Shelby's Life and Whatnot

Babies Everywhere!

I forgot to report the results of this year--the Baby Year! 5 of our friends had their firstborns this year and all 5 of them turned out to be girls! The BabyFest started in May with our new cousin Addison, daughter of Tracy and Geoff. In August, we had Evelyn, daughter of Hai-Nhu and John, followed just a week later by Sadie, daughter of Marc and Wendy. Not too long after we got Paloma, daughter of Anita and Derek, and we closed the year off by just 2 days before January with Natalie, daughter of Jennifer and Christian.

Who are these people???

Tracy is my cousin. Actually, Tracy's mom's is my dad's aunt, making my dad and Tracy's mom cousins, so that makes me and Tracy...um...cousins. Let's just leave it at that. Geoff is her wonderful husband. We love him to pieces. They were married the same year we got married. Lucky for us, Geoff and Tracy live nearby in Orange County--which reminds me that we need to make plans to get together!

Hai-Nhu is one of my IBM friends. She, John, and Evelyn live in San Francisco so we haven't gotten to meet little Evelyn yet. I hope we'll take a trip up there soon.

Wendy and Marc are our "couple" friends (I know they're reading this saying, "Oh is THAT what we are?" haha). We met Wendy at our church in San Jose. They live in wine country--in the Santa Rosa/Sonoma/Napa-ish area. We're very excited because they used to live in Colorado and we never got to see them. Now they're at least in the same time zone. We got to meet Sadie when they were down for Christmas and she is the cutest baby ever (well, the co-cutest with Addison, Evelyn, Paloma, and Natalie). We got some great pictures of her. Poor Digory was just kind of freaked out by the whole baby thing.

Anita is one of Kevin's Berkeley friends. She did us the honor of standing up to our wedding (here she is with David, Kevin's best man, and here she is crashing after the raging party). They live in Berkeley and we haven't gotten to meet Paloma yet.

And squeezing in before the end of the year on December 30th, Natalie S. was born. Jennifer is one of Kevin's friends from high school. They also live in San Francisco so we haven't met Natalie. In case you're not familiar with the area, San Francisco is across the bay from Berkeley, and Santa Rosa is an hour-ish away from there, so we can hit 4 babies with one stone with a single trip to the Bay Area! Not that we'll be hitting babies with stones or anything. That's cruel.