Christmas Cards  


 
We mail out a yearly Christmas letter and a home-made card to all of our friends and family. If you aren't getting one, we probably don't have your correct address. Visit our contact page and send us an email letting us know where you live (and how you are doing). Between our Christmas cards and monthly photos/videos, you should get a pretty good idea of what we are up to.

2005
As the charming vintage double-decker bus wound up the wooded peak, we considered...



2006

Well, we sat down to write this year's Christmas letter, and eventually realized the...



2007

We spent most of this year in Vancouver, Washington, right outside of Portland. Although we enjoyed...



2008

Our year was filled with unexpected blessings and adventures. Due to a bizarre series of events...



2009

This year was filled with new experiences for us. We had a few major disasters...



2010

Last year was so eventful it's taken a while for us to get it all down on paper, or even in pixels...



2011

As usual, it's been an exciting and crazy year. In January we moved to Tunisia in search of sun...



2012

It seems like 2012 was an unusually tranquil year. Maybe it's because we only moved once...



2013

It's been one of those years where nothing happens. No moving, no international adventures...



2014

It's been another year in Florida for the Familias. Probably the most exciting thing we did was...

 


2015

2015 was a wonderful year for the Familias. In March we fulfilled a long-held dream (which admittedly...



2016

The Familia family seems to be exploring the hitherto unknown (to us) phenomenon of sinking down roots...



2017

In the meantime, Lyra went to the dog sitter and Tony and I went off to spend a romantic week in Iceland, where we renewed our wedding vows...



2018

This year was a milestone for the Family family: we have now lived in Amsterdam longer than anywhere else since we got married.



2019

We are still living in Amsterdam, and feeling more rooted all the time. I write this from Normandy, where we are spending the Christmas holidays...



2020

Even more fervently than usual, we hope this letter finds you all well. We feel incredibly fortunate amid all the inconveniences and...



2021

Can it possibly already be time to write another Christmas letter? Has anything even happened in the past year? We'll take a stab, I guess...



2022

Sarah finally joined the rest of the family as a full-fledged EU citizen, taking her oath of allegiance to be faithful to the Italian Republic...



2023

Happy New Year! This is probably the latest one can plausibly send out a Christmas letter for 2023. We hope your holidays were filled with love...

 


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