DAD & MOM:
We have had a interesting month, but not nearly as busy as last month. It took us a while to get used to being in Utah since we were 9 hours ahead in the Mediterranean time zone. Since we have been home Dad has been setting up delivery times for poinsettias, poinsettias and poinsettias. I have been trying to memorize the ordinances up at the Bountiful Temple. Getting up at 3:30 AM, to be there by 5 AM is something else, but I am doing fine. When I get home Wednesday afternoon I'm really tired??
We had the full time missionaries over for dinner the evening of the BIG wind storm, it was so nice to have them in our home. We lost power that morning and we got it back around 7 PM, after being in the dark and cold for a little over 12 hours.
In our ward we lost lots of big trees, we had great support on the Saturday, December 3rd, for clean up. We were able most of the trees cut up and stacked on the edge of the curbs. Sunday morning we received the call that we might get hit with high winds again only this time mixed with snow. Elder Fisher, our Area Seventy,contacted the Stake Presidents in Davis County and they were told to either cancel or shortened all meetings. Most of the wards in area only had a short sacrament meeting, and then everyone went to work to haul all off the cut up limbs and debris to the dump or secure holding yards. There were thousands of people loading trucks, trailers, and dump loaders. Our entire stake helped clean up our Stake boundary in under 3 1/2 hours.
We have told some of you about the loss of the "Neumans Christmas Tree", this tree has been a land mark in Farmington for over 40 years. The tree was all decorated with lights and was close to 60 feet tall when the wind took it down. What a SAD DAY.
In our ward, the only major damage was to the Squires home where a tree fell on it and damaged the roof, and corner of the home. They cannot turn the power on because it was a direct hit to the electrical box outside, and they have need to get a crane in to move the big tree. Luckily, our prayers were answered and we did not have the major storm that was predicted. Prayers were answered.
We are excited for Christmas and to be able to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. We pray that we can all continue to center our lives around Jesus and be an example to others.
We love each and every one of you and we wish you a very Joyful Christmas.
Love Mom and Dad
We had the full time missionaries over for dinner the evening of the BIG wind storm, it was so nice to have them in our home. We lost power that morning and we got it back around 7 PM, after being in the dark and cold for a little over 12 hours.
In our ward we lost lots of big trees, we had great support on the Saturday, December 3rd, for clean up. We were able most of the trees cut up and stacked on the edge of the curbs. Sunday morning we received the call that we might get hit with high winds again only this time mixed with snow. Elder Fisher, our Area Seventy,contacted the Stake Presidents in Davis County and they were told to either cancel or shortened all meetings. Most of the wards in area only had a short sacrament meeting, and then everyone went to work to haul all off the cut up limbs and debris to the dump or secure holding yards. There were thousands of people loading trucks, trailers, and dump loaders. Our entire stake helped clean up our Stake boundary in under 3 1/2 hours.
We have told some of you about the loss of the "Neumans Christmas Tree", this tree has been a land mark in Farmington for over 40 years. The tree was all decorated with lights and was close to 60 feet tall when the wind took it down. What a SAD DAY.
In our ward, the only major damage was to the Squires home where a tree fell on it and damaged the roof, and corner of the home. They cannot turn the power on because it was a direct hit to the electrical box outside, and they have need to get a crane in to move the big tree. Luckily, our prayers were answered and we did not have the major storm that was predicted. Prayers were answered.
We are excited for Christmas and to be able to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. We pray that we can all continue to center our lives around Jesus and be an example to others.
We love each and every one of you and we wish you a very Joyful Christmas.
Love Mom and Dad
KIM & TYLER:
So our update:
November seemed to fly by- I seriously don't remember much. I think I was mentally preparing for December. We are in full swing of birthdays, anniversary and christmas celebrations at our house. Ashlyn had her very first birthday party last Friday night, yes it was weeks away from her actual birthday, but with all the other parties and Caden's ordination this was the only time we could do it! We did it at our house and had the girls make pizzas, decorate cakes and of course Ashlyn had been dying to have a piñata. I think they all loved it and Ashlyn said it was the best birthday party ever. Caden FINALLY finished his Faith in God and had an interview with our Bishop yesterday to be ordained a deacon. He is more they excited to finally be done with Primary. Britton is just living life and making us laugh. The other day he and Ashlyn had the following conversation:
B-mom, Ashlyn won't wear her helmet when we ride our scooters to school.
A- Britton, that is because I have passed Caden's scooter training class and I don't need one.
B-Ashlyn you passed that when you were 4. That doesn't count. You need to take the scooter test when you are 6 then you can officially ride without a helmet.
A- No, Britton, Caden said I passed.
B- Ashlyn, you did not pass the official test.
Yes, I guess Caden is the official scooter patrol at our house!
Our Thanksgiving was great. We had Jessie with us and we ended up doing Thanksgiving with our good friends the Baers. We had a fun time with yummy food.
The kids are getting excited for Christmas and I think I am finally done Christmas shopping. I just need to wrap everything now!
My church calling has been extra busy lately and I am trying not to crash under all the stress!!! I just keep telling myself, just get this week over and then I can focus on the next week, ha ha!
We are headed out for our first family ski adventure of the season on December 17th. The kids are excited. We have a scout ski day and can ski for $30/ticket. Caden keeps talking about all the moguls he is going to ski, a yeah, we'll see about that!
