Happy New Year!!!!

We wish your family a wonderful and blessed new year! May you all be filled with hope and joy at this time of new beginnings. I love the feeling of a fresh start, renewed goals, and the nastalgia of the year gone by. Some of my goals are to be better organized, especially with meal planning and scheduling of time. Most importantly, I want the fruits of the spirit to be growing in my heart more this year. More love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Those are my goals! I would like to focus on each one at least one month... starting with Love.

We spent the evening last night at a party at the home of some new friends of ours from church. There were 9 families there so they had a houseful! Mostly teens and their families. Joel had a great time with all of his church friends there! Jaden was the youngest and because of him, we didn't stay very long. He needed to come home and go to bed. We invited my mom over and we watched Its A Wonderful Life and rang in the New Year.

This was the first time Ivy has been away from home on New Years. She was invited to go with a friend and her family last night Downtown to the Celebrate Lancaster! Event. I'm sure she had a great time downtown at midnight seeing the Red Rose drop! I hope she was warm enough since it was VERY cold last night! Then she spent the night with her friend and we haven't seen her yet this year. We missed her, but she was SO excited to go!

Today will be spent watching the Penn State game and continuing a nice long break from school..... oh, it will be so hard to start up again on Monday! Yes, we have enjoyed this wonderful time off!

Have a happy New Years day everyone!