Merry Christmas,
Since we are new to the art of christmas card writing, we've decided to present some anecdotes from our life over the last year.
Airplanes: Casey has started to pursue his lifelong dream of being a pilot. He bought a classic 1947 Cessna 140 from Minnesota and has been using it to build time until he can get his commercial pilot's license. We have taken all sorts of fun trips in his little plane including a sight-seeing trip over Canyonlands and Bryce Canyon National Park.
Cakes and Felt: Noah took a cake decorating class over the last winter and has become quite proficient at decorating cakes. At the same time, she has honed her skills at creating felt art. She makes all kinds of detailed recreations of real life object using felt. She has made little cakes, Chinese dumplings, vegetables, and many other fun things. Over the summer and fall, we both set up a booth at the local farmer's market and sold her creations. http://www.duchinese.com/felt
Goats: Casey and his friends from college started a community garden on a quarter acre of land over the summer.
One of Casey's favorite jobs was caring for the goats. Over the summer he would go out every morning and milk the goats. He later learned how turn the extra milk into very tasty goat cheese.
Jobs: Casey had many jobs this year. He started the year working as an intern for the Provo City Attorney's Office. He did a short stint as a BYU concession department warehouse worker. He worked as a tech support guy for a local media production company. Finally, finished the school year with his usual job as a Philosophy Department Teaching Assistant.
The big news of the year is that Noah has just started her new job as a full time employee of the BYU Global Service Center. She works with project managers in LDS Church Headquarters to develop knowledge base articles about church computer applications.
We continue to have the fun calling of teaching the Sunbeams every Sunday at church. We are excited to see who our new group of children will be.
LSAT: This Fall Casey has been busy preparing for the law school and finishing his last semester at BYU. His most recent hurdle was taking the LSAT, which he prepared for by spending many Saturday's taking practice tests.
Travel: We both were able to do some traveling over the year.
In August, we flew up to Seattle to check out a possible law school and enjoy some of the fun sights in that city. Later that month we met our family in Hawaii. It was Noah's first trip to the island and so we saw all of the fun sites like Pearl Harbor and the PCC. Noah's favorite place was the big swap meet, while Casey's favorite event was a aerobatic airplane ride in an Extra 300.
Future and Website: We do not know what next year will hold in store for us. In the Spring, Casey will know about which law school he will be attending - most likely it will be in Utah. Casey plans to have his flight instructor rating by February and to start teaching. We plan on taking some Spanish classes together. We will probably both head back to Taiwan during the spring to visit our family. If you want to see more pictures of some of our events through the year, go ahead and check out our blog: blog.duchinese.com .
We hope that you have a great Christmas.
Love,
Casey and Noah DuBose
