Vacation!

This will be my last post until after Christmas. We're heading out of town on vacation tomorrow and spending the week down in Florida with Greg's parents. The plane ride will be interesting...last year we had a great trip down but the return flight was awful. She cried the whole way home. I'm loading up on snacks and Elmo DVds in hopes that that will be enough to keep her quiet for three hours on a plane. I'm looking forward to some warmer weather. This snow and cold couldn't have come at a better time.

My office laid off about 25% of the staff this week. Earlier in the year, we lost about 18% of our staff. So our office has about 55% of the staff we had a year ago. We're both lucky and thankful that we are still employed. Greg's office has lost a significant number of staff too - I think in the 25% range.

I'll leave you all with a holiday photo. A few of you might have received a Christmas card with this picture (we mixed it up this year and used a couple photos). We hyped us Santa like he was the greatest thing ever and she was excited about it. Then when it came time to actually sit on his lap...well, that was a completely different story.