HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2010

This has been a wonderful year. We continue to focus most on our family and grand children and managed to visit Michigan twice, Japan, Portland and California to see our kids and grandkids. Living in two places has some challenges, but we feel we have the best of both worlds: Beautiful cool summers at the cabin in Utah and lots of sunshine and metropolitan living in Arizona. This Christmas season we give thanks for so many blessings! We are rich in family heritage, great kids, good health and a church that gives us faith to know who we are, and what is most important in our lives. The pictures above show our Utah cabin in winter and summer.

Natalie visited us in Utah and Arizona this year. We also got to visit with JP and Natalie in both Arizona and California

Natalie came to the cabin in August for her birthday (age undisclosed ) and also to Arizona and we really love being with her. She still loves living and working in Portland for Intel. JP and Natalie visited us in March when they hiked the Grand Canyon and then in April we went to California to put in a little "sweat equity" building their theatre room.

Fabulous vacation to Italy

In September, we visited Italy with some good friends. We loved every minute and we were able to visit Rome, Florence, Tuscany hill towns, Venice and Cinque Terre.

World's most precious grand son

One of the most exciting things that happened this year is having Greg, Sachiko and Allen return to the USA to live for the next 18 months. Intel moved Greg to Folsom where he lives only a few miles from JP and Natalie. What a wonderful Thanksgiving we had in 2010 being at JP's house and having Greg, Sachiko and Allen there with us. We will be burning the travel miles this year going to California to see them - it's a lot easier than flying to Japan! We did go to Japan in March to visit them there and enjoyed the plum blossom park.

Sean and Jennifer and their three girls --(World's cutest Grand daughters!)

We adore our three grand daughters! Sean and Jennifer definitely have the cutest girls in the world. Megan is 11, Emma is almost 9 and Lacey is 2 1/2.

Winters in Arizona -- we have NO SNOW!

We love being snowbirds in Arizona. We spend winters at our little townhouse in Scottsdale.

January in Michigan for Emma's baptism

In January we were able to go to Michigan for Emma's birthday and baptism when she turned 8. Natalie was able to be with us there and we had a good time with Sean, Jennifer and our granddaughters: Megan, Emma and Lacey.