What a year it has been....Happy New Year!

If you've kept up with me at all throughout the last twelve plus months you know we have had lots of exciting things going on. Our daughter Allison graduated from college and was married, five grandbabies were born, I earned my second masters degree, CarlyAnn, Tim and I had the trip of a lifetime to New York city where she had the honor of attending American Ballet Theaters Young Dancers program, and we had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration with all six of our children, their spouses and our eight grandchildren. There are other things you may not know. Today, for the first time since Tim's initial diagnosis with melanoma in the spring of 2004, Tim and I talked about our retirement ten plus years down the road. Now, this may not seem earth shattering to you, but for us it is. This is the first time we have considered that Tim may actually survive to retire. After, several surgeries and two brutal clinical trials, doomsday predictions from his physicians, Tim currently had no evidence of this deadly disease. We had a setback in November of '09 when he was diagnosed with kidney cancer during a routine melanoma scan, but it was unrelated and the surgery was successful. So today look forward to a New Year, with an new attitude, looking forward to working, spending time with family, and setting things in place for our eventual retirement. Thanks for being a part of our life!