Sum-up

Christmas Letter 2014  Sum-Up

Best Year Ever! We have been so blessed and had so much fun and felt of the love of Christ so deeply this year. Best year ever. We were sitting in an Indian restaurant eating dinner on New Year’s Eve and we started listing our favorite events of the year. A scribbled list on a paper placemat is the outcome of that conversation. We also set a few goals for next year. So here goes the typed-up version.

Best of 2014: Bamboo Forest, surfing lessons, snorkeling, all you can eat Hawaiian Ice shack on Maui thanks to grandma and grandpa, (Spring Break Vacation), Cliffs of Moher, the Bunny Island across the bay from Rebekahs house, Kayaking with the seals, (Ally and Erin went to Ireland with my sister Sonja), Yurt Trip, beautiful snow hike to Yurt (mouse crawled on my head while trying to sleep), Sadie, Jozsie, Hollie and Nanna visiting for Ally’s baptism, Ally’s baptism(yeah Ally!), Silver Lake hike and seeing moose swim across the lake, Alta campout and titty-twister hike(poor Jason), Eagle Project for Carter (Santa Flight), Angles Landing hike and awesome weather in Zion over Thanksgiving Break, Camping in our secret spot near Heber and throwing ninja stars at logs, Ally’s epic fish catch on the Yellowstone River (pure joy), Byron catching his first golden trout on the boys campout, Carter hand fishing a golden trout and showing up his dad, many smoked meals on Byron’s new smoker (yumm), $1.99 gas, Jason getting debt free (woo-hoo), Ty and Erin’s trip to San Fran, (Ty kicking Diabetes in the rear-hopefully- Trial Net Study).

It has been such a fun year. We are so grateful for all of our blessings and the joy we have experienced as a family this year. We have felt watched over and love from above and are so grateful for it.We are entering 2015 with a little trepidation as we may have some big changes ahead of us but we know we will be looked after by family and friends and our Savior. Everything is going to work out just fine.

We have set goals for this coming year. We don’t know if we will accomplish all of them but here they are…Ally- trip to DC to see cousins, Carter- more glass blowing lessons, and learn to drive a car, Tyler- dirt bike owner and operator, Erin- property manager and see Northern Lights, Byron-solarize the Jelly Bean Camper, Jason- become a full fledged grown up.  Travel Goals include (but of course not limited to): Maui, Grand Canyon, Alta Campout, Mexico, Glacier National Park, Jackson Hole, Yurt hike. We will see how many we can get checked off our list.