Hello family and friends:
Oh what a year 2020 has been for everyone! I hope this letter finds you enjoying the holidays and being excited about the end of the year.I'm still working at TI, my team finished a year+ project this year and now we are working on to new projects for next year. I'm enjoying my team and got to make multiple positive changes with the team this year that I'm excited about. I'm still enjoying work and I'm very thankful to have a good job. We have been working at home since mid March, and are just starting to very slowly go back to the office. Obviously no traveling this year and don't see that changing much for a while.
For volunteer work this year I'm managing the web site for high school PTSA, co-leading Cadette Girl Scout troop, and VP of membership, co-chairing the web site, and leading 6th grade graduation at the elementary school. This is my 10th year volunteering at the elementary school - it will be weird to no longer be there next year. I am also trying to volunteer some to help out the band.
The Girl Scout troop finished up their Bronze award right as we were going into quarantine. The girls created stuff animals for fireman and first responders to give to kids in tough situations. We have met a few times outside, virtually or spread out. Most recently we had the girls decorate stockings and little christmas trees. We played Christmas music, opened the doors, and kept masks on and girls spread out. It was fun.
We've still been going to A&M football games when they have them. With only 25% capacity its pretty easy to spread out.
Right before quarantine we went to Broken Bow Oklahoma again with the grandparents. It was no nice to have that before we were all at home.
Kasey is now 12 and in 6th grade. She is getting taller and less than an inch shorter than me. She's taking hip hop and jazz with a friend, and she's also still ding Pom Squad where they perform multiple times during the year (this year that means in a parking lot and they just videod the holiday performance they will share with us before the holiday). Kasey is now in band playing the clarinet - she's taking private lessons and enjoying it. We actually took her aunts clarinet it to get fixed because she enjoys it. The girls bridged to Cadettes in Girl Scouts and achieved their Bronze award right before quarantine started. This year at school she's in KNN crew who are in charge or morning announcements. Kasey is on camera doing More segments and other things.
Landon is now 14 1/2, and a Freshman in high school. He has grown tall and thin and is about an inch shorter than Greg. Landon is playing in the high school band so he marches at Varsity football games which has been fun. Parents of kids involved in the game get to buy tickets on Mondays of home games. Everyone is spaced out and its outside so we've felt safe. The band is fun and reminds us of music that was played when we were in high school. They have performed at football games, participated in Regional competition (they got all 1s (the best score you can get)), and even had an end of year performance. The directors were very excited to get to do that. He's enjoyed getting to hang out with other kids that play his same instrument. This year in Scouts Landon has started working on his Eagle project. Its not approved yet but he's spent some time on it and working on the proposal and even a prototype. Landon really enjoys playing online games and watching YouTube.
We hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May God Bless you this
coming year. We are ready to move on to 2021!
Love, Dana, Greg, Landon, Kasey & Patch Myers
As with many other things this year Greg and Landon's Philmont trip got cancelled. Greg and the kids still walked 3 1/2 miles pretty much every day from when we went into quarantine until the kids went back to school. He's still very involved in Landon's Boy Scout Troop doing adult training and organizing board of reviews. He's still doing clubhouse coordination for the neighborhood which has been pretty quiet this year.
We've still been going to A&M football games when they have them. With only 25% capacity its pretty easy to spread out.
Right before quarantine we went to Broken Bow Oklahoma again with the grandparents. It was no nice to have that before we were all at home.
We did take a few trips over the summer. We rented a house at Possum Kingdom lake - we had fun being somewhere else with the pool, and we even rented a boat and went tubing one day. All 4 of us went tubing which was really fun. We also spent a week at the beach in Alabama and rented a condo right on the beach. It was really nice and we were able to stay away from people pretty well. The elevators were the only tough part. That's about it for this year.
Kasey is now 12 and in 6th grade. She is getting taller and less than an inch shorter than me. She's taking hip hop and jazz with a friend, and she's also still ding Pom Squad where they perform multiple times during the year (this year that means in a parking lot and they just videod the holiday performance they will share with us before the holiday). Kasey is now in band playing the clarinet - she's taking private lessons and enjoying it. We actually took her aunts clarinet it to get fixed because she enjoys it. The girls bridged to Cadettes in Girl Scouts and achieved their Bronze award right before quarantine started. This year at school she's in KNN crew who are in charge or morning announcements. Kasey is on camera doing More segments and other things.
She enjoys watching YouTube and playing Roblox. She has a few friends that she hangs out with when she can. Kasey has created a new style - she used to not like black clothes. Now she only wears black leggings and different shirts (she prefers black shirts too).
Landon is now 14 1/2, and a Freshman in high school. He has grown tall and thin and is about an inch shorter than Greg. Landon is playing in the high school band so he marches at Varsity football games which has been fun. Parents of kids involved in the game get to buy tickets on Mondays of home games. Everyone is spaced out and its outside so we've felt safe. The band is fun and reminds us of music that was played when we were in high school. They have performed at football games, participated in Regional competition (they got all 1s (the best score you can get)), and even had an end of year performance. The directors were very excited to get to do that. He's enjoyed getting to hang out with other kids that play his same instrument. This year in Scouts Landon has started working on his Eagle project. Its not approved yet but he's spent some time on it and working on the proposal and even a prototype. Landon really enjoys playing online games and watching YouTube.
We hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May God Bless you this
coming year. We are ready to move on to 2021!
Love, Dana, Greg, Landon, Kasey & Patch Myers
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