Christmas 2009

On Wednesday, December 23, I was wearing shorts and sweating as I loaded up the car to head to Junction for Christmas. On Thursday, December 24, Lindsay, Bethany and I are bundled up and trying to catch snowflakes on our tongues!

Lindsay and I headed out to Granny & Poppa Gipsons after lunch on Christmas Eve. She had a fantastic time with all of her crazy cousins and she's learning to hold her own with her Poppa Gipson. There was a lot of love and a bunch of laughter shared that day and evening.

And Santa again managed to find Lindsay on Cedar Creek. She had as much fun passing out gifts to others as she did unwrapping her own. For me it's just not Christmas morning if I'm not on the Creek and up before the crack of dawn!

On Christmas day Lindsay and I took another nature walk over to Aunt B's house and managed not to get our shoes wet as we crossed the creek! We cooked the usual holiday favorites and everything was delicious; it's a lot of work but totally worth it in my opinion.

Murr and I went into town that evening and saw Debbie & Rodney Phillips. The 4 of us hadn't been together in a very long while and it was a lot of fun catching up with old times and new.

The next morning Uncle Tommy, Lindsay and I climbed the mountain in front of his house. Wow. The view from up there is spectacular. And Lindsay found the back fence! (Mom used to tell us girls to get outside and see if we could find the back fence! I so totally understand why she did that now.)

All in all it was a fantastic visit. Once again it went by way too fast.

And now here we are on the 1st day of 2010 and let me be the first to say HFNY!

I'm certainly hoping it’s going to be a happy one because the last 2 have .....how do I say this .... sucked. I don’t mean to sound ungrateful because I am very blessed in so many ways. So while I’m desperate to believe that 2010 is going to be great one, I’m not going to be holding my breath waiting for it to happen.

There are many things I hope to accomplish in this new year, but I'm not going to doom them and myself by calling them resolutions. Let's just say that if they get done I'll be happy, and if not, well, there's always next year. Right?

Lot's of love to all of you from:
Sandra, Murr, Lindsay, P.J., Patches & Sissy Boy