Christmas Letter 2007

Merry Christmas One and All!

I want to admit that this will be a SHORT Christmas letter. But...if you want to look at the every day details of our lives you are welcome. All you have to do is scroll down to the "Archives" section in the right hand column and you can look month by month at our lives.

In July/August we took a FANTASTIC vacation to British Columbia Canada, and Yellowstone and a zillion other places in between! This was a major highlight of our year. We hiked in the Badlands of South Dakota, and visited Mount Rushmore. It was a 30 hour trip, ONE WAY! But a great time!!! We have decided that driving that long in a car really brings us all together. Besides being "attacked" by a baby chipmunk it was great trip! :) We are already planning our next vacation for this summer! Who knows where we will show up next!

Here are the highlights of the year person by person.

Jeff: Continues to sell Real Estate, although to a somewhat lesser degree, as the church begins to take off. We had our first double service ever last week, with 150 in attendance. Jeff works incredibly hard for the family and rarely has any down time.

Amy: I am still teaching 4th grade at Heritage Christian School and between being a mom, pastors wife, wife and full-time teacher I sometimes do not think that I can go on much longer!! But, I love every aspect of my life and couldn't give any of it up! But it sure does take its toll.

Jenna: She is the busiest one of us all as a 5th grader! She is really learning time management as she has school, basketball, cheerleading, guitar and saxaphone all to tend to. Oh, yeah, homework too! Somehow she gets very good grades also. She is such a young lady now, and had her first babysitting job last weekend. (Besides watching her sisters)

Mikayla- like I talked about in my previouse post, she turned 7 today! She is excelling in first grade and reads like the wind. She has a very funny sense of humor and she loves to keep Haley laughing. She enjoys ballet, tap and jazz classes.

Haley- Haley is also in school. She attends Heritage 5 days/week from 8:30-1:30 in Pre-K class. She does awesome and is learning amazing things for her young age. After school she gets picked up by different people and babysat until Mom can pick her up after my work day. She loves the Disney Princesses and plans on decorating her new room with the Princesses.

I know this was pretty short, but the highlights (and lowlights) are all documented in my blog, in great detail. I invite you to catch up on our lives. If you do not want to look at the past, I invite you to continue to enjoy the future with us. I know many of you are our faithful blog readers who we feel are a part of our lives because of this blog. We wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year. May yours be Merry and Bright!

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Love to you all!