Merry Christmas 1998

From the Wolbert Family

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Wishes from the Wolbert Family!

We share our accomplishments of the past year by sending you this booklet of photographs. We hope you enjoy it. Our web site has the photographs in color if you are interested (or insane).

Everyone, Emily, Lisa, Sarah, Miki, and Bob, all enjoyed another happy, healthy year.

Our biggest news is the addition of our new member, Emily, in April. She smiles at everyone, even strangers. She's a happy baby and gets treated like a princess.

Lisa goes to preschool and can't wait until Kindergarten begins next September. Lisa is an expert at entertaining the baby—she can always make Emily smile. Lisa is continuing ballet and was chosen to play a "clown" in the school presentation.

Sarah is attending second grade and has discovered reading is fun. She also attends dance school, piano lessons, and Japanese Saturday school. She is a great helper with Emily.

Miki has been very busy with her NuSkin business and her Emily business. She teaches a Tole painting class each week.

Bob's another year older. Between work and playing with the girls he struggles to get on the air with his radios.

Overall, we had an exciting and enjoyable year, and the prospects forecast another great one ahead in 1998. Best wishes to you from the San Jose Wolberts!

The Year 1998

January Miki gets her new car early in the month.

February Lisa celebrates birthday #4 with a big party.

March Miki travels to NuSkin headquarters for their annual convention

April Emily Anne joins us on the 27^th

July We visit Obachan in Japan. Sarah gets to attend Japanese school for a few weeks and the girls go to a Sumo tournament. Sarah celebrates birthday #7.

August Emily becomes articulate: her first word is "ba-ba".

September Sarah starts second grade. Lisa begins daily preschool. Emily grows her first tooth. Miki celebrates birthday number 21 (again).

October All three girls plan and construct their Halloween costumes. Miki "helps".

November Miki travels to a NuSkin convention in Japan. Our (very) local radio club picks up Bob's old call sign, N6IP, for its use.

December Lisa has her Christmas performance at school. Sarah and Lisa appear in their dance school's presentation Once Upon a Midnight Magic. The girls stay on their best behavior while awaiting Santa.

Lisa's Page

Lisa enjoys her ballet and gymnastics classes.

Lisa, in her third year of preschool, is looking forward to Kindergarten next year. She already counts into three digit numbers, writes "books" with words and illustrations, and is presently teaching herself cursive handwriting, having already mastered printing. She is active and fun to be around. Proud of her? You bet!

While visiting Japan this

summer, Lisa and aunt Yuri meet a Sumo wrestler.

(NOTE:

Lisa is the smaller one).

Lisa challenges Sarah to a lobster race featuring four of Maine's finest

Lisa's birthday party was held at home on a very rainy day. Her guests still had lots of fun in here inflatable jumping house and homemade cotton candy.

Lisa was "Lady" (from Lady & the Tramp) for Halloween.

Our Latest Release: Emily Anne

Emily joined us on April 27, a few weeks earlier than expected. Although she started out a bit small, Mommy takes very good care of her and she has put on quite a bit of weight—at her present growth rate, she will outweigh the rest of the family combined by next Christmas! Emily readily shares her smile with everyone and makes as much noise as both of her sisters. Her accomplishments to date include a two-word vocabulary (Ba-ba & Da-da) and the ability to crawl over to whatever she isn't supposed to have.

If it's December, I must be crawling!

MOMMY! LISA WON'T SHARE HER CANDY!

Emily has three mommies looking out for her.

Grandma got to play with a very tiny Emily.

Obachan met her granddaughter during Emily's visit in July.

Ba-ba-ba-ba. Da-da-da-da.

Emily has a nice smile (and POWERFUL vocal cords)!

Not even Emily escapes the Halloween festivities. Here she appears as the highly intelligent and crafty monkey Abu.

Emily is ready for a fight. "I'm not scared of you, ya big bully!"

Sarah's Page

Sarah finished 1st grade last June and is now busy with second grade. She enjoys reading her books, playing the piano, ballet dancing, and attending Saturday Japanese school. In her "spare time", she draws beautiful pictures and plays with her sisters.

Mommy has a permanent volunteer when she needs to test a new NuSkin product!

Sarah started really spittin' teeth this past year; here one is "hanging by a thread".

And here she is a few months later with a couple of big teeth appearing.

Sarah portrayed the Chinese heroine "Mulan" for Halloween.

Sarah won several awards in first grade. Here she accepts awards for Academic Achievement and Perfect Attendance at a school assembly.

The Old Folks...

As usual, not too much to report on the other two that live here. Another year, another dollar (hummm, that doesn't sound quite right...).

Too bad the digital camera doesn't have a wide angle lens. It barely captured Miki's form two days before Emily officially joined us.

Miki upgraded her transportation with a new Pontiac Transport minivan. It carries up to eight passengers (oh nooo!).

Sarah and Lisa baked Bob's birthday cake under Emily's careful supervision.

Miki's NuSkin business took her to corporate Headquarters in Utah and to Tokyo this year. She really appreciates Grandma & Grandpa (Wolbert) finding the time to baby-sit the rest of her family while she gallivants around the world.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Bob, Miki, Sarah, Lisa, and Emily Wolbert