Merry
Christmas 2013
Well, another year has passed and
since I didn’t write a Christmas letter last year, I thought I should put forth
more effort this year. It seems like it has taken a long time to get here, but
yet here we are with the end of the year approaching quickly. I’ll start with the oldest, skip me, and talk
about the kids. Sounds good!!
Clifton enjoyed building a picnic
table and large tv stand in January. He also enjoyed his birthday while
watching his two favorite teams, Alabama and Notre Dame, play for the
Championship. NO such luck this year, so we won’t even dwell on that. He will
however soon be 39 years and holding.
This year he showed us a trick he has secretly been hiding. He can take
dental floss and run it through his mouth and out his nose. Yeah gross, I’m
gagging just writing it, but it was amazing to watch when I had my eyes
open. He graduated from his RAM
Residency this summer and has entered his Family Practice Residency. This allows us to stay here for two and a
half more years. When done, this will be
the longest we have ever lived somewhere, five whole years in one spot. He has
enjoyed his second internship, since he technically did one in 2006, but they
won’t count that. The nurses love him because he helps and does things other
docs won’t do because he is both nice and hasn’t had the opportunity to do them
while working in the flight clinic. He is working hard and already lining
himself up to hopefully be Chief Resident
for his second and third year. He is still gone a lot, but is at least
in town and home most evenings. He
recently enjoyed playing in the Thanksgiving morning Turkey bowl with other
church members and of course felt the pain for the next week or more. Yet, no
rest days for him, it’s back to the hospital, pain and all.
Kilee has had an exciting year. She
received her Invisalign to straighten her teeth and has been working on that
for the past year, unfortunately, she didn’t work as hard as we had hoped and
is getting braces soon. She graduated elementary school and moved on to middle
school. She is keeping busy with Honors English, Honors Math, Band, Show Choir
practices and performances, and everything else. She is feeling the pressure,
but surviving. This summer she enjoyed playing softball for the first time and
looks forward to next year. Surprise she is great at it just like we told her
she would be if she just tried. It helped that all the cute boys from church
would also be on the team. Hee Hee. She also got the lead in the Missoula
Children’s Theatre production of Pinocchio, yes that means she was Pinocchio. She didn’t like the overalls, but loved the attention. Bring on next year’s
play. She just turned 12 and has left Primary behind and entered Young Women’s
in church. She enjoys singing and
dancing around the house, dressing her brothers and their friends up in dresses
and makeup for making a web show, playing in the snow, and eating lots of
candy. Her stomach and headaches decreased in January and she now enjoys eating
anything, especially candy. I am sure her sensitivities will come back as we
continue to eat junk, but at least we have an idea this time. She just recently
got a Kindle Fire and has been enjoying life with a tablet. She still prances
like a diva, but now is upping her heels and wearing makeup. My baby girl is
growing up.
Kandon turned a decade old this
year. He is now in the fifth grade and is enjoying the gifted class. He is all
about Minecraft on the computer this year. He wants me to download anything and
everything that will allow him to make Minecraft videos and upload them to
Youtube. I have to pry him away from the
computer to do homework, but he always gets it done and makes good grades. He
also played softball and looks forward to next year playing with Kilee’s age
group. He enjoys his teachers this year, which is always nice and makes wanting
to go to school easier. This is the last year he will ever ride the bus with
his brother, which makes me sad, but hey, they all have to grow up sometime. He
got his first girlfriend this year, it didn’t last long, but certainly wasn’t
any heart break. He also saved enough money for an Ipod touch and has been enjoying
talking to friends and Facetiming with family. He was able to be in a short
student film and see what it was like to be in a small production. He moved up to Webelos in scouts and is
enjoying his last year as a cub. He recently wants to shave off his long hair, but
mom won’t let him. Too drastic I say, wait til you are 12 when dad says
absolutely no more long hair. We will see who wins.
Kowen is still a loving boy who
loves to hug and snuggle. He turned seven and continues to see himself just as
big as everyone else. He was so excited to be 49 inches this year so he could
ride some of the big kid rides at Kings Island. He still has to grow to 54
before riding Diamondback, but he is gung ho. He is all about wearing the same
black pants to school, even after I cut them into shorts, and it has turned to winter
again. That boy. He even wears them under his other jeans when we say he can’t
wear them. I think they just need to get lost one day. He also showed he has
great skills playing softball and can’t wait to play with the big kids. He has
never thought he couldn’t do what the big kids could, even when he is half
their size. He is in the second grade now and has recently finished reading his
500th book in 18 months or so. It helps that they are shorter first
and second grade levels, but hey, still an awesome job and has patches on his
shirt to be proud of. Next goal, 1000. He is also all about Minecraft and the
computer. These boys just love to stack blocks on the computer, I just don’t
get it. Oh, well. Both he and Kandon have asked for an XBOX for Christmas, why,
so they can play Minecraft on it too. LOL. Kowen has lost his two front teeth,
loves to wrestle with dad or play anything with him, broke his arm at a skating
rink while on vacation this summer, and
did a few plays too this year.
Well that leaves me. I have enjoyed
the peace and quiet, minus the dog, this year, but look forward to next April
when our son will be born and life will go back to all day craziness. I have
been released from cub scouts and am back teaching primary. I have enjoyed being
Kowen’s teacher for a few weeks.
I’m old, nauseous, tired, and
fat, but so glad that I am.
Well, that is a quick sum up of our
year. I haven’t blogged much, so my memory is slim too.
We hope that
everyone is well and healthy. May the Holidays be bright and the season full of
joy and peace!
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