Merry Christmas 2009 and Happy New Year!

I want to share with you some moments from our daily lives from 2009 and what better way than with pictures! We are incredibly blessed to live by my family and Micah's. Both grandmas have taken an active roll in homeschooling and have taught the children various skills including piano and sewing.














Here are Andrew (the spider) and Abbie (the bluebird) and friends. They just performed a variety of songs and dances at a senior center and later at a nursing home. They love the stage and hamming it up. They continue to homeschool, which gives us a lot of flexibility with our schedule. This group of children are some of the children we meet with at least on a weekly basis for play time, exploring in nature, and work on group performances. We have been blessed to have a talented mother who has been willing to create and direct these performances.


Micah and I have become Uncle and Aunt! Welcome, Aiden, to Micah's sister Rachel and her husband Scott. The children love having a cousin.

House for sale! It's hard to believe that after ten years we might be selling our house but we will see . . . we started a project a few years back trying to develop a small piece of land here in Redwood City . . . at this point we have no idea what's next but we are hoping to get a building permit soon and to move forward with that. In the meantime, if the house sells we plan to rent locally.


Siblings ~ our children spend a lot of time together and practice makes, well . . . let's just say that MOST of the time they are each others best friends. We are adding to our family! We expect baby Samuel Clarence to make his debut in early May. It's exciting times.

Abbie is in the second grade and loves American Girl books/dolls, time with friends, art, and any opportunity to perform. Her favorite book genre is historical fiction.

Andrew is in kindergarten and he loves to build with various materials, listen to nonfiction books, PLAY, solve various challenging math problems, and participate in philosophical discussions.

Luke is 2 years old and he loves to play outside, tell knock knock jokes, TALK, be the leader, and keep up with the big kids. His favorite book currently is "The Carrot Seed".

Micah continues his work as an automotive technician at the BMW dealership. In addition to this he has been going to school part time. He just finished a grueling semester of math. When he is not working, Micah enjoys spending time with family and friends and recreational time at the shooting range. The boys got Nerf guns for Christmas and so when he can't get to the range, our house becomes the range.

I continue to work for a public charter school as an Educational Specialist. Abbie and Andrew are enrolled there (all of the students at the school are learning in small group environments aka: home). It has been a tremendous blessing as I have a flexible schedule, get to develop professionally, and often I receive many ideas at my meetings with families that I get to implement myself. The biggest challenge in my life is finding time for every hat I wear in my life as wife, mother, household manager, and educator.

We wish YOU, our friends and family a wonderful 2010.