Welcome to the Family Blog

Welcome to the Nine Green Beans blog. The intention behind this blog is to allow each of us access to post messages, news, thoughts, announcements, love stories, pictures, funny stories, and anything else you want to post. You will each receive an email inviting you to be authors of this blog. This will simply require you to set up a google account, or blogger.com account. It is free. I think you're all savvy enough to set up an account and accept the invitation. Anyway, this will allow us to keep up on each other's lives as we're currently spread throughout the country from California, Phoenix, Utah to NYC.

Hopefully this blog isn't something that starts off strong and then fades away into an outdated oblivion because nobody uses it. Try to make a point to use it as often as you can or as much as you want. Also, if you have your own personal blog, you can post a link to that blog on this one and it'll accomplish the same thing. We wish we could be with all of you for Christmas, but since we can't, we'll make sure to post some pictures of Axel's first Christmas on the blog.

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Another thing I forgot to mention. I also set up a family email address: 9greenbeans@gmail.com which I will give all of you the password to. I'm not sure what the point of this email is except that if anyone reads our blog and wants to respond to a posting, they may do it through email. It's basically just an email address to associate with the blog so I didn't have to put my work email in.

Shalaine asked what we will do once a 10th green bean enters the picture. That's a good question, but from what I can tell, there's only going to be 9 beans on this plate for awhile.

Cort

Since we couldn't be there with all of you this Christmas, here are some pictures from the last couple days. Also make sure to check out the blog http://neversaycant.blogspot.com for more pics of our Christmas eve, and for updates on Shalaine's mom. Shalaine was up till 2am setting up this blog last night and she did a great job. You will see pictures from an amazing Christmas Eve we had at the hospital with Shalaine's mom. We were all sitting around their house and decided to pack up the whole crew, with all the grandkids, and go suprise Sharon with some caroling at the hospital. It was also the first time she had seen Ricky since she's been sick. It was a special night and reminded me that our families are the most important thing we have, and I'm grateful you're all healthy and together for Christmas. In the next couple days I will post a video from that night on the blog.