Dear Family & Friends,
We hope this letter finds you healthy and happy this Christmas season.
Jared has had some changes this year. He went from working with the Scouting Program to being the Sunday School President in our Ward. He has also gone from working full-time for a Chinese herbal supplement company to working and traveling full-time for a company that sells high-end longboards. He still does taxes and finances for quite a few other businesses and individuals and is always looking for a good profitable company where he can put his financial know-how to work. Jared was able to travel to China in November and had a great time.
Amy went from a Nursery calling at church to being an Assistant Bear Den Leader. She is happy to have gotten back to her pre-pregnancy weight again and hopes to keep herself in shape. She enjoyed getting to get to take the whole family to California for a few days this year as most of the kids had never been to the beach. She reads and writes in any spare time she can get and she enjoys keeping up with everyone on facebook. Amy is still supporting Ron Paul and encouraging her friends and family to get informed about their local and federal government no matter who they support.
Krista is 11 this year and in the 6th grade. She is on the Student Council and enjoys being at the top of the elementary school food chain. She is still dancing and is working on her pre-pointe classes in preparation for joining the Utah Valley Civic Ballet Company some time in the next couple of years. Krista loves to read, is doing well at learning to play piano, and enjoys Family Search Indexing and other fun computer activities.
Kylie is 8 and in 2nd grade. Kylie was baptized in November and was excited to have some of Jared’s family travel all the way from New Jersey for this special event. Kylie is also in dance and takes jazz as well as ballet this year. She is learning to cook a few different things and is in her first year of piano lessons. She loves Monster High, Poptropica, and Zoobles, all of which are popular kid things right now. She is great with gadgets and math and may have a chance of filling her Grandpa Bauman’s dream of having an engineer in the family eventually.
April is 4. She has a crazy imagination and keeps her mom on her toes by coming up with “creative” things to do with her time, like cutting her own hair, painting the furniture, and checking to see which household items marker will wipe off of. April loves to dress up and will often change her clothes a couple of times a day. April is taking her second year of dance and loves it. She has learned most of the alphabet and is starting to try to sound out words and spell.
Andrew just turned 3. He loves all things Diego and Dora related and will watch episodes of their shows over and over. He loves to jump and climb and he’ll sing “Bound, bound, bound and rebound!” (a line from a Pixar short film called Boundin’) as he ricochets of the furniture. Being the only boy is still a little rough for Andrew but a new friend moved in next door this year and he and Henry (pronounced Hen-uh-wee by Andrew) have hit it off really well and enjoy fun activities like collecting sticks, eating dirt, and crashing toy cars.
Jessica turned 1 in August. She is tall and skinny like all her siblings. She is walking, loves to climb, and is starting to run. She really likes yogurt and goldfish crackers. She is quite the chatterbox and says a bunch of words, some of her mom’s favorites are bla-blanba (banana), un-un-un (run, run, run), and all of her siblings names; ihta, tahyee, ahpul, ahandew, and detitah which she yells as an echo when Mommy calls the kids.
Our other family member, the comet-tailed goldfish name FySh, is somewhere around 13 years old and doing well for a fish of his extremely advanced years.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Love, The Stone Family
