I don't need to tell you, in Los Angeles, sandal season is year round.

Would you let me finish? Okay, fine. Go ahead. Season.

That's something we can do not only during the holiday season but all year round.

Just in time for the holiday season, we now have another piece of good news about the pace of our economic recovery.

Okay, then we won't touch the hard drive. We'll just erase the first season of Battlestar. There. We're outlaws.

Our theme was A Children's Winter Wonderland and Americans young and old had a chance to come together and celebrate the season.

So this holiday season as we give thanks for the blessings in our own lives, let's also give thanks to our men and women in uniform who make those blessings possible.

We hope that this holiday season will be a chance for us to live out that message, to bridge our differences and lift up our families friends, and neighbors and to reconnect with the values that bind us together.