Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, from our family to yours! :-) See all the pictures from our Christmas card photo shoot here. :-)
dear savannah: four months
Dear Savannah, Today you are 4 months old. You are even more aware of your surroundings and of us, which has been a lot of fun! This month had been important because it’s your first holiday season. We went down to Orlando for Thanksgiving. Your first trip to Florida! You continue to do great in the car. It was much warmer in Orlando and you were really hot the first day or two. We had to strip you down to…
Savannah… Georgia!
As I mentioned, we’re headed to Orlando for Christmas later this week. (!!!) My mom emailed me and suggested that we look at going an alternate route. Normally, we take I-75 all the way to the Florida Turnpike, but apparently a gas truck ran into a bridge on the Turnpike a few weeks ago, and all but one lane each direction are closed. Since we anticipate the traffic to be really heavy due to Christmas, we immediately saw the wisdom…
birth announcements
I made this before Savannah was born, and plugged in the pictures later. I was going to print them and send them to our friends, but with the cost of the house this got placed on the back burner. I thought I’d share it now. :-)
what do you want for Christmas?
The other day, we had dinner with the men from Paul’s Bible study, and their wives. (And Savannah!) One of the wives said something interesting that I’ve been thinking about. She said when she was growing up, she and her siblings weren’t allowed to make Christmas “wish lists”. I thought that was interesting. My family always did wish lists, mostly because we lived in Peru and it was hard for our grandparents and other relatives to know what we would…