MERRY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas to our wonderful family and friends. This year has been a big one for our family. We have had great blessings and new adventures. Our greatest blessing of the year came on March 25^th when our little London Jean was born. She was just like her sister and decided to come a month early (we are planning eight month pregnancies from now on). Although she was so early she was born really healthy and even pretty chubby at 7lbs 4oz. She has continued to thrive and is a great joy to our family. She is always happy and smiling. She loves to eat. She is learning to crawl and we are quite nervous to see what happens to our home when she has it down. She loves her mom, dad, and sister. She has a great excitement for her little life and she can hardly contain it in her busy body. We are so happy to have her in our family.

Brooklyn had a great year. She learned how to walk this summer! Since acquiring this new skill she has enjoyed more freedom and has been busy getting into mischief. She became a lot more vocal this year too. She says a few words, a lot more sounds and babbling, and does some sign language. She has made great strides in her development, and we are just so proud of her. She loves her new little sister and we love seeing them interact with each other. She had three different procedures done this year at Primary Children’s Medical Center. In February she had ear tubes placed. In March she had some dental work done. And in September she had a couple of hernias repaired. None of these experiences were pleasant for her because her little body doesn’t do well coming out of anesthesia. But the day after each of these events she was up and running around and back to her old self. We truly feel she is an angel and are so happy we get to be her parents.

Steve finished his first year of the MBA program at BYU in April. Then a couple of weeks later he moved us down to Harrison, Arkansas for a summer internship with FedEx Freight. What a wonderful adventure that was for our family. Steve had a great internship and we all really enjoyed our summer there. Arkansas was very beautiful and VERY HUMID! We lived in an apartment complex right on a golf course and with a big swimming pool which we frequented regularly. We made some great friends there and had fun exploring a new part of the country. Steve has been busy with school, but has still managed to find time for his hobbies of playing basketball and football. He is interviewing for jobs now and we are excited to see what comes up and where it will take us. He will graduate in April 2009. Yea!

Amy was busy adjusting to life with two kids. Moving to Arkansas was a great help in the adjustment because the pace of life there was quite a bit slower. She really enjoyed all the family time together there as Steve only worked eight hour days with no homework in the evenings. Her three highlights of the summer in Arkansas were the Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood concert in Fayetteville, the trip to Dallas for the Fourth of July to visit her sister and her family, and the cleaning ladies coming once a week to tidy up the apartment. She really misses those cleaning ladies. Amy loves being a wife and mommy and staying home with the girls.

We wish you a very happy holiday season and we look forward to hearing from you.

Love, Steve, Amy, Brooklyn, and London Baker