sledding sans snow

Rebels!

Chris is the 2nd Counselor in the Bishopric

It's exciting and daunting and I saw it coming a mile away. He's wonderful, and he'll do awesome. I hope I can, too.

New church classes!

The kids had an activity this morning where they got to meet their new teachers at church. Georgey is moving up from Nursery to Primary, and his teachers are Brother and Sister North. Olive and Lucy are in the same class because our Primary is small, and their teachers are Brother and Sister Watkins. Penelope will bring up the rear with our last of 5 consecutive years of Nursery.

kids' new year's eve countdown

Here's a link to the video of the kids' countdown: http://instagram.com/p/xUakBuhJiO/

new year's eve

We started out with dinner at the Hamblins'. The kids made party hats...

...and put pennies on the front porch for Baby New Year to come touch...

...and had their own countdown at 7:00.

Then we put the kids to bed and got to work on our puzzle...

...and Chris lit some fireworks...

...and Ike and I kissed at midnight.

Happy 2015!!