Happy Holidays to All...

The night before full moon


Full moonrise



Hi, All-

Wishing you happy days ahead and a great New Year.

The moonrises on the mesa have been amazing the last few days. Makes you forget the -2 degree (F) nights!

L-
-P

AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN AND AGAIN

Wishing Mom/Grammy a wonderful 75th year!!! She has had a birthday celebration that keeps on going like the energizer bunny. First her 'gala' weekend and then this past weekend Mom, Don and Deb went out to dinner on Saturday night and on Sunday we went to brunch and the Philly Pops Holiday Concert in Philadelphia. Friends are treating her to lunch today. So we think that we should just keep on with this. Let's have lots of special moments this coming year. Mom and I will culminate the year with a trip to Disney in December of 2008. The Mouse misses her!!!
Happy Birthday to the greatest Mom in the world. We are all better people for having had your love and guidance throughout our lives. You are our champion and our hero. We are always proud to say "that's our Mom".

I love you, Mom.

Deb

Finally Recuperated...

Michael and I are finally back in the swing of things here in NM. We walked in on Tuesday afternoon at 4pm and realized that Don had awakened us about 13 hours earlier in order to embark on our trip home. Thank goodness we did not stay until Wednesday and encounter the weather in Chicago (we flew home through Midway). What a nightmare that would have been!

Needless to say, we had a great time and loved seeing you all, so it was worth it.

Many of you know about Michael being detained for supposedly having a fake ID on the way in. It may humor you to know that while in NJ, I let Michael carry my knife (which I always keep in my front pocket) because he had left his at home by mistake. It has about a five inch blade on it. I was unpacking the backpack that he had boarded the plane with, and there it was, in the front pocket. I said, "Oh, good, here's my knife..." when the sinking reality hit that he had forgotten about it and run it through security and taken it on the plane. They were too busy giving me a hard time about not taking out my hard drive (which I've never had to do at any other airport) to see the knife right in the front of his backpack! Holy Crow...we would have been dust, especially since they had put his name on a list in Houston and written four big red S marks on his boarding pass. Phew.

So, thank goodness the trip back was uneventful and we are home safe and sound.

Love you all and it was so great seeing you.

-P