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| Scott and Jaimee 20 years =) |
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| Justin, Jessica, Alyssa, Jayce and Jayden |
Dear Family and Friends, December 2011
Greetings from Goodyear, Arizona! I hope this letter finds you doing well
and enjoying this Christmas season.
I wanted to send out a family update and highlights of our year.
Scott and I have been keeping busy with work, school
and managing our family. We also
celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary in August of this year. It’s really hard to believe how fast
these 20 years have gone. It
seemed like it was only yesterday until we watched our wedding video and saw a
bunch of kids. =) Scott’s working
hard managing the water company and his employees. Justin has been working with him a couple days a week, which
is fun for him. I’m still home
schooling my children (with one graduating this year YAY!) and teaching ballet
2 days a week. I also taught two
ballet dances for our annual Christmas Program for our home school group and
I’m making all the skirts and hairpieces for my shows. That’s a challenge since I do all my
sewing by hand, I’m usually in a big hurry waiting until the last minute and
I’m not very good at sewing to begin with (although I enjoy it). But they always look great for the show
without falling apart until afterwards.
=)
Justin turned 18 years old and he’s a senior in High
School. He’s almost finished with
school and will start online college in January. He’s finishing up Psychology, Algebra, Spanish and
literature. It sounds like a lot
but he’s close to being completely finished with high school. He will officially graduate June 1st
and go through the ceremony with Arizona Families of Home Educators
(AFHE.) He’s been driving a lot
and we got a second vehicle so that he can take the car without leaving us
carless. He’s enjoying working
with Scott and helping him out a couple days a week. He applied to about 30 different places several times
without any luck finding a job, so he’s thankful he has a part time job for now
to pay for college and car insurance.
Jessica celebrated her 16th birthday this
year with a Surprise Party!! =)
She was very surprised (and so were her siblings!) She came home to find our house full of family and friends
(and Justin Bieber!!) She’s a junior
in High School and she’s working hard to finish High School and college as soon
as she can, so she can pursue her career in Country Music. She has written over 100 songs and
sings and plays the guitar. She is
also learning how to play the piano (self taught like she did with the
guitar!!) My sister and brother-in-law
made a CD and video for her of 12 of her songs. Scott’s cousin also made a 3D video of her singing one of
her original songs that she wrote.
You can view it on youtube by typing in Jessica Keith and selecting her
video titled “Jessica
Keith In His Chevy Truck (Original song) Copyright 2011.” You may have to make adjustments to the
settings on the lower right of the video to select 3D or not 3D or HD etc. She also had a meeting with a record
label and performed 17 songs at the Arizona State Fair. She’s also keeping busy with teaching
guitar and teaching Lyrical Jazz to her students. Her dance students will be performing at my recital January
8, 2012.
Alyssa is 11 years old and in 6th grade. She LOVES to read and reads several
chapter books a week. She is
really excelling in school and she’s taking all of our dance classes. She’s dancing in the Christmas Program
and also reading an essay she wrote on “The Poinsettia”. She is really good with babysitting
Jayce and helping out around the house. She wants to be a professional dancer and she wants to be one
of Jessica’s back up dancers when she goes on tour. =)
Jayden is 8 years old and in 3rd grade. He loves video games, video games,
oh, and video games. =) He does a
good job in school and works hard on his lessons. He knows he has to or else he can’t play you-know-what. =) Jayden also likes playing Lego’s,
cars and playing with Jayce. He’s
been taking PE and music lessons with other homeschoolers and loves playing
with his friends at the home school park days.
Jayce is 20 months old and he’s as busy and active as ever. He’s very smart, passionate and
independent, just like the other Keith kids. He keeps us ALL busy!!
He’s talking quite a bit and he loves to sing and dance. No joke!!! He loves playing with his older siblings and also likes to
help me around the house. When I’m
folding clothes, he takes the clothes and towels and puts them where they go
automatically without anyone saying anything. He’ll also clean up the toys and the room all by
himself. Pretty soon he’ll be
helping with the dishes and doing the grocery shopping. =)
You are very special to us and we love you and appreciate you! We hope you have a wonderful Christmas
with your family and a blessed and happy new year! May mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance! Jude 1:2
Love Always In Christ,
Scott, Jaimee, Justin, Jessica, Alyssa, Jayden and Jayce Keith
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