Julie's Christmas List

Howdy!

My list:
Books-Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan. It's a "Young Adult" series. I only have #1, so I need #2-#5. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Maruquez. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.

DVDs: Wizard of Oz, Sound of Music, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (the old one), Any season of the Office (I don't have any yet), and Season 2, 3, 4, 5 of Scrubs.

Gift Cards: Itunes/Borders/Starbucks

Is that good? I also love Harry Potter for those who didn't know.

:)

Julie

Christmas Lists

Bryan - Menards or Home Depot Gift Cards - Nice short and long sleeve shirts - not button down, and comfortable. We're going to be working on finishing the basement... slowly but hopefully surely so the home improvement items will be best.

Nikki - Menards, Walmart, Dress Barn, Kohls, or Best Buy gift cards are always good. Collage photo frame that says "Family" from Kohl's. If you can find one... a count down to Christmas lawn ornament. Can't find one that's larger than the snowman or child putting letter to santa in mailbox. =o\

If we think of more.... we'll post again. haha

Random Wishes

Sitting at the Thanksgiving table recording wishes:

Leslie- Omelette pan; sweaters or jackets XL; warm turtlenecks; one of those sweaters that drape

Eric-Chaps jeans from Kohls size 38X30; he'll keep thinking

Brady- Has a Wii, Ninteno DS & I-Touch; athletic gear (loves UnderArmor); size 12 in pants or Youth L or XL in shirts/ XL sweatshirts; fiction about sports; likes board & card games

Kenzie- Likes vampire books; shirts or hoodies (size girls XL or XS/S in juniors); loves warm & cozy clothes; has I-Touch; size 12 in jeans; earrings; nail polish or very subtle make up or perfume; Aeropostle sweats XS pants or S shirts; loves to draw, sew, scrapbook or crafts

Our love to all on this wonderful day!

Schonarth/Altgilbers are wishing......

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. We are busy making our list and our game plan for Shopping on Friday. Can't wait, but thought we had better make up our own wish list too.
Callie: She wears size 3T, and loves Minnie Mouse, Mickey Mouse and anything to do with the Princesses. If you ask her and its on a commercial it's Mommy I want that. She is taking her first year of dance and loves it so anything to do with dance is also good. She is very much the girly girl and loves "pretty" bows for her hair too.
Jen: She wants it to be May, if that's not possible how about being able to eat and keep it down? (You guessed it they are expecting again and so far she's had alot of all day sickness.) She also likes sweaters size medium, Lotion from Bath and Body or gift cards from Penneys,Kohls, Wal-Mart, Old Navy, Home Depot, Menards.
James: He would like anything Nascar. His favorite team Haas racing, driver Ryan Newman. Gift cards are also good, Home Depot, Lowes, Menards, Walmart, or gas cards and food cards.
Val: I would like a new 11" non stick griddle. Long sleeve tee shirts, sweatshirts, or light weight sweaters size large favorite colors pastels blues and pinks. No greys I look like a cement wall. Remember I do daycare and the kids like it when my shirts have Mickey, Minne, and so on
on the shirts. Gift card are also good. Kohls, Penneys, Target, Walmart.
John: Gift cards from Home Depot, Lowes, Walgreens (he likes shopping there) Flannel shirts. size large.
These are just some ideas but just being together is the best gift of all. Everyone have a safe Thanksgiving and we can't wait to see everyone that can make it to Quincy.

Utah lists

Hi all. Can't believe Thanksgiving is here. Wow. What a fast year. Hannah sent in her first college application--to the University of Washington. Many more to come by January.

Wish lists for us: Dave would like a small food processor, like something you would use for one onion or a handful of nuts, so he doesn't have to get out the big one every time. Or he would like a light or reflective arm band or something to wear when walking in the dark so you can be seen, probably found at a running store.

Hannah would love anything to do with Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings. She has the books and movies, but t-shirts, etc. would be great. See Julie S. for ideas as she has similar tastes, or should I say passions. iTunes or Barnes and Noble gift cards would also be a big hit.

Carolyn would appreciate any cold-weather running gear and like Dave, would love a reflective light or safety arm band so she can be seen walking home in the dark now that Hannah gets the car most days. I also love Clinique Aramatics Body Smoother lotion and long necklaces.

