Merry Christmas

Dear friends & family, We hope this finds you happy and healthy and surrounded by those you love.  This year we reflect on a year filled with much sorrow, but also much joy for our family.  After a very difficult few months, we lost Elaine’s mom, Susan, to melanoma on March 17, 2012.  This loss has shadowed our year greatly, and brings a bittersweetness to the many joys that have followed.  But there have been great joys nonetheless. Our first daughter, Emeline turned two on March 29.  She is filled with non stop energy and life and never stops showing us how to have fun.  She started preschool in May, and is thriving there with her outgoing personality.  She loves to paint, dance, and sing songs.  Our second daughter Kate Susana came into the world on June 29.  Kate is as sweet as can be and has turned into a very smiley little girl.  Our girls bring us great joy. More joy came in celebrating the weddings of some very special people, most recently Wes’ younger sister Jenn to a very much loved Derek.  It was a beautiful wedding and a very fun party! Day to day life is filled with work and keeping up with the girls, along with trying to squeeze in a house project anywhere we can on the fixer-upper we bought last year.  Life has kept us very busy these days, and even though we don’t get to see many of you as much as we would like to, we appreciate the opportunity this season provides to reconnect, remember, and share both the joys and sorrows of the year with those we care about (that’s you!) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Love, Elaine, Wes, Emeline & Kate