Our Christmas letter

For those who didn't receive the email, here's a copy of our holiday letter:

To all our friends and family,

We hope you all are doing well and the past year was overall good.

We're doing well and the children are growing so fast.

Justin is almost 7 years old and doing great in school. He can be a little bossy over his siblings and likes things just the way he thinks they should be. He's been proving to be super smart in school - reading at a 3rd grade level now and doing great at math too. He's been active in Cub Scouts and just finished up another season of soccer.

Paige is 5.5 years old. Still a princess and loves everything girlie. She is quite social in school and seems to be loved by all the children in her classes (and other classes too). Her teacher says she can be chatty at times but a good student overall and seems to be really excelling in math. She's doing great in gymnastics - this winter she'll be moving up to the next level and be a class with all 7-8 year olds. The teachers said she simply can't stay in her age group any longer.

Faith Anne is 2 and very proud of this. She's still the obvious baby of our family and can try to pull the spoiled baby thing every once in a while. She's a joy to be around - a very happy child for the most part. She loves to follow her siblings around - especially Paige because paige will play dress up with her and all sorts of pretend games. She's already into princesses and purses and dress-up shoes! Her speech has improved a little and we're still working on getting her into a speech program so we will be able to understand most of what she says. Like her big sister, she loves art too.

In October we got Disneyland passes for some family fun over the next year. We've already gone a few times and the kids have such a great time! The big kids will be taking ceramics this winter at our recreation center and are looking forward to it.

As for us parents, not much is new. We seem to have busy days between all the kids activities and our activities - before we know it, another week has passed. We both are still in our same places of work and are doing well.

We hope the holiday season is pleasant for all of you. Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate the birth of Jesus at this time of year. Happy new year to all and we hope and pray the next year is a wonderful one everyone.

With joy and love,
our family to yours.

Faithie Annie - the curious 2 year old!

Our littlest princess is a joy and loves to discover things. We were at a park not far from here last week because Paige had a modeling shoot. Justin and Faith played at the park while Paige was busy.
Faith discovered that she could turn on this little facet and was overjoyed!

DECEMBER

December flew by in a flash! Here it is a few days before Christmas and it seems we were just celebrating Faith's birthday!

There were tons of activities this month between parties and school activities.

Enjoy the photos

Playing on Daddy- The girls love playing horsie on their daddy.


Justin showing off some fleece pants I made him




Justin and Paige decided to take some pictures the other day.




Justin at school


Christmas photos - sometimes getting 3 children to be still and take a photo together can be a challenge. Last weekend I realized we still needed a photo of the 3 of them for cards/emails. I had just returned home from working all night and they were almost ready for church. I helped Jason get them dressed and everyone's hair brushed after their baths/showers and took them outside. The sun was bright and bugging Justin and Faith's eyes. The older kids wanted to bend down to be near Faith's face but she would just copy them and bend down too. In the end, we did get a few good pictures.










Paige showing off her dress that I made her the day before.




Sisters


Faithie wanted a picture of her hugging her animals

Rest of November

I guess I got busy and haven't updated things here in a long time.

November went by in a rush it seems. School, 2 kids playing soccer and then Thanksgiving... before we knew it, it was Christmas season!

Paige did a modeling shoot for Petco this month - keep an eye out for her in their Spring mailer.

This site has had some changes and the photos need to be smaller now - I'm changing the photo size starting with this post but for older ones, I think if you click on the photos, they'll show full size (if they are full size you'll see a frame around the edges).

Paige had Indian day at school:




A winter trip to Disneyland to see all the Christmas decorations - it was lots of fun except for the one day when Faith's tummy wasn't feeling so well and the day ended with a massive 2 year old blow-out!







Faithie Annie - Princess warrior!