We are very glad to rejoin the 21st century. Our power is back on!!! You may have heard that the PNW took quite a beating this past weekend. We had hurricane force winds Thurs night that took out the power to 1.1 million people including us. All our trees stayed up but there are trees on power lines everywhere. Church was cancelled today because most building didn't have electricity back on yet. Ours came on this morning at 5 am after a freezing night. We got to use the generator that we bought just for this purpose about 8 years ago. It was nice to be able to keep the refrigerators cold and a few lights on. We did our best at keeping Grandma warm, but that's always tough. The power companies think they'll have most customers back online by the end of the week but some not until after Christmas! We are counting our blessings! We are excited about Lauren and Bonnie being home for Christmas. Bonnie is bring a significant young man home with her named Ben and then they are going to Heber to visit his family before she relocates to Syracuse, NY to be nearer him. We're excited to get to meet him. We will post Christams greetings and hopefully pictures later. Love to all, Karen