Visit from Mike & Bridgett & Gavin

I was sure delighted to see Mike and family over New Years! Gavin is as cute as ever. Mike looks awesome with his extreme weight loss of 85 pounds. He's maintaining well and is working on losing more. Great Job Mike! Bridgett is as cute as ever. Love you guys!

Annalisa has a knack for the 1940's pin-up look

Wow, is she a looker! This was her New Years Eve dress up for a Masquerade Party...no one else dressed up but she shore was purrdee!

Christmas Day - 2010 at Jesse's and Heller's - Look at all the Happy People!

Santa's elves got busy and met us over at Oma's house for Christmas Morning by 7:30am. We opened gifts and shared in the delight of Bryan & Kristi's children as they found what Santa brought them. Santa did some early bird gifting at the Durochers so we didn't have to travel with as much. The photos will tell the story well, but as a starter we met at Jesses for the traditional Christmas breakfast of Scrapple, Muffins & Egg caserole. It was all delightful and we exchanged sibling gifts...those that were there anyway. We next headed out to brother Dean's new ranch that is south and east of Gardnerville. It's a great place and I can sure see why they love it out there. The traditional Christmas dinner was magnificent! Great job D & L and family for providing such a fabulous meal. Nick's truck is equipt with a GPS and we were glad to use it to find our way in and out of Smith Valley, Nevada to get back to Carson City. What a great Christmas day it was with food and family chatter.

Sunday we got ready for Church and met at Mom's ward at 11am. It was a nice service and we left to meet at Jesses for a noonday meal and the Durochers headed out of town. Many thanks to the Carson families for a place to stay and such hospitality at your homes.

It was indeed a Merry Christmas!

Midnight Christmas Run - Christmas Eve at Jesse's

As schedules would have it, Nick & Michelle met us in SLC on Thursday the 24th at 6pm. Nick drove his truck, a jacked up 2004 Diesel Durimax and we soon were met with many patches of fog. The drive went well and I was sure grateful for Nick driving as we arrived in Carson City at 2am PST, but 3am MST in Utah. We appreciated so much the D. Heller house in Carson to arrive and get to bed. Adventure arrrived as we pulled into Carson and found the serpintine belt has snapped and a pully seized in Nicks truck making it near impossible to stear and break the last several blocks to Deans house. Gratefully we arrived there and could address the repairs in the morning. Luckily it didn't occur in the vast desert of Nevada in the middle of the cold night. Thank You, Lord!

I was trying to upload Oma's letter as it spelled out the events of the weekend, but it wouldn't copy. So... I'll just plug in photo's and see what needs to be commented on.