In a New Year---

Unbeleivable that another year is upon us! I realize it has been such a long break in between blogs, but we were able to go home and see all the family and spend alot of great time with everyone! We left Tennessee on December 22 to go home for 10 days. Thankfully we were able to go back to Tennessee to do work through the month of January. Being home with the kids was so much fun and we had such a great Christmas. I actually didn't do any decorating--except for the last minute thought of the table decoration for our family meal. Curtis went across the street and cut the evergreen pieces off our neighbors evergreen tree, I then gathered up some decorations that I had put away from Cory and Angels wedding. It was so much fun and so fast---decorating and undecorating for Christmas. We spent so much time playing games and introducing the old game of "PIT" to the kids. If you are not familiar with the game---lets just say---a WHOLE lot of hollering goes on. I think Jenna lost her voice from screaming--but we laughed and had such a great time!! We spent Christmas eve at Granny Hunts home and had everyone there in Curtis's family but Tori. She was not able to come this year.
The actual Christmas eve, Curtis and I put together a traveling Christmas video scavenger for a bunch of kids. We had 17 participate and had a blast. I think the kids did a great creative job on what they put together. They had to put the 12 days of Christmas together with each day being from a different house-and those at that house had to do the singing. I am going to try to add 1 small part of a video to share--hopefully I will get it to work. It was a nice way to celebrate Christmas-- We spent Christmas day at the movies--that has become a tradition that we started 4 years ago. Cory and Angel were able to go with us, along with Sam, Lisa and Dal. Coli and Jenna were spending Christmas with her grandmother--they were missed but we totally understand!!
The rest of the week just flew by--we had my family Christmas at my mothers on the 30th of December. My sister and her family were not able to come home this year, so it was just us. We had a nice relaxing day and thankfully my parents had 3 days off--in a row!!!!
New years eve--we planned a 4 wheeling trip to Kermit Texas. It is all sand dunes--and there was 10 of us that got to go. We had a great time--other than so many wrecks (thankfully noone got hurt badly) we had an awesome time. We got home at 10:00 p.m.--so needless to say--we slept for the arrival of the New Year!
We left home on January 4th to arrive back in Tennesee on the 5th. We are expected to stay here until the end of January. The work is very easy--just working alot of paper work because there is nothing left in the fields. It did get 74 degrees here on the 7th and so beautiful. We acutally have not had that many sunny days--it has rained 3/4 of the time we have been in Tennessee. We had a bit of a scare on Tuesday the 8th, the bad storms came in and the tornado warning sirens went off 4 times. We decided we would take cover here in the motel room---lying in the bathtub. Dyersburg did have 2 tornadoes--1, 3 miles south of town, and 1, 5 miles east of town. We haven't heard how much damage has been done yet, but we are so thankful that we are SAFE.
My pictures that I have posted are very random--but I did want to share something. Maybe it won't be that long for me to be posting again--
Until then....................