A Famine of Updates

Darwin says:  As many of our readers may have noticed (if we still have any followers, but mostly for our own record) there has been an extended period of time since we have posted on our blog.  This is mostly due to the ability to upload photos onto our blog posts as you can see our plea for help in the last blog post.  Even though I originally taught Kiara how to do a blog when we first started, I have allowed her to take the lead in updating our family affairs.  After getting frustrated about not being able to post photos, not knowing where to find a new venue to do so, and our lives getting so busy, we have sadly put our blog in the back of our minds.  Well, this year for Christmas I wanted to surprise my sweet, dear wife by taking the lead to renew our blog posts.  I will simply start by giving a brief update on where we are at now, and future posts will back track some of the events from the last year and a half that we have missed.

Long story short, raising our children has been more difficult than originally imagined.  (You parents reading this are probably laughing your trash off right now, right?)  But we love them so, so much!  Aurora is now in the second grade and has become an awesome reader.  The "20 minutes reading every day" rule has been challenging to get her to follow through most days, but has really paid off.  Savannah has started kindergarten and is also doing awesome in her reading.  Talmage is our sweet poster boy.  So happy and giggly most of the time, and boy does he have curls to make Ebeneezer Scrooge smile.  Kiara is still working at Vivint and is rocking her job with total awesomeness.  She knows her work so well that her coworkers look to her for advice and guidance.  She is also often requested to go into corporate to meet with other departments and managers higher up to work on ideas to improve the company.  I'm still working at Springville High School (which I started back in August of 2017) teaching Astronomy, Geology, Environmental Science, and Physics.  Planning for four different classes has been challenging, but it has also been very enjoyable to teach science lessons all across the gamut.

I look forward to sharing some of our life events from the last two years, and for what is to come, so stay tuned!