Merry Christmas!!!It appears as though I will only be updating this blog possibly 2 times a year! Since I have gone back to work, this poor blog has been neglected! I apologize, but that's how it goes. But to the few of you who actually look I wanted to give you our Christmas update. It's hard for me to believe that this is our 5th Christmas in Texas! If you known us long, you will know that this is the longest we have lived anywhere in the 16 years we've been together! Crazy! You would think I'd be used to the weather by now, but I still miss the seasons and having a snowy, cold Christmas, but Texas has been good to us! As you can see by the photos, the boys are huge! All of them have seemed to shoot up and change right in front of my eyes this year! It's crazy!!! So here is what we have been up to!
Darrin:
Continues to work for Texas A&M in the TEEX division. He was promoted this year to Multi-Media Project Coordinator. He has also been busy drawing his own web-comic as well as drawing for other projects. The spaceslugs are loosely based on our 3 boys!
Our Hi-light's - Celebrating our 16th anniversary & our (adults only) 2nd annual trip to Kory and Shelley's in July!...Thanks Papa for watching the boys!!!!
Kari:
I'm in my 2nd year at KOR Education School and this year I'm teaching 9th Grade Humanities as well as 8th grade Language Arts & History. It is really time consuming but I do love the "stuff" I teach and the kids too!
Dakota: (14)
This past year Dakota played numerous sports. Last Spring, Dakota made the school soccer team, track team - hurtles, and this Fall the basketball team. He also played city soccer this fall. His grades stay up and he made National Junior Honor Society and also participates in Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
Hi-light - his trip to see Uncle and ShellShell in August
not a hi-light - getting braces!
Kye continues in Cub Scouts as a Wolf Cub this year and he added HipHop dance classes this year as well. His first performance was a few weeks back and he did great! We are looking forward to his Spring performance as well. Found out this Fall that Kye has dyslexia, so he has been getting the extra help that he needs and is doing very well in 2nd grade. He loves his teachers!!! Kye is quite the actor and loves his school musicals!
Hi-light - this Fall Kye got saved!!! He loves Jesus so much and he continues to share Jesus to friends at school and his teachers as well. He has been quite a little missionary!!!
Kru: (5)Kru is in Kindergarten already and is doing great! It's a half day Kindergarten and his writing and reading are coming along nicely! He played Soccer again this Fall and really seems to enjoy it.
Hi-light - His 1st airplane ride! Mom and the boys went to Denver this summer for 2 weeks! Kru met cousins he had never met and had a ton of fun swimming with them!!! He had hoped to make it up into the mountains, but made me promise that we will do it the next time we are in Colorado!
We have loved hearing from everyone! I love the pictures that you send! We miss so many of you and wish we could spend the holidays with family and friends!!! May you have a blessed Christmas! We have much to be thankful for this year! If you ever want to head South, you are more than welcome!!!
