2009.

To think about the year 2009, I almost did something I wanted to do on every weekend.

After spending these lazy days, I realized that taking a sufficient rest is sometimes good for me both physically and mentally.

Up Left: Universal Studios in Florida
Up Right: Rina won medals both 2008 and 2009 Utsunomiya Marathon
Down Left: Disney Resort, Epcot in Florida
Down Middle: Salvador Dalí Museum
Down Right: Kiyono published a book about the U.S. President Obama
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Family Pictures

 Even email is very popular among Japanese, we still have a custom of sending New Year's Day postcards to our friends and relatives as Westerners send Christmas cards to their friends and relatives.

I'm not the exception of Japanese.
I always make my New Year's Day postcards using my family pictures in the middle of December.
I took pictures for the postcards yesterday at home.

It’s hard to know the growth of my daughters because I live with them and see them everyday. But, when I compare the following pictures, I realize that our daughters have grown amazingly.

The picture I took yesterday.

Year 2008

Year 2007

Year 2006

2008 New Year's Card

I had made three 2008 New Year's Cards last month and sent them by mail.
Please take a look. :-)

#1
Up, Left: Emi wears Yukata.
Up, 2nd from the left: Rina attends truck and field competitions.
Up, 3rd from the left: Emi is in Nara on Junior High excursion.
Up, Right: Rina plays tennis.
Down: Monument Valley in Arizona.


#2
Down, Left: Grand Canyon, Arizona.
Down, Right: Disney Land, Anaheim.


#3
Down, Left: Moqui Dugway, Utah.
Down, Right: Rina attends a Junior High Entrance Ceremony.