Family Newsletter 2010...the long version

2010 has been a year of blessings.  The biggest blessing of all is that Paul is the living record holder for the fastest stint placement at the local hospital.  In July (see July post) he knew what was happening, had a blessing and got right to the hospital and everything was taken care of from start to finish in two hours.  When he went back for his check up they found that there was minimal if any damage to the heart and the doctor told him to get back to doing what he had been doing.  He was back to work in two weeks...another blessing...we have work.  Bonnie still has her sweet job as an afternoon kindergarten aide at Heritage Elementary.  She also added afternoon bus aide to the day when the principal said she could have some extra hours if she would take it on.  All but about 7 of the kids on the bus are pretty fun. It would be nice to deport those 7 some days.  After a couple of weeks she added 99 names to faces...more kids to enjoy.  We also became empty nesters this year with Bean and Supe vacating the premises at least temporarily.  Genghis, Bean's cat, is still here with us and tries hard to keep us from getting too spoiled.  He wants to retain the title of most spoiled for himself.

Lou & Bryan live in Enoch with their two children and are expecting a surprise baby (girl/boy?) in January.  Bryan still works as a funeral director for Southern Utah Mortuary and Lou keeps things running smoothly at home.

Jared & Brynn live in Sandy and added sweet Madeliene to their family in June.  Jay made a job change and absolutely loves his new job working as a software engineer for Symantec.  Brynn and Madi hang out at home and make life good for Jay.

Jennifer & Ryan live in Toquerville with their five children.  Ryan is an RN and is back in school and working toward eventually becoming a nurse practitioner.  Ferf is keeps things organized at the house.

Lenae & Derek live here in town with their three kids and are also going to add to the herd of grand kids in 2011.  Derek is still teaching at the high school a couple of blocks from their house and teaches tennis lessons at a local health club on the side.  Lenae is very busy being the Primary president and keeping things going at home.

Julene & Lance are in Bountiful still in the process of doing a major remodel on their home.  They have made great progress and everything they have done is top notch.  Their two kids will be getting a baby sister in 2011.  Lance is still working as a geologist/computer whiz guy the for state of Utah.  Juge keeps the kids and the remodeling in order at home.

Lorin & Christie became homeowners in 2010 and live here in St. George.  They have worked really hard at putting in a beautiful back yard and keeping up with Brenden the past year.  Moss got a pretty bad leg injury while putting in their trampoline, but is making a fast and full recovery.  Brenden bit someone in nursery his first week, so they are now the nursery leaders.  Moss still works as one of the head guys at a local health club and is very busy training lots of people for the upcoming St. George Iron Man.  He also graduated from DSC with a Bachelor's in Integrated Studies in Psychology and Biology.  Christie keeps plenty busy keeping up with Brenden.

Supe (Jerel - he's the one on the right) has it backwards...he spends his summers in St. George working for Moss and then heads up to Logan for the rest of the year to attend Utah State. He will graduate next year.  We always know that he will not starve...he has a job at the Great Harvest in Logan and just got promoted to baker. He took first in his division in a half-ironman just before heading off to school in the fall.  We think with his history major and major interest in outdoors/fitness/adventure type stuff he should graduate with an Indiana Jones degree.  He hasn't brought anyone home for us to meet yet, but we still keep hoping for another fantastic daughter-in-law in the near future.

Bean (Landon) is living the dream as a welfare services missionary in SLC.  He works at Deseret Tranport as the first diesel mechanic missionary for the church and also works one day a week in the Salt Lake Temple.  He got his official call (1 year) in July after  working as a volunteer for the previous 7 months.  He is learning lots about a lot of things and is doing a great job.  We are so proud of him. 

Genghis is going bonkers at this point with all the rain putting a kink in his outdoor plans.  He was so bored the other day that he started trying to catch the screen saver on the computer monitor as it moved across the screen.  He kept looking behind the monitor trying to figure out where that thing had escaped to. 

We can't thank Heavenly Father enough for all the blessing that have been showered down on us and our family in 2010. We wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!