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    2009! A N N U A L U P D A T E! FREE

    Rylee went to pre-school two hours a

    week! Mark started a business calledMANA Marnie worked a little more

    to make ends meet Cooper stole the

    show in a talent show at school

    Grady and Benjamin played tackle

    football We went SC in the Spring and

    NC in the winter for short trips

    Summer Camp was good as usual Itsnowed almost 2 feet in Virginia Mark

    travelled here and there for MANA

    Rylee took a tumbling class Coop

    took a tumble on his scooter No one

    broke any bones We nearly froze and

    got trampled attending the Obama

    inauguration Marnie and Benj went toLos Angeles The kids swam on the

    swim team Marnie hosted people

    continually Benjamin entered his last

    year of Middle School Grady his last

    year of elementary ... over for more

    Hey its 2010. Warm wishes from the Moores

    - RYLEE ON HER SCOOTER IN

    FRONT OUR OUR HOUSE.

    - SKIING IN NORTH CAROLINA.

    BENJAMIN FOOTBALL QB COOPER ATCAMP GRADY WAS UNDEFEATED

    THE MOORES

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    SOME PICTURES FROM 2009

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    Like every Christmas letter you getfrom the Moores it begins with anapologyfor being late. This year seemsto set the tardiness record since it is

    already 2010 and I just started writing.Perhaps its appropriate that I start withan apologysince 2009 was seeminglythe year of the apology. The latest, andmost well-covered of the year, wasTiger Woods who apologizedto his wifeand fans for letting them down... butthere were many more in 09. The yearbegan with Treasury Secretary TimGeithner apologizingfor a small $34,000tax error he made and forgot to tellCongress about. Michael Phelpsapologizedfor being photographed witha marijuana pipe. Later, South Carolina

    Governor Mark Sanford apologizedforgoing hiking in Appalachia and ending upin Argentina. Bernie Madoffapologizedfor making the term ponzi schemepart of our vernacular. Harvardprofessor Henry Louis Gatesdemanded anapologyfrom Cambridgecop James Crowley who arrested Gatesfor breaking into his own home.Crowley refused to apologize. PresidentObama called the officer stupid andlater apologizedfor that remark. Mr.Obama almost-sorta got an apologyfrom South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson

    who yelled, You Lie during his healthcare speech. David Lettermanapologizedmid-summer for making abad joke about Sara Palins daughter,which was good practice forLettermans more public Octoberapologyto his wife for his misdeeds.Kanye West apologizedto Taylor Swiftfor being a jerk during her acceptancespeech at the MTV video awards,Serena Williams apologizedfor a tiradeshe had towards a judge at the USOpen. The first lady of Californiaapologizedfor paparazzi pictures of her

    talking on a cell phone while driving(breaking a law that her husbandchampioned), and the Balloon Boysfather from Colorado tearfullyapologizedfor faking as if his son wasliving a real-life version of the 2009Disney hit UP. Yet in a year ofapologies my favorite was flamboyantNFL star Terrell Owens calling a pressconference before the season beganand issuing a preemptive blanket apology

    for anything he has done or might doin the future. You can see it onYoutube ... it is off-color at times, butfunny to hear him apologize for things as

    varied as the economy and the housingcrisis. So maybe I will take a cue fromT.O. and just go ahead and apologize inadvance for not writing any of youanother letter in 2010 and for whateverpain and suffering you experience inreading my family holiday letter. Andwhile I am at it, I will apologize inadvance for our 2010 letter being latenext December. Sorryfor taking solong to get to the point. Now I will tellyou about the Moores in 2009.

    Rylee - Ill

    start with theyoungest;February2010 will seeRylee turn 4! Its hard to believe it. OnNew Years day she helped us takedown the deshrakins. Thats Ryleelanguage for decorations. She hasalso learned to write her name, agraphic representation of her JohnHancock is included here for yourdelight. The R is classic....I hopeshe never changes that. She is stillblonde and blue eyed... we keep

    thinking that one or the other will fadeand turn a less exotic Moore-shade-of-brown, but that has yet to happen. Sheis full of hilarious little sayings such aslast week when she said, Benjamin, letsdance! Benjamin (engrossed in thecomputer) replied half-heartedly,Rylee, I dont really want to dance.Rylee replied, But my body wants todance, and if your body wants todance, you have to dance! I canimagine her saying that exact phrase tothe dean of women at HardingUniversity one day in 2023.

    Cooper - Coop is a hoot as well.Coop is not crazy about sports...notyet anyway. Thats probably good sincewe spend plenty of time on sports withothers. He is, however, quite interestedin people and being social. He looksadults right in the eye and speaks tothem as he does his fellow nine-yearolds. That is to say, he tells them jokesand stories and shares new ideas with

    them. He has all sorts of ideas of whathe might invent or some project hemight start. He has one new idea everyhour or so. I would say he is a chip off

    the old block, but his ideas are actuallypretty good;-)

    Grady- Grady will be turning 12 notlong after this letter is delivered. Hedoes well in school and is a happy kidwhen not engaged in an argumentabout sports statistics with his olderbrother. They tend to go like this:Benjamin; Wes Welker is good forbeing just 510. Grady: He is not510, he is 59! Then an argument

    ensues where both head for thecomputer to Google for the answer.

    Grady is generally correct ifit has todo with numbers. He would wantme to tell everyone that his footballteam won the championship this year

    with an undefeated season. Gradyplayed defensive end and line backer.

    Benjamin- Outside the family hegoes almost exclusively by Ben... aname that just does not fit for Marnieand me, so we remain hopelessly stuckas the only humans destined to call himby the paint company name we gavehim. He is an 8th grader and an

    excellent student. He played QB on hisfootball team and loved it. The otherday I asked him if he wanted to have aFacebook page and he said, I have a betwith a girl at school that I wont haveone before 10th grade. I was proud tohear him say that.

    The Parents - We travelled thissummer to camp in Arkansas. Markwent to Africa and around the countrya few times for MANA stuff. Readabout MANA at www.mananutrition.org

    The year ended for us on a desperatelysad note. One of my roommates incollege, Tom Hull of Ft. Recovery OH,died suddenly of a heart attack justbefore Christmas. He was only 43 andleft a wife and three sons under 17.Tom was a great friend and his loss is abig one. Live today to the fullest inhonor of Tom! You can write us at:[email protected] [email protected]

    Our Apologies for such a late letter...

    R yL e e

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