Happy New Year!!

I had a fun New Years weekend with family and friends. New Year's Eve a group of girls got together for a fancy dinner and night on the town! We had a wonderful time together!

 My sweet roommate and me:

 Mary Elizabeth, Maggie, and me:

 Ringing in the new year!

 New Year's Day is always a great time to reflect on God's faithfulness in the past year, and start the year with eager anticipation about all that God will do in the coming year! My New Year's Day started with a great service at my church, where the pastor reminded us that the best resolution that we can have today is to resolve to trust in Jesus more and more each and every day. After church, I went to my parents house to help my mom prepare the traditional New Year's Day dinner (two guys at church this morning had never heard of the tradition of black-eyed peas and greens!). I LOVE this meal and look forward to it ever year!! This year we had pork chops with chutney, black-eyed peas, greens, slaw, baked apples, and fried potatoes!

 Some of my very special friends came to join us in celebrating the beginning of 2012!!

We had so much fun playing together! (you'll have to excuse my apron which I forgot to take off!)

 Charlie is such a sweetheart...can't get enough of these precious little ones!!

 We went out on the front porch after lunch and worked on getting a family photo!

 And then came back inside where we just relaxed and visited and let this little cutie pie entertain us! She had us all laughing!

 It's been a great start to the New Year already and I can't wait to see what this year holds!