Happy New Year!!! :)

Well, I don't know about you, but for me, last night was AWESOME!!! We rang in the new year at church and it was so much fun! The evening started off with food and a movie (Facing The Giants was our choice for the evening). We ate chips, chicken, mushrooms, cupcakes, brownies, pizza, macaroni salad, potato salad, and my favorite....fried pickles! Pam always makes them sooooo delicious. She also made the fried chicken and fried mushrooms. If this sounds as good to you as it does to me, you should contact her and ask her to make you a bowl...or two...or fifty. I don't think she'd mind. Really, she would LOVE it! *Notice the sarcasm?*

So after filling up on this food (I was already full at Pam's house before we left!), I decided to relax for a bit. We played a card game while I had a few more bites of brownie. Okay, okay, I know what you're thinking, but it was begging me to eat it! It kept looking at me and whispering my name. You would've heard it if you had been there...at CHURCH...where you SHOULD'VE been!

So, after the card game (which lasted more than an hour, for ONE game) *Still loved it though!*, we put our stuff away and headed upstairs to count down the seconds to midnight. I have always watched the ball drop on television, but we don't have cable at our church. Pastor felt bad for me *more sarcasm*, so he wadded up a sheet of paper and threw it up in the air to welcome the New Year. Can you imagine people's expressions in New York if their ball suddenly got thrown into the air? HAPPY NEW...AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!

Okay, back to reality. After our ball "dropped", we listened to a quick sermon, sang a couple songs, and went home. It was so exciting celebrating the new year with God and family. Maybe next year, we can use a bowling ball...or not.

4-H

Church went well this morning. Travis, Robbie, and I read the story of Mary becoming pregnant with Jesus, and Robbie lit the 2nd advent candle. After service, I took Robbie up to the 4-H fairgrounds for the Open House, and to get signed up for Mini 4-H. He's excited! He wants to do Arts & Crafts and Collections. Our first meeting is February 13th. I wish I could've done 4-H when I was little. I could've learned so many skills, but I feel like I missed out. It helps, though, knowing that I can encourage Robbie on his projects. This will be his first year in, so it will be exciting to see the things that he comes up with.

After the 4-H Open House, we went on a tour of an old church here in town. I can't remember the name of it, but it was really neat to see all the old stuff in there. I'm not much of a History person, but it was interesting. Travis loves History so he had a blast! The boys got to decorate pinecone ornaments with glitter, and Robbie made a strand of popcorn, and sewed a piece of a quilt.