New Year's Weekend

We had a wonderful New Year's with some great friends from college. Cristen and Johnny Sink were our gracious hosts. Thank you guys for opening up your home to so many people when you were trying to get ready for the baby. (They actually had their baby on January 5th. Check out the Sink blog for pictures of their precious baby girl, Kathryn Elizabeth.)


The guys had a lot of fun this weekend playing game after game of Settlers. It was wonderful because it meant that I didn't have to play.


Also, this allowed us girls to hang out with the newest member of our group, Noa Noll. It is so fun having babies around now.

Before we could have our gift exchange we had to watch The Office episode when Michael changes their nice gift exchange into a white elephant party and he buys an IPOD even though there is a $20 limit and gets mad at someone because she just knitted him an oven mitt. (It is much funnier on the show, obviously.)

It was perfect because someone wrapped up Chris France's (one of our friends) IPOD and put it in the gift exchange. And Brian got it. Congratulations Brian!

But, I think the best gift was this beautiful, taxodermied (spelling?) dog. It had the elements of surprise, fear, shock and groseness, all at the same time. Good job Lookabills!

Andrew was very proud that he actually got a picture of the clock at midnight. So, here it is. Happy New Year!!

We had a wonderful time catching up with some great friends. We wish that we could all live closer together, but it seems the Lord is taking us all over the world. (Japan, Alabama, Maryland, Harrisonburg, Virginia Beach, Roanoke, Florida and who knows where else over the next few years.) So, we really cherish our times together.