The big news of the year was the marriage of James, our youngest, to Camber Carlston of Mission Viejo. They were married in the Los Angeles Temple and have settled in San Diego. James is working in the mortgage business with Janet and Richard and Camber is working for a medical company and hoping to finish her education.
Linda and Gary were able to take a dream vacation to Hawaii this year and leave all four of their children behind with babysitters (James and Camber). Gary Pulsipher is doing well as an orthodontist, working in both El Cajon and La Jolla. Linda is the bookkeeper for Choice Mortgage as well as a very busy mother.
Maria and Mark Valko are back in California (hurray!) Mark is working in construction and they have a new home in Tulare, CA--a nice little town near the Sequoia forest, south of Fresno. Mark is working on getting his contractor's license and although California is a tough market right now, they are keeping very busy. We love having them and their four children so much closer!
John took a month from his job as Senior Manager at Peat, Marwick, and Main (an accounting company in LA) and traveled throughout eastern Europe this fall. Besides this he had numerous other hiking adventures to the High Sierras and Nevada this year. Meagan has also gone on several weekend treks to the Sierras and is an excellent hiker. They will be at Park City as usual for their Christmas skiing. John's girlfriend Jessica is also getting in the skiing scene and did very well at Park West last year. Meagan is in 7th grade at Muirlands in La Jolla and will be moving to San Francisco next summer when her mother Jennifer marries. We will really miss them both very much.
We had another Vida and Merlin Hardy reunion at Torrey Pines Beach this year and Richard and his brother Martin had most of their children and grandchildren--next year we are hoping to get all of Scott's children and grandchildren to join us also.
Except for the same old problems we are managing to keep our heads above water and our feet moving and are just very grateful for the blessings of a loving family, good health, the gospel and warm beds at night.
