I decided to Blog our Christmas Letter this year, so then I will have
a copy of it as well. I have had this written for awhile, but it just
took be a bit longer to get it onto the blog, but better late than
never.
Merry Christmas 2012
Well, I feel that we have communicated with friends and
family this year more than others, so our yearly review won’t be much of a
surprise for some. This is a quick
review of what’s been keeping us busy this year:
January 17th: found out we were having twin girls
– that was a crazy day, spent over 3 hours on the phone telling everyone. “No way! You’re kidding! Are you serious?!” were common responses.
February: Kept busy getting things ready for the girls –
sewing blessing dresses, finding bedding, etc.
March: Doug gets a promotion and starts his new job in the
Brighton office of Halliburton. He finds
us a new house in 2 weeks and takes care of all the hassles of buying and
selling a house and the stresses of a new job (in the middle of an audit to
boot).
April 18th: I get LifeFlighted out to the U of U
hospital due to pre-term labor, thus adding to our craziness.
May 2nd: Jenna Ann and Kaylee Beth are born at
2:40 am. They spend 20 days in the NICU
and about 3 months on oxygen.
May 9th:
We move into our house. With the ward’s
and my mom’s help we slowly start to get settled in Firestone Colorado.
June – July: We try to juggle our lives with twins – days
filled with feedings with brief pauses in between. The boys love having more
room to play in our new house and having our own swing-set outside.
August 15th: We dare make our first trip as a
family of 7 back to Utah. It takes 10
hours with 3 stops/feedings. We are very
grateful and tired when we arrive at my parent’s house in Smithfield.
September: We make our first trip down to Denver and
experience a Hammond’s Candy tour and visit the Firefighter’s Museum. Later we make a trip to the Lego Store, a
thrill for the boys. Girls start
sleeping through the night!
October 31st: Doug strolls the streets with our
team of Lego Ninja warriors: Kai, Zane, and mini-Zane. I stay at home with our two little
flowers.
November: Thanksgiving is spent hosting a neighbor family
and we enjoy good food and company. We even
managed to play a new game called Dominion which was very enjoyable.
December: Spent lots of time shopping online – trips to the
store are few these days. Love the great
deals and free shipping. There are lots
of late nights getting things done and updating our basement.
In general our lives are so full of things to do we wonder
if we will ever get our “to do” lists completely checked off again – but live
is good. The girls are healthy and so
much fun. They boys are full of energy
and are asked to visit the basement often to relieve some of it. Doug had a brief stint as an Elders Quorum
instructor but is now teaching in the Primary (9 year olds) and I am on the
Enrichment Committee. Damon (7 ½) and
Tyler (5 ½) enjoy school and their teachers.
Damon did a patriotic program with the 2nd grade and Tyler is
already reading very well in Kindergarten.
Christopher (3) loves cars almost as much as Damon did and is rarely
seen without at least 3 cars in hand.
We have been so blessed and have seen Heavenly Father’s hand
in our lives so much this year. It has
been a whirl-wind but so many things have worked out just right that I know
that we have been looked after. Thank
you all for your support and prayers throughout the year, we have such a great
group of friends and family. We hope you
are well and that you can feel our Savior’s love for you in this upcoming year.
Merry Christmas –
The Petersen’s (Doug, C’Anne, Damon, Tyler, Christopher, Jenna and
Kaylee)
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| Damon 7 1/2 |
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| Tyler 5 1/2 |
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| Chris 3 |
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| Jenna & Kaylee 7 months |
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| Jenna & Kaylee 7 months |
