New Year's Eve & New Year's Day

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day were both very laid back and enjoyable. 

Russ and his dad spent most of New Year's Eve working at our new house while I hung out with with the boys, Mrs. Jane, and Granny...

Later that night, we joined our friends Ben and Jennifer Moore in Dresden to ring in the new year.

Other than recognizing that we are getting old and struggling to wait for midnight, we had a great time!

We had pizza and bread sticks for supper, along with a few other appetizers.

Ben and Jennifer have three boys... Miller who is six, and twin boys, Tate and Tyler who are three and only six months younger than Lawson.  They all played so well together.

Here are the New Year's Eve police officers... keeping a close watch on all of the fun! :)

           Miller, Tate, and Emmitt

           

Emmitt, Lawson, Tyler, and Tate

And then there was sweet Miles.  His mother is Jennifer's cousin and he hung out with us for the night, and it was so much fun to be around a baby again.

These boys had so much fun!

The Moore boys have a great collection of tools and the such. 

The boys had a great time and played together the entire night!

We are thankful to be able to spend time with our friends and are excited for our children, too.

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On to New Year's Day...

Church, family, friends, and good food were the components of New Year's Day.

Mr. Richard and Mrs. Jane welcomed our New Year's Day lunch and turned the kitchen over to Russ and me.  It was very good... battered bacon, fried cabbage, black eyed peas, macaroni cheese, and Mrs. Jane's cheesy Mexican cornbread.  It was all so good, and my mom joined us for lunch!

Mrs. Jane, did however, complete lunch with her delicious coconut pie, and Lawson got to help!

Russ went back and worked at the house for a little bit before returning to church for evening services. 

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After church we headed over to Greenfield to visit some friends.  There is a very funny story that goes with this visit.

Back in May, we were redoing our flower beds in Columbia when a neighbor walked by with his son and introduced himself.  He asked where we were from originally, and when we told him "Martin, TN", he lauged and said that his brother-in-law and sister-in-law were going to be moving to a town near Martin called "Greenfield ???".  He was a little unsure, but the conversation was so neat.  We were able to meet his family the next day and they shared their plans, and we shared all we could about life in Weakley County.

Long story short, we became good friends with our new neighbors in Columbia, and loved having the opportunity to visit with them again (and in the future) while they visited their family in Greenfield.

It's truly a small world.  As to the head count at their house... The family in Greenfield has four children, our Columbia friends have one, childhood friends whom also live in Greenfield and go to church with the new family have three plus one tag-along-church-friend, and then our two.  A total eleven children and ten adults!  It was a full house, but so much fun!  I hope we get to visit them again, soon!

They all played very well together and we has lots of fun!

The Wii Fit is really cool!

Thanks for reading!