Rachel, my sister-in-law, doesn't think I post anymore so she is going to unlink me! I have an excuse though... things at work have been really busy these days. We have had a lot to do with our new version of the software (which is really cool and I can't wait to have it all working) and the owner of the company has been out as his wife is having some critical medical problems. Sandy's swift recovery is in our prayers.

For Christmas we will be traveling down to California and then after Christmas we head east to Pennsylvania. When we get back to Montana we will have our new car (Toyota Yaris liftback). Currently it is somewhere on a boat in the Pacific ocean.

Last night was the Math department Christmas party. We made sugar cookies shaped like trees, candy canes, gingerbread women (they have skirts, so maybe they are Scottish gingerbread men), numbers, a minus sign, a less then or greater then or hat symbol, some dots, and a T-Rex. Rebekah puts lemon in the mix for flavor and thinks that that is unique (I don't know if it is but it tastes good).

Our house and cat are being house sat by one of the youths from our church. She visited today with her two kittens which inspired some territorial responses by Mobius, but they seemed to get along well enough. As they were leaving one of the cats didn't like our neighbor's dog and sprinted (cheetah style) back through the hose and across my left second toe. I'm ok though, just a little bleeding, nothing like this.

This afternoon we made fudge (chocolate and peanut butter). Rebekah likes to make "finals week fudge" for her students to consume. I'll make her post about it on the cooking blog.

In sports news, I've been too busy to do anything active recently (we should be getting out on the snow sometime soon), but both Wheaton's soccer teams were in the NCAA III finals with the women delivering a resounding victory and the men loosing, but making for an outstanding finish to Joe Bean's career.