Merry Christmas (More pictures are coming)

Dear family and Friends,

So, as I sit to write this letter, it is a few days before Christmas. An early apology for the late letter, but this is the first break that I have had in a month.

What has sufficiently eaten my Christmas card writing time? Law school! It is my first semester at Seattle University. To those who are unfamiliar with the “joys” of law school, I would suggest you rent The Paper Chase. In the movie, there is an antagonistic professor, who frightens all the students with his unyielding Socratic questioning. My contracts professor is much like the one in the movie – except he speaks with a thick Pakistani accent. I have spent more than a few times praying that he would not call on me. Frightening 1st year professors aside, I am happy to be studying something I find truly interesting.

This has been a year of change for the DuBose family. I passed two large stages in my education this year and started a third. I graduated from BYU with my BA in Philosophy, and I passed my Certified Flight Instructor check ride. I have moved away to Seattle in late August, while Noah has stayed at BYU until she can find a good job up in Washington. To that end, it has been a trying time for the both of us, but we have survived with webcams, cell phones, and monthly visits.

Noah has been thriving at her job at BYU. Because she has been helping the church implement the Service Catalog, she spends her time between BYU and LDS church headquarters in Salt Lake City. Her newest project is to revamp the training system in the Global Service Desk.

This year Noah was very successful in her business of making felt art. This is the 2nd year she manned a booth at the Provo Farmer’s Market. From May until October, she spent many Saturdays at the booth with her friends socializing, making friends, and occasionally selling felt. Actually, with her booth, she has been able to work with some interesting people. One customer requested that she make 1oo felt cupcakes for a birthday party. At the end of the season, she was approached to sell her creations in a local boutique. For the Provo locals, you can now see her work at Bon Bons Boutique on University Ave.

We did not have any trips this summer because I was working full time as a flight instructor and preparing for the move. However, Noah was lucky enough to spend November in Taiwan. Much of that time, she spent visiting friends and eating all her favorite treats.

To you, our family and friends, we hope that you have a great holiday and coming year.
While we may not be able to see all of you often, you are in our hearts.

Merry Christmas

Casey and Noah DuBose

Andy + Breanna's Wedding

Wishing I was in Taiwan with Noah. Ooh well, after 3 more finals, I'll be in Provo with her. :-)

Looks like they had a good times.

Visiting 姨公

Noah, 姨公 ,Marilyn

Dinner

This why I'm afraid to have kids. Noah will do to them what she did to my car.

Look at Adam below.

At the acupuncturist

The Eastern Medicine Wing of the Hospital

The Needles

Shu BaBa

Noah goes to the Zoo (in Taiwan)

Noah, Shu Mama, Adam (in the pram), Eva, Shuper, Shu Baba

猴子

Hard at Work

Less Detail but More Often

Really, I just want to show off my beard.

Seattle!

It is a long since I've been at Ellis Auto Group.

So, coming back on the ferry from Bremerton the other day I decided to film some of the scenery.

Used Car Sales

Another day at the used car lot, I didn't expect I would have such a fun job, but here it is. I'm quickly learning there is a whole side to my education that I have neglected. It is the auto side. You would think that after a couple of years of more mechanical education at the airport, I would know more about cars in general. But it is not so... ooh, need to get back to work people are here.

CFI Busy Times

So, I'm sitting at my new weekend job as a used car salesman for Ellis Auto Group. Never thought I'd be doing this, but it is pretty fun. I'm getting a good car education.

I started my CFI ground class last week and at the same time I am finishing up my IFR work. I expect to take the checkride in 1 1/2 weeks.



Last weekend we went treasure hunting again. This time it was up Spanish Fork Canyon and over to Thistle, Utah. About 25 years ago that area was deserted because of a landslide. So, now there are empty houses half filled with water. It was quite a site.




We also went to birdseye, utah, which was a very pretty valley behind the mountain ridge. I was really attracted to it for some reason.

Treasure Hunting and Mojave Camping

So, I got a GPS for Christmas and we have had a ton of fun with it. There is an activity called geocaching that is like modern day treasure hunting. You go to this site: geocaching.com , download the Lat/long coordinates for various hidden treasure and then go out hunting for them. The are most often an ammo can filled with toys and whatnot, but searching for them has taken us all over. 

When we went on our trip to Las Vegas and Mojave, we went looking for a whole bunch of them. We found some in Arizona and Nevada. We didn't get any in California. 

Why did we go on this trip? It was free! We went to a timeshare presentation last year and they gave us this free trip to Las Vegas. It was pretty nice, but I'm glad we drove because we stayed at the Southpoint Hotel which was a good 5 miles from the main strip. 

One of the highlights from the trip was the wax museum. 

So, since we only had 2 nights in the hotel, but a the whole week off. We decided to spend the last night camping. I chose the Mojave desert because I figured it was the only warmish place we could camp. It is only about an hour south of Las Vegas. It was awesome because we were no where near city lights, so, we had an open sky. 

The campsite.

We got to tour Moffet Cave the next morning.