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I know I’m a little late getting this out, but I thought I would put together a “Holiday Letter”/”Year in Review” for my family.

This was big year for the family. Back in May we found out we were going to have another child. In August we found out we were having a boy and at the end of December Jackson was born. Both Noah and Wyatt are loving being big brothers. Noah turned four this year and started preschool. He goes three afternoons a week and he is really loving it. Wyatt is also enjoying every minute of his brother being gone. He turned three this year and is getting very big. Rachel continues to become more involved in the community. Along with her deaconess duties, she has also become a member of the Warren County Child Abuse Prevention Council. This year was my fifteen year high school reunion. Planning was much smoother than the ten year reunion and we had a pretty successful turn out.

Even with the recent layoff announcements by AOL, I am still gainfully employed with them and really enjoying my work. KwiClick development continues to go well and has gotten quite a bit of good press recently. Although Forecastfox has slipped slightly in it’s ranking on Firefox, we were able to rewrite the code from scratch this year and get a version out for Chrome (which has been very warmly received). This new code base should allow us to iterate faster and get versions out for Firefox, Fennec, and others. I started the company Web Tech Studios this year to cover the contract work I do. To celebrate the creation of the company I created the "Near Me" add-on and entered it into the Extend Mobile Firefox contest. It was chosen as one of the winners and I received a Nokia N900 as the prize.

Now with three sons and lots of work to do, 2010 looks like it’s going to be a very exhausting happy year.