Jackie,

I'm glad you made it through another Dancentral production. All is going well hear. Work is very busy. I didn't know that Andrea was expecting again. Be sure to send my congrats and best wishes. I hope Mark is feeling better. He is too yound to be so stress. Sounds like your new house is beautiful. I bet you are looking forward to being all settled. Better get back to work. Great to hear from you and please send my best to everyone.

Chris

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From: 	"Dave /Jackie Hewson" <djhewson@telusplanet.net>@ENRON [mailto:IMCEANOTES-+22Dave+20_Jackie+20Hewson+22+20+3Cdjhewson+40telusplanet+2Enet+3E+40ENRON@ENRON.com] 
Sent:	Saturday, June 16, 2001 8:20 AM
To:	Dorland, Dan; Dorland, Chris
Subject:	You Great Kids!


Hi Chris!  Hi Dan!
 
Surprise, surprise, surprise!  I  just wanted to take a minute and express what a fan-tabulous video it was that  ran at the end of your mom's show this year!  Your parts in it were  absolutely wonderful - came off beautifully.  Was a teary ending to a L - O  - N - G show!  Of course, I put Mark on the spot immediately following the  show when we saw him and I said "OK Mark, the camera is on you.....what great  things do you have to say about your mom?"  He replied "Are you  serious?  You're not serious are you?"  To which I said, "Yes, of  course I'm serious - you should have heard the great things Chris and Dan said  about their Mom!"  Well, he didn't let me down.....and then I had a few  more tears!  You guys did a great job with your part of the video and I was  proud of you.
 
Well, we are going through some major  changes here as I'm sure you know.  We took possession of our new "Red  Deer" home on June 1st and the first thing we did was get Gunner in to install  hardwood flooring.  They just finished yesterday and it is awesome!   Originally there was hardwood in the front entrance way, but we had that all  refinished to match the new stuff that we had installed in the family room,  kitchen, and atrium.  I just love it!
 
Today we meet the painter there and  choose colours and she will get started on Tuesday.  We'll have the whole  house painted pretty much and then we can start shuffling our "stuff" from here  to there.  It's quite overwhelming moving everything from a barn, two  oversize double garages and this house into the city.  We had all the "farm  stuff" to sell and dispose of and that is pretty much all done now.  Dave's  tractor was his pool table fund and it just sold a week or so ago, so off to Red  Deer Billiards to purchase the pool table.  He is having snooker rails put  on - I guess that's what your folks have too, isn't it?  They tell me it's  harder to play and that I should get practised up at home and then hit the bars,  challenge the unsuspecting to a game of eight ball and then whoop their butts  (because I'd be so incredibly good after practising on the snooker table).   Makes me laugh!  I'm pretty positive challenging anyone for a game would be  a joke on my part, but hopefully I can get into "pool" mode and have fun with it  too.
 
The yard at our new home is just  incredible compared to most Red Deer yards.  The home is on a huge pie  shaped lot and has been landscaped beautifully, so we are quite pleased with  that.  And I LOVE the house.  It's really very nice and I can hardly  wait for the whole move experience to be over and to be settled in there with  everything in it's place.  We overspent at Sim's and that's going to be fun  receiving all that new furniture!
 
Andrea, Michael and Braedon are doing  just fine.  They purchased a home in Clearview Meadows and it's really very  nice!  Has a fenced yard with lots of mature greenery and Braedon just  loves his new swing set and sand box.  Andrea & Michael are finding it  a real treat to be back in town and relieves me that Andrea is so much closer to  the hospital.  She usually is working evening shifts and I always worried  about her travelling the highway so late at night, especially in the  winter.  They are expecting baby number 2 and it would appear to be a girl  from the ultrasounds she's had so that is pretty exciting.  Miss Jordyn  Marie will be her name (they haven't decided on a boy's name yet in the event  that Miss Jordyn Marie has a "Mr. Wiggley" - but are pondering it).
 
Mark, of course is a whole other  story.  That boy gives me a few new grey hairs on a regular basis.   He's no sooner apart from Nikki and "enter Alison".  Alison is 18 years old  and very very quiet, so hard for us to get to know her, but she seems quite nice  so that's a good thing.  (Not sitting around with a scowl on her face like  Nick usually did)  Mark and Alison are "in love" and are just ga-ga over  each other.  We are very nice to see him so happy, although worry that it  all happened a bit soon.  But, what do we know?  Mark has been having  trouble with his health and I'm somewhat certain it is stress related, however  he denies that.  He experiences such severe chest pains that he actually  passes out from the pain.  This has been happening more frequently of late  and he had to leave the job he was on in Fort St. John and return home to try to  get healthy before he moves to Cold Lake on July 1st!  (That's the other  big change)  They've run EKG's (or ECG's) on him, taken blood, chest  X-Rays, etc. and results all came back clear, so they are unable to determine  what is causing him his problems.  I guess he's dropped alot of weight and  is now underweight for his age and height.  The Dr. has now determined it  is a muscle related problem and has him on muscle relaxants and apparently they  are helping somewhat, so hopefully it will be as easy as that.
 
I'm sad to see him leaving for Cold Lake  again as it is so far away and we won't get to see him much - but you guys know  all about that!  He, on the other hand is quite excited to get away and get  a "new" start so to speak, once again.  Alison is moving up there with them  and they are pretty excited to set up their own home.  Right now Alison is  in Australia - a trip she has been planning and saving for for quite some time,  but she is missing Mark terribly and trying to come home early.
 
We are going to the production "Chicago"  with your mom and dad next weekend and I'm really looking forward to the  day.  Dave and I are planning a trip to Toronto Dan - just a quick 4 dayer  with another couple and I think we've pretty much decided on August 16 - 19th,  but tickets haven't been purchased yet.  We will go see the Lion King and I  want to drive out to Niagara Falls while we're there also.  Should be  fun.  Hard for us to focus on too much until we get this move  completed.  We have until August 1st before we actually give up possession  here on the farm and thank God for all the time - we seem to be needing it and  it's just flying!
 
Well boys, I better get off the computer  and get back to my packing.  Will do some packing and then head into town  to run some errands before we have to meet the painter.  Take care you two  and once again - Great job with the video!
 
xoxo
Jackie