Well, here's one of the first posts on the Christmas we just had. Here is a video of Elise opening her present from Jason and what a nice surprise that was. Unfortunately I didn't get it started soon enough. Way to go son! The road to a woman's heart is through a good sewing machine. Just kidding.

And here is a photo with my eternal companion. She loves to read.....



More to come later.

Tradition

Each year at Christmas time we have a tradition for our grand daughter. Kori was born with a chromosome defect and passed away three days after she was born. She will always be known as our first grand daughter.

In Kori's memory, we decided to select a toy that would be appropriate for what her age would be that current year. So three days ago, Sharon and I went out to a Target store and found a toy that Kori would probably like to play with. Then we donate that toy to the Fire Department so that some young girl, around Kori's age, would be blessed with a toy to play with on Christmas day.

We started this tradition last year but this year we thought we would take a picture of this toy just to remember what we got and what we did. Kori will always be in our thoughts and in our hearts.

Christmas is Coming!!!!

Wow. I didn't realize it's been so long since I last updated this. I have been using Skype to talk with my mom which she is real excited about because of the video. My uncle Tommy in Scotland has been trying to use Skype but we keep getting disconnected. He'll need to try and upgrade his internet account and get a bigger bandwidth. I think that will solve the problem and then he can talk to his big sister and see her at the same time. Skype is really great and it's free!

It's Christmas and we are looking forward to having family over to celebrate it with us and to enjoy our grandchildren. I will have to add photos in my next post.

One unexpected Christmas gift we had to make was to repair our Camry at the cost of $1,186 But keeping the proper perspective, it's better than having a $20,000 loan for a new car to pay off!

We read a report about a flying accident recently and it's going to make a lot of children sad. Santa had an accident on one of his practice runs and this is what happened...



But I think he will recover. The pilots will just have to watch out for Santa when he is making those left hand turns next time!