And The Winner Is....

drumroll, please....

Babs!  

Babs, I've sent a note off to you to get your address.  Congratulations - we hope you will enjoy your Blueberry Hill box!

Thank you to everyone who entered - it was a great contest!  We loved reading the Christmas memories and traditions you all posted.  In fact, we are going to save them and maybe post them again around Thanksgiving next year to give folks some ideas of traditions they can start with their families!

I had mentioned that I have a particular Christmas memory of having everything under the tree seeming to be for me!  I found a picture of that Christmas!  You'll see my big brother standing by the tree with a bow and arrow, and there's me on the left, holding a doll I can barely get my arms around!  On the right is the little table and chairs I used for years to play school!  

We have put up a little slide show of some of the Christmas fun here in Seattle.  There are Gingerbread Houses from the Sheraton Hotel display in aid of the Northwest chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and some of the magical lights in the light show at this year's Garden d'Lights at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens.  It has been taken down now, but we'll do more special slide shows and youtube movies as time goes on.

We wish for you and yours, a happy and peaceful Christmas!