Happy New Year!!

Well I hope you all managed to stay up like we did and usher in the new year. Although I have to admit the older we get it seems to be getting harder to stay up that late. Well not really...we're still pretty young, I'm just trying to make our older audience feel better about themselves. We hung out with friends and watched the ball drop in Times Square, it was fun and relaxing. Amber and I both are looking forward to starting off a new year. Our last year definetly had it's challenges. Let us review shall we... It started out with our car getting wrecked and totalled, then we had another surgery for poor Amoo, our shower broke which led to a full bathroom remodel, then our dishwasher broke, followed by our washing machine, followed by our furnace, followed by our hot water heater, and now following shortly behind will be our dryer. We got slapped with unexpected adoption expenses and even served with papers to be in court over unpaid bills.(Which was their mistake) Medical problems kind of continued for most of last year and still have not been resolved but are getting better. I injured my shoulder at work several months ago and finally visited a doctor so I'm now dealing with workers comp and am currently being held out of work until the problem is solved.(I am getting paid however) My Xbox 360 even broke and had to be sent in for repairs, can you believe it? Our problems seemed to never end this last year. Through it all we have learned a lot and experienced some truly wonderful things. The grace showed to us from our family when times got tough was incredible. We have two amazingly beautiful, healthy kids. Mason started Kindergarten and we got to celebrate Jasmine's first birthday. Amber and I have refocused our lives and are looking forward to big changes in the up and coming year. Her book is hot off the press and we should be getting about 150 copies this next week to start distributing and marketing. Don't worry you will all be getting some very soon. :-) We both feel there are only good things to come. God has a plan for us...we can feel it!! Love ya all and look forward to starting a new year with all of you. You never know maybe my sister will get a blog this year and start communicating with the family. ;-)