Our "Happy Holidays" Card

Here is our Christmas Card this year:

Happy Holidays!

We are a little late in sending out Christmas cards, but we do hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We appreciated hearing all of the updates and seeing the pictures that arrived in the mail and through e-mail! Here is what we have been up to in 2010:

Rock has taken up the hobby of bike riding. He finished a centennial ride (100 miles) in terrible weather and decided to do another one two months later. We were all very proud of him. He keeps busy with his job, but has also been reading and keeping up on sports when he gets a chance.

Karen is having a great time homeschooling again this year. She enjoys the time she gets to spend with the kids and is learning a lot right along side them. She is expecting another little baby in July.

Spice is enjoying choir and we had the chance to listen to her on the Mormon Channel when her choir performed “The Messiah” by Handel. She is enjoying piano, reading, and she is an avid writer. She writes in her journal throughout her day. She also became a dog owner this year and has proven to be a very responsible care-taker. Tico is one spoiled dog.

Bud has also been enjoying choir this year. He has learned to love singing so much that he chose to sing a solo in his cub-scout talent show. He did great! He is also very much into reading and has recently finished reading the “Lord of the Ring” series and has decided to start “The Chronicles of Narnia” again.

Little Miss has been enjoying figuring out songs on the piano and singing in the choir. She also has a great love for reading. Her latest book was “The Hobbit” and she is currently reading “The Princess and the Goblin”. She goes through books quickly and loves to share the adventures that she reads about. She also loves to play with her brothers. Their latest game is pretending that they are hamsters (due to the fact that she got a new pet hamster for Christmas).

Bazinks loves to draw and play with his brothers and sisters. He enjoys “reading lessons” and practicing his letters. He is also very often singing. He has a funny sense of humor and likes to make us laugh with his jokes and by telling us his imagined funny situations.

Ray is toddling all over the place. He likes to sing “Angels We have Heard on High”, or at least the “o-o-o-o-a” part in it. He is a busy explorer and likes to see what is in every drawer and how things sound when you pound them against one another. He is often smiling and figuring out someway to make us laugh or smile.