Unbelievably, another year has passed and life keeps going on in very
much the same old way. Geoff and I were talking about this letter and
wondering what news there was to share that was different from last year; let me
tell you, life certainly becomes routine in a lot of ways. However I know
that deep in the recesses of my mind there is news to tell.
Lets see, first we will start with Geoff. He has
now been with Allied Business Systems for a little over a year and enjoys his
work. As always his job involves problem solving for their clients and he is the
guy that addresses and solves those problems, which seems like a heavy burden to
me. However, get this: he loves that part of the job the best.
This
year our hobby was to work on the house and the back yard was the specific
target. I have this vision of a Sunset Magazine yard (I know, I get
carried away with what I envision, but I can't help myself, it's the designer in
me) and with the little progress we achieved this year we might make that goal
by 1999. Just before Thanksgiving we finished painting our living room
which required renting scaffolding and three weekends, but it looks great and
now we can scratch that goal off our list. It's been there for five
years. Of the two of us Geoff definitely is the harder worker and I'm the
happy camper.
(over)
Timmy still enjoys skiing, in fact so much so that he
paid his own way to ski camp this summer at Mount Hood. This season he is
taking a course to become a ski instructor. School is a much happier
experience for him from last year, as he is now a freshman at Issaquah High
School. His next big achievement is to get his permit to drive and save
for a car. Our rule for this to become reality is all B's or no
keys. So far he's coming close.
Jenny is still our social
butterfly. This last summer we met more of our neighbors than we had in
the last five years since we moved here. She'd say she was going to see
one friend, and when we'd check on her, she'd be off down the street at someone
else's house. When she was inside someone's house, then was the time to
start knocking on doors and asking Is our daughter in your house?
Eventually she'd turn up at a new friend's house. but it was panic time for a
few minutes. We crack up at how she continually wins the adoration of young and
old alike. Are you sure she's our daughter?
As for myself, what
can I say? My business is my main interest. Right now I'm working on
a chiropractic office and have just finished an office for nine
therapists. I'm branching more into the commercial side of design and I'm
liking it better than the residential, although I will continue to do
both. Hopefully this next spring I will be going with a few designers to
Highpoint, North Carolina, the furniture Mecca of the world. Literally
they have high-rise after high-rise of furniture showrooms open only to the
trade. I've heard that you cannot see it all in an entire week. Only a
design junky like myself can get excited at seeing nothing but thousands of
sofas and chairs for a solid week and killing my feet at the same time.
Well for this year the Hazel Family wishes all of our friends and
family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, with the guidance and protection
of the Lord Jesus upon your lives, whose birthday we joyfully and gratefully
celebrate.
With Love,
Geoff, Fran, Timmy, Jenny