[Bordermarch] B&B Update

[David Lathrop]

Dear Populace,

Santiago and I will not be attending Gulf Wars this year.  Santiago's work load 
has recently doubled due to the closing of Conex another engineering firm that 
had many contract workers in the refineries. This along with no comp-time in his 
vacation bank makes it impossible for us to consider playing for a week. We wish 
all of you that are going a safe and event-filled time with lots and lots of 
memories and stories to tell. Keep us posted!!

I personally would also like to say how much we appreciate the understanding 
ears and supportive shoulders as our family goes through a trying time. We have 
said little up until now but have over the last year been supporting our 
youngest son Austin fight a long drawn out paternity suite for his daughter 
Emma. It has required many days in court and supervised visitation where one of 
us(David or I) must remain with him when Emma is here. It has been best for me 
to stay home to help him become comfortable and confident in his new roll as a 
dad and to teach him all that is necessary to care for an infant. Needless to 
say we are overjoyed that we have a new granddaughter in our life and Austin is 
doing super, but still there is sadness that Emma's mother tried to deny her a 
dad.  This too shall pass and we remain strong as a family. It is with the 
support and understanding of you, our friends that has helped us make it this 
far. We hope to share Emma with you soon and I look forward to attending 
practice and populace again. 


We both will be attending Saturdays A&S Day and look forward to seeing many of 
you there.

As always God's Grace to you all,

Their Excellencies 
Elisabeth et Santiago