What's up with the Merritt Family

Here's the latest with our family (Christmas letter style):

Lauren's working for the City of Farmington as the IT training coordinator. He's obsessed with building guitars (see link to his page on the right) which takes up most of his spare time.

Jen's working for Farmington Schools, reading lots of books, and doing a bit of quilting here and there.

Dylan's in 3rd grade this year. Both boys are going to a new charter school called the Mosaic Academy, and are doing really well there. He reads almost as much as his mother, and plays video games like a madman. He has recently started collecting coins.

Riley's in 1st grade, and recently lost his 2 front teeth. So cute. His obsession is dragons and pirates, and has taken up collecting trading cards.

The family collectively has discovered the joy of music festivals (mostly Folk, but others as well), and we go to the ones in our area as often as we can. We're all home-bodies, and enjoy just hanging out at home together as much as we can.

A few great books

My first day as a blogger, and I've already received a marriage proposal! So exciting.

I'm starting a book list to the right. I'll rate the books on a scale from 1 to 10.

I’m currently reading Shalimar the Clown by Salmon Rushdie, and thoroughly enjoying it. I’ll get you a rating soon…

Happy reading!

Jen

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog! Thanks to my sis, Kim, for getting me going on this. I'll be posting family news, and also books that I'm reading or have read that I think you might like. In addition, I'd love for you to send me suggestions for great books.

More to come!!