Start of the Year

Christmas Break has been busy.  We have some great neighbors down the street, Jeff and Stephanie Brown, and they are always having a ton of kids playing outside their house.  We have about five or six kids on our street that are in Nathan's grade as well, so it's a good group of kids.  Jonah and Annmarie often join the group to play.

Annmarie sang at the Opry the first weekend in January also.  She did amazing as usual.  She has no fear when performing; it's so great!  And she always starts on key, something that I do not do well at all.

Pretty much all of December and most of November was wet on the weekends, so the kids never got outside to pick up the dog poop as their Saturday chore.  Because of that, it really needed to be done, so we made all of them do it.  We made it a contest.  We gave them a time limit and told them it all had to be cleaned up and whoever's bag weighed the most would get a treat.  Well, the bags all weighed pretty close, so we just all went out to ice cream together.