Christmas letter 2010

This year was . . . boring thank goodness. Except July.

Aaron's team started this season off well . . . not so much the last two weeks. He just finished up an assignment serving in the spanish branch. In trying to master the language, he read ALL the standard works in spanish this year. wow. He's out shopping right now (12/23), a tradition I will never break him of I think.

I started a children's choir at our school and started working for the post office. Two huge things that are impacting our lives more than I anticipated. I still have same hair, calling, clothes, cars, house, husband,and kids as last year, which is something to be grateful for. I did lose five pounds and a washing machine. I love my new one. Yay!

Caden is an office aide at school - the staff and teachers all love him. He had to go into a first grade class the other day and the kids all dropped their jaws because he is bigger than their teacher. He still is doing sports like crazy and started working out on his own this year. He earned "anything at costco" for his hard work over the fifth grade year and he chose a weight bench. (Over a playstation3) We are so happy about that.

Weston sang a solo on sunday in our church program. Silent Night. He took an acting class over the summer and interrupted that to go get his appendix out. (He lost his independix, as he used to say.) Luckily this happened two weeks after baseball season. He is a great reader, and is currently enjoying the percy jackson series. He cares for everyone and has great faith.

Garrett got some stitches over the summer too. My friend asked him what happened to his forehead. "My dad did it!" he said, "But my mom told him to!" He was locked in the bathroom, not responding with the bath water running. I frantically asked Aaron to break the door down. Garrett was trying to open it at the same time. He is loving kindergarten and [parent about to totally brag] the absolute best reader in his class. Seriously.

Lydia started dancing this year. That is the cutest thing ever. She comes with me to Garrett's class once a week, so she is sometimes a kindergartner. She also has a little once a week preschool. So fun. Oh yeah, she lost about 1/6 of her hair in the treadmill while Caden was at urgent care getting his head stapled back together the day after Garrett's stitches came out. This was just a few hours before Weston came down with appendicitis. Loved July. Almost done paying for July.

Merry Christmas to everyone! Hope you are merry and bright.

Love, the Cousins.