Merry Christmas!

Digital Cosmetics courtesy of Travis! 

Merry Christmas! We are spending the festive season on the shore of Lake Wascana in Regina. We drove up here on Sunday, and have had a busy week here. The weather has been very nice, even above zero several days. It has turned colder this weekend, and we even got some fresh snow today. We drove over to Caronport on Tuesday to pick up Liam to begin his holidays. On Tuesday evening, it was Kristian's Christmas Concert at school; we enjoyed it a great deal. On Wednesday evening, we had our Christmas celebration with the Baileys, as they were heading west on Thursday. We took care of Kristian on Thursday and Friday as he was off school, and Erin was still working. The big news of the week here was that Dad was released from William Booth, and is now back home and getting on just fine here. It was a special Christmas present for all of us to have him home. On Friday morning, I was up early (4am) to drive Bern, Alicia and Logan to the airport and the beginning of their trip to Mexico. They arrived there Friday evening and are renewing acquaintances there—Feliz Navidad! Today has been fairly quiet, but Wendy has begun preparations for Christmas dinner that we're expecting tomorrow afternoon. The markets have been troubled this week. After a rally on Monday, they pretty much ran down the rest of the week. I was blessed with a good gain, and stand at quota so far this month, but only have three trading days left this year due to the market holidays on Monday and Tuesday next week. Kansas Jayhawks suffered a big loss as their young 7' centre experienced a season-ending injury. Still, they have continued their winning streak—Rock Chalk! The NHL is on Christmas break; Pittsburgh and Edmonton both sit one point out of first in their respective conferences. 

Kristian and group signing the ASL for their song!

Travis & Joanna are completing preparations and closing up shop for a holiday break. They were down to Minneapolis last weekend for a hockey tournament, and that was a good experience for all, even though they did not win the tournament. We enjoyed celebrating Christmas with them last week. Working life around everyone's schedules is complicated, but we're fortunate to have flexible schedules ourselves. 

And that's about enough for this week!