Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our friends,

It has been a busy year. Ben completed a successful mission in Torrreon Mexico. Ben and Rachel are sophomores at BYU working hard to keep the grades up. Ben had a great summer paving roads and Rachel working for Comcast invoicing and washing windows on the side. Ben is looking at Medical school to become a doctor when he grows up and Rachel a radiologist. 

The triplets are all finishing their senior year in high school. Jonathan spent the summer interning at Planar Systems as an engineer. His new name is laptop as he is following his father's footsteps. Ryan and Tyson worked for the Beaverton school district painting and landscaping. Jonathan and Ryan ran cross country in the fall and are on the varsity wrestling team. Both are doing awesome. Ryan and Jonathan have been accepted to BYU and Tyson is going to BYU Idaho. All 3 have a 4.0 this year. So next year with five in college if you see a poorly dressed man on the freeway with a sign stating begging for tuition, a coin will be welcome.

Rebecca is serving in the young women's group in the church where she always seems to end up since she loves it there. She accepted a job this year working for a software startup company in the area of medical coding and billing. She is the customer support and training manager and the hours have been much longer than she had hoped.

Bart is doing well at his work and serving as the ward mission leader and he loves both although he does miss working with the boy scouts. (Maybe not the snow caving).

This summer we got a newer boat and had a lot of fun on the river and lakes and plan more of the same as soon as it stops raining. 

Love,