Belcher Bulletin 2015

Holiday Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year Quincy (aka Q): Q particularly enjoyed going to Disney World/Universal Studios this

year. Nancy was delighted that her youngest loves rollercoasters as much as she does! Q

was also happy to finally play in Hoopfest. Q is a 9 year old 3rd grader who adores the

Seattle Seahawks, playing on his local basketball team and looks forward to Tuesday

nights when he can watch ‘The Flash’ (TV show). Q keeps busy with reading, playing

the steel pan/drum and with sports that include football, baseball, basketball, and soccer.

Luke: Luke graduated from ASB 8th grade and was delighted

to receive the student athlete award. Luke changed-up the

Belcher Bishop Blanchet HS tradition and is attending

Lakeside High School. So far Lakeside is a great fit. Luke

enjoys his new classes, teachers, and teammates. Luke played

Lakeside football and is now on the basketball team. Luke

attended Lakeside’s formal dance last weekend with a large

group of his new friends. Like Q, Luke plays steel pan and is

playing percussion in the school orchestra.

Oliver: Ollie graduated from Blanchet High School and

started college at UW – Bothell, majoring in business. A

natural salesman, Ollie enjoys helping customers at ‘Champs

Sports’ on the weekends. Oliver is also a ‘pledge’ at the Beta

fraternity on the UW Main Campus. Having grown-up in

basically a ‘fraternity’, Ollie finds the transition from home to

the freshman sleeping porch seamless. While saying ‘goodbye’

to his large, close group of high school buddies was difficult,

Ollie is enjoying his fraternity ‘brothers’.

Reed: Reed is a senior Psychology major at the UW, and is

looking forward to graduating soon. He is also enjoying his final year of living in the Chi Psi

house with his fraternity brothers. This summer Reed worked full time at Dunn Lumber and

continues to work there part-time. Reed enjoyed using his hard earned savings to purchase the

parts necessary to build his own computer and, like his brothers, plays a lot of basketball.

Always supportive and caring brother, Reed tries to attend his brother’s events and even tries to

get home on Tuesday nights to watch ‘The Flash’ with Q.

Spencer: Spence is working full-time as an electrical

engineer at Mackie in Woodinville. While his work day

is spent surrounded by music, he greatly enjoys working

on his own music production and is excited to continue

releasing/ performing as ‘David Spencer’. Spencer lives

with a group of his Chi Psi fraternity brothers, and

enjoys staying active via soccer, CrossFit, practicing

yoga, snowboarding and most-recently kiteboarding

with Chris. They are now committed to getting the other

Belchers up to speed on the boards.

Chris: Chris has moved away from Ironman training and into kite boarding. He and

Spencer took a trip together to La Ventana, Baja and fell in love with kite boarding. The

whole family will be traveling there soon and Chris hopes to get the whole family

addicted to his new passion. Chris continues to greatly enjoy working with his partners

and patients at Swedish Hospital- Greenlake Clinic and works Ski Patrol at Crystal

Mountain.

Oliver and Reed, BBHS '15

Quincy enjoying a rainy game with Reed and Luke

Luke sharing his award with Grandpa Don

Chris with Spencer and Reed windsurfing at the Gorge ‘94

Reed

Spencer

Chris and Spencer enjoying La Ventana, Mexico ‘15

Nancy: While Nancy enjoyed working at Fred Hutch, she decided to return

to her own business consulting business. Nancy is delighted by the freedom

that it provides and the variety of business ventures that she is working on.

While Nancy’s ankle issues prevent her from running (!), she found an

alternative exercise regime – Pure Barre. Nancy also enjoyed Disney World as

much as the boys, sleeping in until 7 a.m., and taking her mom, Mimi, on

some Seattle outings including the ‘Great Wheel’.

Vacations: The family enjoyed a number of vacations beyond skiing this

year including white river rafting and Disney World /Universal Studios.

Four Belcher boys had teams compete in Spokane’s Hoopfest this year!

Reed (far right) Oliver (far right) Luke (2nd from Left) Quincy (far right)

The Belchers are extremely grateful that

they live close enough to one another that

they can enjoy easy Sunday dinners,

shared athletic pursuits and events, and

that they are all healthy and happy. They

know that the best presents that they can

give are great times spent together.

Here’s to a very healthy and peaceful New

Year packed with joyful experiences.

The Belcher Family

Mimi with her grandkids Kyra, Quincy and Spencer at the Great Wheel

Disney World’s Jurassic Park Ride: Luke (far left, hidden under hood), Oliver, Chris, Nancy and just look at Quincy’s face!

Chris and Nancy enjoying Turtle Beach

Spencer and Q with cousin Kyra and Grandma Mimi at the Great Wheel