Merry Christmas! This is rundown of what we have been up to this year. Lot's of pics at the end! Carsyn: Carsyn started his Jr. year this year. He attends Tuacahn High School where his focus is on theater tech and art. He continues to be one of the main sound people at the High School. There are too many classes he wants to take at school so he is still doing online classes in addition to a a full schedule. He also started a new job at Tuacahn - Regional Theater concessions. He ALSO started running for Snow Canyon High School. This is probably the thing that he has thrown himself into the most this year. He loves it and is really good at it. He was named Rookie Of The Year. He has already started getting recruiting letters. He was a youth leader at Timberline again and he has been and still is President of the Priest Quorum. He spent a week in New York City this spring. In his spare time he is hiking, going to the reservoir, running, hanging out with his buddies from both schools. During the summer he helped a lot with building the garage and casita. Most recently, like today, we found out, much to his delight, that he does not have wisdom teeth! Because of switching dentists and also him taking himself to the dentist, it was never discussed with our dentist and we just assumed he needed them out. We were at the place ready to go, they took the x-rays, and Merry Christmas Carsyn! Brooklyn: Brooklyn got a message right after Christmas last year from an actor couple that she tended for a year ago last summer asking her to come and be their nanny while they were performing in the A Bronx Tale national tour. She contacted UVU and they said they would defer her scholarship for that and for her mission so with that she was off. She got to go to about 10 different cities all over the eastern part of the country. Since she wasn't officially part of the company she had to get herself checked in at the airports. (The company had pre-check.) So she got really good at navigating airports. She had a blast even though she got strep and scabbies in Chicago. She also got really good at going around new cities, Uber, Door Dash, etc. This was great because she and her friend Kayla went to Japan and South Korea for 16 days all by themselves. And yes I was a bit worried until she spent all of that time on the tour :). They had a great time and checked off one more Disneyland in the world that they have gone to. She took a quick trip to see her friend Kayla in Florida and they went to Disney World - another check, before she headed off to Argentina on her mission. She is loving it and there are pictures from all of her adventures below. She has been gone just over 4 months. Ashly: Well last Christmas brought a HUGE change in Ashly's world! She met her now husband at the tail end of last year. They got engaged in March and married in August! They really wanted a reception in the mountains and everything fell into place and they got their dream day. So many friends helped to make this possible. She teaches dance classes, she is starting her own business of wedding rentals, she is now a house manager at Tuacahn, and she is still a dance students at DSU. She received the Dance Student Of The Semester award this past semester. She is the assistant Primary chorister and helped at Girl's Camp. Jesse is pursuing a degree at DSU but his long term hope/goal is to be a Seminary teacher. He is an extremely gifted musician and teaches piano and drum lessons. He has been in the band and orchestra at the college. He is also starting to tune pianos. He is a fantastic composer as well. He has been working at Classic Sports, but just got a job at Kay jewelers which he is loving. He is the Primary pianist. They have both been in the Institute Choir. They will be living in the casita. Nicole: I have been teaching the Social and Emotional Learning lessons at Vista and this year they have doubled the amount of time that I teach in the classrooms and I love it. It took creating 278 lesson plans in June! This year I was also working as house manager, getting a missionary ready, a wedding ready, a bridal shower, helping build a garage and casita, Girl's Camp Director, and Primary chorister, and supporting Casryn in his running. To say the least this year has been one of the busiest I have ever had! Eric: Eric is still working with St. George city. He is also helping with advancements in scouts. He has been super busy with a whole bunch of boys trying to finish up their Eagle project before the end of the year. He is also volunteering to get a new community troop up and going. It's looking pretty good right now. He is the Ward Clerk. He has also done so so much building the garage and casita. He has spent pretty much every spare minute out there, but as you can see it is looking beautiful! We have only hired out help with the actual pouring of cement, installation of the garage door, and the stucco. He is awesome! (A big shout out to my dad who was also here a lot.) We hope you all have a Merry Christmas and best wishes for a New Year!
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