Dear Friends and Family,
Merry Christmas!! We send our love and greetings this Christmas season. Though it has been awhile since we have physically seen many of you, please know you are often in our thoughts and prayers. We hope you have a wonderful Christmas holiday and an even better 2016. Below you will find some highlights of this past year.
Elle turned 3 in January, so for all intents and purposes, she’s 4...going on 16. :) She loves to sing, dance, wrestle, play hide-and-seek, jump on the trampoline, tease her parents, have family hugs after family prayer, go on family dates, and read books and nursery rhymes.
Elise is very busy caring for an energetic, inquisitive, strong-willed, sweet 3-year-old. :) When she is not busy with Elle she loves to read books. She has also taken up the organ again and enjoys going to the church each week to practice. She suffered a stroke three years ago, but you’d never know it now. She is relentless in her pursuit to become the very best version of herself regardless of the challenges.
Ted is in his 8th year of teaching math at Karl G. Maeser Preparatory Academy, a 7th-12th grade public charter school in Lindon, Utah. He loves his job. Along with teaching he is currently involved in math education research. He just finished applying to PhD programs and hopes to start next Fall. His baseball team (that he played on) won the league championship this past summer! With all the things going on in his life, his favorite part of each day is walking through the door and seeing Elle and Elise.
As a family we love going to the BYU athletic events. We are eagerly pursuing another adoption. We have not been selected at this point, but have done all of the pre-requisite paperwork to be eligible again. (To follow our adoption journey more closely check out our family blog.) This summer we finished reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a couple. It was so moving and powerful! This December we will celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary!
We wish we could see each of you and give you a big hug, but the next best gift we can give is sharing our testimonies of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and of Their Plan for our lives. We know They live, that They love ALL of us, and that They have great things in store for those that seek out a relationship with Them.
We look forward to seeing you in the future. We love you!!!!!
Your fans,
Elle, Elise, and Ted
