Merry Christmas!

Pat, April, Ryan, and Allison Bliss

Hope You all are well!

This year was busy as usual. Our latest big house project was digging out our basement using picks, shovels, sheetrock buckets and a small garden tractor and cart. We had a lot of help from Dave Ruffrage (who wanted to get paid for this one) and his son Scott, my Godson (we bartered an old pickup for his labor). We poured concrete in the summer and had a new hot water heating system installed for most of the late summer and fall. Now we just need to start paying for everything. And I stalled the rest of the house projects that she was trying to do at the same time for her sanity as well as mine.

Pat

• Hockey• Farmville• Popcorn• Still a pompus ass• Cut down a ridiculous

size Christmas tree• (I am leaving this page

just as Allie made it)

Mom

• Still working at Jeff-Lewis BOCES and hopes the state has enough money for her to continue next year. We hope so as well.

April’s new hood!

She received another certificate of advanced study getting 2 administrative degrees

Ryan

• Ryan has started his first year at SUNYIT in Marcy and has taken over the downstairs in the addition so he feels slightly less like he’s living at home.

Graduation

• Graduation last summer in the park. Ryan is working at Price Chopper and lifeguarding at SUNYIT so he’s had a pretty busy semester. Still keeping the weight off he lost and is looking good!

Senior Ball

• Can we find a picture where he’s not wearing shades? He’s too cool for that!

• Pay no attention to the Boston sweatshirt in the last picture – diehard Yankees/Giant fan!

Allison

• 10th grade

• Going on 11 years of piano lessons

• Ran track

• Cooks now

• Thinking about college already and makes her mother take her shopping as often as possible

Puppies :]

• Pomegranate and Rutabaga

• Our latest animal addition are these 2 miniature dachshunds, an unwanted Father’s Day present

• 7 months old• They are spoiled rotten

and seem to have the run of the place

• House training girls?

• Allison and her friend Laura are going to Florida in February.

Polly is still in there the lone cat enjoys terrorizing Pommy!

Tramp is still with us. All the dogs were a great help with the Christmas tree.

Love,

The Bliss Family!