Happy New Year!

Hey everyone, it's 2007!

We just got home a few minutes ago. We spent the evening with several couples from our Sunday school class. We ate food, we played games, we came home. But we had a great time. It's always good to spend time with friends.

Jenna went home with a friend to spend the night. Now Lynn and I are here at home watch Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 07. It's tradition. Plus, we get to sleep in tomorrow morning.

Everyone have a happy and prosperous new year! God bless!

It's almost over

Hey, 2006 has less than 24 hours left. In many ways it seems like it just started 48 hours ago. It's been a busy year both at home and at work. We started the year with dance competitions.

Jenna was part of Miss Amy's Dance Company last school year and got her first taste of competition. She loved it! Having been given the choice of dance or going out for cheerleading for this school year, she decided to stick with dance (Dad is jumping for joy). She's not in the Dance Company this year, but she is part of the the new Praise Company and has already danced at several church events. She's also clogging again to prepare for Dance Company again next year. As a result, this has been a very busy holiday season.

I'll have to think a bit about other things that have happened this year. Maybe I'll post them here later.

Where did 2006 go?

Well, life happened - a whole year of it. More to follow...No, really.

What happened to the weekend!?

Here I am back at work on Monday. I don't recall getting any rest whatsoever on the weekend.

Jenna's twelfth birthday was Thursday (Happy Birthday, Jennabug!) which was followed on Friday by a sleep-over party. There were five 11 to 12 year-old girls along with Lynn an me. Let me tell you, these girls can seriously eat! It's a good thing the one other girl who was invited couldn't come, or we would not have had enough food. (I'm glad they're not all boys.)

The girls were all gone by about 9:30 Saturday morning (after yours truly cooked breakfast) and we were on to our next task...Wal-Mart..on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. We survived and returned home to prepare a dish to take to a get together for our Sunday School class.

Saturday night, we went to the Brannans' house for our SS Class party. We had a bonfire with barbecue and all the "fixins". We sat around the fire later, and roasted marshmallows and just talked and laughed. We had a great time, but we stayed too late.

Sunday, we went to church, the we left early to drive to Paris, or more accurately, Springville to my parents' house. We then got in their vehicle and rode to grandmother's house in Friendship, TN (Crockett County). Nearly all of my Mom's side of the family showed up there for a Thanksgiving/Birthday dinner. I guess the only ones not there were my cousin Rhonda and her husband; they live in the Gallatin/Hendersonville area, so it was a bit much for them to do in one day. Her daughter and grandaughter (8 months) were there and she was the life of the party. We left there and trekked back to Springville, rested for a bit and drove back to Charlotte. Lynn had to drive from Waverly on because I was just to sleepy. We got home at 10:45.

I thought there was supposed to be a day of rest somewhere during the weekend. Go figure.

Time Flies When You're Too Busy to Notice

I can't believe it has been a month since I posted anything here.  I have been much busier than I thought...definitely busier than a parole officer (sorry, Jeremy, had to do it).  The sad thing is, as I think back, I can't think of a single, individual thing that has kept me so busy.  I guess it has just been a lot of everything.  I really MUST have accomplished something during that time.  I hope I did.

I'm already making plans for the holidays; things have already been put on layaway at Wally World for Christmas.  Didn't school just start back last week?  Besides, it was eighty-freakin'-degrees outside yesterday!  What gives? 

I guess it's a sign of age. Why, I remember when Christmas took two years to get here...and I liked it!