2010!!

So it's January!! 2010! Wow! Jared is 10 years old this Friday and we will be having 8-10 kids over to eat Taco's and have a Wii/Board game extravaganza! My husband thinks I am crazy, but I love that sort of stuff!! Plus, one only turns 10 once, right?

Did everyone make it through Christmas? Did you make it through the snow and cold? Did you act like you were 10 again and slide down HUGE snow piles? Did you break your sled because the temps were so low? :) Well, we did!! All of that! We went to South Dakota a week AFTER the snow came because I-29 was closed all the way to the Canadian border around Christmas! The kids got to experience REALLY cold weather there (-26, thank you very much!) and wear layers and layers of clothes just to step outside! Do you know I had to purchase long underwear for my kids before we went? Do you know my kids had to ask what IS long underwear? Cracks me up!! So we drove for 6-7 hours and had a marvelous time with "Papa" and Grandma Cyndy! Our kids climbed the HUGE snow pile in Papa's front yard and played King of the Mountain with a neighbor boy... and came away pretty much unscathed.. except for 1 minor cheek glitch! Did I mention my Dad (Papa) climbed that HUGE snow hill as well?? It was great, I'll have to post pic.'s!!

However, Christmas has come, Christmas has gone, and now Christmas is packed away for another year in our boxes... .somewhat sad to see it go. But do you know Christmas is NEVER gone in our hearts? Christmas can live all year LONG! Christmas is the time we celebrate the birth of Jesus and without His birth, we would not have life. So we celebrated this special occasion, but just the decor that heightens it is put away. Nothing else is gone... because He lives in our hearts. Jesus says, "I will never leave you nor forsake you.." Amen to that!

Make it a Beautiful Day!