Christmas Letter 2010

We hope this holiday season finds you happy and healthy. Our family feels very blessed and grateful for all that we have. We had a very busy and fun year: a trip to San Francisco Bay Area, Disneyland, Dinosaur Land in Vernal Utah, A getaway for Jason and Kristine to Steamboat Springs, CO. The real fun though is spending the time as a family. Here is a short summary of what we all have been doing and things that have changed this year.

JASON is still employed with FamilySearch at the LDS church and has been working on adding Discussions feature to the new.familysearch.org website. Jason was released as 11 year old scout leader and is now the Elders Quorum president. He still plays basketball in the mornings, tries to go fishing, went deer "hunting" (who knows what he does up there, cause he didn't bring anything home).

KRISTINE is pregnant with #6, a boy and is due April 15. She is busy with our other five kids doing carpool, homework, laundry, etc. She is a Valiant 10 teacher and activity days leader. She does a fabulous job of keeping the kids going - homework, carpool to cheer, all the little things that make a Mom a great Mom.

ELISABETH (9) is in 4th grade. She loves choir and just performed in a few concerts. She is also very much enjoying cheer and tumbling. She just got her round off back handspring. =) She just went skiing for the first time with her 4th grade class. She loved it so much that she is hoping to go again with her Dad. She is our creative one, always painting, drawing, cutting, knitting, cross stitching. She loves school and playing with her siblings and friends.

REBEKAH (8) is in 2nd grade. She is too smart, excelling in her math and reading - beyond what they test for in here grade. She loves learning, so much that over the summer vacation all she wanted to do was work on her workbooks and then a month ago, she made her own set of multiplication flash cards. She too is in cheer, and loves doing round off back handsprings any time she can. Last week both she and Elisabeth won 1st place at a competition. She also enjoys reading and cross-stiching. She was baptised this month and it was a fantastic experience.

JONATHAN (5) started kindergarten and is always excited to go. He is turning into a good reader and loves to sing all the songs they are teaching him. Second only to playing any video game, he absolutely loves going to gymnastics and just graduated to level 2. He is our dependable one, loves to help, and is really good at keeping his baby sister happy.

JACOB (3) turns everything into a gun and tells you he is going to shoot you (or dragons, dinosaurs or monsters). He is super "helpful" and independent (about as independent as any 3 year can be) . He LOVES to watch Curious George and started preschool this year.

KAYLA (2) is our happy girl, always smiling and looking super-duper cute! She is 100% girl and is always carrying a doll and blanket around. She loves to cuddle with her Daddy before going to bed.

We feel very blessed and grateful for this past year and of course for all of our family and friends and how you have each enriched our lives. We hope you have a very Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and pray that you will all enjoy an even better 2011!


Happy Holidays,
Jason, Kristine, Elisabeth, Rebekah, Jonathan, Jacob and Kayla