me llamo christian

that is spanish for thanks for the gift.

Yeah...Bear Grylls

From Bear's blog......


"The final part of the equation is my Christian faith…I look at this as the thread that binds all these other elements together. I pray daily for my family and we also have little quiet times together, and I pray hard when out filming for safety, good judgement and for protection in all the dangers."

Okay......I do like Bear Grylls....:)
Check out his blog....http://beargrylls.blogspot.com/

meals

I'm not sure how much meal planning has taken place yet but i think it's a good time to get organized and start signing up for your meal spot. if ben and aily would be up for taking a meal too, i've heard great things about their cooking. should we post what day and what meal we'll take and then email the reicpes to mom like last year??? if anyone has a better idea, let me know. i just want to get the ball rolling on this. bon appetite

Okay, not to seem over eager on Christmas presents this year, but I wanted to list a few items since they will probably have to be ordered. They are all from the Walgreens website, believe it or not, and you will all benefit from them at Thanksgiving, if you'd like. :) Any of these would be great -- I'm listing several so you have a choice.

The first is a massage table heating pad. It's probably a bit more than our limit, but I would happily pay the difference. Here is the link.

The second item is a set of headrest covers. Here's the link for that one.

I could also use a really soft twin-size blanket for my table. A neutral color would be great.

Thank you in advance to my secret Santa. I can't wait to see you all really soon!

Love,
Darcy

gifts

with thanksgiving right around the corner, i wanted to discuss gift giving ideas again. i was thinking that maybe we could all draw names this year so everyone only has to think about getting one present...any thoughts? we could do a dollar amount to spend and everyone could post/email their top 3 gift ideas and we could go from there. i'd be willing to draw names and e-mail everyone so it's a suprise for most of us. what do you all think? does this seem simpler? or have you guys discussed other ideas?

AND....

CONGRATS TO LIZ ON HER NEW JOB!!!! WE'RE HAPPY FOR YOU AND OH SO PROUD!