Merry Christmas!!!!!

We wanted to wish everyone at home a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We will both be missing our first Christmas in 25 years to not be at home with family and friends. But God has blessed us with many wonderful friends to be with, and we are very grateful. We have reservations to eat with a few of our couple friends from South Africa, Germany, and New Zealand for Christmas Eve, followed by carols on the Avon River and midnight mass at the Cathedral. Christmas afternoon we will be grilling out with our neighbors from England and Australia. Boxing Day, which is the day after Christmas, is a public holiday...Blaine will have the day off and I will work from 7-5. Then Mom will arrive on the 28th!!
We will be thinking of each family member and friend over the holidays and missing you but the good new is...WE WILL BE HOME NEXT YEAR FOR CHRISTMAS!!!

Matthew 1:21 "She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."

Love, Blaine and Kate