Happy New Year!

Hope this finds you all well in the new year. I can hardly believe it's 2009 already! I have so much to be thankful for. Good health, good friends, a great family, and God. What more can a girl ask for!



Well, I will update you on all the goings on in the lives of Syd & Ange. We stayed here for Christmas and spent Christmas eve at Nana's house. Grammy Shay & Pop and Granny & Pausie came for the festivities. Of course the kids are totally rotten and got so much! Here is a picture of them.



I am rotten too. I got a great pair of cowboy boots. REAL cowboy boots, all the way from Oklahoma! Now that is authentic and they smell so good! Check them out! What do you think?




We had a great night of chatting and eating. I need a weight watchers meeting location so I can lose all the weight I gained. The food was good but the company was better!

Christmas morning the family came over to our house for Christmas day. Santa was good to the children. Their "big" gift this year was a basketball goal for the driveway. It's nice that the kids can go outside and shoot hoops. How fun! Here are a few shots of Christmas day.

We finished off the day with a few games of Littlest Pet Shop Monopoly, Ange likes to use his toes to hold his property, and then we went to dinner Christmas Story style. You guessed it, we had Chinese food. I think that this is going to be a new tradition. It was so much fun and we made MANY references to the movie. If you are ever in Helena you have to got to check this place out. It's called Lucky China and the hot & sour soup is absolutely fabulous. I plan on ordering take out from them soon. Oh, by the way...we were NOT the only ones there!



I hope that for all of you 2009 brings many great things. 2008 was pretty good for us. Here are a few of the highlights:

1. We bought a new house in Helena
2. We went to Hawaii for 2 weeks
3. We went to the beach for a week with our friends
4. We started school :3rd grade & 1st grade
5. We had a fun Halloween party and attended another great one
6. We went to the beach for Thanksgiving with family
7. We celebrated the birth of little Shelby Grace. She is truly a gift from God and an answer to many, many prayers. God bless her!
8. We continue to celebrate the miracle of little Luke. He was early...really early and he has grown into such a cutie and a chunky monkey. (mom's words, not mine) He is also a gift from God!
9. We celebrated the birth of Christ and continue to praise him!
10. We celebrated our continued good health

We truly have so much to be thankful for and I can't wait to see what 2009 has in store for us. If it's half as good as 2008 then we are in for a real treat. Have a great 2009