Christmas 2011 Letter.

Merry Christmas 2011.

This may be your first Christmas letter of the year. I wanted to make sure to get it
out. I am due with baby #3, December 27th 2011. Caleb Alexander Knapp.
What a busy year. They say once you have kids time fly's... they are right.

Chris is still at All Import, and loves his job. Speaking of cars, we traded our Tahoe
for a Suburban this year too. Long awesome story short, one of my jewelry
hostesses family wanted a Tahoe and we wanted a Suburban, year and mileage was
almost the same, so we traded. Boy did God provide there.

I still have the best job ever, with Premier Design Jewelry. I get to stay at
home with my active boys and give away lots of free jewelry while I hang out
with other women. One women mentioned the other week, "I just noticed,
every time you go to work, it's a party that you don't have to clean up
after." So true, I love having the opportunity to be around other women,
since I will be totally outnumbered at home.

The boys are doing great! Carter is almost 3, and he acts 3! (By that I mean,
timeouts and discipline are a daily thing in this house) He likes to tell
everyone his opinion, and wrestle with his little brother Chase. He also loves
to read, color, paint, play outside, and work on cars with daddy. Chase is
still below the charts on size and we've had to go through some testing because
of that. Everything any Dr. has recommended has turned out normal. God has
blessed us with a peace in our hearts that everything is just fine. He is extremely
stubborn, strong-willed and independent. (like I always tell Chris, I have no
clue where Chase got that from) he is very smart too, but so different from
Carter. It's neat to see how God makes everyone so unique. Chase is able to do
so many things despite the fact that he's not even 18 months. He plays on our
huge play structure with Carter, talks a lot (only words a mother can
understand), loves the bath and he is 100% Carter's shadow.

This year was amazing! God has prepared us for many things in our church, our family
and our community.

We were able to take a vacation in September for a number of family reunions. My
grandparents celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary and the whole family got
together, it's been 20 years I think since we had a whole family gathering. But
personally it's been at least 5 years since I have seen my whole family, since
we've moved to Texas.

What a fun fun time!!! Another awesome reunion was Chris and I got to meet his
birth parents. It was so neat getting to spend a whole day talking with them
about everything. Timing could not have been more perfect for anything.


Chris, Jolene, Carter, Chase
and Soon to add Caleb!!!