THE NEW AND IMPROVED OMAN FAMILY CHRISTMAS NEWSLETTER 201
Where Did The Year Go?
2012 started with uncertainty but lots of hope. Ben and Melissa both graduated in May from Utah State University in Logan. He in Electrical Engineering and she in Psychology. Yea! They are done with school at least for a while. Kyle, our son in law, finished his residency in Family Practice Medicine at the University of Utah. He is now working up there. Becky is being a Mom mostly which is great, but she does some instruction in some exercise classes and works with a Care Center doing Speech Pathology work.
Ben has a business he is working on called Citygro. Check it out on the web. He is always doing stuff on the computer. Melissa is a great Mom, and works part time.
THANKSGIVING 2012
Here you have a fairly good two dimensional illustration of our family. The newest addition in Melissa’s arms is Miles Benjamin Oman, born Nov 6 at 2:23 in the afternoon. He wasn’t really sure he wanted to come but he made it. So Ben and Melissa are really experiencing life. Becky and Kyle have three youngsters represented here; they are Weston in the red, Elijah and Addie on Joyce’s lap. This photo was taken Thanksgiving Day in Ben and Melissa’s new home.
May took Joyce and Greg to DC for meetings and visits with the Utah Delegation in both houses of Congress. That has been an interesting and enjoyable experience the past two or three years. The highlight of the year for Greg at least is the fact that Joyce took up the game of golf. We got her some lessons and she was off. We have really had a fun time in the evenings after work going down and playing together. She got her first legitimate, sure enough 100% par on the 9th hole of the Bear Lake Golf Course, a par 5 no less. Greg was cheering, yelling and all around hurrahing.
In July we took another few days at Bear Lake and had our two friends from Honduras, Valeria Buitrago Wells and Marcela Buitrago Oliveira, with their husbands Steven and Davidson came up and rode the wave runners, did some swimming and all around had some great fun. Later their father Aristides came up to Salt Lake with their younger brother from Honduras and we were able to spend some time with them. Friends are great.
We didn’t do any traveling out of the country this year. I blame it on TSA. I hope this doesn’t offend anybody but TSA sucks. So changing the subject there are a lot of things going on around us. As I write this we found out one of our neighbors down the street passed away unexpectedly and suddenly early this morning. The fragility of our existence is part of life. Joycie said to me, “That’s why one should never go to bed mad.” That’s an easy rule, isn’t it?
So it is now Christmas Time all over the world, except parts of the world don’t think of it the way we do here. It isn’t important nor does it have any sentimental meaning. We love Christmas. As the years pass it gets harder in some ways because our kids are all gone. The excitement of Christmas morning is different from what it was. In some ways though, it is better. Because of the memories of great friends. When we think the places we have lived and the people who live in those places that have blessed our lives it is easy to realize our blessings.
In our married life we have lived in Centerville, UT; Berwyn, IL; Sandy, UT and now Farmington, UT. In all of those places we have lived among some of you who are the Salt of the Earth. We wish you a Merry, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Here they are, Weston holding Miles, and Elijah hugging Addie. There is never a dull moment with these guys.
Love Joyce and Greg
