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ble little boy ever according to us at least kaitlyn turning older in a few weeks is now the oldest sibling at the elementary school and has stepped into that role well additionally she has enjoyed taking gymnastics classes over the course of the year and is now physically incapable of going from point a to point b without doing a cartwheel or back walkover or walking on all fours upside down while in the bridge position she continues to work on her piano skills and has also discovered that she has a very witty sense of humor for example during a target visit she found a miniature version of the eiffel tower held it up to me and said i kind of expected the eiffel tower to be a little bit bigger alison turned older this year is literally counting down the days until she turns older and can enter the young women s program at church as a middle schooler she is becoming uncomfortably independent am i really old enough to have a child in middle school and enjoys being able to stay after school to watch the 7th 8th grade girls basketball team play home games a team that she aspires to join next year she loves watching studio c a sketch comedy program on byutv and getting together with her friends fortunately we ve been able to nurture her unhealthy obsession with byu so she fits right in with her parents on game day megan remains as busy as ever with 2 kids at home and 3 kids at school who need lunches during the day and guidance on homework at night somehow she still finds time to serve in her church responsibilities in the children s primary organization workout at the ymca frequently and use her stampin up products to papercraft anything in the house that can have a glue dot or adhesive attached to it i m enjoying my job at bank of america serving as the organist and youth sunday school teacher at church and trying to find time to play guitar and record music whenever i can which with the aforementioned 5 kids in the house ends up being at around midnight for 10 minutes at a time every other month we love you all and are grateful for this time of year when we can reflect on the things we did this year as well as the things that really matter most our family our friends and our faith in jesus christ we wish you a very merry christmas and happy 2014 posted by nathan at 8 57 pm no comments merry christmas 2012 december 2012 dear family friends acquaintances and people who casually picked up this letter looking back on our 2012 i couldn t remember all of the noteworthy events that took place during the course of the year so i turned to our trusty family blog at www nathanandmegan blogspot com for ideas unfortunately 2012 turned out to be worse than last year in terms of blog post production only 3 posts vs 15 last year and 51 posts in the peak year next i tried my facebook account but that had even fewer updates i may have to survey the family to find out what we did this year ok the survey responses are in and it turns out we had quite an eventful year for starters we bought a house here in charlotte and were able to close just 10 days before we would have been forced to move from our old one as our landlords did us the favor of selling it while we still lived there olivia thought an important event during 2012 was her birth debuting at 7 15 a m on her birthday and weighing in at 7 lbs 11 oz measuring 18 5 inches and sporting huge dimples she has been a wonderful addition to the family and loves being held by her 3 oldest siblings as well as having a pacifier shoved forcefully into her mouth by ava while she s sleeping speaking of ava she turned 2 this year and is becoming a master of language she s figured out a way to reduce the number of words she actually has to learn by assigning multiple meanings to the same phonetic sound for example be dees can mean any of the following my two security blankets breakfast babies pizza scriptures and a bunch of other things if also accompanied with pointing i wonder what other efficiencies she ll figure out as she gets older she loves her nursery class at church and playing at the ymca while megan works out max turned older this year thought probably that the significant events of 2012 included his continued participation in pre school his developing reading skills his playing ymca flag football his having a dead tooth extracted and his ability to clean his room by shoving everything under the bed so he can go outside and ride his scooter he is also an expert hugger and is friends with everyone everyone k aitlyn turns older in a few weeks reminded me that our moving into a new house meant attending her 3rd different elementary school in 3 years it s a good thing that she s incredibly social and has other girls in her class dressing like her within days she s also been involved in dance gymnastics and piano including a love of figuring out the melody lines of songs by ear and she s very excited to be getting baptized in a few weeks alison turned older this year but is going on even older next year is also making great strides in piano and has continued to be heavily involved in sports she took up soccer for the first time this year and fit in great despite being the only girl on the co ed team however she s excited to return to her roots and started basketball again this week she also continues to excel in school and work on excel at home with money making sales ideas of all kinds megan reluctantly pointed out that she turned older this year but i would point out that that didn t stop her from being a member of the stake champion weddington ward women s basketball team serving in the children s primary leadership at church delivering olivia or continuing to turn ordinary things like water bottles into cute and crafty projects with stampin up products of all kinds i m enjoying my job at bank of america and try to find time to play guitar whenever i can which with 5 kids in the house ends up being at around midnight for 10 minutes at a time every other month we love you all and are grateful for this time of year when we can reflect on the things it turns out we did this year as well as the things that really matter most our family our friends and our faith in jesus christ we wish you a very merry christmas and happy 2013 posted by nathan at 8 52 pm no comments merry christmas 2011 december 2011 dear family friends acquaintances and people who casually picked up this letter looking back on our 2011 i couldn t remember all of the noteworthy events that took place during the course of the year so i turned to our trusty family blog at www nathanandmegan blogspot com for ideas unfortunately 2011 turned out to be the year with the lowest actual blog post production only 15 vs 23 posts last year so clearly i m going to have to find another source of ideas for this year s recap since it s apparent that the slow economy has reached even the blogosphere first off we ve officially moved to north carolina it only took 11 months and 37 showings but we were finally able to sell our house in indiana at a loss and relocate to charlotte to be able to work onsite at bank of america headquarters for the job i accepted last year shortly after unpacking our things megan and i celebrated our 10 year anniversary by using up all of the frequent flier miles and hotel points that i acquired from my consulting days and spent a week in hawaii which was the first time either of us had been megan s parents were gracious enough to