2010!

Happy New Year! What a (wonderful) blur the past 2 weeks have been for our little family. We started out our vacation in Tennessee and had a lovely Christmas there. We got to spend time with Uncle Ben and Aunt Maggie and of course Grandma and Grandpa Atkins. Asher sported his santa suit Christmas morning and was very interested in his presents. From there, we headed north to Michigan to be with my family. Asher got to reunite with his not-so-little cousin, Lydia. She's 5-months old and growing like a weed. She was quite interested in Asher's sweet blond curls and it took a team effort to make sure Asher wasn't getting his hair pulled too much. After a few snowy days in the mitten state, we went to Indiana to participate in a wedding of some of our dear Chicago friends. The wedding was last night (New Year's Eve) and it was a great way to ring in the new year. Asher even got to wear his ADORABLE corduroy suit. I mean it seriously just does not get any cuter than that! And now those lucky newlywed couple is ooh-la-la-ing in PARIS having an amazing honeymoon.

And now on to our favorite gifts list! Here are a just a few of our favorite Christmas gifts from 2009!

Mandii -
Anthropologie gift card! Weeeeee!
Diamond earrings (from Asher, what a generous lil guy)
A flip camera thingy (we used some christmas $$ to get this... SO fun!)
The coolest book ever -- Back to Basics, How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills -- yes.. this rules. It shows how to do anything that probably your grandparents or great grandparents did that we haven't a clue how to do. (thanks, dad!)
And... giftcards for 2 Massages... oooooh yah.

Will -
Titans tickets! And a field pass too - so cool!
New northface jacket for those chilly Chicago days
Tim Keller books
MOSHI! (thanks to his lovely wife)

Ashy --
Singing flowers!
Clothes, clothes, and more clothes!
Lots of wonderful books

Pearl -
Stuffed reindeer
Delicious treats


Stay tuned. I will post pictures from our adventures tomorrow. Happy New Year to you & yours and I hope you all had a blessed Christmas. Here is to us growing closer to God in 2010 and learning more about His goodness and grace.