We brought in the new year with a blast! Check out these links. A good time was had by all, food, friends, family, fun....Thank you Lord.
After the New Year, the temperatures plummeted to -35° - varying a little here and there. I’m not minding much since I’m mostly inside cooking, cleaning, and cooking and cleaning some more.
I don’t know where to even start since it’s been such a full, busy week. 
We had a fun New Year’s Eve celebration. Jake, Zayden (Jake’s boy), and Jason T came out and stayed with us. Jake brought a pile of fireworks and shot them off in unison with Joey’s fireworks. It was quite the showing. During the New Year’s Eve evening, we had potluck dessert, skating, square dancing, games, cooking making, and more. Bro Rus and Sis Millie showed us how to do the polka before we started in on the square dancing. I will send a few pictures of that.
Pat was here this time. He had gone on a quick ambulance run with Tok EMS the night before so he was quite bummed out but I saw him off and on interacting with the young folks. He has been going up the mountain and down trails on snowshoes with some of the guys. Unfortunately his snow machine has not yet been resurrected so he has opted to do the snowshoe thing instead. I think there as a trip to Fish Lake on either snow shoes (10 hrs in the snow!) or on snomachines (2 hrs.) but nothing has materialized as yet.
My sis. Karenza who lives in Gbraltar is getting everything together for the big family reunion in March. Said event will take place in Seville, Spain. She has rented the convention site there to hold all the family. I think the brethren probably gave her a good deal. They can all be together and use it as a base of operations and then do their touristic sorties from there...shld work very well. The bus only takes about 20' from there to the center of town. My sister Alexandra and her 3 grown kids, spouses and grandkids are planning the trip too...wish I was able to attend but not this time I'm afraid.
Originally my step mom Chi and my youngest sis Marina and her family were gonna make the trip to celb. Chi's 80th...but that fell thru...too long a trip from Buenos Aires to Spain for her...so now its Alejandra and Karenza and the rest of the fam in the US.
The nicest thing is that May has been asked to attend, so now she is madly making all these plans to fill in the Feb. time before she goes to Spain in March. Her time in Ireland (3months) comes up at the end of Feb. so she must leave the country then. After the UK, in Feb. and Spain in March. Karen and Gracia (a friend and elder in the church in Seville) have invited her to a 4 day trip to Italy! May is so excited and I am so thankful so many good things are coming her way...a once in a lifetime opp. probably for her...since I don't think my family will all be together again any time soon...amazing how God works! Then May returns to Blessington at the end of March and stays there until her departure for the US and AK on April 27th.
so that's the scoop....
God is good...looking forward to a good start of the year...it is flying by it seems....
Blessings from all of us in the land of the "frozen chosen"...
Now our next big event is CONVENTION 2010!!....LAST WEEK END IN JAN...
Hope to c some of u then...
bye now
click on these links for more pics... Blessings from all of us in the land of the "frozen chosen"...
Now our next big event is CONVENTION 2010!!....LAST WEEK END IN JAN...
Hope to c some of u then...
bye now
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