Paul Arens Family
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About the Paul Arens Family:
Paul
runs a small lawn care business called "The Groundskeeper" doing
mostly mowing and fertilizing residential and small commercial
lawns. NO he doesn't move snow in the winter. In winters
Paul usually does part time jobs or works on the house.
Here is
a link to the website for a business Paul started with two others last
year. They are still getting it off the ground as it is part time for
all. www.HighPlainsShootersSupply.com
Jules
is a small animal Veterinarian with a practice in
Josie
is in 1st grade and loves to learn. She talks about being an artist and her
favorite christmass presents were Bob Ross videos and
art sets. She also loves carrying one of our many cats around.
2008 Christmas letter:
Happy
2008! I swear I had this letter written in the middle of December, but life
caught up to me and now I have to revise it. We have had snow on the ground
since the beginning of December, so it has felt like Christmas for a while now.
The Arens family has been doing well this year, with a few sorrows along the
way. My grandmother passed away just before Easter, after several months of
worsening illness. We miss her, but know she is in Heaven and so happy to be
well again. Paul and I both lost an uncle this year, as well.
On the pet side, we
lost one cat, Emily, when she just disappeared in June. We also lost one of the
goldfish--not sure if it was the “tour” Josie gave them in a cup of water or
the Windex she used on the fishbowl to clean it up. The other goldfish is going
on four years old. Of course we had to add some animals, too! Phoebe and Zoey are farm cats (from different places) who could be
twin Siamese--they are adorable! They came with some health issues but are both
doing great now. We still have the four dogs, although Sam has used up two of
his lives by running away and getting attacked by the neighbor dogs, twice!
Many sutures later, he is back in one piece. You would think by the time he’s
11 years old he would know to stay home!
Josie is a first grader
at
Paul continues to have
many jobs--lawn care in the summer, bullet making whenever he can find the
time, and a part time winter job working in a T-shirt place. He is having a
great time with cowboy action shooting (ask him what that means--it won’t fit
in this letter!), and received an entire 1880’s cowboy outfit from me for
Christmas. He went deer hunting this year for the first time, but didn’t see
anything. I can’t say that I am sad about that!
My life is busy as
ever. In January I will have been at Pet Care Specialists for 10 years. I am
really enjoying my Mary Kay business, and have traveled to Dallas and Austin
for that. I just got started with the TeamMates
mentoring program, and love meeting with my sixth grader once a week at school.
I continue to help Youth for Christ, although not as much, and I volunteered
with the Holiday Spirit Coop to help hand out gifts to almost 400 families in
need. I found out that I have a herniated disc in my back, so I am going to go
start working out (slowly) and watching what I eat, so I will be in good shape
if I have to have surgery.
Our house continues to
be under construction, but we hope that will be wrapped up sometime this year.
We did get a fence up in the back yard to keep the dogs home, so that is very
nice. They love running around in the snow.
From our family to
yours, we hope your Christmas was blessed, and that 2008 will be wonderful.