Christmas Names

Here are the Christmas names we drew in Hawaii!  Homemade gifts only this year.

Doug- Joslin
Becky- Julia
Danny- Alan
Kaitlin- Mason
Alan- Bryan
Britta- Garrett
Joslin- Kaitlin
Mason- Emily
Julia- Ellie
Bryan- Danny
Emily- Natalie
Garrett- Britta
April- Becky
Natalie- April
Ellie- Doug

Who's excited for another family reunion?!

I'm so excited to be in Hawaii with EVERYBODY!!!  Mason and I can't wait for August!

Beautiful human being.

A letter with a Christmas goodie attached for Dave. What a nice guy he is.

CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

I can't wait to see you all in Nevada City in December!!

After a long discussion about what to do for Christmas gifts this year, we (Danny, Kaity, Alan, Gio and Zeke) decided to do a random drawing and here is the list. To simplify things we decided to just draw one name per person. Is this okay with everyone? And what does everyone want for Christmas??? 3 people randomly got the same person who has them. Also, Alf and Jos drew themselves and had to re-draw. :) If you don't like it you can propose an alternate option. Love you all!!! -Kaity

 

1.     Doug- Ellie

2.     Becky- Bryan

3.     Danny- Natalie

4.     Kaity- Emily

5.     Alan- Garrett

6.     Britta- Kaity

7.     Joslin- Doug

8.     Mason- April

9.     Julia- Joslin

10. Bryan- Britta

11. Emily- Becky

12. Garrett- Alan

13. April- Mason

14. Natalie- Danny

15. Ellie- Julia

I can't wait for Blackberry season this year!

Guess it's my turn...

We're also really bad at taking pictures of my growing belly - I guess it's something I'm not that interested in documenting. But I've been getting a lot of requests lately, so I took some pictures with my phone. Here you go.

I don't think I've been as emotional as Emily. You'll have to ask Alan. The craziest thing I've done lately is put some red streaks in my hair (there's a lot more underneath, you can't see it much in this picture). But there's still plenty of time left for me to go nuts...

Emily in Her Birthday Suit

 Garrett and I realized that we dont really have any pictures of my pregnancy, sad. We also realized that no one in our family has seen me with the belly. 
Garrett has been extra supportive of my emotional and physical needs... like craving grapes and random outburst of tears.  I feel bad for him because I am quite emotional and I cry just about everyday.  On Tuesday, I started crying because I couldn't find my favorite shirt.  The best part is, that I wasn't even planning on wearing it any time soon, I just was sad because I couldn't find it.

We still have no names picked out, although Garrett does like Thelma. 
This is a dress mom got me for my birthday, and I love it.  I was trying to hold it tight around my belly, so you guys could see how much it has grown. 

We have a video of Garrett kayaking, and of me snowboarding, but we are still trying to figure out how to load them properly. 
We love you all!! 
PS SOMEONE BETTER POST SOON SO THESE PICTURE OF ME AREN'T THE ONLY THING SHOWING FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS!