Kyle (7½) is now in 2nd Grade at the neighborhood school. He enjoys math and has done really well on abacus. He has also been working on regrowing his front teeth. 
The twins (5) have started kindergarten. They are both doing well in classes. Sean, the older twin, continues to be the "serious, silent, secret learner" and has a nice ability to focus. Bryan, the younger twin, is an "expert reader" who is reading at Kyle's level and a very creative soul - who can't sit down for more than 15 minutes. Their favorite movie this year was Wall-E.
Kirk is setting up the quality system at Palmaz Scientific, which is a company developing novel medical interventional technologies. He continues to sing in the church choir again and enjoys his Thursday music nights practice (where he goes off for sushi before practice). Kirk is also a TNT leader at Awana, and goes with the boys every week.Jas has had a busy year on both professional and personal fronts. She was burning too many weekends and traveling way too much professionally; while working hard on her Berkeley evening/weekend MBA program. She'll complete her MBA after her January international trip in Brazil, and then kicking off her new post-MBA startup in 2009. She's also glad to have completed a phenomenal year-long term as President of her MBA program, and her 3-year term as vestry member at St Luke's.
Kirk and Jas celebrated the new year on Copabacana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. It's their first honeymoon / vacation after 9 years. Grandmas Jenny and Margaret were really troopers hanging on to the 3 kids while they were away. 
As a family, we've continued to be part of a lovely, little Episcopalian church in Los Gatos - and we love the community there. We are very grateful for all the grandparents (esp. Jenny and Margaret) for their help. Bernard was here over in October, while Jenny went back to Singapore, and it was great!! Over the year, it was really nice to have lots of family time together as we had visits from Sherry, Charles, Sharlene and Jack too. We're also delighted to have niece Tiffany studying closeby at Stanford and cousins Simon and Ping (who moved from Texas) to help babysit the kids from time-to-time too.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all! ;-)
Kirk, Jas, Kyle, Sean and Bryan
