This is proud Grandpa Curt with new Macquarie James Workman. "Mac" was born Dec. 4, 2007 to Sam and Jenniann. 9 lbs. 4 oz and great big hands. Grandpa says he has a hammer waiting for him. Macquarie is named after a city in Australia where Sam served on his mission. Sam says that the name Macquarie is very prestigious in Australia... kind of like Rockefeller in USA. Sam obviously loves his memories of Australia since he also named their daughter Australia (Lia) Rose.
Every Christmas Eve we take a family photo at our house with whoever is here to celebrate. This year it was just Sunny and Sam and their families. Amanda family visited the weekend before but were at home for Christmas. Emily spent her very first Christmas away... a sign that she is all grown up I guess. So this is our family Christmas 2007. Left to Right (back row) Jenniann, Sam holding Macquarie James (born Dec. 4th), Angela, Sunny and Mo. Front: Lia, Johnnie, Hyrum in front and Brigham on Grandpa Curt's knee. We had a good year and tried to keep it simple. We have all been trying to focus on family preparedness. Sam, as the ward Elder's Quorum President has really been emphasizing it and suggested to the men that they cut their Christmas gift budget in half and buy food storage, etc with the other half. It caused quite a stir around the ward! Jenniann had a couple of sacks of rice under the tree! As a family we have been putting up quite a bit and looking into water purification etc. Sunny and Sam contributed to our preparedness by buying Curt a "varmint" gun for Christmas! Now we can eat gophers if we get hungry. We gave each of the married couples some silver to put into storage. All in all it was a very relaxing and good Christmas. We have said many times that we are very blessed when it comes to not being able to think of a single thing that we "need" or "want" for Christmas. (although I did "need" and "want" a new mixer... and got one.)
