Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all who may still follow our family adventures!! Hope the new year brings happiness and joy to all. I really dont' know where my time goes...seems I am always busy doing something. I spent a lot of time getting ready for Christmas, between the baking, shopping, wrapping, and cleaning. Then in just a day or so, it is over with and the New Year begins again. Today I took down the Christmas decorations, while I love the seasonal beauty, I am always ready to get my house back to normal again. The kids are back to school tomorrow and the dail routine begins once more.

What makes my life busy? Lets see, work has been crazy busy lately, many sick people and too many demented people awaiting nursing home placement! I've gotta say, I do love my job, as crazy as it is at times. I don't think I have ever had a night where I didn't want to go back to work the next night or where I dreaded going into work. I have great co-workers, lots of fun to be with and great teamwork! That right there makes it easier to deal with the uncertainity and the craziness. Then there are the extra meetings and trainings to attend, which adds to the schedule quite a bit some weeks.

Next there are the kids...don't think I have to say anymore...but I will. Andrew is loving ski team, even the time commitment is working overall. He has practice 3 nights a week and then wants to free ski whenever he can. His first ski meet is next Monday, we will see how that goes. Joey has been skiing whenever he can, so far only once or twice. Becca took a beginner lesson and now is hooked on skiing also. She got to ski last Monday night and even went up the chair lift and down a real hill! The kids will all ski again tomorrow night, it is a "cheap" night at the local hills. The biggest problem is that with this odd winter weather we are having, there is little snow at the ski hills. The place is having a hard time even maintaining two hills, much less the usual 15 hills they have open by now.

The kids all had a great Christmas, each getting things they wanted. Becca has been asking for an American Girl Doll for the last couple of months, she got a version of it from Santa! She absolutely loves it, has spent hours changing the clothes and doing the hair. Joey had been looking into getting a remote control truck, so Santa brought him an awesome one!!It is a large truck that can go over 30 miles an hour..he is in love! The truck can go up and down our hills easily and has an incredible range. We can stand on our front deck and it will go to the shed and back (about 100ft) without a problem. Andrew got what he wanted also..his season pass to the ski hill! Yes he needed it for ski team, but to get him outfitted for the team we had to invest quite a bit of money, so that went towards his Christmas. With it he has been able to spend more time at the hill, even if we just drop him off for a couple of hours.

For the New Year, I will try to post more and to include more pictures. I am still taking pictures, just havent downloaded for awhile again.
Chat with you soon!