Happy New Year!

Happy 2009!

We had a great New Years Eve. We met Kevin for lunch at the Congress Street Pulik House in New Market. I had bought my mom and step dad a gift certificate there for Christmas. Since they have both been sick my mom asked me to use it since they are closing on January 4th. I'm so glad I got to go. It was a beautiful place and the food was out of this world! I wish I would have found this place before now-I wish there was a way they could stay open.

Then we headed to Harrisonburg. We want to get the dice game Center, Right, Left-it's so fun and anyone can play. Yeck Alyx won one game on New Years Eve. Then I went by Bath and Body Works to get some $3 lotion-love that stuff.

Then we went to Jody's shop for New Years Eve. It was a small crowd but we had a great time and like every trip from the shop the kids came home totally dirty. Below are some pics from New Years Eve.

I hope you and your family have a wonderful 2009-filled with lots of laughs, smiles and wonderful memories.

Happy New Year.

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas and below are some pics.

Alyx checking out her gifts

Autumn with the new Harry Potter book

Faithlyn

Alyx & Uncle Randy

Garrett & Alyx at my Mom's

Autumn at my Mom's

These are all the Hart Great Grandchildren (top to bottom) Luke, Faithlyn, Autumn, Rebecca, Alyx, Garrett & Landon

I hope you all had a great Christmas too!

Merry Christmas!

I just got back from the always moving and beautiful candle light Christmas Eve service at church. Our choir director sings "O Holy Night" and it is just so moving. Anyway, as I wait for the little ones to go fast asleep so Santa can come pay a visit I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a very blessed Christmas. Let us not forget the real reason for the season, the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Merry Christmas!

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Catch Up

I'm so excited after work tomorrow I'm off until January 5th!!!! Maybe I can catch up on house work, sleep, and visiting friends and family. We have had a busy week.

Friday Autumn's Hot Sox jump rope team preformed at Stonewall Jackson High School. Kevin was excited to visit his old stumping grounds and since he and his brother use to play tennis with the new principle he took them on a tour of the school. They have really added on, classrooms, library, gym but in my mind it's no Broadway-GO GOBBLERS! The ol'cheerleader coming out of me.

Saturday my cousin Jody and I got the bright idea that instead of throwing candy from his trucks at the Christmas parade we should make up little baggies with candy and a business card. Well Saturday night we rented movies and made up 500 baggies!!

Then Sunday was the Christmas play at church, lunch (with a visit from Santa) and the Christmas parade in Broadway. The play was great. Autumn was a news reporter, Alyx was Mary and both of them plus Garrett were in the "living" Christmas tree for the youth choir and Faithlyn was a package under the tree.

Then it was lunch and a visit with Santa-Faithlyn didn't think too much of Santa.

Then rush home to change into our Hart's Automotive shirts and off to the parade. Wendy, Autumn, Wendy's niece Shanell and I walked and handed out baggies. Alyx rode one of the trucks and we pushed Faithlyn in her wagon. It was lots of fun.

Monday we had the youth choir Christmas party. Tuesday I had my work Christmas Party. Of course there is wrapping presents and all that good stuff in between. So here are some pics for the Christmas play at Church and visits with Santa.

Sunday

Sunday are usually fun family days. Today we got up and went to church. The youth group this year is in charge of the christmas card mailbox-a challenge for me but the kids are doing great. After church Kevin stayed to set up the raisers for the "living christmas tree" for play practice this afternoon. I offered for Alyx's friend Easton to come home with me while his parents help set it up. Well before it was said and done I had six kids running around my house. They had a great time and we ordered pizza. At 2 I took the kids over to church for play pratice and then I drove Faithlyn around for a few minutes until she feel alsleep. I knew if she didn't sleep while the girls were at practice she'd never sleep (we had here while Jody & Wendy went to Winchester to eat at Olive Garden with some of their friends). While Faithlyn slept I read two more chapters in Twilight-can you believe I'm already to page 260-in less then a week! Here are some pics from our day and some of Faithlyn checking out Alyx's frog and trying to catch our cat-he never slows down for her!

What's Going On

Well I was suppose to take my Mam-Maw to Richmond today but I came home yesterday from work not feeling to good and by 8 last night I was sick! But after being sick most of the evening and night I'm starting to feel a little better. So while I'm in a nice quite house-never happens-I thought I'd update my blog.

Well Friday it was beautiful out so we decided to get Faithlyn and go play at the playground at my girls school. They all had a great time-even though the sign says you can't play on the playground we did anyway.

Of course Friday evening we went to see Twilight. It was great and now I'm reading the book, yes me who has never ever read a whole chapter book in my life-that's right Honors English & Advanced English in High School and English in college-never read a whole book.

Saturday Alyx has been asking to make gingerbread men, well we all know I'm not a cook so Kevin decided to help but neither of us could get it to work so we ended up with ginger snaps.

Sunday Kevin was sick so after church the girls and I decided we'd try sugar cookies, well, we got round cookies that they decorated.

Monday was the annual Monday after Thanksgiving trip to the Hagerstown, MD outlets. The normal crew went, Tammy, Kim, Katie, Wendy and myself. We had a great time as always, stoped in Winchester on the way home to eat at Olive Garden-yum yum! I'm almost done with Christmas shopping now, just a few more gift cards to buy. I'm trying to cut back this year since we are planning to go to Disney World in August but I'm terrible at saving money so lets hope I can!

Tuesday evening Autumn had a Hot Sox performance at Bridgewater College. Hot Sox is a jump rope team for 3rd, 4th & 5th graders at her school. You have to try out and everything-she was so excited to make it this year, last year she didn't.