Upps…. The left out New Year’s Post

I am trying to ignore the fact that I am getting wackier by the day. I have absolutely no excuse since I haven’t been on pain pills since last Oct. Before that when I would mess up …blow it .. make an error, I would excuse myself saying that it was the  “Medication’s Fault” or the  “Pain’s fault”  that I couldn’t think straight. Well, I’ve goofed again and I have nothing to blame it on this time….. except as already stated…. I am getting wackier by the day!!!

I just realized that I never did my …

…. Happy New Year Post…

I made a digital photo book and put New Year’s Pictures in it. I guess because I had done that I thought I had done a blog post too.

Well….. it is  too late now  still January so here goes.

Here is a recap of my smiles for the New Year 2012

For many years it has been our tradition to have Christmas eve and Day with Mindy’s family here in CA and then leave the next day for Utah where we would have a 2nd Christmas with our Utah family and bring in the new year with them.

We  have a wonderful time. Lynell always hosts a fun party where we all get together and bring in the new year with good food, fun, games, singing, enjoying each other’s company and counting our blessings.

This year I just wasn’t up to making the long trip after Christmas. We traveled up to see them in October. They all came down to our house for Thanksgiving.

The thought of taking a 11 to 12 hour drive with my sore ribs…. when there might be ice and snow on the roads  was just too scary to me.

 

 

 

 

The last time we tried driving on the icy Utah  freeway it didn’t turn out so well for us.!

So, as much as I hated missing our New Year’s tradition with Utah family … I just wasn’t up to making the trip this year.

I hope next year I won’t be such a scaredy cat! Maybe when my ribs are more healed and less painful I will be braver. I hope so.

So…. what did we do this year???? What brought us New Year smiles???  I’m glad you asked…I was just getting to that……

New year’s eve we went out to dinner with a group of our friends.  LouAnn and Darrell do this every year.  Since we are usually in Utah for New Year’s eve, this was the first time we’ve joined them. It was fun to spend the last evening in 2011 with these sweet friends. (Can you find us in this picture?)

LouAnn invited us to go back to their home after dinner to bring in the new year with them….. but we couldn’t….. we had other plans. We were off to New York City…

We were excited to meet our friend Buttercup in Time’s Square!!!!  

Well… maybe not…. but I can dream can’t I????

Actually, sitting in the restaurant for a long time got my ribs upset and they started yelling at me. So, we took them home where they could rest in my soft recliner while I worked on my digital photo book I was making and brought in the new year with Dick Clark on T.V.

It wasn’t as exciting as being at Lynell’s family party…. or going to LouAnn’s party… but John and I were thankful to be together… to be alive…. to make it to 2012. We were both smiling as the clock struck 12:00 and we brought in the New Year together.

New Year’s Day brought us lots of smiles too…. I will share those with you on my next post. …. I know…. I know….. I should have posted about these smiles the first of January…. not the end of the month…. but then don’t they say better late than never????

Have a good week. I hope it will be full of smiles.

Hugs, Lura