Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year everyone!!! Wow, I can hardly believe that 2008 is here! Hope everyone finds this year prosperous, healthy and happy! As for resolutions... well... I will just resolve to "try to keep up" with everything and everyone!!

We had a nice New Years... Sioux City used to have a big family event called FunFest on New Years Eve down at the Convention Center, but they didn't have enough sponsors to put it on this year. It was an all day long event for $10 per person. You could go to movies, go ice skating, roller skating, swimming, bowling, go on a treasure hunt, see a magic show, go to a carnival, etc. All these events were housed in different locations throughout the city at different times all day long. You would just pick the things you wanted to do and be on your way! It was a really awesome event so we were really disappointed that we wouldn't get to do it this year.

We thought we would try to get tickets to the hockey game, but they were sold out way before New Years. So, we took the kids bowling instead! It was a lot of fun! Of course, it was busy, too, since it was New Years Eve, but the kids had a blast! We came home about 10:30 pm and watched Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve on TV while having grape juice in wine glasses to celebrate the New Year at midnight. Brianna took a couple sips of hers and decided she didn't like it, so we gave her a little pop in her glass!! About 12:10 am, both kids were asleep on the couch!!

Since we only got to go bowling last night, we decided to go see a movie today. We went down to the big Riviera Theatre downtown where a movie is only $3 per person. Today, they were only $2 per person!! At that price, we can afford to buy pop, popcorn, and candy for the movie!! We chose to see The Game Plan with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Madison Pettis. It was a really great family movie!! We all loved it and will definitely be buying it when it comes to DVD!!

The original plan for supper tonight was going to be potato soup and pie. With all the freezing cold weather we have had the last couple days, soup sounded really good. However, by the time we got out of the movie, it was already 7:00 pm, so we just stopped at Wendy's on the way home. Speaking of freezing... their heater was out in their front dining room and they had a sign asking you to sit in the enclosed dining room on the side.... while we were standing there ordering our food, our hands and noses were freezing! Zach saw the thermostat on the wall and went over to read it... 40 degrees!!!! Once we walked into the side dining area, it felt like walking into a sauna at first, but it was so good!!! Especially after freezing out front...

Well, I will sign off for now! Talk to everyone again soon!