The Jones Family 2010 Christmas Letter. Blog style

Merry Christmas Everyone! We hope this Blog letter finds you all doing well. We have had a crazy busy 2010 and thought we would give you the picture highlight of our year. (For those of you who think we are cheap because we chose to do it via blog as opposed to printing it out, you are correct. We are cheap. And let's be honest, you were just going to throw the paper copy away anyways). So here we go. Dive right in to our year in review!

2010 started off with a snow storm in Prescott and us packing up all of our belongings and heading to Vancouver, Washington.

Tye took a job with a company called Ameriflight. It was out of Portland, Oregon and had him gone a lot of hours flying cargo for UPS and FedEx. Although he loved flying the bigger, faster planes, he did not love being gone from home so much.

Oregon and Washington are beautiful states and we wasted no time checking out all that was to be seen. This is a photo of the Oregon coast.

Munson Falls, Oregon.

We spent a LOT of time at the Tillamook Cheese Factory in Tillamook, Oregon. This is one of many shots that we have of me trying cheese samples. Doesn't it look so yummy?

March was a flight home to Colorado for Jenn for her niece's 2nd Birthday. Happy Birthday, Alivia! We spent the weekend partying and enjoying the zoo among other things.

We spent a lot of the spring months snowboarding at Mt. Hood. It was so cool to live just over an hour from the slopes and we took advantage of it, going 4 times in just a few months. One of those times was at night. A first for both of us.

May brought Jenn's 30th birthday and an awesome dinner date on the river with Tye. Aren't we just so cute?

May also brought quite a few visitors. Jenn's best friend Whitney came up for a weekend early on and Tye's dad and stepmom joined us for Memorial Day weekend. We went to Seattle and enjoyed some sightseeing. Here we are at the Boeing Air Museum getting ready to board the Concord.

July had us back home to Colorado to hang out for a few weeks. Tye and Alivia enjoyed swinging together in her back yard. We mountain biked, ate lots of good food, and enjoyed each others company.

The summer months mean most of the snow is gone at Mt. Hood and it's time to get the bikes out. We enjoyed some nice mountain biking at Hood.

The New York Yankees came to Seattle in July and we enjoyed taking in the game. We had great seats and we enjoyed watching the Yankees beat up on the Mariners. Go Yankees!

October brought quite a few visitors our way. First Grandpa and Grandma Post were able to swing through on their way back to Boise. We had a wonderful weekend visit with them. Then, the Hyatts came all the way up from Texas to hang out for a few days. It was great getting to see them and reconnect with some other Prescott friends of ours the same weekend.


November brought another move to us and the purchase of our first house! After a lot of prayer and phone calls, we were able to move back to Prescott. Tye took a job teaching at Embry Riddle University (his old job, in fact) and I have enjoyed staying at home getting us settled into our new house.

The end of November we traveled to Story City, Iowa to brave the cold and spend Thanksgiving with Jenn's family at her grandparents house. We had a wonderful time catching up, eating, and laughing. It was such a nice break from the craziness of moving.

We look forward to what 2011 has in store for us. We pray that you and your family would have a wonderful holiday season. We pray that we would all remember the awesome blessings that we have had this year and that we would take the time to pass those blessings on to someone else.

Merry Christmas!

Love,
Tye and Jenn