The geese I think have made Fort Collins their winter home. I can hear a "heard" right now flying over head. There is goose poop on the sidewalks and it seems every empty field has a huge flock. It should make for a great hunt this weekend. I was out running last week and a huge flock flew over head and I was happy I didn't get pooped on ! We are excited to have some family here for Caden's priesthood ordination-even if that isn't the real reason for the visit:)
That is about it, I know we are kinda boring.
JED & ANG:
I loved reading everyone's update last month and wrote one thinking I would forward it on but did not end up sending. I am including October just because...The girls both started gymnastics, they are both improving it's awesome. Jed and I were able to get away for our tenth anniversary (early), we both recommend Aruba for any trip. I completed Halloween costumes (with some help from my Mom) before any Halloween parties. We went with an Alice in Wonderland theme, everyone seemed happy with it. We told the parents that we were expecting. While some info has leaked we wanted to wait and tell everyone after our first doctor appointment (which was pretty overdue). We are having Baby #4 in May of 2012. We are all very excited. We love you tons! The Kentucky Golds
November seemed to fly by, we sent the last missionary that we served with as Ward mission leaders home. Jed loved that calling and we all benefited from having the Elders in our home so frequently. Jed and I attended a University of Louisville football game with one of the Banks he works with. I had forgotten how fun it is to attend college football games. I really enjoyed being at the game with great fall weather, despite the fact that we were rooting for the opposite team as everyone around us! We had our first Dr. appointment for our expected little one. We can't wait to find out the gender in a few weeks. Sarah hosted Mom and Dad for a BIG Thanksgiving feast at school. She was a Pilgrim for her program. We spent our holiday in Dallas visiting my brother Matt and his family. They were great hosts and the kids loved playing with their cousins. My highlight was Jed and Matt spending their Thanksgiving evening perusing Black Friday ads and then sleeping on the sidewalk in front of Sports Authority, better them than me! I attached a picture of the Ultrasound. Jed told the kids it looked like I was going to have a baby Platypus and they should listen to my belly for "Perry" noises (from Disney's Phineas and Ferb cartoon). About a week later Sarah told my friend I was going to have a baby platypus. She even had the name picked out. So Funny!
KYLE & ANDREA:
This past month flew by for us. We didn’t have much going on for the first of the month other than work. Andrea is enjoying her job still, and loves working with 9 partners/9 different egos. Really makes for some entertaining stories. Kyle is still loving his job. The year end is getting very busy but the end is in sight and 4 day work weeks will resume in January. We are pretty sure that our ward has either forgotten about us or we really made a bad impression in the nursery because we still don’t have callings. Oh well, guess we should enjoy the time off.
The wonderful Gold family Thanksgiving dinner lasted about 2.3 hours…world record for the Gold family. And we did get mom and dad to go midnight black Friday shopping with us in Park City too. We were burnt out after a couple of hours but Mom and Dad are like rock stars and lasted much longer than we did (insert crude joke here after that sentence), Anyways…
After a fun filled Thanksgiving we had had enough of the winter weather and went to Mexico. This time we went to Cozumel. It’s an island off the south coast of Cancun. We got down there on Saturday to find out the Ford Ironman Triathlon was going to be held on Sunday so we got super excited to know that we would be able to watch tri-athletes compete in an event we love. We had a blast cheering on the 3,000 athletes as they participated in 85 degree temps and with what felt like 1000% humidity. It was amazing to watch them. We also spent time hanging out in the hot sun, visiting Chichin Itza (the Mayan Ruins), and scuba diving.
We loved the trip to Cozumel. We stayed at an all-inclusive resort that had amazing food and fruity frozen drinks at your every beckoning call. Kim you would have been in heaven with all the food and drinks. Needless to say, we gained some weight on this trip…but it was so worth it.
JESSIE:
Well like I said before, my life still is super busy. Thanks to mom and dad for being super patient with me. I don't get home until late and then I usually have a million things to do that I don't see them very often. November was a great month though. Thanks to Tyler and Kim, I was able to spend Thanksgiving with them which was a blast! I helped...mostly watched Kim set up her Christmas decorations while I chilled with the kiddos. We went to their friends for dinner and their house is amazing! Seriously the coolest house ever! They have an indoor slide, indoor basketball court, climbing wall, and all the games you could imagine. They have a huge yard that overlooks this pond and its gorgeous! I love going to church with Tyler and Kim because I've been so many times to their ward that people know me. It's kind of cool. I'm sad that I'm not able to go out there this weekend. Great news! I was asked to do another wedding cake, so that is awesome. Kind of adds to my already busy schedule but it's all good. I'm really excited to go visit Jed and Ang over Christmas. I'm counting down the days! We had some crazy wind storms this past week, which I'm sure you've heard of. Our singles ward canceled our meetings and spent the day helping other wards with cleanup. Let just say that we totally rocked it and we were the talk of the town because we were such great help! It was a busy morning with phone calls to sisters and making sure they were okay though. Luckily I didn't hear of anything to detrimental happening. My second counselor has a Tundra truck and we (3 of us girls) toke a load to the dump. When we jumped out of the truck and started unloading the branches and debris, you should have seen everyone staring at us, especially the men. I think they were waiting for strong men to jump out of the truck to help us, but they didn't. People were yelling from a distance, "Girl Power." It was pretty funny actually. It was awesome to see everyone pull together and really clean up! Plus, the city saved a lot of money :). Well I hope everyone is doing well. Love you all and thanks for being such great examples to me!
-Jessie
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