2009 in review

By The Chronicles of Williams -
Hey all,

Just a brief summary where our little family is in 2009....

Austen is a sophomore at the University of Wyoming and is majoring in Art. He's a hoot and fun to have around! He looks forward to going snowboarding as much as possible when he's not working or in school.

Tanner is a senior in high school and plans on going to UW in the fall. He's taking his first UW class this spring and is thinking about Communications/Journalism major. Loves tennis, snowboarding and is still playing soccer:) He's still a sweet boy (even to his parents!)

Cullen is in the 8th grade and is almost as tall as me!!! He loves skiing, tennis and hanging out with his friends and the new Wii. He's very entertaining and keeps me on track around here.

I still love my fused glass art and also tennis. I'm looking forward to learning more about enameling / metalsmithing in 2010. I also want to design some tennis apparel:)  

David loves his job here because he can walk to work everyday and can ski before work if he likes.... He accomplished a big milestone this year.... He is now Full Professor! We are very proud of him and all of his hard work.

We are organizing a new sabbatical adventure. We'll be headed to Springwood, New South Wales, Australia located about 30 miles west of Sydney. We're planning on enjoying our amazing Laramie summer full of friends and tennis and then heading to Australia in September. We'll come back to Laramie in May 2011. We're a little sad to miss out on a winter, but really happy to have a year with 2 summers... more beach time and tennis sounds fun.

Everyone in the family will be writing stuff and putting up pics, so keep coming back and share you lives with us too.

Rene

Comments

David Williams said…
A comment on the Lake Agnes trip. The five of us spent 4 days and three nights in the high country near Walden, CO last week in the Neversummer Range. We slept in a rustic cabin with no plumbing or electricity, just a wood burning stove and a propane cook stove. The cabin is at 10,000 ft elevation and the picture of our family (Austen, David, Rene', Cullen, Tanner, left to right) in the blog was taken on Christmas eve at the frozen Lake Agnes at 11,000 ft. It was cold, but sunny and quite an adventure getting up to the lake. We snowshoed through deep powder snow up a series of steep switchbacks in the trail to get to this amazing sight. We all ate well (Rene' broght lots of great backcountry meals and recipes) and the boys had a great time skiing, snowshoing and snowboarding. We played cards at night and sang off tone Christmas carols with creative lyrics.

David.
December 30, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Delta Burchi said…
hey guys we miss you a lot!!!!!! are you having fun in Australia???? i hope so!!!
September 3, 2010 at 2:53 PM

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