WELCOME 2009

Happy NEW YEAR to all our family and friends!! We are looking forward to a wonderful new year, which will probably hold a lot of changes for our family! We wish you all a blessed and joyous new year ahead.



Our friends Brad and Heather and their kids (and 2 grandkids) spent New Years Eve with us. This is Ally (18) their only daughter. She is Dons "BFF" (a ongoing joke), and stopped in to wish us aHappy New Year before going off to spend it with her friends, and I snapped this great pic of the 2 of them.

Bell and I did a craft project during hte day and used construction paper and foam stickers to make party hats for everyone for New Years Eve. Here is a cute picture of her in her hat.

Austin was sick last night and ended up sleeping through New Years, and Lina was asleep on my back, so here are the hats of the sleepy kids! We have all been under the weather with a stomach virus in our house (started Tuesday and still continues!!), but Austin only got a major headache and fever - lucky him!! Our friends had just gotten over it in hteir house before coming over a few days before New Years, so we figure they gave it to us, so they could chance getting it back agani :)

From left to right: Landon, Jayson and Dalton

Brad (with grandson Phoenix on his back) and Heather (with Maddox on hers) just before midnight.

Landon and Bell.

Don and I before New Years. As you can see, there were lots of babies around and lots of babywearing going on!! After the New Year, all the kids crashed and we played cards until 3 AM!!

Bell was so excited it is hte new year.

Oh, after the ball dropped the silly string fight began (confined to hte kitchen, as it was freezing out!!). Jayson got tag teamed by Don and Brad.

And the boys getting them back.....

Isabella drinking her "Sparkling Cider" to toast in the new year.

All the kids toasting and shouting Happy New Year.

Brad and Don bringing in the new year.