Merry Christmas!!!

Madilynn and Gavin wishing you a wonderful Christmas Season!

Merry Christmas friends and family. We did not send out Christmas cards this year. We still wanted to share our love and appreciation for all of you in our life this holiday season. We wanted to share a little bit about how are family is doing. We are very blessed to have a happy and healthy family. Joe is with Kitsap Bank as a commercial lender. He is enjoying his job and the people he works with. He is still active in the community. He is the president of the Lakewood Area Shelter Association, a member of the local Rotary, and he is the gospel doctrine teacher at church. With all this going on he is still a fierce Fantasy Football competitor. Madilynn is 5 now and will soon be turning 6 years old. She is loving Kindergarten. She is learning things each day and is eager to come home and show her work to mom and dad. She is taking ballet/tap classes this year. Her favorite part of course are the tap shoes and all the noise she can make with them on. Her favorite thing to play is wrestle with Daddy. She is bright and energetic young girl. Gavin will be 3 in the next week. I can't believe that my baby is going to be in primary at church soon. Gavin is a smart and mischievous little boy. We really have to watch this kid, he is just like his daddy. He is this sweet cuddly and loving little man and then he will be climbing up the counter tops to reach the cookies we have put above the refrigerator. We are still amazed at all of the mischief and clever ways he comes up with. As for me, Adrienne, I am keeping very busy. Next week I will be in my ninth month of pregnancy. Baby girl will come the end of January. Although her due date is Feb. 3rd. I am hoping that I will actually get some sleep once she gets here!! HaHaHa. It is a nice dream that I have when I lie awake at 3AM. Madi and Gavin keep me very busy during the day. I do enjoy some adult time at book club once a month. I am also serving as the advisor for the young women of my ward(church). I am over the 14-15 year old girls.

We won't see many of you this Christmas but you are still in our hearts and prayers. Each of you has enriched our lives in different ways and we wouldn't be the same without you. I hope that this holiday that you will be able to feel the wonderful spirit that Christmas brings.

Love to you all,

Joe, Adrienne, Madilynn, and Gavin