I've disappeared from the blogger world for awhile because of a) holiday busyness; and b) my obession with Facebook! I hope this finds everyone well. We had a nice, but busy Christmas. And from there, I head straight into tax season. The years seem to be flying by. January is been slow for us at work (thankfully), but the storm will hit about mid-February and you won't see me for awhile until mid-April! (Seems like I just posted about last year's tax season not too long ago!) I look forward to catching up on reading your wonderful blogs. I've missed you all! Take care and God bless! - MJ
A very tried three-of-us late on Christmas Eve, wearing our new Christmas jammies! 
One of Katie's Megaglomper friends made this for her. How cool! (Does this make me Edward's mother-in-law?!)
Baby Aly is no more. Now she's Little Girl Aly! She was the highlight of Christmas morning, helping to pass gifts out to everyone (even though she had a look like, "Why am I handing out gifts?") Christmas Eve was dinner at Barb and Brad's. Christmas morning breakfast was at Chris and Jeneane's.
Christmas morning at our house.
Teenagers! (My, how fast they are growing!)
A few weeks before Christmas, Sister-in-Law Jeneane, organized a "pottery night" at the Painted Pot. I learned a new technique - glass cutting. I was taught how to break pieces of glass and glue them together to make an artful project. That's my penguin on the right. It was later put in the kiln and melded together. I hope to do more of this in the future!
Barb, Jeneane, and Melanie at the Painted Pot.
Concentrating on that glue!
On New Year's Eve, Barb hosted her tradition "Kids NYE" party. Every year they write out the highlights of the old year, predictions for the new year, and read previous years' predictions. It's fun to see what they have written in the past!
My church had a New Year's Eve dinner and service. My pastor had asked me the day before if I would speak 3 - 4 minutes on the past year and how God had taken me through some troubled times (my divorce). I'm so glad I'm in the Toastmaster's public speaking club at work. It made me a lot less nervous and I actually enjoyed the opportunity to speak!
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So good to hear from you! you have lovely photos there-looks like you had a great Christmas-it was nice here too, just went so quick-if only it could stay Christmas morning for longer (or Christmas Eve-watching feel good movies and drinking hot chocolate) Thanks for the comment, I'm trying to draw/sketch every day(I want to enter a contest in May-you're the first person I told-shhh....so I have allot of work to do!I don't care so much about winning, but just doing the work, practicing to be able to even do something good enough to enter and doing it-that will be enough for me!)
OK, I'm going to go back to sleep for a bit, I was up too early this morning! don't be a stranger:)
take care
Trish
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