Happy Holidays ...

I was excited to be completely done shopping weeks ago but have seriously procrastinated with the rest of my annual holiday duties.

Justin is growing up way too fast. Can you believe he is almost 7 years old? He is in 1st grade and loves school. Besides recess he enjoys reading and has really excelled in math. We had fun watching him play his first season of baseball this summer. He like playing baseball so much that he just finished up an indoor fall season league and is excited to play again next summer. When not playing sports he likes to play with his Legos, Star Wars toys, fish with daddy and do wood working projects with Grandpa Stan.

Our wild one Makenna turned 3 in November. Fearless and full of spunk she will get into just about everything. She was slow to talk but has really made up for lost time with continuous chatter and constant questions. This year was an exciting year for her. She graduated to a “big girl bed”, is now wearing big girl panties and started preschool. Elmo, books, dolls and coloring keeps her busy.

Cleaning, cooking and keeping up with the kids keeps me busy. I joined MOPS (mothers of preschoolers) and love the bi-monthly morning break. It is wonderful to be surrounded by a room full of women who understand my world. I volunteer at Justin’s school whenever needed, do crafts or sew when I get the chance and try to keep up with our family blog. I started running again in spring and was up to 25+ miles a week when I ruptured my Achilles Tendon in early October. It has been a slow and long healing process. I hoping to get back to running again this year.

Dwight has had a year jammed packed with one project after another. He started the year off with a trip to Texas to pick up a new Peterbilt truck. He spent 3 months converting, painting and perfecting his newest addition to Michael Trucking. By April his black beauty dump truck was ready to make money. The next 3 months were spent restoring 3 tractors for a gentleman out of Pennsylvania. The transport semi came at the end of June and off they went. Dwight parents had a water leak in their house that caused extensive damage to their kitchen. Dwight spent close to 2 months negotiating with the insurance company and remodeling their kitchen. Despite the slow economy, lack of construction and road maintenance cutbacks Dwight still owns and manages Michael Trucking. Business has been extremely slow but we remain hopefully and look forward to seeing the upside of this recession.

Here’s to a new decade of memories and many adventures. From our house to yours.

Happy New Year!!
The Michael Family
Dwight, Bonnie, Justin and Makenna