What the New Year brings!!!

At the beginning of the coming new year brings Dan and I to the end of our seventh year and into our eighth with things looking better than last year.
Although our last year brought us some very special and exciting experiences, (the open house of the Twin Falls Temple and the tour of the temple, Baeli's birth, a new horse for the children... I will get to that later...etc) as well as some sad experiences (our family pet, and friend Samuel our dog died) we are very lucky and blessed to have each other.
Today marked the eighth anniversary of Dan's and my sealing. Yes 8 years ago today we were married in the Bountiful temple. While at dinner Dan and I did our annual evaluation of how we felt this year went for us and for things that we wanted to improve on for this coming year. We have found that this has been a great help in our relationship. Not only that it helps us become better friends.
For Christmas our children were surprised by my parents neighbor who presented them with with a cute little Appoloosa horse who is very friendly to children. Yes my children (it stays at my moms house) have a horse. His name is Lucky Boy and they will be able to start riding him this spring. He is a very sweet horse, and he loves to be petted by the kids. We had a good Christmas, and a very wonderful New Year. We were able to see my Uncle Mark and Aunt Melissa and their children and spend New Years with them. That was a blast! The kids were very sad to see the cousins leave, in both my family and in Dan's family.
We went to Salt Lake to pick up Dan's brother Jeff, and we spent some quality time with him. Mikaeli, Kaleb, and Kaerli were so excited to spend time with their Uncle Jeff they had so much fun. While in Salt Lake we went to Temple Square and saw the lights. That was a big hit for the kids. I wish that I were able to get some good pictures, but they didn't turn out so well. I think Becky took some pictures of us with their camera, I will ask and hopefully we will be able to post them.
We hope that you have a wonderful new year, and that you had a wonderful holiday season. We are looking forward to this coming year. I will be more dilegent in my posts. We have a lot of events that need to be posted.
Happy New Year!