2015 has been a
crazy year. Looking forward to a nice, boring 2016!
Mark made a major
life change when he decided to switch gears career wise and accept a job with
Southern Utah Neurosciences with IHC. He had been working at Premier Pediatrics
for 6 years and quit at the end of January. Due to paperwork, committees, board
reviews and credentialing, it was two months before he could actually start his
new job! Now he is settling in as a physician assistant doing orthopedic spine
and neurosurgery. He works mostly in St. George (45 minutes away) but also
covers the Cedar City hospital and clinic. He likes the work
but is gone from home a lot more, usually leaving by 5:30 in the morning and
working 10-12 + hour days, plus commuting.
He took us back to his home
state of North Carolina
this summer for a Yoder reunion and we stayed at a beach house on the Outer
Banks, where he used to live. He got to go surfing every morning with his
brothers and loved every minute. He also attended PA conferences in California and Las
Vegas, and recertified his national medical boards.
Glad that test is over for another 10 years!
Melissa is holding the
fort down at home the best she can. The kids keep her very busy and she still
enjoys sewing and making jewelry when she can for her etsy shop, and even goes
to dance class once in a while. She loved taking pictures of all the lighthouses they saw in Virginia and North Carolina. Her G-ma Mary Murset (last surviving
grandparent) passed away on Luke’s birthday in September and that has been hard,
she is greatly missed!
Madelyn turned 11 on
December 21st and is excited that now she is of age to attend
Hogwarts. She is in 5th grade and is still doing gymnastics. She is
obsessed with pandas right now and also loves sea animals and LOVED the beach
this summer. She is in the library club at school and is always super helpful
for her teacher. She is a great big sister, too and is our cat Tiger’s favorite
person.
Luke turned 6 this
year and finally started kindergarten! He is so smart he actually tested at nearly a 4th
grade reading level, passed off two years of sight words immediately and is
reading chapter books for homework. He does very well in math too and is slowly
getting the hang of handwriting, sitting quietly and other social skills. He
loves computer games, collects tanks, hates wearing clothes (year round...) and
is still mom’s sweet, snuggly boy.
Isabelle
is
19 months old and is our happy sunshine who is also at that insane toddler
stage where she’s destroying something every five minutes. Mom posts the evidence
on Facebook and Instagram because she’s trying to have a sense of humor about
it. She is already talking and says “There you go!”, “Thank you”, “Yeah”, “No”,
“Uh-huh”, “Yay!” “Dada”, “Mama”, “Hi!”, “Bye!” (which unfortunately sounds like
“Die!”) “Uh-oh” and “Hi, kitty.” She is super spoiled with all the love the
baby of the family gets. She is also a night owl like you wouldn’t believe and
regularly stays up till 11:00 p.m. or later.
Hope this finds all of you
happy and well. We are so blessed to have you in our lives.
Love, Mark, Melissa, Madelyn
Luke, Isabelle and Tiger :)
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