Holiday "Letter" 2008

Usually I do a holiday letter with our Christmas card but since we are having a baby sometime soon I decided that this year would be different and I would wait to make an official update after the baby. The price of stamps you know. But I don’t think I’m going to do a letter. So for all those people who don’t read my blog, they better get hot and take a look. With out further ado here is our year in review:

Happy Holidays to all our Friends and Family,

Our biggest news this year is two fold, one we moved back to Texas, and two we are expecting baby number three sometime in the New Year. We were excited to be closer to family in Texas but very sad to leave behind our wonderful friends in Utah. They will be dearly missed but hopefully we’ll still get to see them every so often. (Read I expect everyone to visit after the baby is born. j/k) It took us a while to find a new house in Texas but at last we did, and we think we got a pretty good deal, purchasing it from HUD. A very trying process but a great learning experience. Ironically it is very close to our first house that we purchased in Texas, who knew. We still want to live out in the country so one day we’ll get around to moving out of town. What country and where has yet to be determined, after all small town life is very different from city or suburb life.

The kids are doing great. Isabelle will be turning four this holiday season and is very excited about that. She plans to rule the world one day, and I’m sure has it all worked out as to how she will get that done. She loves school and really enjoys starting to read, science and of course playing. We tried soccer this past fall and she enjoys it when the ball is close to her, other wise the action is not quite the same. But she did a great job and hopefully will try it again in the spring. But I think before then she might get a chance to try out dance. I know what could I be thinking but, she is always dancing around, and moving her little body, so I guess it won’t hurt to try. Nobody said it is a permanent activity.

Bear is just Bear! He is so full of energy and goes about a mile a minute. He turned two in July and has been going non-stop. As we say he is our little energizer Bear. He really likes to do what ever Isabelle is doing and has a hard time sitting still for anything longer than five seconds. He loves his shapes and balls, and hopes play as much as he can all day. I think one of the coolest things about Bear is that he has not picked a hand preference yet and switches back and forth. I am still secretly hoping for a lefty but who knows maybe he’ll never make a choice. He also did a soccer program this year called Soccer Tots. He loved it! It was great for him, he got to run around, play with other kids, and do activities that are skill building for later in life when he plays on a real soccer team. I think we’ll have to try that again, since he had so much fun.

Ben and I are doing great. Ben enjoys his work most days and is happy to be back in Texas. I know strange, right? It’s always interesting to see people whom you have not seen in years and they are like, didn’t you move. Especially since we pretty much moved back to where we lived before. I’m doing well with the kids and enjoy staying home with them, trying to make them into wonderful little people, and slowly awaiting the arrival of number three. Next year should be pretty interesting so stay tuned and check us out semi regularly to see what is going on in the Libby-Thesing household.

Happy Holidays, from Ben, Allison, Isabelle, and Barrett