2020 Holiday Letter
2020 was a weird year for us all. It certainly came with some trials for us, but also some adventures and victories. Here’s how it all went down.
2018-2019 Holiday Letter
In the past 2 years, we have visited many new countries and had some awesome experiences! Enjoy our overview and photos.
2017 Holiday Letter
Happy Holidays from Minnesota! When the clock struck midnight on December 31st, 2016, and the sky in Loja, Ecuador exploded into color as we ate our 12 grapes (representing a coming year of prosperity), I had no way of knowing what a range of emotions we would experience in 2017—from grief we couldn’t imagine to…
2016 Holiday Letter
Dear Readers, Friends, and Loved Ones, Happy Holidays from Loja, Ecuador! When I wrote the first draft of this holiday letter, less than two weeks ago, I had no idea that a few days later I’d be on a flight to South America! Let me back up to the beginning of the year and…
2015 Holiday Letter
Dear Readers, As I write this, we’re in the final days of 2015. How was your year? I know for many of my loved ones, 2015 brought a large share of challenges. Difficult and costly projects, lost loved ones, health problems, hearts broken… For others, it was a year of joy and new beginnings. Weddings,…
Holiday Letter 2014
Greetings from Fort Collins, Colorado! I started this 2014 “holiday letter” about a month and a half ago and things have been a real whirlwind since then! Let’s see…where was I? After many months of working on an earthbag house in Kansas, Keith is back to work in on an official, paying job. He worked…
Holiday Letter 2013
December 2013 Season’s greetings from Blackwell, Oklahoma! We have just had our first snowfall and the ground outside is all sparkly under the bright sun. By the end of the day it will all be gone and the brown winter landscape of the Oklahoma plains will appear once again. It contrasts sharply with our landscape…
Holiday Letter 2012
A few minutes before midnight, I left the cockpit of the C-130–vibrating on its giant skis, propellers buzzing–and placed my fat white boots onto the crunchy snow, blinking into the sunlight reflecting off the sea of white stretching ever outward to fall away with the curvature of the earth. In the foreground, a small crowd…