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Merry Christmas from the
Gaskins! We hope life is treating you well and that you have received
numerous
blessings over the past year. We love you and think of you often and
are
grateful for your influence in our lives! Here is a small update on
what’s happened
to our family this past year. James is almost done with
school at BYU! He will graduate in April from the integrated
Information
Systems Management program; he will receive both his bachelors and
masters
degree at the same time. He wants to get his Ph.D. in the same field or
the
similar field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), so we have applied
to
different schools across the country, and will hear back from them in
February
or March. His top choices are Nikki is staying busy with
being a wife and a mommy! She absolutely LOVES every minute of it!
There’s
nothing better than playing and laughing with sweet babies that love
you
unconditionally! What a blessing to take care of these sweet spirits
from
heaven! Nikki is also a math tutor to five students for four days a
week. It’s
a great little job and she gets to bring the girls along with her, and
they
seem to enjoy learning about fractions and algebra. When there’s a
spare minute
and the dishes happen to be done, she enjoys reading, sewing, and
reorganizing
all our stuff to “fit” in our one bedroom apartment! So, needless to
say, she
hasn’t finished any books or sewing projects lately, and our apartment
can use
some reorganizing! Oh, the dishes aren’t done either. :) Lilly turned 2 in
September and she is our little star! Earlier this year her Uncle Brady
was
called on a mission to Maggie is our beautiful 7
month old! She was born on May 4, and is such a delightful addition to
our
family. Maggie absolutely adores her older sister and thinks that
everything
Lilly does is hilarious! Maggie is great at laughing, observing, and
snuggling!
She has a very special, sweet spirit about her and everyone who sits
behind us
at church loves watching her facial expressions. When Maggie cries, she
only
stops if Mommy picks her up, but her first word was “Da-da.” (Go
figure.) She
hasn’t started crawling yet, but we don’t mind in the slightest. Maggie
loves
playing with Lilly, spitting, eating, spitting, playing “noggins,”
spitting,
being cute, and spitting. We wish you all a very
Merry Christmas and hope you all feel the spirit of Christ in your
lives. Love, James:
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