2013 has been an eventful year for our family. It’s been a great year of learning and growing for us. We started out the year with Tyler accepting an optional severance package. He has always wanted to try out freelancing and this seemed to be the perfect opportunity. Everyone in the family has learned a lot from this experience and we have seen some amazing blessings both temporally and spiritually from this stressful experience. It has not been quite as profitable as we hoped, but Tyler has learned a lot along the way like, “Wow, I way underbid that job!” Despite it all the Lord has blessed and taken care of us.
Lydia has had extra opportunities to earn money while being able to stay home with our kids doing some babysitting. Our biggest blessing of the year is Kaylee Ann Whitworth, who joined our family on July 8th. Everything went well with delivery and recovery. She has added an extra measure of love to our family.
We were able to take a family vacation to Indiana and Nauvoo this year as well. The kids still talk about and ask when we will get to visit Grandma Mary again. It was so much fun.
Tyler has been keeping busy designing websites, coloring illustrations, drawing, and even doing some photo shoots for a sports team photography place. Tyler has so many ideas for business adventures it’s hard to keep them all straight sometimes, but it’s part of his hobby to come up with them.
Lydia has been busy being Mom. Lydia is loving the time she has to be at home with the kids playing with them and taking care of them. She just wishes there were less chores and more play time! She also just accepted a calling to serve as the primary secretary in their LDS ward. She is excited to get to stay in Primary, but is sad not to get to teach primary with Tyler anymore. It sure was fun to be together for a whole year teaching the class for the 10 and 11 year olds.
Addison had her first dance recital in June. She is growing up way too fast! She will turn 5 in December. She loves to color, paint, doodle, play house, make up stories... She is so creative and imaginative. We love being part of her life even if we are on a different planet sometimes. ;) Her latest and greatest kick that has lasted a few months is all about fairies. She just spent an hour tonight while Lydia got dinner ready drawing and explaining a map on how to get to fairyland and what exactly it was like there. So much fun to be a part of her life!
Clark turned 3 years old in September. He is such a funny little boy. We love to watch him interact with the world because he sees things in a different way. He loves to figure out how things work and loves to build and create things. He received Tinker toys for his birthday and he will build cookie factories, weed whackers, and vacuums to name a few things with them. Another favorite thing is playing outside mowing the grass or leaves (depending on the season). He loves to be outside doing things with Dad whether it’s blowing the leaves or working on a project like fixing another broken sprinkler! In fact for his birthday he had a sprinkler cake because he likes sprinklers so much. Clark is just overall fun to be around.
Kaylee is now smiling, laughing, grabbing everything she can get her chunky little hands on, and rolling over some. We are sure she will be all over the house before too long. She loves to be involved in everything. She has a hard time napping and even nursing sometimes because she wants to see what’s going on. She must get enough to eat though because she is growing faster than a weed! At her 4 month check she was in both greater than 95% for both height and weight. She is such a cutie and delight to be around.
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Love your card/ newsletter and idea to do it this way!
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