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Hi everyone! Amelia here and if you’re reading this… you’ve found the secret letter. We didn’t have one on our card because it wasn’t exactly a year worth putting on a card.

In February, my sister Clara tore one of the tendons in her knee, the dog equivalent of an ACL. She was very brave about it and handled it much better than when she snagged one of her claws on a pillow a few weeks before (HEY!!! Breaking a nail hurts!!!!). She had surgery to repair her knee and even got a fancy push card to go around the neighborhood for walks (I HATE Push. No more Push. Just walks!!!). She was just getting the all clear in May when the second knee had its tendon go (I’m the kinda dog that likes to go all in…).

On June 2, Matt’s mom died. We all piled into the car and drove all the way back to Michigan to help clean the house up and get things ready to sell. Clara couldn’t really walk so she had to be carried everywhere in the hotels. All the staff thought it was so adorable watching a 75 pound dog get carried around. Melody stayed and watched the house for us, with the help of our neighbors. She got lots of good cuddles.

When we were in Michigan, we got to meet so many new people. Lots of friends and family I hadn’t seen in years or never met (I’ve never met them!!) came by to see us. It was great to see so many people and make so many new friends. (I was SO BRAVE!! I wanted to meet EVERYONE!!!).

We got back to Washington in late July and were able to enjoy the rest of summer and fall. We had some friends come out to visit us which was AWESOME! We love when we get visitors because we get to take them around to all our favorite places. We even got to do smaller long weekends down in Bend, Oregon and then down in Astoria, Oregon. Our friend Ryan even came and stayed with us for 10 days and then went with us down to Astoria!! And I may have helped myself to his beef jerky… my tummy hurt a little after that.

We’re looking forward to much better 2025. We hope we get to see a lot of you again and under better circumstances! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and here’s to the new year!!