2006 Christmas Letter

Here's the Christmas letter I wrote in December 2006. That was just a few weeks ago.

I wanted to write earlier, but my Mom and Dad have been dragging me all across the country and they forgot to bring my computer. We’ve been to Disney World, Salt Lake City, Charlotte, NC, Austin, TX and Dallas, TX all in the past two months! What more could a two year old ask for?

A lot has happened this year. First, there’s someone new in our family. She showed up sometime in April and I call her “baby sister”, “stink bug”, “pretty princess”, or McKenzie. She’s really pretty and she’s already a lot bigger than when she first showed up. She babbles a lot, eats real food, and is getting ready to stand on her own.

Right after McKenzie showed up, we moved to Grandma’s house in Atlanta. Actually it’s our house now. Grandma and Grandpa are in Salt Lake City on a mission, so we’re taking care of their house. I miss my friends from Charlotte, but Atlanta is good, too. I go to gym class, play with my friends in play group, and hang out at the library reading books and doing puzzles. Soon I’ll be starting Joy School.

Mama stays busy just following me around. But somehow she also finds time to go to her own gym class, read a lot, and still keep the family running smoothly. Daddy’s been traveling a lot with his job at Initiate Systems. He’s flown over 75,000 miles this year and been from Boston to Los Angeles and just about everywhere in between.

For Thanksgiving we went to Orlando, FL for a week. We went to Downtown Disney the first day, where I played at the Lego store and rode on a merry-go-round and a train. I had so much fun that when we went to the Magic Kingdom the next day, I kept saying I wanted to go back to “Disney”. I warmed up to the Magic Kingdom, though. I got to fly in an elephant, ride a rollercoaster, and drive a race car.

In December, I went with Mama and baby sister to Salt Lake City to visit Grandma and Grandpa (Daddy was working in Chicago that week). I even got to see two Grandmas and two Grandpas all in the same trip. I got to see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the lights on Temple Square, the LDS Children’s Museum, and snow!

For Christmas we went to Texas. We spent a week in Austin while Daddy worked there. It’s a fun place; maybe we’ll live there someday. Then we went to visit my cousins in Dallas. We went bowling, saw Christmas lights, and ate tamales. I had so much fun I told Mama and Daddy that I wanted to take our brand new house home with us.

Well, I gotta go jam on my new guitar. Daddy’s making ice cream in his new ice cream maker. And Mama’s helping McKenzie figure out her new toys. But they told me to tell you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.