Family Christmas...

Santa Macklem and his reindeer (Jonny and Vanessa)

The Roggio family Christmas was a really fun day. We had a great time celebrating with them. There was the buzz of conversation throughout the whole house the whole day. This Christmas truly brought us great JOY!
Matthew practiced holding Lily Beth until she started crying, then he said, "What do I do now?" Dad Roggio and Eric laughed so hard they cried. We had fun playing with William, who likes to twirl his hair. What a blessing to be with such a great family!

Baby Roggio Announcement

WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A BABY!!!

DUE: AUGUST '08

It's almost Christmas

Somehow this Christmas seems more special to me. I'm sure part of it is that I got most of my shopping overwith. I think it must be more than that. I have marvelled at how God's perfect plan for man included the birth of a baby. It's so humbling. Matt and I have enjoyed the snowfall this weekend, mostly becuase it meant that we could spend time with family. We enjoyed playing Settler's with Mom and Dad Sommers on Sunday. The Christmas program was postponed until Wednesday. I look forward to seeing all the kids there and hopefully their parents. I can't believe that it's the end of 2007, it seems like this year has flown by. I pray that 2008 will bring special new surprises.

The First Big Snow...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Here's what it looked like on Matt's first day of snow-days, well, just a two hour delay, but that counts as something, right! He's so good about shoveling snow from our porch and cleaning off the cars! What a sweetheart. We are thankful to the Lord for a warm house on cold days like these. Here's Matt eating the breakfast of champions: meatloaf, mashed potatoes and green beans...COLD! Fun times...

Last Day of School!

Wow, it seems like this quarter went by really fast for me at Med Central. I had my Critical Care class, which despite my concerns went really well. I had a hard time studying at the end, but I'm beginning to think that's senioritis or some other deadly disease like christmasitis or matthewitis. Scary, I know, but "all's well that end's well". I think my favorite part of this quarter was actually feeling like I really helped someone. Somedays being a student seems more like taking than giving with all that I am learning and practicing, but this quarter I could give. Somehow, it seems worth it, all the technical jargen for one word of true encouragement or one true touch. Favorite things this quarter were: chest tubes, IV-push meds, heart surgery, vents, funny stories, seeing people get better, and offering a shoulder to cry on.