Annual Newsletter

Dear Family and Friends,


This has been another very exciting and busy year for our family!

Connor will be two in March and has become an expert climber. He’s very active and enjoys playing with other kids at daycare. His vocabulary is increasing constantly; some of his favorite words/phrases are “mama,” “daddy,” “CaCa” (Carter,) and “oh man.”

Carter will be four years old in February and is a great a big brother. He’s full of energy and loves playing outside. He attends the pre-K class at the daycare where Connor goes, and enjoys learning how to write the alphabet and numbers, learning sign language and playing with the “big kids.”

Ryan is still working as a Model Designer for Legoland and has been very busy designing models for Legolands Florida and Malaysia. He was also able to go on a research trip to Atlanta and has designed and built models for a Legoland Discovery Center opening there in the spring. Ryan still enjoys building in his free time, and had a great time at Seattle’s Brickcon in October. He was recently called to be the 2nd Counselor in the Elder’s Quorum at church and enjoys it.

Katie left the law office in Los Angeles in June and began working full time as a paralegal for a business litigation attorney in Del Mar. She was sad to leave the office she had been working at for five years, but she really enjoys her new office and the commute is much better. She and Ryan were released from their calling in the nursery, but Katie still teaches in Relief Society once a month.

We added a new member to the family in July. After five years of mostly faithful service, Ryan’s first car gave up the ghost and we made the plunge into new car ownership with a 2011 Toyota Sienna that has already proven useful for vacations and hauling stuff around.

Ryan and Katie were able to go on another cruise to Mexico in May and had a great time, even though the weather didn’t cooperate. The whole family is looking forward to spending the week between Christmas and New Year’s in Orlando with Katie’s family to celebrate her dad’s 60th birthday.

We hope you enjoy this Christmas season as we remember the birth of our Savior. We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!


Love,
Ryan, Katie, Carter and Connor Wood