Hi from Suki!

Hello to everyone,
First of all, congratulations to Matt and Elissa! Your engagement news is so exciting and gives us something big and special to look forward to next fall. We'll see you two at Thanksgiving and Niki and I are anxious to hear of any preliminary wedding plans you may have. This will be my first Thanksgiving at G&G's for awhile since I have been traveling to Texas to be with my mother, brother and sister and their families for Turkey Day. This year, however, the Wise family (along with Niki and Cassi) will be getting together in Las Vegas to celebrate Cassi's 21st birthday as well as celebrate the Wise Christmas. Steve will not be making the trip with us (he's not a big fan of Sin City), but we assured him we would return on Dec. 23 for our traditional Christmas Eve and Christmas day in Yutan.

Kelly, I loved your Vegas pictures. You two seemed to enjoy the sights and sounds of the city far more than your ma and pa did! One of my favorites sights of the hotels was the ceiling at the Bellagio. You probably know it's the largest presentation of the glasswork artist, Dale Chihuly, who was in Omaha a few years back at the Joslyn Museum where he had a huge exhibition. He was there himself and put on several glass blowing demonstrations, etc. and I was so impressed! One small piece of his glasswork sells for thousands of dollars and each contained such amazing colors and designs. Then I go to Vegas after that and you can only imagine how shocked I was to see his mammoth display of over 40,000 pounds of glass artwork hanging from the entire ceiling of the lobby. I see you captured that image vividly with your new camera.

It's getting really late, so in closing, here's a brief summary of what's happening with the Stamps. My boss at OTC resigned to take a big job in Indianapolis and left after a week's notice. I'm now the only one putting together an 80-page catalog until a new buyer comes November 1st. She's a smart, great person I've worked with at THT, but she's had no experience in the promotional products industry. My work days are long, but I think I can hang in there. This Friday Steve and I will travel to KU for Dad's Day at Cassi's sorority. Activities include tailgating at the stadium, going to the game against Colorado and a dinner/auction at the country club. This is the same activity last year that happened to be on the day KU played NU (and got their behinds kicked) and the Warren's went with us. Should be fun. The pictures above are taken from the KU/NU game a couple of week ago. It seems we hit the only week without rain and the game ended as Cassi wanted, which was KU to play well and close, but certainly not win!

I end my day watching the highlights of the big game today on ESPN and it makes me sad. Oh well, as Steve would say, "that's sports." One more quick note...I saw Aunt Marge today and she looks great!

Keep writing and good night to all!
Suki