Greetings From The Marrs!

Here's a little update on the family:
 

The year sped by, but we were able to be all together much more than we thought possible. The family all came to San Jose for Axel’s blessing in February, for Tracy’s pacemaker replacement in May, for the family reunion in July, and for Christmas (below).

Tracy and Jeff traveled (separately) to Spokane to visit Dallin, Alicia, and Everett, and to New York to visit Shannon, Jeff, and Axel.

Brennen has been doing well. He has home nursing for 16 hours a day, which has improved his health and allowed Jeff and Tracy to travel one at a time. Brennen continues to review films; see his reviews on the tastywaffle channel on youtube. He loves being an Uncle and looks forward to teaching the 7 year old class at Church this year.

Shannon loves being a stay-at-home mom. Her husband Jeff is a storyboard artist for Blue Sky. Look for his name (Jeff Call) in the credits for Rio 2 when it comes out in 2014. It was wonderful to see Axel’s name as one of the production babies in the credits for Epic. Axel loves to play “catch” and is active, active, active.

Dallin started grad school at Eastern Washington University in the School Psychologist program. He is also the TA for freshman psych and loves to teach the class on Fridays. Since much of the extended Marr family is in Spokane, Alicia is being exposed to that unique “Marr Experience”. Everett examines everything to figure out how it works, and likes to try to use a screwdriver. Jeff is hopeful of a future engineer.

Aerin turned 13 and is in 8^th grade. She continues to play the clarinet in the band, and is starting to learn the flute. She also got a ukulele for Christmas. She’s into post-punk music, anime, and manga. She delights in reminding Tracy and Jeff how soon she will be wearing makeup and driving.

Here’s Jeff and Tracy shamelessly doting on their grandsons:

Happy New Year From The Whole Family!