Chris Wells Family New Year Letter 2014/2015

Chris Wells Family November 2014

2014 has been a whirlwind of events:

Karen is choir director at church, organist and primary 2nd counselor.  Karen started a new business venture.  Karen and Chris got to visit England for a week.  Chris is music chair, 11 year old scout leader and primary pianist.   He started taking karate lessons, is a manager at Jackson National Life Insurance.  This year brings more travel back to Denver, CO - he is excited about that since he loves Colorado.  Two of his siblings live there now he will get to visit family!



Jon is a senior.  He has received 3 acceptance letters from colleges, 4 more to hear from - and has been dual-enrolled in some college courses.  Jonathan will officially graduate in May.

Mikael is a sophomore.  He is still taking karate and is working towards his Life rank and onto his Eagle.  Mikael loves to create things - building games of all sorts from modules for computer games to board games.

Elizabeth is in 8th grade.  She finished up her 3rd year of football cheer and 2nd year of basketball cheer.  She is also amazing at drawing

  

In November we had a Bulkley Family Reunion in Utah.  Beautiful weather for November and loved seeing all Karen's family!  We saw Temple Square lite up in Christmas Lights and played lots of games!

In August boys and Elizabeth went to the pictured rocks in Upper Pennisula of Michigan and had a wonderful time.  Gorgeous views, lots of hiking, but it was very fun!

In December we have a Wells Family Reunion in CA.  Disneyland was on the menu, of course.  It was packed but we still managed to have fun!  We went to Griffith Observatory and rollerskating, bike ride up the PCH and enjoyed time to chat and hang with family.  Beautiful weather.  Coming back to Michigan was very hard...negative temperatures

We also did something we thought we would never do.  Oh, wait, thought Karen would never do...we bought chickens and Chris and Elizabeth built a chicken coop to withstand the strongest wind!!  We had 6 chickens.  One didn't lay eggs very well, she passed sometime in December.  They have been laying eggs since September.  One of our first few eggs was huge!  It had two yolks in it.  Very fun!!  They sure do keep Elizabeth and Chris very busy!







In August, our poor dog Brownie passed away.  He was almost 7 years old.  Took awhile for us to get over it, but maybe there is room again in our hearts for another puppy this coming year.

We shall see!

We hope you all had a great New Year and that 2015 brings you many God-giving blessings!!

Love, Chris, Karen, Jon, Mikael and Elizabeth