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Greetings from East Asia! We hope this blog finds you well! We have a lot of exciting and fun pictures and stories to share with you! Well, firstly most of you probably already know that we are having a baby girl! According to the most recent Ultrasound the baby is due April 8. We have been incredibly blessed with having a home completely furnished and ready for us when we return to the states on January 25, 2011. (Thanks Peyton for all your help!) Most of you may have seen our video posted on YouTube, but if not check it out with the posted video. To make a long story short we had the Doctor tell our friend what the gender of our baby was before we knew and she made cupcakes with either blue or pink frosting. We then had a big party and we split the cupcake in half to find out! (Talk about a rush!) We have attached some pictures below. Enjoy!

A picture of Dana at the end of her 5th month!

This is quite the interesting picture of John trying to ride on the back of his friends bike. John's behind is a little too big and can't quite get all the way on, so he does this really cool balancing trick and manages to stay on! This mode of transportation is actually quite common to see around our city!

John got asked to play in another basketball tournament which he gladly accepted. Their team lost the first two games, but to make it sound a little better the teams they lost to played in the championship game. They also had a three-point competition which John tied for second place!

John with some of his teammates.

Happy Thanksgiving!! We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and enjoyed lots and lots of delicious food. Every year it's always a mystery on how to do a turkey and this year we thought maybe its just not going to be possible. Well, we actually found one at a local import store here. We initially thought it was too big for our oven but we measured it out and it fit! So we had a friend/amazing cook, bake it and it came out perfect! Dana made her sister-n-law, Sara's, sweet potato casserole again by popular request. She also made her granny's pecan pie for the first time, which was delicious! (We used lots of imported food for that recipe, but well worth it!) We had a wonderful time of football, games and just good fellowship!

John got the honor of carving the turkey, and Dana got to help too!