Christmas Letter!

Christmas 2008
Dear Family and Friends,

Hello family! It has been quite the year for Tyler and me. We got married on January 26th and it has been an adventure ever since then. A week after we were married we packed up our things in Colorado and headed west to California! Somewhere during that time I turned 24! Tyler got a job with Cardinal Health as a Sales Rep and the job was in the Sacramento area so we moved to Roseville. We loved it there. Tyler loved his job and I had a couple of nanny positions that I loved. We lived next door to the missionaries and we immediately adopted them as our own. I loved having them around and I think that it really helped Tyler and me. It was a little hard moving away from all of our family and friends but the missionaries helped us! I am so glad that we had the opportunity to move away as soon as we got married; I don’t think that we would be the couple that we are today without it. We lived in Roseville until the beginning of August. Our time in Roseville included: fun visits from friends and families, Tyler totaling my car, Tyler buying me a new car, more visits from friends and family, and trips back home to see family. While we were visiting Tyler’s family for the Fourth of July, Tyler got a call from his manager and he informed him that he would not longer be employed. So we added that to the lovely stresses of married life. He worked for such a good company and we were so sad at the thought of leaving it. Cardinal worked very hard to find him another job within the company. They gave us a few options; Chicago (way too cold and too far away), Oakland (too scary), or San Jose. So we took the job in San Jose and moved there the beginning of August. Tyler is now a Distribution Rep and I am once again a nanny. We do love San Jose, but just not as much as Roseville. It is so expensive to live here and our neighbors aren’t the boys. We do have friends here that we love and we are pretty content with staying here for the time being.
Since we have lived in California we have been taking a lot of adventures! While in Roseville we visited Lake Tahoe, which is absolutely beautiful, a couple times. Jake came to visit us and we went to Reno and came home by way of Lake Tahoe. We went to San Francisco a couple of times, once just the two of us and once with the Ortiz parents. My friend Ashley came to visit us from Minnesota and we went to Monterey and went on a whale watching boat and actually saw whales. It was awesome! Jessica (cousin) and Mickey came to visit us and we went to a lake nearby Roseville and explored downtown Sacramento. We also went to some minor league baseball games; I think they are way more fun then major league ones, especially when you know someone that is playing. I think there were more things that we did while living there but I can’t remember them. Now that we are living in San Jose we still go on adventures. We only live like 25 minutes from the beach, so we have gone there quite a few times. Tyler turned 25 on the 23rd of August and my friend Ashley just happened to be here visiting from Arizona so we took her to Santa Cruz beach! We have a couple friends that we knew from Minnesota that live here in our same apartment complex so I often go with them to the beach. We went to a 49ers football game and got our car broken into; so sad! I am never going to a football game again! Okay probably not but still I was so mad. Some friends invited us to a pro basketball game that was a lot of fun; and when Tyler’s parents came to visit us in November we went to yet another football game. Basically I just need to go to a hockey game and I think I will be done with sporting events until I have kids!
We have had such a fun year and we hope there are many more to come! I hope all of you have had a fun year and are blessed with many more!

LOVE YOU ALL!

Naomi and Tyler!