Happy New Year!

So, I was ambitious this year and decided I was going to make Christmas cards this year. I figured with not working, I had plenty of time to finish them. Well, things got busy with the holidays...my brother got married, we visited family, then went to Disneyland the week after Christmas. So the cards didn't happen this year. Maybe next year! Here's the poem Jacob wrote to send out. Check back in the next few days for LOTS and LOTS of pictures of our adventures this last month!

“The Lauritzen’s 2010: A Year in Review”

2010 was a year of transition

With graduation and moving and paying tuition.

Here is a poem with some of our story

Sit back and relax (I hope it’s not boring).

Upon graduation, we left on a cruise.

We flew to Miami for food and to snooze.

We ate Key Lime in Key West and saw Hemmingway

And in the Bahamas we played all day.

We left Ohio towards the end of the summer.

With vacation over it was back to a number

Of “unfun” stuff; moving and packing and driving cross-country

From East to West to make some more money

Jacob got a new job, or two, or three

At a high school, a college, and university.

Now he is teaching, and teaching, and tutoring students

Wiping their noses and grading their truant … papers.

Chelsea had surgery to remove a cyst

She turned one, can run and climb onto … well, let me list:

Her crib rail, the table, chairs and benches

Computers, and scooters and did I mention … everything?

She is starting to talk, saying, “peeze” and “more.”

It’s so cute and precious we cannot ignore

When she tugs at our fingers and drags us in place

To play Legos or balls or to clean off her face.

She loves Minnie and Mickey and going to the Zoo,

Dora and Diego and Ming Ming too.

She is our bundle of joy;

Our love and our world!

We love her so much—

Our Baby Girl.

Whitney has been scrappin’

and a little head scratchin’

To find what to do

in our town of like two

Or three thousand,

a Walmart, and mountains.

She has been reading a lot of murder mysteries

Where the killer kills with new recipes.

Then, she tries them on Jacob to see how they taste,

And when he survives she puts some on her plate.

But still we have fun

Out here in the sun

Through good and bad days,

Through the sweat and the tears

Merry Christmas from us

And have a Happy New Year!