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Welcome to our redesigned magazine
Dustin walks through some changes you’ll notice starting with this issue of our magazine—and the reasons behind them.

MILESTONES

Our annual holiday letter, 2013 edition
The latest installment of our family’s annual update to loved ones.

THE JOURNAL | SUSAN » Yearning for the simple life
I’d rather make pencils than push them.
+ On a cold day in Krakow

THE JOURNAL | DUSTIN » My year without soda
My first new year’s resolution in over a decade might sound ambitious: no soda for an entire year. But it was easier than even I expected.

THE JOURNAL | FIONA

THE JOURNAL | COLIN » Being a baby: Birth, baths, bottles
Colin may not yet know how to write, but he sure has a lot to say.
+ Naming Colin

Colin’s arrival
By Susan | Colin’s coming into our family on Thursday, 2 January 2014, was a watershed moment in our lives. Here’s how it happened.

WE BELIEVE IN CHRIST » The seed of testimony
By Dustin | Growing up Mormon means you get early experience with public speaking.

Our most excellent and spontaneous Christmas adventure
(or, how I saved Christmas)
By Dustin

IN MEMORIAM » Revelee Lee Hibdon
24 June 1920–10 November 2013 | The obituary that appeared in The Bakersfield Californian on 4 December 2013.