Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

*Bold letters and strikethroughs indicate David’s corrections when Liz accidentally asked him to look this letter over before sending it out

Hello All Friends and Family! (and potential detractors… you know who you are…)

This year we’ve been blessed to have many adventures. From backpacking .25 miles in the beautiful Sierras, to our first trip together to Yosemite, to visiting family in Washington. As a former East Coast girl, I’ve been amazed at the wonder and beauty of, what David has demanded  accurately suggested it be referred to as, “the good side of the United States… or really anyplace (in both time and space) incomparable to any other location. As such it is and will forever be unnecessary to travel to or acknowledge the existence of anywhere else.”  

Eilee just turned nine conquered her eighth year of existence and is pretty sure she is on the brink of adulthood will be turning 27 next year... She loves pokemon, enforcing others acknowledge the superiority of pomeranians, comic books, creating beautiful art, and writing stories. We have watched her grow a great deal this year in intelligence and maturity. She is a wonderful benevolent older sister, and a great example to all who know her.

Cora is a six years old female dwarven barbarian, skilled in both fists and battleaxes and is very happy to announce that she has lost her two bottom front teeth and that the experience was only mildly traumatic. She loves to dance, collect pokemon cards, hew through the raiding parties of goblins, and is obsessed with kittens. She continues to be a loving cuddle bug and skips wherever she goes to and from battle.

Both girls recently begun playing D&D with their dad (who is very proud).

Wren will turn two in February. Despite being small for her age she is a force to be reckoned with will make with the slapping if you don’t get get your butt off her blanket and bring her a graham cracker. Wren would very much like to spend every day dedicated to watching Moana and Boss Baby back to back while eating California’s entire supply of mandarins or an entire head of raw broccoli thus keep her alkali levels at peak performance, but has acknowledged that playing outside kettlebells, deadlifts and krav maga is are also an acceptable activityies.  Like her sisters before her she is strong willed will vanquish the enemy hordes but is also loving and silly.

Eilee and Cora were very excited to perform in the Nutcracker this year, and were even more excited when they discovered they’d be in a scene together. Eilee was a soldier and Cora was a mouse. In the Nutcracker the soldiers and mice fight, so having Eilee and Cora play those parts proved that art does indeed imitate real life.

David and I just celebrated our 10th Wedding Anniversary and came to the conclusion that we really are quite fond of this whole marriage business and are glad we selected “forever” as our prerogative.

We love all of you and hope you have a wonderful Holiday Season!

Much Love,

Liz, David, Eilee, Cora, and Wren