Wrapping Up 2009 And Welcome to 2010!

Here it is already the evening of January 4, 2010. Unbelievable. With Christmas and New Year's over and with getting back into the swing of things at MMS, I hope to renew posting new blog entries on a more regular basis.

I'll begin 2010 by wrapping up 2009 with some snapshots.

Tucker and Tanner enjoy Christmas morning. They really are like little kids when all the presents are put under the tree. While they enjoy Christmas morning, Tanner takes the Christmas presents themselves very, very seriously.

So serious, that whenever there's a break in the action, he protects the remaining presents from Tucker with stares and snarls to the point where she actually leaves the living room. Then and only then can Tanner relax. It's the craziest thing to watch.

Tanner protects the Christmas presents from Tucker.

Tanner relaxes with "his" presents after he'd banished Tucker from the living room.

The day after Christmas, Karen's sister, brother-in-law, and niece drove in from Virgina for a three day visit. It was a lot of fun. We talked a lot, snacked a lot, watched some 3 Stooges DVD's, made a run into Amish country, worked on a puzzle, and played several rounds of Sequence.

Here's Brenda, Ralph, Karen, and Rebecca, during one of the rounds of Sequence.

After New Year's we did actually have a couple of sunny days here. The catch was the temps were in the teens and the windchill factors hovered near 0 degrees. Karen and I did get Tanner and Tucker out for a short walk. Tucker found a treasure on her walk.

Here's Tucker with the Christmas treasure found she found on her walk.

She was just so pleased to walk around with that bone in her mouth! Of course, since it was a turkey bone, we took it away from her after the photo. Tucker's wearing the Charlie Brown "jacket" that Karen made.

So yes, we did have a couple days where the sun was visible in the sky. Well, THAT'S over...it's been snowing since early this morning and there's about 4 inches of fresh snow on the ground right now.

Today was everyone's first day back at MMS after the holiday. It was good to be together again and re-focus on preparing people and planes for worldwide mission service. Everyone has a feeling that 2010 is going to be a great year for the mission. Thanks for your continued interest and involvement which makes our ministry possible.

MMS Aviation
(the little red car is mine)