Mostly we can't wait to see you all. Dave is already choreographing his upcoming week of cooking mania. We have new neighbors and old friends coming over. It will be fantastic. Hope yours is as well.

Sue's Wish List

Wow! Hard to believe that it is almost Thanksgiving!! Hope everyone has plans to enjoy-I will be thinking of each of you and thanking God for such a wonderful family!!! Sara, Chris and Skyler will be here in Olive Branch with me as well as my good friend (and ex-sister in law) Nancy and her daughter Megan.
I will actually be able to go out and shop on Friday-for the first time since I can remember-have to work overnight that night to replenish. Looking forward to being on the other end of the lines!!
As for my list-I really need clothes more than anything! It was great to lose a hundred pounds (yea-I really did!!!) but it plays havoc on the wardrobe!! Sizes are: Sz. 4 or small in Misses. Also always love jewelry, bubble bath, CDs-like to have some Reba, new Taylor Swift, Uncle Kracker. Gift cards for Kohls always work too...
Hope to see some other lists on here soon-hint, hint!
Love and miss you all!!

And the winners are

Here is the list of who has who for Christmas. I the first column is the name of the person receiving the gift, the second is who is giving the gift. Please let me know if you have any questions. Christmas will be celebrated on 1/1/11, so if you have packages to put in the mail so they will arrive by that date. Also, those grandchildren who will be in Quincy for the exchange, please let me know if you are willing to help make Christmas dinner and what you might like to bring.

Name - Person who drew that name
Brady - Carolyn
Bryan - Sam
Callie - Tony
Carolyn - Leslie
Chris L - Laurie
Chris S - Skyler
Dale - Rocky
David M - Brady
Emilee - Grandpa
Eric H - Hannah
Grandma - David M
Grandpa - Chris L
Hannah - Sherry
James - Grandma
Jen - Chris S
Jessica - Patrick
Jon M - Dale
Jon S - Nikki
Julie - Sara
Mackenzie - Emilee
Kimber - Eric H
Laurie - Callie
Leslie - Susan
Nikki - Jen
Patrick - Julie
Rocky - Mackenzie
Sam - Jessica
Sara - Val
Sherry - Jon S
Skyler - Bryan
Susan - James
Tony - Kimber
Val - Jon M

Love you all!

Let's get those wish lists going!

OK gang- the Helds have targeted days to shop so must be very organized this year :). Can we get those wish lists up in the next week? We will work on ours!

Also- Do we have a food and/or drink assignment for Thanksgiving? Can't wait!!!!

Les & the others

Our Halloween

My cowboy

the cousins

Ty at the Daybreak celebration

us

Ty and his pumpkin

my chubby little caterpillar!

Daddy and Chloe tuckered out from all the festivities

We had a fun Halloween this year. Ty of course went as Woody and Chloe a caterpillar, just like Ty was around the same age. Ty went trick or treating with his neighbor friend Brook and he also went with his cousins. He was so excited, this year was a lot of fun despite the rain. Ty kept saying Happy Halloween and yeehaw! It was so cute. Hope that you all are doing well and had a great Halloween!

Love,

Benj, Ash, Ty and Chloe

Our numbers

Rocky picks 16 and I pick 5 cuz i looooove the # 5. (rocky thinks im silly, we will see if anyone else knows why i love that number so much...hehe) but just a note too...i sent laurie a text to let her know but it seems we have some duplicate picking....the schonarths and the midgets (utah) have both picked 7 and 13....and not that im an early bird shopper by any means, but as it is already november we may want to start getting things wrapped up so everyone can start their plannings :-)
rocky would be happy with any hunting items, tools, gift cards to car part places so he can continue (and hopefully someday end) his never ending job of working on cars, home improvement store gift cards....thats all he could come up with for now
ummm....me...i would like lowes gift card to contine (and hopefully someday end) the neverending job of working on our house to one day sell it, always happy with clothes, pretty low on jeans, cardinals apparel is good, oh sizes...umm...well it would depend, medium-large top, jeans...size 27x35, i dunno what size that would be in the other number sizes, ive been shopping at vanity lately and thats how they size'em. walmart gift cards are also good.
well thats a few ideas for us but really we are happy with just about anything :0)