New Year's resolution???

Yeah, I'm doing great. Here it is January 9th and I haven't even posted this year. Ahh, but I do have some pictures coming. So far it has been a good year. New Year's day the family went sledding at Kincaid. It was a perfectly beautiful day with tons of other families out. The hill is a pretty wide hill with no real defined paths going up so when you start walking up you're on your own as far as watching out for those coming down. Luckily, we didn't have any major catastrophes.

We are about done with parties, though. The boys birthday is November 18th. Jenna's birthday is January 18th. Between those two dates we have our 4 kid's birthdays, Kameron (6) and Merril's (4) birthday – the kid’s cousins who recently moved back to Anchorage – then my Mom’s birthday, my sister’s birthday, my Grandma and an Aunt both have birthday’s for good measure, and then Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s! Whew… no wonder I don’t want any more cake!

This was the first year in a while my side of the family has all been in town. Sheila and Mike moved are stationed here for a while after three years in Japan, so it was good. Our kids are the same age and they all love each other, so that’s another blessing. We sort of feel we own Sand Lake kindergarten, though. Between Kameron, our boys, and Kiera (Amanda’s sister Pam’s daughter) we have a kid in each of the 4 kindergarten classes.

Amanda and I leave in 3 days to head to sunny Maui. We signed up for a 15K race there (http://mauisurfsandhalf.com/) and then will spend the next week relaxing, doing some hikes, going to Molokai, and whatever else we feel like doing the morning we wake up.