Christmas Letter from 2007

Merry Christmas Everyone

I thought that I better get this written so that maybe you will all get it a day our two after Christmas this year rather than in January. Life in the Matthews household has been a little crazy this year. Ryan is now 2 ½ and a very happy fun child. Ryan was diagnosed a few months ago as Autistic. It has answered a lot of questions and explained a lot of his behaviors. He has been working with therapists since May and has made a lot of progress however we still have a ways to go. Ryan is starting to say a few words like all done, all gone, eese (for please) still no mom or dad. We have started the transition into the public school. Mesa Public Schools take children with disabilities at two year and nine months, so if things keep going the way they have been he will start school towards the end of February.

As many know we have moved out of our house and are living with my in-laws while we try to sell ours. We have gotten a few calls on the house which is good news since it has only been on the market for about a month. We want to move over closer to where we are living now which is Lindsay & Adobe area where the schools will be a little better for Ryan.

Another blessing with living with my in-laws is that we are expecting baby # 2 in May. This pregnancy has been very hard on me. I haven’t been able to eat very much at all and was put on bed rest for a few weeks and lifting restrictions. So with a 2 ½ year old who weighs 37 pounds it’s hard to keep to dr’s orders. As of now everything looks great with baby # 2. We found out today that we are having a baby girl. We are very excited so sometime around May 25^th we will have baby Emily Anne Matthews so stay tuned for more on that front.

Blaine is very busy with work. He works for Freedom Communications who owns the Tribune. His divisions dose the Clipper magazine as well as other mail stuff that I’m sure a lot of you get. He is getting to travel more with this job mainly to California where he dose press checks. He makes sure the people printing get color and content correct. It keeps him busy and out of trouble.

We hope everything is going well with all of you. We will keep everyone updated on Ryan and Emily (when she gets here). Hope that you all have a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

If you want to keep tabs on us check our our blog at www. btmfamily.blogspot.com

Love,

The Matthews Family,