Getting our Christmas letters in the mail is not one of my strong points. So, her it is for those that follow our family.
Dear Friends and Family,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We hope that this Holiday season brings joy, peace and good health to you all. This time of year is a great time to reflect back on the year and prepare for the new one.
We still love our house and enjoy living next to Great Grandma Edington. We didn’t get the landscaping done like we had hoped this year but I am sure one day it will get done. We are just grateful we have a place to live that is our own.
The girls are doing great! Courtney is three and loving life. She is home alone with mom during the day and enjoys that time. She does miss her sisters when they are at school though. She is excited that someday she will get to go to school also. More often than not she wants to bring a lunch and backpack in the van when we take the girls to school so she can pretend she is going to school now. She thinks that just about any word starting with the letter C has to be her name. She is a very talkative, happy girl and a joy to have in our home.
Shaylee is seven and in second grade. She enjoys school for the most part and is getting better on her reading all the time. She has made a big improvement from the start of the school year. At the end of last school year, in May, Shaylee became our first child to break a bone. She got knocked of the bars at school and fell and broke her collar bone. Sad to say, we didn’t realize it was broken for five days. She would favor it and complain of it hurting but we thought she had just strained it. It was when she screamed out in pain trying to pull up her pants that we decided it might be more serious and had her checked. Luckily it healed pretty quickly. She did have to miss out on playing baseball for the first time though, maybe next year. Shaylee is a wonderful child and very tender hearted.
Kelsi turned nine this year and is in fourth grade. Fourth grade has been a new experience for her. It has been a little harder than what she has been used to but hopefully it has been good too. They do things quite a bit different in fourth then in the lower grades. She has a homeroom teacher and a different teachers rotate in and out of the classroom teaching different subjects. Overall she enjoys school, especially the social aspect of it. She loves to read, draw and color. Kelsi is growing up fast and is a wonderful helper around the house.
Another interesting tidbit, both Kelsi and Shaylee learned to ride their bikes without training wheels this summer. They are both doing very well with it and love riding them now. They even rode them in the people parade the Town of Thatcher put on for the 4th of July. It was great fun!
Jeremy is still working hard to provide for his family. He is doing a great job. We have been so blessed by his job and are grateful that he has it. On those days that may be a little tough or long we just have to remind ourselves how blessed we are that he has such a great job. We are also blessed that he does find time to spend with the family also. He has started having daddy daughter dates with each of the girls and it is an exciting night they each look forward to.
Cindy continues to be blessed to stay at home and take care of things there. She has found a little time to help out at the schools also. She gets to help with PE, PTO and Box Tops. It has been fun for her to get out and be a little more involved at the schools.
We are truly grateful for the year we have been blessed with. Not everything that happened this year has been wonderful but much of it has. We are thankful to our Heavenly Father for helping us along the way this year and we look forward to celebrating the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. What a gift and blessing He is and what a gift it is to have you all as friends and family. We love you and wish you the best in 2012!
Love,
Jeremy, Cindy, Kelsi, Shaylee and Courtney Hunt
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