The start of a New Year!!!!

The Lord has blessed us greatly this holiday season. The kids enjoyed all their gifts. Cayla couldn't quit understand why mom and dad didn't get any gifts from Santa on Christmas morning. Mark explained to her that he just brings kids presents, then she replied " Dad the reason you didn't get any presents is because you were naughty." We had a great laugh over that. Maybe he was a little naughty. :) We were able to go to Mitchell to stay at a Hotel with my parents and brothers family the first weekend of Jan. The kids had so much fun in the swimming pool. The kiddy pool had a large pirate ship for the kids to play on. In the large pool they had a water slide that went on the outside of the building. It was fast and fun, even Cadee loved it. The water was a little cold but what fun we had. (some photos on here) We start the new year with great hopes, health for the most part. We unfortunately have already had some sickness ( the stomach flu) hit the house. The only ones to not catch it were Mark and Ciara. One of the down falls of this year are that two of my good friends have moved away. One to Iowa and the other to Singapore, it is hard to say goodbye. I really feel the void of them not being here. Thank God for Skype!!!! I will start work this week and hope that after being off for 2 months it will all come back to me, also going to start helping out an other Good Sam nursing home. I'm wondering if 4 different facilities is challenge enough for me???? I'm up for the challenge. Ciara and Chris started back to school, Ciara couldn't wait. So now my days are back to Cayla and Cadee at least in the mornings. The days go by so fast. As I'm writting this I'm listening to a song. The statement for me for the start of the year. "Where does my help come from, it comes from the Lord. I praise you in this storm." I'm sure that there will be storms!! Well not much else to say for now, till next time.