Let's Try Something Different, Friends!

 Greetings, Friends and Family ~

We're breaking with tradition this year to offer a little more interactive fun. 2024 was a crazy, chaotic year with little hint of anything less going into 2025 so we need a cartoon wrap-up.

This year I employed my oldest, Kerri, to draw this year's events, complete with my 30th year reunion with my bobsled sisters -- the 1st women's bobsled team in the United States, our upcoming documentary "IceBreakers" and more:

Please find:

25 mice                        an opera singer                        a man in a rolled up snowman

Grinch                            a duck                                    1 partially built snowman

Buddy the Elf                a jedi                                       a wedding proposal

a mummy                      a surfer                                    ice skater on bobsled track

Elsa's castle                   a witch & a wizard                 a snow guitar

turtle on a sled               a Roman soldier                     a counselor at her advice stand

2 snow dogs                   2 snow angels                        1 snow cat and 3 snowmen

Snoopy                           Bruno from Encanto              Rudolf and eight reindeer

a campfire                       Waldo                                    a couple tangled in a dog leash

snowball fight                 guy playing golf                    a kit and a mouse in a tutu

2 skiers crashing             girls playing soccer               black & white meme

dog doing zoomies          Abominable Snowman         kid trying to catch Santa

Cat in a tree                      kid with an alpine horn        people pulling a dog sled       

... oh, and the IceBreakers bobsled team!

                                (can't see? check out our QR code, too!)




What's the doc? Check out: 

          https://www.gofundme.com/f/icebreakers-is-a-documentary-of-this-untold-story

As for the kids ~ Tommy is now married with a child on the way, Katie walked out from a concern in Austin to find firetrucks around a burning car -- hers -- because, why wouldn't her car randomly burst into flames while she was enjoying a concert, and as Kerr's girls continue to grow as inquisitive but full-on germ-carrying, soul-sucking future warriors, a little part of me smiles. Paybacks!

but really sweet, adorable paybacks!

Happy holidays. Stay safe, stay curious, fight  the good fight.

    #BeFearlessButBeKind





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