HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARVEY JOE!

He's the big 6-3 this year and anxious to spend his birthday at the beach! Here's wishing him a fun day and an awesome year with his beautiful, sexy, intelligent, and tan wife :-)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELLIE!

It's almost impossible to believe, but we have a brand new teenager in the family now! Happy 13th Birthday to Elizabeth Ann (aka Ellie) Marion. Have a really fun birthday and an awesome year!

January Birthdays!

I know Kirsten has been very busy and I'm sorry to say that I have not been paying good attention to the blog, even though I look at it every day!

Happy 19th Birthday to Leigh on Jan. 23rd - hope you had a fun celebration!

Happy 22nd Birthday to John on Jan. 25th - I'm sure your mom & dad provided a fun day for both you and Leigh!

Happy 35th Birthday to Sarah on Jan. 27th - did you have a fun day today? I'm sure those gorgeous boys in your life provided a fantastic birthday party!

Happy 36th Birthday to Jeff on Jan. 29th - have a really fun day, a great weekend, and a joyful year!!!!!!

We are so proud of all of you and love you very much! Celebrate all year!!!!!!

Buys Christmas at Chez Baidas

Dan shot some video with his iPhone while we were opening presents and put together this little video of it yesterday. Unfortunately, Alexander was sleeping at the time (but hey, it's never really unfortunate if a baby is sleeping right???

Buys Family Christmas 2010 from Daniel Johnson on Vimeo.

Going to the chapel...

By now the 3 of you who actually check this blog know that Daniel and I got engaged last night. As my inbox fills up with congratulations, I realized I don't want to delete them without noting how funny some reactions were to the news/the photo I texted out!

I was going to make you guess who said what, but I'll just share!

"Did you just get that?"
Our waitress at The Whitney

"Whose hand is this?"
Tone

"Congratulations! Can't wait to hear the details!"
Sarah

First text: "IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS??? :)"

Second text: Holy shit! CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU, DAN & CLAIRE.... can't wait for the details!!!!!!!!!"
Janet Ardis

"Very exciting Kirsten! A beautiful ring! Have out talked specifics of a wedding!"
Janet Cook

"Holy shit!!!!!!!!! Congrats!"
Amy Gregory

"looks beautiful!!!! congratulations. in this family, you can only do destination weddings. where are we going -- and when? love to all of you."
Sue Sue

"Whoa! Congrats!"
Joe

"I can believe in love again! U GO GIRL...lucky Dan."
KK

"Getthefuckoutta here! Hazah! Wait, yer not pregnant r u? ;)"
My friend Jason

Daniel for a good cause!

Daniel contributed a beautiful version of "What Child is This" to a holiday compilation aiming to raise money for some good causes in the area. You can listen for free or download it for $5 and choose which organization you want your $5 to go to.

The first is an organization that uses sports programs for area children, the middle is the local NPR station and the last is an arts/music program for kids.

Be sure to watch the video on the page too!

You can check it all out HERE.

Uno with Grandma

Another Grandma playing Uno :-)

Hannah had a hard time keeping track of all her cards!

I think Ellie is just about ready to "Uno" - unless I make her "draw four" :-)

It brought tears to my eyes to see mom's handwriting from all the games she played with her grandchildren - there were dozens of score sheets!