Christmas Plans

Mike and I bought plane tickets yesterday. We will be arriving in Detroit Saturday, December 19th at 9:10am. Our departing flight is Thursday, December 24th at 7:10am. We were hoping that everyone would be willing to celebrate "Michael-Mas" (as Mike likes to call it), a combination of Mike's Birthday and Christmas on December 23rd.

As for presents, we were hoping that everyone would want to do the same thing as last year. In case you don't remember, this would mean that everyone would buy presents for the kids and we would have a Secret Santa for the adults. I would be happy to draw names for everyone and email you your person or couple, since it does not seem like Greg, Michelle, Tim, Jessica, Mike or I will be able to make it to Ann Arbor for Thanksgiving, which is when we drew names last year.

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Panning Family +1

I guess I owe you all an update, huh? I'm not sure how far in the Fleming Family Grapevine this news has traveled, but I wanted to let you know that we are anticipating the arrival of a new little Panning! Baby "Anatole" is due in mid-March. I've got some cute pictures of our newest munchkin, but I don't have a scanner at the moment, so you'll have to use your imagination. Give us a couple more months and we'll be able to tell you (hopefully) if Anatole is a girl or a boy. For now, we're just happy to know that the kiddo is safe and healthy and all seems to be going well.

-Barbara

p.s.- While Henry is clearly a little young to really understand, he does poke my belly and say "baby!" I'm trying to convince him that the u/s pictures show a baby, too, but I'm not sure he believes me. :-)

p.p.s- If you're curious, Anatole is the name of some obscure relative in Matt's family who comes up from time to time. For reasons that escape me at the moment, we thought this would be an appropriate name to call our unborn baby... I'm not sure if this is better or worse than Elmo!