Well, I had an interesting Christmas this year. Being that my son is a senior in high school and will start college next year this was special to both me and my wife to spend it all together as a family. So that made it a great day. But we got another "treat" yesterday. Oklahoma was treated to a TRUE white christmas (most of our white christmases are usually just ice), we got about 8 inches of snow but exact amounts of snow are hard to measure because 60 mph winds yesterday blew most of the snow into drifts. We even had a blizzard warning for most of the day. But having a real white christmas was a gift in itself. The only bad part was my Dish mount blew over in the wind and damaged the feed horns on the dish, so I'll have to deal with that next week. The dish falling over was another small gift in itself. With no TV we instead hunkered down in the living room last night and watch a small christmas marathon...... Miracle on 34th Street, It's A Wonderful Life, and then the ULTIMATE christmas movie...... A Christmas Story (You'll shoot your eye out!!!!!!)

So, on to the stuff!!!!!
I got 2 new 16 GB SD cards for my camera (yeah, now I can get an entire day of shooting on one card!!!!0
The RC stuff I knew about before I tore any paper off. I've been hunting a kit for a bit and a flying buddy had one, so santa was kind enough to take it off of his hands.
Sig 4-Star 120 kit!!!! (yes, kit!!!!! no ARF's here)
Of course a plane like needs a good power plant. Santa took a small detour to Bob's Hobby Center in Orlando (Steven and Julie Thomas are great friends of ours) to find a power-plant for the Sig beast.
MLD-28 gasser engine for the plane.
Of course, any dad knows that he's got to refresh his sock and underwear each year at this time. And Santa didn't disappoint there either.
Top that off with a new coffee mug and a hat from the OSU (Oklahoma State University) which starting next year will be seeing a healthy part of our income next year in exchange for the privilege of our son visiting their hallowed hall!!!
And my annual box of chocolate covered cherries rounded out the gits under tree.

So, I'm hoping to clear some review projects from the building boards in hopes of getting the new 4-Star flyable by this spring.

Over all just being with my family at this time of year was the biggest gift I could have received. This year has been hard for most around the country and it really gives you a dose of reality knowing what's the most important thing in the world. All the "stuff" doesn't come close to having friends and family to share your life with!!!!!

I hope everybody else had a great day as well.

Ken