Happy New Year

Dear Friends and Family,
How are all of you doing? We are doing great. We had a wonderful Christmas in Utah with Tessa's family. We had fun hanging out together and watching Abigail and her cousin, Cley play.He always wanted to hug and kiss on her, but she didn't like that. She wanted her space, but she still wanted to play with him. They were none stop. We also were able to go snowmobiling with my dad and we saw some elk while we were on the mountain. We came home and then two days later we had Winter Camp with the Teenagers. There were 40 plus kids there. We had fun sledding with them, playing games, talking. We were challenged from God's Word out of the book of Haggai. It was great!!! It challenged me to not procrastinate and to be obedient to God immediately.
There is over three feet of snow up there, it was great!!!

We have just been enjoying living in the country and we have had elk down in the field by our house. That was neat to see them. Brian is busy working at camp, at the butcher shop and with the youth at the church.

These days Abigail is saying mama, dada, up, Saddie (our dog), hot, uh oh, ouch, no no, and Abigail. She is learning new words every day it seems like. she is such a joy to have around. She is also starting to run, she gets into my cabinets and plays with the pots and pans, and she really loves her new shoes that have lights in them. She is so cute!!!

I have created all of these different smilebox creations that are fun to watch. They are an overview of what happened in our lives during 2008. They are only about 2 minutes each. Not very long. Hope you check them out.

Hope to hear from you

Tessa