Our Christmas Newsletter

The Oman Family

Christmas Newsletter

2011

Well, here we are, another year, another picture I guess. This is our crew minus Becki’s husband Kyle, he had to work the day this photo was taken; we will get him next year I guess. The first row is Weston, Greg, Joyce and Elijah, the back row Melissa, Ben, Becki and Adelaide, or Addie as we call her.

The big event from last Christmas was the arrival of Addie on Dec 29, 2010. Boy oh boy has she brought some class and happiness to the operation here. Everybody seems to love her just fine. She doesn’t have a shortage of personal attention.

Becki and Kyle have their hands full with the two boys and the new infant. Kyle puts in long and irregular hours while he finishes his Family Practice Residency at the University of Utah. Becki is go, go, go, with the kids, her part time employment as a Speech Pathologist plus she teaches some exercise classes at a local gym.

Ben and Melissa are finishing school at Utah State--He in Electrical Engineering and she in Psychology. They purchased a new home last July and are settling in. Their hearts belong to Nana their boxer dog who has a Class III malocclusion and a unilateral cross bite from my way of looking at her.

We did some wandering around this year. February took us to Arizona for golfing and visiting with our dear friends The Westergard’s. Some dental conferences to Washington DC and San Antonio, a trip to England last July and a Dental Humanitarian trip to Panama gave us some air miles. We kayaked the Panama Canal and had a great experience in that country. England was wonderful. We visited Leeds where Joyce’s brother and his wife were serving a mission. We trained on down to London and saw some of the sights. There we met a dear friend from our humanitarian trips over the years, Dr. Rawa Hassan who graciously showed us around for a day or so.

Somehow we always seem to find something to do. If there isn’t work here on the plantation in Farmington there is always something else happening. Summer seems to take us up to Bear Lake quite often and we enjoyed a wonderful week the end of July. Ben’s in-laws were there the same time our family was so we were able to intermingle and have a lot of fun. We love this time of our life.

The earth continues to rotate and revolve—that means the years pass and we are all getting older. Sometimes we have some aches and sometimes we don’t but it is becoming more common to wonder inside if our legs and arms are going to move fast enough and in the right direction.

This Thanksgiving Season has given us cause as usually happens to ponder our blessings, our freedom and our liberty—what it is, what it should be and in some ways what we have lost. In the whole scheme of things we are all blessed and grateful for the circumstances we find ourselves in; we are grateful for the degree of health we enjoy; we look forward to the future with an eye towards an increased devotion to our Eternal Judge and His continued blessings upon this land. Our hopes are that your sentiments are congruent with that.

Merry, Merry Christmas to You, And a Happy and Content New Year

Greg and Joyce