our 2022 Christmas letter

The Scherlings are either turning Christmas letter writing into a biannual tradition, or Anna and Ian wanted to give Ellis a really solid second child complaint story by skipping letter writing for his first Christmas. He’ll be fine. Right?

our 2020 Christmas letter

While a global pandemic may seem like the perfect excuse for the Scherlings to once again drop the ornament on their unreliable Christmas letter-writing tradition, they decided it was actually an opportunity to sandwich two years into one (and hope you weren’t too disappointed their 2019 letter was MIA).

and the 2019 nominees are...

This is Ian's and my eleventh year following the Oscar-nominated animated shorts. Between work travel and projects, a month of sickness, and the added complication of needing a babysitter, Ian and I once again were unable to make it to the Coolidge before the awards show. We're bummed to miss out on the highly commended shorts (Wishing Box and Tweet Tweet both look really good), but we're thankful we were able to catch all the nominees, courtesy iTunes and our personal Pixar collection.

This year is an impressive lineup, which makes breaking our current losing streak a challenge (our prediction record is now 3 for 8, counting just the years we've seen all the animated shorts).

Micki

I was so honored Dane asked Emily and I to give eulogies for Micki, alongside him, Ian, and Ren. The following is what I shared at the services in Lafayette, CO, and Goodland, KS.

I have had the privilege of knowing Micki for 14 years, and calling her my mother-in-law for 11. But more than that, she became my second mom, and one of my greatest friends.

our 2018 Christmas Letter

When what to their wondering eyes should appear, but a prompt Christmas letter and one crying toddler! (Don’t worry. Ian and Anna rescued Lucy from the clutches of that red-suited terror moments after the photo.) Yes, it’s a Christmas miracle: the Scherling family’s annual awkward, third-person Christmas letter has arrived in inboxes around the world before December 25!