Christmas & Sunshine..

For the first time in four years, we travelled back to Arizona for the holidays and spent Christmas and New Years with our families. The trip started out a little rocky when we all ended up with a stomach virus, but we still managed to have a lot of fun and enjoyed spending some quality time with our families. Thank you all for the special memories made! We attended Christmas parties, visited zoos, enjoyed riding quads, playing with cousins, Nathan attended a Suns game with his dad and brothers, I had a girls' night out with friends from high school, double date night with Aaron & Tamra, and we had a deep pit bbq in Tonto Basin.

I also experienced another first... Dean Douglas Homes, Dean Douglas Development, and Kingston Contracting had their first internal audit. Numerous hours were spent in preparation, but I was very pleased with the end results.

Wedding Video

Since we currently only had our wedding video montage on VHS, I decided to enter the digital age and put in online. There is a funny story behind it. When Lona and I first got married, we had no video done. A year later, I took on a job that trained me to edit video. I later took up doing wedding video montages for people and it bothered me that I didn't have one of my own. I then set out to recreate our wedding moment so we could have our own video montage. I grew out my hair, Lona got her hair done, and got my friend, Trevor Dayley, to shoot the video. It may be a little cheesy, but I am glad that we made it. Lona and I are coming up on ten years of marriage this June and I cannot believe how fast time has passed. I am more in love with Lona than ever before. She is an amazing woman and mother and I am blessed have her in my life.

The video has a little outtake reel at the end and the clip of Trevor walking away in his socks. I had brought a change of clothes to get to work, but forgot shoes, so Trevor let me use the shoes he was wearing since he was heading home anyways.