You know, "change." Because that's what our life has been about: a lot of change. But, of course, not the money kind.
My sweet mom passed away in February just a few days before she turned 93. I miss her.
We have continued to travel frequently, with the highlights being Whistler, B.C., Utah (think BYU football,
General Conference, and family), Las Vegas, Denver, and Houston/San Antonio.
In May we added Kyler to our family, grandchild #21 and child #6 for Alva and Wendy.
In June we lost our brother-in-law, Jim Wheeler. Our prayers are with Lee's sister Joe Ann and family. We also hosted a luau in our back yard for 100 young single adults.
In July we had a wedding reception in our back yard.
In August, we learned that in April we will welcome grandchild #23, child #6 for Jana and Scott. (Gender to be announced.)
In September we welcomed Andon, grandchild #22 and #4 for Amyanne and Kyle.
We also got together (via conference call where necessary) with the entire family and a few friends and opened the letter that precipitated this blog: "You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the Japan Nagoya Mission. You should report to the Provo Missionary Training Center on Monday, January 23, 2012."
And a few days after that, Lee was released as bishop of the Westlake Young Single Adult Ward after nearly six years. We miss them, too.
I'd say that is a handful of change.
