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Our 2013 in Review.......

Thinking back, as so many people and places do, to the highs and lows of the year just past.

And at the moment as I'm sitting with Stacy as she's starting a new quilting project so I can get her comments too.

Our high points-

Stacy's last year of constant involvement with the IJJA, that's a YEA for both of us with her term as President over,  so a lot fewer trips to Boise this year.

Sandy visited twice in 2013 with Justine, most recently was 4 days at Thanksgiving.

In September our 2 weeks in Hawaii visiting our son Sean, and Sandy and Justine were there for a week of our visit too,  that made us both very happy!

Stacy making all her projects.

I was asked to be the photographer for a friend's daughter's high school year book photos.  As well as getting requests to use my photos in others projects.

We got my Solstice all paid off!

We're both still here to be talking and writing this!

Daughter Laura loves living in Texas much more than Iowa! Tyler is doing great at school and her husband just got a job promotion.

On a group video call on Christmas Day we found out that Sandy's having baby number 2 (grand baby #3) in 2014. And her husband just took a new job in another tech giant company. 

Sean Loves Hawaii and he found out his company contract was extended to at least August and maybe a bit longer. He and wife Brandy are doing well and Sean is a great guitar player!

Our lows of 2013-

My (BPPV) Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo experience that lasted over 2 months. Well, all the experts said it would last "a few days",  but over 60 days was a long, long time! I thought it might have been the 'new' me forever! I'm so glad it wasn't. In fact of I hadn't gotten better I wouldn't have been able to make that two weeks in Hawaii.

Stacy had to travel to Boise at least once a month and sometimes twice a month during much of the year.

Does a lot of "different day, same B. S."  count?

The millions of hornets that invaded the entire North Idaho area that we had to deal with due to the drought and warmer than usual temperatures last summer. A normal late summer irritation became a most of the summer hazard in 2013.  Stacy got a total of 5 stings and I got it twice. It was so bad before the cold stopped them we couldn't safely go out doors hardly at all with them all over the area.
And even now, with the cold temps you have to be very careful and make sure no hornets are hibernating on the wood brought in for the stoves,  if not caught we've been talking with people that have been stung when the Hornets come back to life with the warmth.

I'm sure there's more than this, it often doesn't seem like a long time but a year really is a long time to remember everything that happens to a family!

So, here's to a better 2014 from here on out!

Tad






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