Christmas letter 09

Dearest Everyone,

Hooray! It is the time when we get to update you on our year! What have we been up to? Well, January I found a new and interesting job that I’m rather enjoying. I work for Chrysalis, a group home, for men with intellectual disabilities and behavioral problems; I have never experienced anything like it. It’s been a good learning opportunity on the patience and people front and that’s been good for me J. David is still working for Naylor Solar and loving “saving the universe one solar panel at a time” as he put it and we are still both working for Celebrate Kids, dressing up and making magic.

Earlier this year David officially received “permanent resident” status in the states which meant we FINALLY got to go up to Canada. I saw my first hockey game, met a good chunk of David’s family and friends, went to Niagara Falls, checked out Toronto, saw my first raccoon (it was awesome!), found out when a Canadian says something is “up the street” they really mean it is like 10 miles away, and it was confirmed I really don’t like the cold. David loved being back home in his natural habitat with family and friends and showing me his stomping grounds. We ended our trip in Canada by driving the 30+ hours home back to Las Vegas! SO much fun!

This past year at church David and I had to opportunity to serve the youth together. David in the Young Men organization (boys 12-18yrs.) and I was in the Young Women (girls 12-18yrs.) It was neat to go out to activities together for service projects or just to have fun. Recently though, I was called into the Primary to teach the 7-8 year olds, which I am totally pumped for! David shall carry on in the youth alone.

David and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary in August, by going to San Diego. We went to Sea World for the day, where I got a killer sunburn and David thought it was neat to see all the sea creatures up close. The next morning David woke me up at 4:30am for a surprise, which turned out to be a hot air balloon ride! Gotta love him! The entire weekend was so nice to just relax with each other and celebrate US!

David is still rockin’ the xbox and working on his art skills. I started making cards as a hobby and in January will be going back to school as Hospitality major, which is pretty much an event coordinator. We both like to go indoor skydiving, go to dinner at my dads and play with my little brother and sister, hang out with friends, go up to Utah to visit my family, and spend a lot of time watching movies. Oh how we love married life without babies!

I’m pretty sure this was all the major events in life this year, new and old jobs, permanent residence, Canada, anniversary, hobbies, church…yup! Love and miss you all, have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Love, David and Britni Richards!