Happy New Year!!

Wow! Another year just flew by! We rang in the new year with a pack of poppers that Kyle won in a white elephant game at a Christmas party. Ken and I went to an Ugly Sweater party at the Everetts and chauffered McKenna and her friends to the stake dance. New Year's day we laid around in our pajamas all day and watched movies and played with the kids! It was wonderful!
This has been a year of many trials and blessings! We lost Grandma Mash last week. She was 92yrs old! We gained a new sweet precious little niece and cousin, Blakley Dance Abplanalp! We acutally had six different surgeries this year between us all. Kyle's little accident last Christmas Eve resulted in a surgery to repair the tendon in his hand. Kenny and Elise both had their tonsils removed and I had three surgeries to finally find and fix issues I had been enduring for a few years! Ken was laid off from Shasta as the economy declined. We are all healthy and appreciate that very much!! It was wonderful to enjoy our first year strep throat free!! I am finally pain free and feeling better than I have in years! Ken didn't skip a beat after his layoff, he took over the BPO's completly and has expanded his realestate business and even in these hard times we have not gone without! We know we have been blessed through paying our tithing. We always have what we need and as we put the Lord first we are blessed beyond measure!
The year started out on a wonderful note with the baptism of our new friends Doris and James along with two other new members in our ward and of course Brooklynn's 6th birthday!
Our new year goals include, staying fit and healthy, working on reducing our debts and increasing our year supply and spreading the good new's of the Gospel to anyone who will listen. To know who we are and why we are here. That we are the literal children of a Heavenly Father who loves us and that He has provided a way through his Son Jesus Christ, to return and live with him and our families - no trial can outweigh the blessings and peace that knowledge brings. That is why every year is a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!