Happy Holidays to All!!

The Clyde and Claudia Tigner Family are having some happy times this holiday season. Gabriel, the most celebrated member, has been doing very well in school and has improved in all areas. He is really attaching well with everyone in the family. Stephen is now working IT at Center Partners, and enjoying that thoroughly. Claudia has, unfortunately, been diagnosed with Lupus, and has two forms of arthritis. And even though she feels she is falling apart, she is still excited about life. She is now a state certified professional Habilitative Interventionist for kids with developmental disabilities. She is also still working as a Developmental Therapy Tech in the schools. We don't know how she does all of this, but we do know that she is very, very tired every single night. The rest of us are working on taking up any of the slack that we can. Claudia is also very happy to be the only one in our immediate family to have spent a few days with our newest granddaughter, Samantha. Sam and Carolyn now have two daughters and are living in Provo, near Sam's parents. Clyde is still retired, and is working part-time as a Psychosocial Rehabilitation Worker with kids who have mental/emotional disabilities. Clyde is also looking for other opportunities to do more to earn money for the family. With early PERSI retirement and early Social Security coming in we are always struggling for our quality of life. On January 1, Clyde has to go Medicare. Luckily we were able to work out something for both Clyde and Claudia, so that our medical insurance with the school district will continue to cover Claudia until she is 65.

With all of this going on, we are still finding plenty of joy in serving others. Claudia has recently been called to be the Webelos Den Leader, and Clyde has been called to be her assistant. Our unit has only about 5 boys between the ages of 8 and 10, and is in the process of combining with another unit nearby. Claudia and Clyde will become the main Webelos Leaders between the two units. That means we will have about 9 boys instead of two!

We still have many family names to take to the temple, thanks to Clyde's brother, John. At the moment, however, Clyde is working hard to achieve his objective of 1,000 names indexed on Family Search Indexing before December 31.

We wish all of our friends, acquaintances, and family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! May the Lord bless all of you!!!