To all our friends and family we hail with a hearty hello and give grand greetings!
We want to bring everybody up to speed with the Sonntag family’s goings-on. After all, we haven’t sent Christmas cards out for three years and you might think we’ve dropped off the face of the earth! But we are still in Utah, and still in the Salt Lake valley.

However we did move almost as far from our old house as you can get and still be in the Salt Lake valley. We moved from the Avenues area of Salt Lake City (near the capital building) to the Daybreak community in South Jordan, Utah, in October of 2006. The move brought Deb much closer to her workplace, Kennecott Utah Copper’s Copperton Concentrator, which has meant more time with the family (Frank and Riley) in the evenings. Frank began managing the Arlington Apartments in the Avenues when Riley started Kindergarten last year, which has meant less time with the family some evenings (but he is sometimes fortunate to see our friends in the Avenues). Life can be ironic.
Our youngest child, our 7 year old son Riley, is attending 1st grade at Daybreak Elementary. He loves recess and lunchtime, but says the teachers are torturers because they make the kids learn stuff. Even so, he’s the best reader and the best mathematician in his class. He’s figured out multiplication on his own! Riley loves to play Transformers, Bakugan, army, Wii, . . . with his friends, watch movies, and read with us. Right now he loves Skippy Jon Jones books, which were introduced to him by his 1st grade teacher, Ms. Clark. We adore our Riley and are so happy he is with us.
Our precious only daughter, 22 year old Michelle, is serving an 18 month LDS Church mission in the Eugene, Oregon mission, having left on May 28, 2008. She is 6’1”, slender and beautiful. Before her mission Michelle decided she wants to be an FBI profiler, and was majoring in sociology, minoring in Japanese, and working to earn a criminology certificate. And this is a girl who does calculus in her head! She also collected swords, daggers, and studied about guns. We wonder if any of these interests will have changed by the time she finishes her mission. We really miss her but we believe in the work she is doing, and we look forward to when we can see her again.
Our second son, 24 year old Bob, is starting his final semester before he graduates with his undergraduate degree from the College of Architecture at the University of Utah. He is applying for graduate school in architecture at colleges and universities all around the United States. Bob is tops in his classes, producing amazing project after amazing project, most of which we have the good fortune to borrow and display in our home. Bob stands 6’ 3½”, almost as tall as his dad. He cares deeply and intensely about the environment, our country, and sustainability in architecture. He lives with his Grandma Sonntag in the Avenues while attending school and rides his bicycle practically everywhere he goes, in all kinds of weather and at all times of day. Grandma says it’s like living with a ghost since he comes home so late and she really never gets to see him.

Our oldest child, Gary, is 28 years old, 5’ 10½” tall, and knows that his brother and sister look up to him . . . even if they don’t look up to him. When he was a boy he was social and friendly; he is now a social, friendly young man. Gary has worked in several different fields. Gary worked as a telemarketer, as a salesman in a sporting goods store, as a liftie at Alta Ski Resort (where he was able to ski as much as he always dreamed), as a refrigerator recycler, and as an installer of “black boxes” on semi-trucks. He is now learning electrician skills and is a keenly effective troubleshooter, with his innate talent at figuring out how things are supposed to work. He lives life with his sweetheart, Angela, and their two dogs and one cat, in Angie’s house in Salt Lake City. Angie works for E-bay, handling accounts for a few of their biggest sellers. We are happy Angie is part of our family too!



Please know that you, our family and friends, are in our hearts and in our thoughts. We love you and we would love to have you visit our home.