Merry Christmas!!!!

2013 was a good year for the Ford family. It started off with lots of school and ended with lots of school and we had a fun summer in between.

Jessie: I unexpectedly went back to school in January. I was working full time and took 9 credit hours. I had some hard classes (namely Psychopharmacology, which is the best class ever!) I was fortunate enough to be able to do all of my homework at work and I managed to get a 4.0 that semester! Then a few weeks after that semester ended I went back to school to take my statistics class. I failed it, but at least I qualify for the ‘don’t pass, don’t pay’ program so I can retake it for free. Work has kept me busy doing administrative work for my bosses and now I get to work with my departments budget.

Bryce: Went to school in the January semester and got good grades and he just finished up a really hard semester. He is working full time and was taking 15 credit hours! The past few months have been very difficult but we are very happy they are over!

Sasha: (our dog) Still loves to sass us!

Back in January Bryce got laid off from his job-all thanks to Obama and affordable care act. Bryce’s’ bosses didn’t want to let him go (it was HRs decision not theirs). They wrote him glowing letters of reference and a month later Bryce got hired on at Xactware! He has been there ever since and it’s a great job! During the summer we had quite the adventure. We stayed at a couple of hotels for our anniversary, went to Las Vegas for a day, and then when we got on this side of St. George, we discovered that we needed to go to San Diego to pick up Bryce’s sister.  So at around 8 pm we started the long drive to California. We drove through the night and tried taking turns driving and sleeping but that didn’t work out so well and we were both hallucinating by the time we got to his sisters’ house! We also didn’t have an overnight bag or anything because when we left our house we thought we were only going to Las Vegas for the day. It was a fun trip in San Diego. We got to play with our niece and nephews and then we went to the beach and saw Dolphins in the ocean! That was really cool. In October we drove down to New Mexico to visit Bryce’s brother and his family. We went to the Balloon Fiesta! It was very cold but lots of fun. We also went camping a couple of times over the summer. It was a very fun year and we can’t wait for more fun next year.

We hope you have a Merry Christmas!