It's a New Year full of new and exciting adventures!

Happy New Year to all of our friends and family!  We have had quite an exciting few months here.  Needless to say that the weather has been a big challenge with our yearly average coming all in December. Now we get to look forward to the cold.  The kid's have enjoyed pulling each other around on the 4-wheeler on the snow....but Coco keeps trying to "save" whomever is on the sled and took a chunk out of Sam's coat one day.  Oh it never ends here!

Sam's # 11

Sam finished up football season in October and is now into his basketball season.  He really is enjoying basketball.  Football....not so much.  He didn't like getting flown into the air a couple of times and has decided basketball and soccer are his games.  He did get a chance to go hunting on his birthday in October and that is truly the highlight of the year in our house.   When Jerry and Sam can get away for the weekend and go hunting over on our land in South Dakota.  Pheasant Heaven!  Sam also got to play Bob Cratchett in the school Christmas play.  That was a huge leap for him considering the boy is painfully shy!  But he did a great job.  His Language Arts teacher is determined to get him out of his shell.  I just say...Good luck with that!

Grace has been playing piano and reading everything in sight since school started.  I love that she has challenged herself to read harder books and she is practicing piano everyday.  She thought it was very cool to go out and spread some reindeer feed for Santa's reindeer on Christmas eve too. :)


Katey is a teenager and has a life of texting and driving.  That's about it.  Oh...we did color her hair the other day and it looks so nice!  That is a benefit of having a mom that is a licensed cosmetologist!

Christmas was a great time to huncker down and just be quiet and play with all of the toys that Santa had been so generous to bestow on us.  Ok...so Jerry and Sam hogged the tv playing Cabela's Hunter the entire day!  No fair!  However,  I totally rocked it playing Wake Board on the Wii.


My resolution this year is to take life a little slower and take things day by day.  Breath!  Make things in my life simple.  I hope I can do that.


Have a wonderful start to the New Year.  Enjoy the little things that "just happen" and that aren't planned.


Love,
Shelly