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Good evening friends.

Thanks for stopping by. Happy Christmas Eve.  Its funny, as soon as I say Christmas Eve, I can actually smell pine trees.  In the past month we have said the word “Christmas so many times” that the dogs think its a new trigger word like the words “W-A-L-K” or “T-R-E-A-T-S  — I have to spell that out because they are all sitting here and would start barking their heads off.

I remember Christmas Eve as being the most exciting night of the year. I was never able to sleep knowing I had all those presents waiting for me in the morning.  I just wrote about this the other night. The only night that might have topped Christmas Eve was the night before I got my drivers license. When i turned 17  and was able to drive, I thought I was Heaven right then and there.  No more of my mother dropping me at the movie theater in front all my friends and my girlfriend.  Man i hated that.

OK, Day 350 here in Puerto Rico. Day 35 since we rescued Rocky on November 19th.  When I look back on this year its nice to be able to say, I really had a happy year. In the past I had decades of looking back on any given year, and it always much worse at the end of the year then at the beginning.  I guess that’s where the slogan; “The definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results” comes from.

Today I have a lot to be grateful for.  Between Vanessa, our 6 dogs, who could Not be any happier, my father in law, and my family back home, our ELS family, only by the grace of God could this have happened. God can do for us what we can’t do for ourselves.

Friends I hope you can look back on 2015 as a happy one also. If you can’t, its not indicative of how 2016 will be.  Keep Buddha’s quote in mind; “Each day we are born again, what we do today matters most”

From our family to all of your families around the world, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Signing off from Puerto Rico, Scott Smith for Sammy & Family.