The Gar-blog!

Happy New Year! We've decided to start the year off right by keeping in touch more with all our family and friends. With our busy lives and a multitude of loved-ones, we figured web logging would be the most efficient solution! Oooh, the exciting world of blogging. We're finally here! The Garcias...blogging. We'll call it the "Gar-blog" for short.

We had the best of intentions to send out Christmas cards this year. We had pictures taken, and even ordered photo cards. I think about 50 of them. Well, with a whirlwind of unexpected December work for me (Jen), and sick kids...Christmas really snuck up on us. I thought it would still be OK if I got them out before the new year, but then I came down with the flu, and before I knew it...3,2,1 - Happy New Year! So I have a stack of Christmas cards which will soon get tossed into the trash. How sad. I'd feel like an idiot sending them out this late. It would only announce to the world how horribly unorganized I've been lately. So, here is the photo from the card. Consider it effort on my part.




So, here we are in Southern Idaho. We hit our one-year mark the end of August 2007. Since we've been here, we've had our second baby Ellie and started a new business.

It's been quite a change from our former lifestyle in Utah. We loved Herriman and especially our home there. We miss our family and friends, not to mention great food (restaurants) and great shopping. We miss the niceness of everything back home. There isn't much of anything around here that is new by any means. On the other hand, we love the slower pace of life up here. No traffic, no rush. Nice and easy. We also love how being away from it all has pulled our little family together even more. We've loved strengthening our relationships with my brother Jason, his sweet wife Lori and their two beautiful children Haylie and Zack. What a wonderful family. We've made some great friends here, namely Ryan & Cydnee Howe. We sure enjoy their company and the ease of being wih them. We feel we can truly be ourselves with them.

Well, this is all I have time to write for now. I hope to write often enough to keep current and not so often as to bore!! Love to all!

Jennifer