October Birthdays

On Sunday October 19th we will be celebrating all the October birthdays. I thought this would be good because it is right in the middle and not on any one particular birthday. Also some people will be gone and this I hope will work out. I will be making a big dinner with lots of goodies so this is one dinner you don't want to miss! We miss you guys and really miss it when you we don't see you on Sundays. Anyway, all have a wonderful week and hope everyone is healthy and can you believe Toshia only has 37 days until Jonathan joins our October birthday list? Are just as excited as I am? Love you all!

Pictures

P.S. I just used our family pics from last summer (2007) to get individual photos of us for sidebar... if you have one you would rather have up email it to me and I can swap it out! (If you want a "couples" pic up I can do that too, if that is the case let me know the birthdays so I can add them--i.e. when are Paul and Danno's birthdays?) Also, I can set it up so that if we click on our pics we can link up to our blogs/myspace pages. If you want me to set that up for your pic let me know, I will only do it for those of you who want that!

Family Business

We were doing so well and then the craziness of summer hit us and we kind of dropped the ball on this! Lets give it another try shall we?

Some informational updates so that everyone is on the same page for a few items, if I am incorrect in what I have been told leave a comment and let us all know what is correct!

October 11: Happy Birthday Chelsea

October 13: Happy Birthday Chloe

October 18: Happy Birthday Ashleigh

October 21: Happy Birthday Seth

October 22: Happy Birthday Chad

***When are we planning to get together to celebrate everyone's birthdays this month?

October 28: Baby Jonathan is due

November 27: Thanksgiving dinner at the folk's house, Grandma Ardee will be visiting this year! (Any food assignments to follow...)

December 21: Big Weitzel family Christmas celebration--whose house? Rich, Steve, or Dad?

December 25: Christmas day at the folk's. Those who want can stay over for Christmas Eve. Christmas brunch will be served... 10am? earlier? lets talk about that! (Any food assignments to follow...)

Also, one last thing for now: how/when do we want to draw names this year for Christmas? I have an idea, just a suggestion, but as our family grows things can get extremely complicated! Andrew's family came up with something a few years back that works for them, the only change I would suggest is that they do it by family groups instead of individuals and as only one of us has kids to include that would make it unfair for someone to have to buy for that whole group! Aunt Kelly's family does a drawing that puts everyone in together, seems to work for them. So here goes: option #1--we plan on drawing names every year around Christmas that includes the whole family--us, spouses/boyfriends/girlfriends, and children (possibly when more grandkids come along have them be separate, but for now just do one drawing) OR option #2--rather than draw names every year we could have a rotating list of sorts so that we always know who we have next and can have more time to get gifts, figure out what that person really wants, etc. There are positive and negative aspects to both options, but generally they would be about the same. If anyone else has any ideas feel free to share and we can discuss further.

I love you all and I hope that this new year of school (for all you students) has started off great and will continue to go well!