Christmas Letter 2024
Greetings, Family and Friends! Here it is… Christmas once again! What a year 2024 was for our family. A year of transitions and the start of a new chapter. It was, once again, a year filled to the brim with activity! We’ve chronicled our family adventures on Facebook for the past several years as a means of recording/scrapbooking for Eli someday (we print the year’s posts and pictures in a family album) and keeping in touch with family and friends. Most of you keep up with us this way, but here’s the year in review! Last year, at this time, we were living with my in-laws and our new home in OP was framed, but didn’t have drywall, electrical wiring, or plumbing yet. Jamie was recovering from two hip replacements in August and November of 2023. Early 2024 brought the discovery of an additional herniated disc in his lower back that was pinching a nerve and causing continued pain after the hip surgeries. He ended up having two back surgeries, one in February 2024 and...