December 2008
Dear Friends & Family,
Holiday greetings from Idaho! We hope this letter finds you happy, healthy, and enjoying the season. It doesn’t feel like we should be decorating our house for Christmas yet because our pansies are still in bloom and there’s no snow on our green grass. However, Christmas will probably sneak up on us before we’re quite ready.
We’re enjoying living in Idaho Falls and have had a great year. We spent a lot of hours playing in the snow last winter and are hoping for another good snow year. In late spring, when the snow finally melted, we went to work on our yard and garden. We learned that planting more than one zucchini plant is a bad idea. We spent a lot of time as a family on our first real garden. It was fun to grow some of our own food. We bought a new camp trailer and put it to good use this summer. We enjoyed being in the woods with our families. As the leaves started to fall, we harvested a dozen pumpkins from our garden and decorated for Halloween. The kids really got into it; even Carson was holding his bag out excitedly during trick-or-treating. It’s nice to be close to our families and we love spending time in Star Valley and Winnemucca, NV with our parents. Our family is excitedly awaiting the arrival of a new baby girl in March.
Carson is our handsome little man; Mommy loves his brown eyes. He’s quite the talker and we love to hear what’s on his mind. He’s also a climber. Every time we turn our backs he is on top of something he shouldn’t be. He recently turned 18 months old gets to go to the nursery at church. He’s glad Weston is there to play with him.
Our three year old, Weston, is in Joy School this year and loving it. He recently acquired an interest in coloring and can spend hours each day filling the pages of his coloring book. He still loves horses and cars and his old black cowboy hat got worn out and had to be replaced. He can get most anything he wants by flashing his dimples.
Our little strawberry blonde seems to be growing up too fast. It’s hard to believe that we have a five year old. Lindi loves preschool and can’t wait to go to kindergarten in the fall. Her favorite thing is playing with her friends. She also likes to spend time playing games and doing activities on the internet and cooking with her Easy Bake Oven. She learned how to ride her bike this summer and looks cute cruising around the neighborhood.
Nicole stays busy trying to keep up with our three kids and all of their activities. She had to slow down for a little while after breaking her foot in April. Fortunately, she was blessed to recover quickly. Her creativity is being stretched as she tries to fulfill her calling as primary chorister. As crazy as it sounds, she misses being a sunbeam teacher.
Albert is getting used to the bus ride to work and the strange world of government accounting. It’s nice to have him home before dinner every night. The kids enjoy Albert’s Fridays off because he fixes cool shaped pancakes for breakfast while they watch cartoons. He spends his free time working on projects around the house and serving in the Elder’s Quorum Presidency.
We have been very blessed this year and hope that you have been too.
Love,
The Wilcox Family