It's a (late)Christmas miracle!

HAPPY SECOND ANNIVERSARY MY LOVE









Heeelllllllloooo . Greetings from the desert southwest where, unlike the rest of you, we are not freezing. All I can say is, that's what you get for leaving the mother land. Anyway, the wife thought it was time to either update or take down the blog. So, here I go saving the blog and quite possibly the world.
Much has happened since the last post, I'm not even going to attempt to re-cap everything. I'll hit a few of the high points and allow you to fill in the rest with whatever you want. In fact Your fill-ins are probably far more exciting than reality.
Work takes up most of our awake time. Kristen is still at Pulte working away and I am still building "CityNorth", although, my responsibilities have changed a bit. I am now in the office working on the business side of it. I have a lot to learn and I am looking forward to the new challenges that lie ahead. As a side note I just learned that my new boss is a member of the Church, something I have long suspected but never confirmed. My duties at church have changed as well, I am now the second counselor in the young men's presidency. You all know what that means, I'm back with the deacons! I went from teaching 5 year olds to deacons, not all that different really, except the CTR's will at least try to give a good answer. Kirsten will be teaching the valiant 9 class next year and she's really excited to teach people that can read.

Now, on to our adventures. We had the opportunity earlier this month to go up to visit Mom, we had a wonderful time. We saw beautiful waterfalls and trees, all the things we don't see much of down here. Oregon/Washington is a beautiful place when the sun is out and I'm glad that Mom and Mark get to live there. Thank you so much for letting us come up and visit you, it was awesome. We also got to see Kristen's sister Jayna and her family, which was fun. Here are some photos form our trip.






























So that leaves us at Christmas, we headed down to Tucson on Sunday night and stayed with Grams and Gramps. Monday morning we went out to breakfast at The Good Egg. After breakfast we went down to Sierra Vista to the annual Elrey Christmas party. It was great to see everyone, unfortunately there were many who not there, but we look forward to next year. With that we are about up to date. Tonight we have Dave, Lacy, and the Peepster coming to stay for a couple of nights with us, we are looking forward to that. Tomorrow Paul, Kate, and McKenzie will join us, and we might get a visit from the DeMarcos. Soooo, thats it.