Merry Christmas 2008
I definitely need to write an addendum to the previous entry! As I looked back in my files, I realized that I only skipped my annual Christmas letter last year - not the several years that I eluded to! And besides, we have so much to be thankful for in our family - I have no business whining about what DIDN'T happen. So here goes - a short family update letter complete with NO picture because I still haven't learned how to do pictures. I sent this out to our families and a few friends as well via email WITHOUT our wonderful Thanksgiving picture because, again, I didn't know how to make it work! Use your imagination. We look pretty much the same since you last saw us except we look younger!
CHRISTMAS 2008
Christmas greetings from cold, snowy, brilliantly white Minnesota! When I wonder WHY we live here (as you in warm climates are wondering), I just take a good look out the window at the unsurpassed beauty of pure, glistening white, and I know. Well, I know until I have to step outside and brave the icy winds and navigate the slippery roads. Some of you have never experienced pushing a loaded grocery cart through a nasty, freezing, slushy parking lot to your car. Salt does wonders to the beautiful white stuff in short order. But in spite of all of that – we still love Minnesota. Besides, how can one ever truly experience the wonders of spring without enduring the trials of winter?
Anyway, it has been a while since we’ve updated you on our family so here goes and I promise to be brief. Kids first:
Jodi and Tony are still busy with their respective jobs – Jodi teaching 7th grade reading at Valley View Middle School and Tony running his Grounds Control business. This year he has added snow removal to his repertoire and has had plenty of work already. They both are still very involved with the music and youth ministry at their church.
Mindy is working part-time at our church as an associate music pastor and part-time at Starbucks. She was recently asked to add missions to her responsibilities at church. She lives in an apartment just down the street from us and we love having her so close.
Jeremy is busy working at the Apple store as the concierge supervisor at one of our malls and is enjoying it very much. He is dating a beautiful girl named Jennifer whom we love and recently moved north of us to a little place on Lake Minnetonka.
Steve and Diane are both at home now – Steve on disability and Diane still teaching piano, doing medical transcriptions for Words to Go, and working a few hours at church helping out with childcare. She enjoys singing in the church choir and participating on a worship team about once a month. The highlight of our week is still One-by-One Tutoring – a ministry that now has over eighty children in it and seventy or so volunteers. We’ve seen many of our kids come to Christ already this year. There’s just nothing better than that.
Well, that about wraps it up. Thanks for all your prayers for us over the years – we feel them. May God bless you abundantly and fill you with the riches of the knowledge of Him. Oh, come let us adore Him! Merry Christmas!
Love, Steve & Diane
CHRISTMAS 2008
Christmas greetings from cold, snowy, brilliantly white Minnesota! When I wonder WHY we live here (as you in warm climates are wondering), I just take a good look out the window at the unsurpassed beauty of pure, glistening white, and I know. Well, I know until I have to step outside and brave the icy winds and navigate the slippery roads. Some of you have never experienced pushing a loaded grocery cart through a nasty, freezing, slushy parking lot to your car. Salt does wonders to the beautiful white stuff in short order. But in spite of all of that – we still love Minnesota. Besides, how can one ever truly experience the wonders of spring without enduring the trials of winter?
Anyway, it has been a while since we’ve updated you on our family so here goes and I promise to be brief. Kids first:
Jodi and Tony are still busy with their respective jobs – Jodi teaching 7th grade reading at Valley View Middle School and Tony running his Grounds Control business. This year he has added snow removal to his repertoire and has had plenty of work already. They both are still very involved with the music and youth ministry at their church.
Mindy is working part-time at our church as an associate music pastor and part-time at Starbucks. She was recently asked to add missions to her responsibilities at church. She lives in an apartment just down the street from us and we love having her so close.
Jeremy is busy working at the Apple store as the concierge supervisor at one of our malls and is enjoying it very much. He is dating a beautiful girl named Jennifer whom we love and recently moved north of us to a little place on Lake Minnetonka.
Steve and Diane are both at home now – Steve on disability and Diane still teaching piano, doing medical transcriptions for Words to Go, and working a few hours at church helping out with childcare. She enjoys singing in the church choir and participating on a worship team about once a month. The highlight of our week is still One-by-One Tutoring – a ministry that now has over eighty children in it and seventy or so volunteers. We’ve seen many of our kids come to Christ already this year. There’s just nothing better than that.
Well, that about wraps it up. Thanks for all your prayers for us over the years – we feel them. May God bless you abundantly and fill you with the riches of the knowledge of Him. Oh, come let us adore Him! Merry Christmas!
Love, Steve & Diane
posted by Diane Dahlen @ 12/25/2008
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