This is what our merry and bright looks like...Here's to hoping you find gold and good eats this coming year....
And now the top ten-ish of 2013
10. Cami turned 9 and continued to spank it in every possible way. She played on a competitive soccer team, ran in the school track meet and other races, played with cousins and friends, danced, took horse riding lessons, and played piano amazingly!
9. Creed turned 1 and developed some seriously fast motor skills. He runs like a banshee is chasing him, learned how to say chocolate and candy (and hopefully soon detox), and can climb like a mountain man. He is still the most ticklish happy go lucky kid ever. He is so fun to be around and we can't believe he'll be 2 in a few weeks.
8. Brent has continued to grow his businesses and create jobs for other families. He has fun every day and is challenged everyday and the entrepreneurial life is totally his dream coming true...except the turn all the profits back into the business and enjoy a lean lifestyle part....he hopes that part will change soon and it is impressive that he has started three companies that are doing so well in an economy that is not doing so well. (Google witting innovations, cannibal cycles, or cp500)
7. Taryn continues to be passionate and loud and our personal firework. She turned 8, got her ears pierced, got baptized, busted up to a reading level 40 (after struggling with reading she had been at a level 4 just one year ago), and put on her own fashion show after taking sewing lessons and is always the best dressed. She is still in love with dancing and tried soccer out again with Amy helping out on the coaching scene.
6. Jocelyn survived a "broken" arm and started preschool. She LOVES school and her buddies and her teacher. She loves crafts (she is particularly fierce with scissors and permanent markers) and dancing and this year she started soccer. She loved a date with mom every week at practice since Amy coached her team. Her true summer love was swimming and she is really into horses (at least Barbie horses).
5. We got to enjoy an awesome trip to Seattle for cousin Haley's wedding. We were crazy enough to drive all 20 hours and considered it successful since there were no speeding tickets, family brawls, or eyes poked out. There was a shoe to the head and a lot of late nights and tons of sand in the britches. Creed survived his first solo scuba dive into Puget sound and Amy survived hiking in wet clothes after his head first dive. We all loved the opportunity to ride a ferry, not to be confused with a fairy, and devour Nutella crapes at a real crapier.
4. We all had fun boating on several different weekends when different family members came into town to play. Jocelyn is a big fan of riding on the tube and yelled "faster, faster" while others yelled slower...She is totally related to Taryn is some ways...
3. We spent a week camping in the high Unitas with Brent's family. We discovered a real life fairy forest and hiked through awesome mountain rain storms. Cami discovered a love of canoing and Jocelyn got her first bloody nose "bouldering" by the port a potties with her cousins. We ate tons of good camp food and survived Creed not sleeping anywhere but in Amy's arms or his car seat.
2. Taryn let the orthodontist pull a tooth completely out without any drugs and didn't even bat an eye. he said it was one in a million that would just open up and kick back for a tooth extraction. It was one of the most impressive things I have ever seen.
1. Amy survived an intense year of driving to and fro, and scheduling, and negotiating, and tickling, and cuddling, and homework encouraging, and general encouraging, and smooching, and cooking, and cleaning, and blogging, and loving, and tear wiping, and bum wiping, and so many other things....
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