Happy New Year!

Well, I hope all is well with everyone and you all had a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Fa la la la la, la la la la.... Tina and I had a very nice visit in Winnemucca. It was nice to see everyone. We spent Christmas Eve eating and opening gifts at the Millers. Christmas morning we had breakfast at Dad and Bettes and had a very nice visit. We drove to Paradise Valley in the afternoon for Christmas dinner at her Uncle Garys ranch. Our visit was filled with way too much food, great people and more food. We did have one near tragedy when Mom took a header and fell down on Christmas eve-eve, Mom scraped up her knee and has a hairline fracture on her left wrist. The fact that I was walking her out when she fell has formed a pretty huge cloud of guilt over my head. I feel pretty fornunate that she was not hurt any worse. Tina went home Monday because Max the dog was scheduled to have a tumor removed from his leg. The surgery went well and the Dr. feels that he removed all of it. It was malignant, so we will just have to keep an eye on it. I stayed in Winnemucca until Wednesday to get more time in with Mom, Dad and Bette and to Visit more with Russ, Kyle and Yvette. Monday I went to see how Mom was doing, she is an amazingly tough hombre, but pretty sore. I spent Monday night watching football with Russ at the Red Lion. We had a few beers, ate bar munchies and watched football. Three of my favorite things to do.
Tuesday afternoon I had lunch with Mom and that evening Dad, Bette and I had a nice dinner at the Martin Hotel. I left for home Wednesday, got lazy and decided not to take the outside Christmas decorations down until later and woke up to three feet of snow the following day. Needless to say, I spent Thursday shoveling out Santa and his Reindeer. I can't remember the last time I've seen this much snow. It was fun the first day, now its getting old! I have a lot of pictures of the holiday and the snow, I just haven't figured out how to post pics on blog yet. Anyway, we had a great holiday, save not seeing Chad and Paige and my second cloud of guilt for not calling Troy, Lori and the Kids!! That's all for now!!
I hope 2005 brings all of you much Joy and Happiness!