1991 "Christmas Letter"

It has been a good year; slow with bursts of activity. Steve's second year of having his own law practice has been better than his first -- which means paying off debt instead of accumulating it. We bought a house on a quiet street in a neighborhood filled with little girls. Jessica has started kindergarten, Heather has started riding a bicycle and Steve has started playing golf. We are also expecting a third girl, Courtney Kathleen Marsh, this February and she has started kicking.

Win is the head room mother for all the kindergarten classes at Jefferson Elementary. She finished up the school carnival, handled the Wichita Falls Family of the Year Reception and is about to go bonkers while she gets the Ward Christmas Party & Children's Program together. She quit work in April after having been nominated for the North Texas Women's Hall of Fame in the business category.

Things have been busy. Win is still first counselor in Primary (going into her fourth year now). Steve still teaches Sunday School and, once or twice a month, the Elder's Quorum or joint Elder's & High Priest's Quorum class. Jessica is a Star A and Heather will become a Sunbeam in January.

Win wrote this year's Children's Sacrament Meeting Program, and with over eighty parts, she really was hopping there for a while.

Steve has published a couple more professional articles and had the opinions in two of his appellate cases approved for publication. He also has several essays in his law school's 1991 Resource Handbook. He is an associate member of the Sanctions Task Force which is reevaluating Texas' law of sanctions and as a part of that has had several of his essays chosen for circulation.

Steve handled a highly publicized legal battle this fall. It was fun to watch the girls get excited as they watched Daddy on television. It was interesting to see just how nonchalant they got about it as the weeks wore on.

As a family we've started a monthly service project doing dinners for Faith Mission, our local soup kitchen. The girls are learning about service and poverty and so are their parents.

Mostly it has been a slow North Texas sort of life. Children loved, lots of time spent, simple pleasures. God has been good to us. May His blessing visit you in the coming year.

With warm regards,

The Marsh Family Steve, Win, Jessica & Heather

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