Tuesday, January 5, 2010

A New Year

The last month flew by. With hosting the worship team from Willamette to an appreciation dinner, shopping for Christmas gifts, decorating the house for Christmas, baking, and getting crafts/activities/songs ready in the classroom I was ready for winter break. I was exhausted!

Paul and I wanted to have the worship team over for dinner to show our appreciation for how much time and energy they put into providing meaningful worship. We moved most of our furniture out of our living/dinning room and put in tables and chairs to fit 30 people! We ate a homemade meal, played games and chatted. It was a blast and I hope we can do it again next year!



Paul took the 23rd off so we decided to spend the day at the beach. It was a gorgeous day with no wind and lots of sun!


We were in Albany until after the Christmas Eve service, then headed up to spend Christmas with the Hynes'. All of Paul's siblings were there except for two of his brothers. We skyped with one from Germany on Christmas morning which was really nice. Paul enjoyed skiing with some friends Saturday night while I spent some time with friends before heading back for service Sunday morning.


Paul's youngest sisters, Rachel and Elizabeth, came down on Sunday and spent most of the next week with us. We watched lots of movies, painted, baked and babysat my nephew. It was a lot of fun to have them down!

For New Year's we went to Black Butte with the Hynes family and some friends. We enjoyed playing in the snow and relaxing in the hot tub! Paul got some new skies so we had to hit up the slopes too and had a great time!



We have had a roommate for almost a year now. Not the same one for a year, but a couple different people. Well, our most recent roommate has now moved out and we now have the house to ourselves. I think it is a bit too quiet!

Well off to the gym.

1 comment:

Ben and Cherianne V said...

Happy New Year! That is so cool you were able to open your house up to the worship team. I am sure it meant a lot to them.