Mom and Jason are spending Christmas in India. They are 10.5 hours later, therefore they are going to sleep when Brendan & I are getting up.

Jack, Shannon, & the girls are in Colorado enjoying all their new fun toys. Breena will even be learning to ski this year!

Amanda & Brendan have been in Longmeadow, MA and Killington, VT spending time with Brendan’s family. We celebrated Brendan’s birthday (12/26) skiing at Killington (the best skiing in the eastern part of the country)! We even had German Chocolate Cake in Memory of father.

Jason and Rhonda will be back in the United States this weekend to share about their trip.

Father and Grandmother are up in Heaven and I know they were in all of our thoughts this whole season, but missed dearly. Each of our houses has an inflatable christmas decoration outside in memory of father.

It is hard to believe it has been 10 months since father’s transition. With father’s book out, it is nice to read it and feel like father is speaking in person.

We miss you dearly father. Love, Your children

Riders for the Cure, the official employee motorcycle riders’ group, recently presented $12,000 to the Children’s Cancer Hospital at M. D. Anderson.

Motorcycle group members handed over the check to Eugenie Kleinerman, M.D., division head for Pediatrics, during a Dec. 4 ceremony in Kim’s Place. The funds, which were raised by this year’s Sam’s Jam motorcycle ride, will be directed toward research to lessen the side effects of cancer treatments in children.

Patrick Browning, J.D., clinical business manager in the Cancer Prevention Center (and Riders for the Cure president), Jason Hassenbusch, PRS Administrative Services, Linda Dunker, office manager, Stem Cell Transplantation (and Riders for the Cure vice-president) and other riders from the nonprofit group also were at the presentation.

The ride, which was Oct. 18, is named in memory of Samuel Hassenbusch, M.D., Ph.D., who was a professor in Neurosurgery and medical director of the Physicians Referral Service here and an avid motorcycle rider and enthusiast. More than 130 bikes carrying 200 participants rode from the Houston Main Building to West of the Brazos in Damon, TX.