It's December 25th and all is quiet at the Hardys--so Janet can tell you what the year has been for her family.
James graduated from Brigham Young University and is now on his own--looking for a new seminar company to work for or something else exciting while he is still single and fancy free! He is still living in Provo but talks about Australia and other romantic places! He brought a new girl home a for the "California Test" and her name is Camber Carlston from Mission Viejo!
John is Senior Manager at Peat, Marwick and Main in Los Angeles and is working most of the time but manages to get a few good hikes in at Yosemite or the Sierras. Meagan, his daughter, and Jessica, his girlfriend, have backpacks now, too, and can try and keep up with him. Even Janet and Richard accompanied them to the base of a mountain and waited till they came back down!!!
Maria and Mark Valko and their four children moved to Troy, Michigan this fall and we miss them so much. Mark is working in air conditioning back there and Maria has given up the office work with us and been more creative with making and selling 40 Christmas wreaths and numerous angels before Christmas. Mitch is now walking along the furniture and loves to climb the stairs. Michael is reading amazingly well and should probably be in a special reading group for the more advanced.
For Halloween they paraded through Birmingham and got donuts and cider!! Michael was Dracula, Matthew was a pirate, Melissa was a clown and Mitch was a bunny! Forgot the camera so no pix.
Mark wrote and thanked us for helping get the house sold and loading up for the big move. We hated to see them go but they feel it is the right thing to do right now. Life is hard. Linda and Gary Pulsipher returned to San Diego after graduating in orthodontics and are living in El Cajon with their four children while getting started in a new practice. Linda keeps the books for Choice Mortgage in between tending the newest "Kelly" just four months old.
Janet and Richard continue to work hard in the mortgage and real estate business. The low rates have kept Janet busy with refinancing her clients while Richard has been preoccupied with building homes in Tulare and Bakersfield, Ca. The computer has changed Janet's life dramatically!!!!
We enjoyed seeing Janet's relatives last New Year's and Richard's in August and October of this year. It is such a joy to see all of the niece's and nephew's with their own families.
If this news sounds vaguely familiar it's because we do the same thing every year--work and take a winter vacation at Park City and work and take a summer vacation at Big Bear Lake--in between we cope--and are thankful for the enjoyment we have from our four children and nine grandchildren.
May your new year be bright and joyful in 1992 and may the whole world make a little more sense than it did this year!!!
Pictures from Years Past
