Hello Family,
Well, I have thought about doing this newsletter for a while but haven't gotten around to it. I'm sorry Curt for delaying the process! Thank you to you and Chelsea for getting the letters compiled and put on the blog! I do appreciate having these letters for history even if I can't get my butt in gear and get my letter written.
Gary & Mary Lynn
We are still farming. We love it. Not much different there. Mary Lynn continued to substitute and work with the PTA. She enjoyed that. After Christmas she got a job for their accountant. She helps with bookkeeping for other companies and filing tax returns. Once again, she wishes she would have not changed her major after the first year of college and continued with Accounting. She does feel that her degree in Health is very beneficial, however.
Emalee
Emalee continued playing the violin and fiddle. She finished the 8th grade in the spring and started the 9th grade in the fall. She also played club volleyball in the spring and 9th grade volleyball for Blackfoot High School in the fall. She loves both. She has sure grown up and is very responsible and helpful. She also started Drivers Ed in the summer and got her Drivers License this February 2016. This is a huge help to her mom and dad.
Jake
Jake finished the 6th grade in the spring and started the 7th grade in the fall. He is growing like a weed and by next month he'll probably be taller than his sister and his mom. That is exciting but his mom is not sure she's ready to look up to him physically. He is a great boy and she already has had to look up to him and respect him in other ways. Jake played basketball during the winter and baseball during the spring. He rode his motorcycle as much as he could and worked every day of the summer with his dad. He loves the farm and seems to be able to fix anything already. He wishes he could drive right now, like his sister so he could go move pipe on his own without his Dad as chauffeur. Our farm is different than most 50 to 100 years ago where most farmers could work their farms around their houses. We have to drive 50 mile radius at times to get to all our fields.
Megan
Megan finished the 4th grade in the spring and started the 5th grade in the fall. Much to her dismay she is not growing quite as fast as her brother. She played on the Hoops Basketball team during the winter and was the second shortest on her team. She was also the second youngest I guess. She loves playing with hoops and we had fun following her around to tournaments in Spokane, Reno (where we got to see Uncle Newell & Aunt Sally), Boise, and Salt Lake. This year she gets to play with Hadley and she loves that. Megan loves to sing and has performed a few solos in church and at school. Megan loves to ride her motorcycle and four wheeler with her brothers as much as possible.
Landon
Landon finished the 1st grade in the spring and started the 2nd grade this fall. He is the youngest in his grade and had a hard time reading at first but by the end of 2015 (middlish of 2nd grade) he has made leaps and bounds and really improved. He is very good at keeping his room clean and being sort of bossy to all of us. He also suffers from being the youngest and gets very upset that he can't play basketball all year like his sister gets to. He played Jazz ball during the winter but thinks that just wasn't enough. He gets very tired of having to follow his siblings around to their events and not having his own to do. He also loves to be with his Dad on the farm and riding his four wheeler and motorcycle.
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