Welcome 2010

I’m not going to bore you with the details of all the Christmas functions we attended/hosted this year (totaling 10!) but I will say this is the best Christmas we’ve ever had and it really did go by too fast. One thing remains in the front of my brain: There were signs in many yards that said “Remember the reason for the season”; now that Christmas has come and gone all the signs are down; now are we to stop remembering? . . . . Josh and I resolve this year to remember the reason, our salvation and our savior, to give grace and pray often. That sounds a little like we are super human I suppose but we strive for perfection because He deserve the best of all of us always.

It’s been just over a year since Coldwell Banker Professional Group made the move to downtown Newberg, an excellent decision if I do say so and Lucinda one of our fellow brokers met her five year goal and became part owner of our firm, another great decision. CBPG and thereby Kris and Lucinda have made it possible to grow personally and professionally in a loving and supportive professional environment for which we are extremely grateful. On that note a little shout out to our friend and colleague Wayne – you better pony up buddy; you’re in for a real competition – so now I have to explain I suppose . . . Wayne and his partner Jennah and Josh and I are working for the 2010 top producer in our office, though all four of us would like to go further to be the number one team in the state we remain realistic. As a result of referrals and unconditional support from Cindy De Las Heras and Becky Swenson of Wells Fargo we are off to a great start for 2010.

Josh has been at Ore-Land now for over six years. He’s still full-time, the work has been a little slow but consistent - Praise God! Luxury Limo (http://www.insiderswinetour.com/) had a great year, they continue to grow in a niche market of high end service giving tours to awarding winning boutique wineries and vineyards and building relationships with only the finest B&B’s and restaurants. Josh has enjoyed the last couple months off driving for hunting season and the holidays but is looking forward to another successful year with the best wine tour company in the valley.

We had a glorious New Year (though we didn’t stay up till midnight) in Central Oregon spending time with my mom and adventuring on our snowshoes. We made another trip to Wanoga Snow Park where Ashley, my mom’s roommate, came along and pulled her nine-month-old son, Landon in a toboggan behind her. The next day we went up to Mt. Bachelor and left (their trail fees are insane!) almost immediately and headed for Edison Butte where we hiked three to 20 miles on snowshoe only trails - Really we hiked 2.8 miles or so, we figured our GPSs lost signal frequently due to tree and cloud cover so we don’t have an accurate number; where we turned back Mom’s GPS was saying we’d gone 1.5 miles, David’s said .4 so when we got back to the trail head I grabbed a map; if the map is to scale we went 2.8 miles but Josh insisted that we call it four miles, which exaggerated to five, then ten, then twenty.