Wow, hard to believe another year gone by. This one was a bit more “quiet” than usual, with multiple family events rather than any big international travel. We’re all still healthy and gainfully employed so we feel blessed for that.
Ann has a new boss at work (7th in 10 years) so she’s busy getting him up to speed on how Product Support works at FICO. She enjoyed her trip to Bangalore this fall and still goes to the UK at least once a year for work (and loves to go to the theatre while in London).
In his 6 Sigma Master Black Belt role, Jim worked on a major project to help Solar improve product durability on its top selling product and is transitioning the execution of the design modifications back to full scale production. He was able golf more this year – he plays every Saturday as part of the men’s league at Stoneridge.
Jamie continues to do well in school and has a busy extracurricular schedule with dance 4 days per week, along with piano, gymnastics, Girl Scouts and art classes when we can fit them in. She does 2 or 3 Girl Scout encampments every year now, which she loves – the girls do nature hikes, have bonfires, make crafts, earn badges. We take advantage of these weekends for golfing, wine tasting, eating out more, etc. Jamie is in the 5th grade and we’re looking at middle school options for her for next year, hopefully somewhere with a good academic as well as arts program (check out some of her art work on our picture page).
Cookie (Cocker Spaniel), Candy (Pomeranian) and Cupcake (hamster) are all doing well. The dogs are totally spoiled and rule the house (I’m sure that comes as no surprise!).
We took a number of small trips this year. We skied in Utah again, Jamie is quite comfortable on the blue slopes now. We attended our niece Tracy’s graduation from Yale in May and combined it with a short visit to New York City. We’re heading back there this New Year’s – we’re invited to the party at the NYC FICO office on New Year’s Eve to watch the ball drop at Times Square. In June, we visited our friends Sue, Sammy and Loren in Arizona, did a little golfing and visited the Grand Canyon. Then in August we headed to Texas (yes, Texas in August, hot hot hot) for Courtney’s wedding (Ann’s stepbrother Steve’s daughter). It was great to see family and play tourist in the Texas Hill Country, including tubing on the Guadalupe River. In September, Jim and Ann headed to Las Vegas for our friend Steve Wickens’ 40th birthday celebration. We saw Love (a new Cirque show, it was fabulous), ate at Tao, gambled and had a fun limousine outing as part of the birthday celebration. Jim took a quick trip up to Washington and Montana in September – the semi-annual boys’ trip to the USC/Washington State football game in Pullman. In November, Jim and Ann attended our favorite event of the year – the San Diego Bay Food and Wine Festival. Unfortunately, this year’s crazy weather and rain hit that weekend, so it was not the typical chamber of commerce event that it usually is. Then Ann caught up with her SABRE friends at Susan Weigel’s Vegas birthday celebration in December. Let’s just say that a birthday party at the Hofbräuhaus generates a lot of Kodak moments!
We’d love to hear from everyone and you’re all invited to visit (we still have two guest rooms).
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