A Merry Update

Merry Christmas 2010

As a family we traveled to Islamorada FL. with my parents and bother’s families.  The kids really enjoyed their first airplane ride, delays and all.  We lathered on the sunscreen and escaped any sunburns for the week.  Unfortunately, for my brother Joshua, jellyfish are not repelled in the least by sunscreen.  Thus following his painful sting, most of the swimming we did was in the pool not the ocean!  It was a fun-filled time full of memories we will not soon forget.

Ethan (5) is still our laid-back, sweet mannered guy, with the occasional testing of our discipline-consistency.  School is high on E’s priority list, he likes to be on time and we’re blessed to have Ms Janet for his teacher.  Ethan loved soccer almost as much as he loved Jacob being his coach – and if you ask us he was the best on his team J One of Ethan’s favorite places is Memaw and Papa’s lake house and he became quite the dare-devil this year – tubing, occasionally swimming without a life-jacket and jumping of cliffs!  He’s a good big brother to Charlie and she’s his cheerleader.

Charlie (3) is our princess, with an overflowing-passion for all things girly and a pretty-big dose of drama.  School for Charlie is social hour and she thrives there.  Ballet was one of the highlights of C’s year and the beautiful costume to enjoy through out the year was an additional bonus.  She ‘s the creative director of play at our house, and can often be heard asking you to call her “princess” or “queen.”  Wardrobe for Charlie is dress or bust, if there are jeans laid out to wear there will probably be tears.  Charlie was excited to get her ears pierced this year, and after gift opening she’ll have lots of options to wear.  She’s a good little sister to Ethan, and he plays along in whatever make-believe she dreams up.

Jacob and I celebrated 6 years of marriage this year.  We were blessed to take a trip to NYC.  We visited all the sites as well as enjoyed food by our favorite Iron Chef – Bobby Flay. 

Jacob transition to Olathe East High School and is enjoying teaching freshman Biology as well as Student Naturalist.  He misses coaching, but is happy to have established and leading an FCA group.

 I continue work in the PICU at KUMed part-time working the night-weekend option, which allows me to be a more rested happy mommy the rest of the time.

We have our ups and downs but love this family and life we’ve been blessed with!

Hoping this letter finds you well, and relishing in the hope and joy we have during this Christmas season.