Happy New Year from the Rimingtons

We want to wish all of You a Happy New Year, seeing as how I didn't quite get this out in time for Christmas.

 

We send all of you our wishes of love and thanks for your friendships.

  

 

This year has seen some significant change for our family.

We uprooted and said goodbye to our house where we lived for 14 years.

 

 

We moved just a couple miles east into a 1977 Cape Cod home with more wiggle room and a lot more land at .56 acre, the biggest reason for our move. 

Now we are back to square one with household projects. 

 

 

This summer, John and I enjoyed a weekend getaway sans kids to Zion's National Park and St. George. 

 

 

As a family, we went tubing down the river up in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, went jet skiing at Bear Lake, and camped at Mirror Lake. 

 

 

As for our kids, here's what they have been up to:

 

Kimberly (13) received her Young Woman's Medallion. She is in her second year of Orchestra, her fifth year of playing the piano, and is a part of the Science Olympiad Team at school with the astrology group.

 

Alicia (11) is in her third year of piano lessons and is a part of the ballroom dancing team at her new elementary school.  She quickly made a lot of new friends.  Alicia is also excited to have caught her first fish this year.

 

  

Natalie (6) is getting better at reading and loves to play in our backyard making forts, climbing trees, jumping on the trampoline (which came with the house), and collecting all sorts of acorns, sticks, and bits of nature.

 

Megan (4) is the only one left at home with Dana, and enjoys playing with her dolls, painting pictures, or playing games with mom during the quiet time.

 

John said goodbye to being scoutmaster for the boys in our old neighborhood, and hello to the boys in our new area as the Varsity Assistant Coach for the Team up here. He is currently flying his Peregrine and working on the myriad of projects in the house, including the massive family room remodel.

Dana continues working for the Standard Examiner as a correspondent, enjoys reading in her spare time, and is learning how to use her new technically-challenging camera by forcing herself to use it in manual mode.  The effort is paying off though because the pictures sure turn out great!

We hope you all have a wonderful 2014,
Love, the Rimingtons
John, Dana, Kimberly, Alicia, Natalie, and Megan