Here is our 2012 Christmas Card and letter!........
Dear Friends & Family December
2012
We
hope this Holiday Season finds you healthy and happy. Here at the
Granados home we are happy, healthy, and very blessed by our Heavenly
Father. It has been a great year for us and how can we take any
credit for it, when all of our blessing come from the Lord and he has
been especially good to us this year.
As
a family we got to go on 2 more Disneyland trips! They were so fun!
What a blessing it was to be able to get Annual Passes and go
multiple times. We went in February with my Mom & Gary, and
Allan & Lindy. Then we got to go again in September with my
in-laws! And both times we were able to stop in Las Vegas and see my
cousin Eric and his sweet little family. Another fun thing we did
this year for the first time ever was camping! It was for our (also
a first) Rincon Family Reunion! We hadn't all gotten together in
many
years
and it was so fun to finally be able to do it! I hope we are able to
do it more often.
On
a more serious note, our family also experienced loss this year.
After 2 years battling cancer my father passed away in July of this
year. How grateful I am for the gospel of Jesus Christ and knowing
that one day I will see him again and we will all live again. I know
that he is with his parents and his brother, my dear Uncle Rick and I
know he continues to do missionary work on the other side of the
veil.
Moving
on, other exciting news in our family is that our oldest boy,
Benjamin started Kindergarten this year! I officially have a child
in school! It is such a different and new stage in motherhood to
have a kid in school, but we are learning as we go. Benjamin on the
other hand is doing great! He loves it! Thanks to the awesome
on-line preschool program that he participated in, he started reading
before he even started Kindergarten and is now doing exceptionally
well in his class. We are super proud of him. He also continues to
enjoy Soccer and now Basketball! And he still loves trains!
Abby
is trailing right behind her big brother! She is turning 4 in Feb.
and is super smart. She is learning her ABC's, and numbers and
shapes. She already can maneuver her way around the computer and
learns and catches on real quick! She is also super social and
everyone she meets is her “best friend.” She continues to love
Princesses and ponies and baby dolls and everything girly!
Isabel is now 14 months old and says a handful of words and is
quite good at communicating what she wants. She is also super smart
and loves to copy everything mama does. But the thing she loves most
is her Daddy! She is a Daddy's girl like nothing you have ever seen!
She dances when she hears the garage open because that means he is
about to walk through the door, she runs to him when he does walk
through the door and when he walks out the door she stands at the
door crying for a long time. It is so funny! But we just love
having her in our home. She is a joy and so fun!
Isaac
continues to excel in his job at L-3 Communications and I feel so
blessed that he enjoys his work and that he has such a great job and
works for such a wonderful company! I have continued to run around
busy as a bee like always. Three kids keeps me on my toes 24/7. But
I love motherhood and I love being home with my kids. I continue to
coordinate our co-op preschool, I also volunteer at Benjamin's
school, and I started teaching Zumba as I finally decided it is time
to lose the baby weight. I have lost 10 lbs. And have 20 more to go.
I know I can reach my goal and I am loving teaching Zumba classes!
Finally
I just want to say that I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful
husband and great kids! The Lord has truly blessed us in every way
and how grateful I am to have his gospel and
the opportunity to be blessed. I know it is because of my Savior
Jesus Christ and that is why I love this season so much, so that we
can remember his birth and his life and his sacrifice so that we can
return to live with him again some day. May we all remember the
reason we have this season. We love all of you and you are welcome
to visit us in our home any time! We love visitors!
Love,
Liz,
Isaac, Benjamin, Abigail, & Isabel
