Happy New Year!

I'm really looking forward to 2010! This year I'll finish two of my last three semesters of law school. I'm hoping for a really amazing externship opportunity for the summer. I get to participate in the International Law and Religion Symposium again. My brother will be returning from a mission in Chile. Rod will be applying to MBA school. We'll be figuring out where we want to live for the next few years. And I'm already dreaming about the amazing vacation we're going to be taking sometime in 2010. While 2009 wasn't too bad for us personally, I think the world as a whole is ready for a clean slate and a new beginning. One of my resolutions is to look for the silver lining in the stormy economic and political clouds around us and also to find ways to lift others both temporally and spiritually. In that spirit of optimism, here's to hoping that 2010 will be a year of peace and (relative) prosperity for our brothers and sisters around the world!