Merry Christmas 2011

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From our family to yours!... We wish you a very Merry Christmas season!
Tim, Loreen, Kylie (Age 13), Julaine & Jaren (Age 10), Logan (Age 5), and Kiora (Age 3) Bliss

2011 has been a wonderful year for the Tim & Loreen Bliss family!

Kylie is 13 and in 7th grade at Delta Middle School. She loves her classes and is especially enjoying her drama class. She keeps busy with advanced math and science and all her other classes. She is loving her advanced orchestra class this year, still activily playing her violin. After school her violin turns into a fiddle while playing with the Pahvant chapter of the Utah Old Time Fiddlers with her mom and dad, as well as family performances. She also sings beautifully and loves to harmonize with her mom and sister, Julaine. Kylie still enjoys writing music and has won two awards for her songs. She enjoys her clogging and dance class, plays the guitar and piano, and is still an avid reader. She enjoyed performing in the summer musical again this year, enjoyed playing on her volleyball team, and has fun in 4-H.

Julaine is 10 and enjoying her first year at the middle school.  She is enjoying playing the guitar and piano and has also taken up the bass this year. She enjoys singing and playing music with her family and has a beautiful singing voice. She is enjoying learning the skill of songwriting.  She loves her dance class and enjoyed performing in the summer musical again this year, and was selected to dance in a special tap number. She enjoys soccer, reading, drawing, and spending time with her family. She likes taking care of her little sister, Kiora.

Jaren is also 10 and in 5th grade at Delta Middle School. He loves learning and figuring out how things work. Science is his favorite subject and wants to be a scientist when he grows up. Jaren also enjoys reading, playing with his friends and family and his dog, Copper, jumping on the trampoline, and playing in the water at the reservoir. Jaren enjoys music and playing the piano. He wants to learn the drums and the clarinet. He has performed with the family on keyboards and sings beautifully when his mom can talk him into it. He and Julaine sang in a children's choir last year so his mom knows he secretly likes to. :-)  He also enjoyed performing in his second summer musical this year.  He is certainly not shy!

Logan is 5 and loving kindergarten. Logan is soooo active and loves playing outside, in the water at the reservoir, and taking care of his dog, Copper. He loves playing with friends and his family and his little sister adores him spending time playing with her.  Logan loves playing soccer, learning to read, and loves his guitar lessons. He has also started the piano and violin and enjoys playing around on his harmonica. He likes to sing and has joined his family at performances.

Kiora is 3 and is a pretty little princess. She loves to do what her big siblings do and keeps pretty busy trying to keep up. She loves being read to and listening to her brother, Logan learning to read. She loves her dance class and has danced so cute when her family takes her to performances occasionally. She loves to sing and play on the piano and other instruments when her family members let her. She likes being a big girl and the baby at the same time. She loves being outside and sitting and playing in the sand at the beach at the reservoir and playing in the water. Her mom likes taking her kayaking and she loves it. Occassionally the water relaxes her so much that she falls asleep.

Tim still loves to dairy and is a partner on three family dairies. He keeps very busy with work and at his property on Gunnison Bend Reservoir. He is busy at the res. with dirt work, landscaping, planting trees, building pavilions and getting things ready to build a home, hopefully this coming spring or summer. He is looking forward to only having one piece of property to deal with after they sell their current home. Too much grass to mow and gardens to tend to! The family loves the new beach he made this summer and enjoys his pavillion and the misting system and water fountain he put in. He can build anything! He enjoys kayaking with Loreen when he gets a chance and riding around on his Argo. He loves reading and watching movies. Tim teaches primary at church and has been a scout leader for many years. He is currently serving with Loreen in the Bears den.  He enjoys performing with the Utah Old Time Fiddlers playing a banjo and Houndog lap steel.

Loreen still loves to sing, perform, play guitar, and write music.  She recently (finally) became a member of NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) and attends meetings in Salt Lake City once a month.  She is also busy with Soundcheck Series, another songwriters/musician group and loves attending their workshops, expos and getting to meet so many people.  She loves watching her children enjoy music and share their talents with others.  Playing music with her family is so rewarding.  She also enjoys performing with the Utah Old Time Fiddlers and loves that her hubby has joined the group too.  Loreen joined when her daughter Kylie was asked to join, just soon after Kylie started to learn to play the violin.  That was two years ago and they are still playing strong.  Loreen also loves to sing with The Blue Notes, a community choir she has been a member of for 11 years!!  She has enjoyed the past two summers of musicals and that her oldest three are loving to perform with her!  She played Fiona in Brigadoon and then this recent summer was Sister Amnesia in Nunsense the Mega Musical.  What fun!!  Loreen works in the Young Women in her church ward as their music leader and loves being in there with Kylie!

Loreen is so proud of Tim and all the work he has done for the family.  They have thoroughly enjoyed kayaking and the view out at their property at Gunnison Bend Reservoir.  The process of getting ready to build, and working the land, and just enjoying the water, wildlife, and the view has all been a great journey.  She looks forward to living out there, but will miss her current neighbors and ward!

We hope all our friends and family enjoy their holidays!!  We wish you a very Merry Christmas season!

Love,
Tim, Loreen, Kylie (Age 13), Julaine & Jaren (Age 10), Logan (Age 5), and Kiora (Age 3) Bliss.