Christmas Card

We hope this letter finds you well and enjoying the holiday season. This year added four new nieces, and one new sister missionary (Destinee).

In March we went to St. George for a recreation conference for Desirée and stopped at Zion’s on the way home to hike Angel’s landing.

Kurt began his own contracting company “Lone Pine Construction, LLC” in April and is enjoying it. He’s mostly finishing basements and is doing great.
We had a fun summer fishing the Price River, Current Creek, and American Fork Canyon with Gooch. Kurt even caught a few in the Uintahs on our short backpacking trip to Brown Duck Lake.

Kurt had a goal to hike Lone Peak. It was a definitely a “Man’s Mountain” with some rock scrambling at the top. I was glad to reach the car 10 hours later. Kurt is doing his best to keep me in shape.

In October we went to Baltimore for the National Recreation and Parks Association Congress. We had fun visiting family out east and seeing Orioles Stadium, Babe Ruth’s birthplace, Fort McHenry, the aquarium, Little Italy, and eating yummy food, but we realized how much we really love the quiet out west.

We celebrated Gooch’s second birthday by inviting all the neighbor and family dogs over for cake, games and costume contests. It was quite the experience. We’re so glad to have such a fun and obedient dog in our family.

In November, after another ward split, Desirée was called as the YW President and Kurt was called as the Deacon’s Quorum Advisor/Assistant Scout Master. We really enjoy the youth and are happy with our callings, but will need a little more time to figure them out.

We finally got to put up a Christmas tree this year. It was fun decorating the house together. We love this time of year and are now just waiting for the snow.

Happy Holidays!
Love Kurt, Desirée and Gooch