Recap

Mom
Gift card from Williams Sonoma
Rosie Thomas CD with the REM song on it
gift certificate from Arcadia Knitting www.arcadiaknitting.com
John Hiatt CD, esp one that has "Have a Little Faith in Me"
Best Buy gift card

Tom
Gift Cards to best buy

Leah
clothes. Medium shirts. Size 8 pants. Or medium pants
Banana Republic, Gap and Old Navy
No sweaters
I would love a little sharp knife. Preferably Rachael Ray.

Cal
An umbrella (they sell them for like $6 in kids' toy stores)
Another membership to the museum or the Minnesota Zoo
books
Cal needs a puzzle organizer. "They" have these wooden table-like things with slots for wooden puzzles. I have no idea how much they are or where to find them. And it's late so I can't look it up right now.

Isaac
http://www.elc.co.uk/toy-34123
http://www.creativekidstuff.com/ ...tasyblocks.html
http://www.creativekidstuff.com/...ravel- town.html
socks.
Books
Also, there are these cds put out by Putamayo and they are great kids cds. You can find them at children specialty shops. Here's the link to their home page.
http://www.putumayo.com/en/ putum...tumayo_kids.htm

Becky
iTunes gift cards
more art from Kari
earthy smelling candles
The Complete Vegan Kitchen (or another Vegan cookbook)
an orange tea pot
a pasta/veggie streamer pot

Cheryl
Game Stop gift cards
Cool (outside) vest - size L
another business card holder from Leah (she lost it and it was her fav)
Sweaters for work – Size L

Richard
Anything from They Might Be Giants Discography.
Blues Brothers
Blues Brother 2000
Clerks X
Best Buy Gift Cards
"The Year of Living Biblically" by A.J. Jacobs

Kari
the Oppenheimer CD (they only have one, so if you go to Best Buy or something, I think it should be pretty easy to find). I'd also like the Social Distortion greatest hits CD. Any of the "Dexter" series of books would be great, too (except the first one - I just splurged on that). So, I think that includes "Dearly Devoted Dexter" and "Dexter in the Dark". They're all by Jeff Lindsey.

Eric

Jason

Steph

Heyyyy Jason, Steph and Eric give us some ideas.

Christmas Exchange

Stolen from Sarah Jane on their family blog:

"Hey All-Talked to Leah Rose last night about our annual Christmas Exchange, we both agreed that we should still do it. If anyone opposes strongly just don't participate. We thought we could try it a little different. We could do a boys and a girls gift exchange, with a limit of 15$. So I'll buy a gift for the girls exchange (no gift cards) (something like jewelry, bath and body, something for the house etc) and Brian will buy something for the guys one (tools, video game, poker chips etc). Then on Christmas we'll play the game where we pull numbers and steal. So mom, dad, you can play, Sally, Grandma Holper, etc. Anyone who buys for the exchange is in. Sound good? Leah is telling her side I'm telling ours. YAY CHRISTMAS"

Thanksgiving

Hey Familia. I'm using this post as a kind of mass email. Cheryl and I are leaving for Seattle tonight - I'm hoping we don't end up sitting in Ohare all night! I'll miss you all this weekend. Just another Thanksgiving seperated.

I plan on kicking a little A this weekend with the scavenger hunt. Watch out.

Let the Hunt Begin

Thanks for all the suggestions. I hope that this turns into a lot of fun.

The Rules:

Attempt to take a picture of yourselves with the items on the list.
You get one point for every picture, and .25 points for every member of your family(pets included) you can cram in there.
1 extra bonus point per picture if you capture "that guy"(will add link at home) in any of the pictures.
10 points for being the first to complete all the pictures.
5 points for being second.
100 points if you are married to a Kari.
Just post your findings here.

The List:
A cow
A Baggage claim
A delicious pint of beer
A $50 bill
A star fruit
A unique building
A Winning a poker hand
A Letterman's Jacket
A broken mug
A mouthful of cranberries.

Have fun!

A Must See Film

Thank you Richard for pointing this out:

See Ya

If new art from Kari or Cheryl chillin' on the couch with Lily are on the Family Foto Fscavenger Fhunt list, then I'm totally in the lead!




Thanks Kari! I love my painting!