Happy Holidays!

We don't have anything as cute as little Freya watching snow. You could barely see her under all those layers! We went from 47 rainy degrees in the middle of the night to 18 degrees when we got up. Our sump pumps were running, sprung a leak in the tube and made a small flood in the basement. After spending the day on Saturday moving office furniture, we weren't too happy with one more mess, but it cleaned up easily. We had more snow than we expected today, lots of wind and blizzard like conditions at times, and ice where the inches of snow and rain had been yesterday, so no furniture moving occurred. Instead we enjoyed a visit with Magda, Declan and Kevin in Big Bend. Amazingly, we haven't seen Mom and Dad since they got back, so we looked at their pictures. Colin and Bridget were working in the ski shop at Alpine, and came home about 3. Colin is so thrilled not to have to study that he has been glued to his video game, Halo for alot of the past 24 hours. I was doing very well with my Xmas cards until the beginning of last week and now I can't remember who I sent them them to besides the ones who sent them to us. I knew I should keep a list, but I re-focussed on getting my work Xmas stuff organized and lost track. Some people will be hearing from us around New Years or later.

Bridget got her official confirmation letter that she is an Evans Scholar on Saturday. They wasted no time, which is great. She probably will just accept it and not pursue any of the other opportunities. I think that Grinnell and Whitewater really intrigued her, but the desire was always to go to Madison.

I had a great phone visit with Michele on Saturday before their family Xmas dinner. David had received his package from Jay and is trying to figure out what it is. Casey has a pretty good idea of what hers is, unfortunately, but it was hard to disguise it. Well, I am going to join Bridget in watching a movie. Looking forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday! Love, Susan