Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Formans!

Our annual holiday letter in e-form:

December 2009

2009 was a challenging year for many of us, which helps us reflect on the truly important things in life – family and friends. We are so grateful for the love in our lives – thank you for being a part of that.

Our wonderful Miss Claire transitioned nicely into toddlerhood and astonishes us every day with her intelligence and enthusiasm for life. She’s a very happy, loving little girl with an incredible vocabulary. We love how well she communicates with us now. Some favorites:

• Reading books, especially Mo Willems’ Elephant and Piggie books lately (she also enjoys reading them to us)
• Putting puzzles together
• Singing
• Running, jumping (she’s close to both feet off the ground), and spinning
• Carousels – she’s been to many around the country now
• All things VeggieTales
• Her doggies and kitty (“MEOW, MEOW, MEOW!”)

We still got to travel quite a bit this year before Claire turned two and stopped being free. (It was fun while it lasted!) We went to:

• Branson, Missouri on a road trip in May – Graham had business there so we took the opportunity for a family trip
• Boise, Idaho in May – just Claire and Mindee to visit family
• Los Angeles in June for Graham’s brother Bart’s PhD hooding (Yay, Uncle Bart!)
• Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in July to visit family

On the grown-up front, Graham is still VP of Sales with Netchemia and Mindee is still an Analyst with the Kauffman Foundation (part-time) and attending graduate school at the University of Kansas (looking at a spring 2011 graduation – yay!). Mindee’s wanted to donate her hair to Locks of Love for a long time and finally had enough to do so. (You may notice it’s pretty short now in pictures.)

Some more grandmother-related sorrow this year; Mindee’s Grandma Wiegele passed away in October. We’re very grateful we got to visit with her in Coeur d’Alene in July and that she got to meet Claire.

Merry Christmas and we hope you have a very happy 2010!

Much love,






Graham, Mindee, and Claire Forman

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E-card/Blog bonus

Claire's school took pictures in mid-November, so here's our girl at 2 years, 2 months, and 11 days old. They just don't come any sweeter: