Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Happy Holidays!
from jeff & rhiannon

Greetings to our friends and family! We wish you a very happy holiday season and all the best in 2008. As we travel across the country this holiday season, we want to let you know that you are all in our thoughts. We thank you for your continued love and support.

Top Ten
of 2007

10) We finally got our customized trailer!

9) Jeff began learning mandolin, Rhiannon began the violin

8) Fantastic trip to western Europe!

7) Block party, Rosstoberfest, Murder Mystery, all parties with the 85 stoners (our neighbors)

6) Cruises with family and friends

5) New additions to the world: Leo Helfrich (Jeff's nephew); Kylie Mitchell (neighbor); Owen Kruse (Rhiannon's 2nd cousin)

4) Exploring Alaskan ice caves, glaciers, animals, and beer

3) Red Sox win the World Series!

2) Beginning a new career as headliners on cruise ships

1) We got engaged!!

Microsoft Holiday Party

December 8th, we performed at our first Microsoft party this holiday season. It was for one of the marketing divisions. We had a blast! It was at the new (beautiful!) Pan Pacific Hotel downtown Seattle. We had the busiest room by far with everyone singing and dancing for over 4 hours! We hope that this is the beginning of a great relationship with the Microsoft company.

Rain, Rain, Go Away

The Northwest has been slammed by a terrible winter storm the last couple of days. No, not snow, just rain. In fact so much rain that it is causing major flooding, closing of roads and bridges, and evacuation of businesses and buildings. Yesterday was the second rainiest day in Seattle's history. I-5 (the main interstate on the west coast) is closed between Seattle and Portland. They are rerouting traffic through different roads and highways. What is normally a 3 hour drive has turned into a 7 hour trek. We got stuck in the first part of the weather storm. We had a gig in Sacramento, CA this weekend and drove up to Seattle on Sunday. We ran into a snow storm near Mt. Shasta, then it was just heavy rain the rest of the way home. Thankfully, we made it back before it was too late. I've attached some pictures taken by different local folk who have encountered these last two crazy days.