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Boxing Day Party and House Concert
Featuring the Celtic Solstice Music of
FiddleSticksE
December 26, 2003 (Boxing DayE
3:00 to 6:00 pm (note early start time!)
At the Davises:
647 North 1280 East, Orem
Since our arrival in Utah so many years ago, we have welcomed our friends to our home in Orem for a concert and party the day after Christmas: Boxing Day. Please come to our Ninth Annual Boxing Day event! Bring potluck snacks (traditionally Boxing Day was when the leftover Christmas fare was boxed up and shared with the servants, so leftover snacks are perfect!), bring your instruments to join in the musical jam (if you want), and bring your good cheer! Call 221-1108 for regrets, directions, or questions*************************************************
Davis Family Annual Christmas Letter Follows:
Dear Friends and Family: December 14, 2003
We almost got our Christmas letter done by Thanksgiving this year, but well, first Andi was attaching new curtain brackets in the family room, and when she stepped down from the stool, she broke her leg, and has been in a walking boot-cast since, (She calls it Extreme Curtain Hanging!). And then, maybe you heard about the great flu epidemic of 2003? On Thanksgiving day Mark and Baby Xan both got hit by the virus. Two weeks later were over the worst, but it definitely slowed us all down. But other than that, 2003 was a really fun year for us Davises.
This year has seen a lot of traveling, lots of music performing, and some big transitions. We welcomed Matthew Stevenson into the family in April, as he and Becca got married (including a history-making music ceilidh reception at the Pitcher Barn in Alpine). They both just finished school at BYU, and theyre now off to teach school in Japan for a year. Katie graduated with a bookfull of honors from Orem High, and moved up to college at Utah State in Logan Eand of course shes also taken the USU Folk and Bluegrass Club by storm. Liz is our high school junior, and 4.0 scholar, frisbee champion, and organizer of amazing spontaneous parties that pack 50+ teenagers into our basement for food and games and movies and lots of good fun. Of course the most fun weve had is watching our new baby Xan explore the first year of his new world. Hes a charming, happy kid, he has a couple dozen very cute words and "baby-signs" Eand we just cant get enough of him!
Let me let our family members defend themselves:
ANDI: How does the joke go? You know youve become a true Utah Valley woman when you actually say the words: "Dont cry baby Xan, Ill nurse you as soon as I finish making your sisters wedding bouquet." That was my year in a nutshell: First words and college graduations happening on the same day. This baby loves his sisters, just try keeping him off the stage at gigs! It wont be long, we started him on the guitar at three months, but I think the drum is his true love. Hes talking and dancing and singing, and has all the women in this house wrapped around his little finger. Xan is now teaching all of us how to speak "Xanese"Ewe now call any kind of light, a "hhhott", guitar is "doot-doot"; lamp is "no-no-pretty pretty hhhott"; so like the mission homecoming cliche, I would like to close this message in the language of my most recent assignment: "Hat, bye-bye, balllll, meeeouw, doot-doot-doot, talk-a-die (rock a bye). Hot, hhhott, no-no-no, fitta-fitta (fan), shshwish (trees), ball, kittykittykitty (Katie or cat), Dizzz (Liz), Daddydaddy (dad), and his newest for the season: Ho HOOOO Ho!
A word from Rebecca and husband Matt
Ah, the joy of having a short enough life to be able to sum it all up without coming to a full stop.
Matt waited for Becca for 18 months on her mission (his same mission, very werid coincidence) and she got home he waited about 15 minutes after her homecoming talk in church to propose, which he did on a bridge in Provo Canyon which was very romantic, and then they got married in April in Manti with lots of love and help from many wonderful people, especially Andi who is so good at putting together major events, and went on a honeymoon (without Andi, sorry Andi) to Maui, thanks to Matt's wonderful Maui_based family, then came home and worked__ Matt for the forest service, Becca tutoring koreans in English, then Fall happened and Becca went to Copper Hells, eh hem, Hills Hell, eh hem I mean HIGH school for 4 months of student teaching in English, where she loved the kids and teaching but had an all around trying experience, and while Becca was busy pulling out her hair and chewing her fingers to stubbins, Matt succeeded in: gaining University Honors, getting 2 first place prizes in illustrious state competions, finishing independant study courses, working at the BYU herbarium, finishing his coursework in Wildlife and Range science, and applying for Graduate Schools he hopes to attend after we get back from Japan where we are going to teach for 8 months. I think that's it! Happy Holidays!
Katie
:Happy Holidays, everyone. I have had a busy year. I graduated from Orem High in May. Instead of going to the graduation ceremony, however, I took a bikeride up Provo Canyon. Im really glad high school is over. Sometimes I still have nightmares that Im late for class and I wake up screaming. But then I turn over to look at my alarm clock and realize, wait, its only 8 AM, and I dont have class til 10! Hoorah for college. Im at Utah State University which is friendly and fun and has a great Natural Resources College. Im pursuing a degree in Conservation and Restoration Ecology and a minor in Geology and French. Ill be there a while, I think. My anticipated graduation date is May 2024. Lets see, what else did I do this year? I went to Europe with Clog America, but not as a clogger...I was a fiddler in the band. It was great, I made a lot of friends with people from all over the world. Our brief stay in Paris made me realize how I should have actually been born in France, and that this whole thing has been a mistake. Im going to France to study abroad this year or next to correct the situation. A very exciting thing that took up a lot of time this year was Xan, who is my favorite brother and is a lot cuter than other babies. No offense to you readers with infants...the truth hurts. Well, have a merry holiday season, and youll hear from us again next year, as usual. Dont be a stranger, now, ya hear?Liz:
Happy Christmas all! Its Liz here. Im a Junior at Orem High School this year and life is great. This past year I did some cool stuff....I played a cello solo with the American Fork symphony. I performed at National Cello Congress in Arizona. I sang in All-state choir. I played on the frisbee league. I hung out with my friends.Enough of this year. On to the future! By next year I will have:
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Finished a nursing degree, become a traveling doctor in Africa.-
Be able to run a 4 minute mile on my hands.-
Played Ultimate Frisbee for an international League.-
Learned Spanish, Twi, Dutch, and Sign Language fluently.-
Joined Eileen Iverss band as a renowned Celtic cellist.-
Studied Penguins and their language to become their Liaison to solve human interaction problems.-
Done studies figuring shortcuts to derivative problems-
Finished half of my senior yearI try to keep myself busy! Happy Holidays.
We had a really fun Davis family reunion in Colorado in August, though we missed Grandma Betty, whos on a mission in Germany. And it was a busy music year: Liz mentioned our week in Arizona; we also did a reverse pioneer trek back to Nauvoo, playing concerts along the way in Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas, and a bunch of shows in Nauvoo. Weve been working on a new CD of old-time hymns that well probably call "Return to Nauvoo." We got to play at the Pearl Music Awards (kind of like the Utah Grammys) and to everyones surprise, we won a "best instrumental song" award. Then in October we went back to Washington DC for a kind of a good-bye reunion at our old house and concert at the DC Temple visitor center where we got our start back when the girls were little... and now theyre all clever, accomplished well-traveled, awardwinning almost-grownups!
Dear friends, happy holidays and happy new year!
Love, The Davises: Mark, Andi, Becca & Matt, Katie, Liz, and Baby Xan!
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