Better Late Than Never
One of my 2009 goals was to be a better gift giver, and this past Christmas was quite a success, I thought, particularly because Bart and I really planned ahead and weren’t frantically buying gifts at the last second. We had time to think about what to get various family members and I was really pleased with some of the things we chose.
But, without question, the gift we were most excited about (and which came as the biggest surprise to our families) was this one, which we gave to Crawford:

!!!!!
My reaction was just was Kayle wrote.
Hooray Hooray Hooray!!
Also am so glad this is in the open!
Yayyy!!!!! I'm so happy for you and Bart!!!!! Congrats!
Awesome. congratulations!
I had to read the post twice and then wondered, is she saying what I think she's saying? CONGRATS!!!!!
Congrats!
Woo!
SOOOOOO EXICTING!!!!!!!!!
I love when I have no idea and then am really surprised. I was totally surprised. This is so fun!!!!! Congratulations Janssen and Bart!
How close are you and Merrick?
Post more details!!!!! Are you hoping for one or the other gender? Any names? How are you feeling.
What a creative way of telling. I was like, "what is that?" HAHAHA!!! Was everyone shocked? Who all was there? Like I said, MORE DETAILS! 🙂
I'm so happy for you Janssen. You are going to be the best mom!!! I'll nominate you for Young Mother of the Year;)I can hardly wait to get parenting ideas/advice from your blog, wait, I'm getting a little ahead of myself. I'm just so EXCITED!!!
Yea! Did you plan this with Merrick. That will be fun with both of you having kids the same age. Congrats! It is so great being a mom.
wait, what? Wow, that took me a minute or two to figure out! That's so clever, I'm going to remember that when and if I ever become pregnant. Congratulations!!!
Yay! Exciting news! Congrats!
Congrats!! So exciting! I know you said awhile ago you were never going to let this blog become a "mommy blog" with endless pics of kids and what not… but you know we all love hearing about your life too much to let you get away without giving details!
Congratulations!!!
Congrats on your little library book!
Being able to check out a library book until July 15 is awesome. I need to use your library.
what a cute thing for a future mom/librarian to do… Hope you are feeling well…
Congratulations! That is so exciting and what a fun way to announce the news.
Congratulations!
Congratulations! What a fantastic and oh-so-completely-perfect way to share the news. I hope you are feeling and doing well. What happy news!
Lol, it's a good thing I read the comments or I would have never known what was up.
Congratulations!!