watch the kids and they were fortunate that we decided to come back however while we were gone avery took advantage of the chance to make us feel bad by promptly learning to walk we saw her first steps via video email only but luckily those steps are now immortalized until our hard drive crashes 2016 update those first steps actually are lost forever as max one day decided to pour water on our ipad to see if it would explode speaking of ava she turned older this year and is not only advanced with her walking skills but she is also advanced with her teeth growing skills she had a full 8 teeth by the time she was 7 months old and so she s been eating big kid food at the table for quite some time now despite all this she remains our petite little baby and loves being spoiled and run over by her older siblings max turned older this year does most of the running over he started pre school in the fall and absolutely loves it he s working on his reading skills although he hasn t quite finished war and peace yet he does know most of his alphabet letters as well as some sight words like the and of and a few others that he s been able to pick up during our nightly family scripture study he looks quite scholarly in the glasses that he now wears after we discovered that his going cross eyed was due to his inability to see rather than his sense of humor in addition to all of his studies max is all boy and loves to run wrestle chase and break things kaitlyn turns older in a few weeks has continued to work on her fashion skills i think she got some good ideas when she went to her first concert to see taylor swift with megan this year now that she is in first grade she decided to try to get ahead and has been developing her powerpoint skills in her spare time so far she has created presentations on donuts halloween hawaii her uncle michael and his new wife heather s wedding grandparents friends and music she has also been taking gymnastics and can no longer go from the family room to the kitchen without attempting cartwheels and round offs alison turned older this year is working on mastering her basketball skills for her 9th birthday she invited 6 boys and 0 girls to play basketball at the neighborhood court and then returned to our home for basketball themed treats and party favors she joined a new basketball league in north carolina and is practicing once with her team during the week and once with another team during the week she also just ran her very first 5k as a part of the girls on the run program ali also loves to read even if it is an hour or two past her bedtime she recently read 1 452 pages in a week in addition to her regular schoolwork megan has finely perfected her scrapbooking and papercrafting skills although being a mother of 4 rambunctious children and 1 determined husband doesn t leave her with as much time to pursue her craft as she might like although she certainly misses her family friends and sunday school class in indiana she s adjusted well and has quickly made new friends here i continue to be fine except for that knee surgery in december that i needed after tearing my meniscus while playing church basketball in may we love you all and are grateful for this time of year when we can reflect on the fun things we ve done this year as well as the things that really matter most our family our friends and our faith in jesus christ we wish you a very merry christmas and happy 2012 posted by nathan at 8 47 pm no comments merry christmas 2010 december 2010 dear family friends neighbors acquaintances colleagues and casual observers who picked up this letter we are always grateful for the spirit of this season when people tend to turn their attention to the things that matter most family faith and friends since you are now officially on our holiday mailing list and there doesn t appear to be any way to opt out or remove yourself from this list you now have the mis fortune of receiving one of these letters each year for approximately the next 67 years i m planning on writing until i m 100 but then reserve the right to take a year or two off in an effort to streamline this process and make it easier for all involved next year i m just going to create the perfect fill in the blank letter and then each year a simple find and replace in microsoft word will solve all of my problems after several years as a road warrior with the management consulting firm accenture working on growth strategy and innovation projects this year i accepted a new position in market and competitive intelligence in charlotte with bank of america we re excited about the new opportunity even though it entails a move from indiana to north carolina i think the kids are most excited though about the fact that i ll now be home for bedtime and ball games instead of just dialing in or trying to connect via webcam megan also noted the lifestyle change when she remarked we have to increase our food budget since now you actually eat here speaking of megan she spent nine months of the year with a serious medical condition called being pregnant with the fourth while still trying to raise the other three while this condition was happily resolved when we welcomed our beautiful avery into the family doctors observed that it has spawned a new condition lack of time to spend papercrafting with stampin up itis fortunately she s doing all she can with card parties and crafting get togethers to address this second issue alison has evolved into a full blown basketball aficionado she cleverly repurposed book fair money we sent with her to school to acquire kobe bryant and lebron james posters so that my room explains me she has already attended a couple of pacers games this year and is playing in the 3rd 4th grade girls basketball league she has also acquired close to 1 000 basketball cards and is now familiar with basketball legends dating back to wilt chamberlain and has become quite proficient at trading them she also enjoys taking on the third grade boys in her class at basketball during recess kaitlyn our self described fashionista is loving kindergarten and riding the bus to school with her older sister almost daily she informs me that i m a great person and i have a great personality or that she s wearing a certain outfit so that she can be a diva my iphone is now bogged down with half a dozen barbie dress up apps which she tries to play daily when she s exhausted her phone time for the day she loves dancing around the house performing taylor swift songs for an imaginary audience of thousands not only does kaitlyn have a great personality but she is also an outstanding reader all she wants for christmas is for taylor swift to come visit her personally anyone have any connections max has taught us how boys are innately different than girls he cries much less and punches tackles and wrestles significantly more one of his new favorite pastimes is studying different types of trucks he is able to successfully identify excavators backhoes cranes mixers loaders and tractors additionally he is developing quite an extensive matchbox car collection thanks to his older sisters lack of knowledge on what else boys like he is a great big brother to his new little sister and tries to save her all the time even though we re still not quite sure what that exactly means as mentioned above avery but we call her ava for short was born and is doing wonderfully she s been a joy for all of us and has an infectious and enthusiastic smile which she is ju...