Christmas Card

Our Christmas card and poem for anyone who hasn't already seen it:

Paradise Lost (and Found)

Hello from the Prices! As we finish up a year
We wish you Merry Christmas, with lots of holiday cheer.

We started out the year in San Diego, warm and sunny.
We’re ending it in Utah where the cold makes noses runny.

Why did we leave paradise?  You’d think that we were nuts,
‘Cause once we left, it all broke loose, no ifs or ands or buts.

We got to Utah, bought a house and moved in right away,
Dug sprinkler trenches, baptized Nate, and partied for Jack’s birthday

Within two weeks Josh started his new job at BYU,
Teaching O-Chem to the Cougs, who wear the white and blue.

Before we’d had a chance to catch our breath from all this change,
Life changed some more, and looking back, it all seems kind of strange.

Amber was expecting then, her due date in July
Another son!  “Woo hoo!” we thought, our fourth cute little guy!

We thought we still had many weeks to go before he came
But we were wrong.  Her labor started at a baseball game!

Five weeks early, and with pre-eclampsia to boot,
Emergency c-section, but our little guy was cute!

Amber soon recovered, though, and quickly Adam grew
(He spent his first two weeks in a small bed in the NICU).

It seemed much longer, but before the fireworks were done
We finally were able to bring home our little son.

Things began to settle and become much more routine
We quickly saw that life in UT could be quite a dream.

With friends, a job, and family, and temples all around,
It seems the paradise we lost can’t beat the one we found.


Merry Christmas!
Love,
Josh, Amber,
Nathan, Jack, Dallen and Adam