Happy New Year!!

So we spent New Years Eve with the Whisenants! Mari spent the night at a friends house so Kelly, Jason and the kids had a place to stay. They came over Wednesday night (NYE) and we all had dinner, the kids played, we bathed them and put them down.

As the boys put the kids to bed, Kelly and I set up the Hold 'em table! We played poker and watched the ball drop. Just before the ball dropped we were all joking about NYE a few years ago in which we were all together. We were laughing that we missed the actual ball dropping because we had paused the TV earlier in the evening and forgot to catch back up to "live" viewing. Well, I got up to get another marg and looked at my Blackberry. Internal monologue: "Hmmmmm - why does my BB say 12:21 am when the ball hasn't dropped yet. Oh well, must be a problem with the BBs - there's always something wrong." We went on to play and watch the ball drop, kisses and congratulations all around the table. Then it hit me. I grabbed the remote and looked at where we were - 30 some odd minutes behind live tv. We had done it again!! I bet this happens a lot now that you can pause live tv but we all laughed that it happened to us TWICE and that we had even talked about it not 45 minutes before. Here is what happened: We had paused the tv earlier to get the kids ready for bed - it must have taken us over half an hour because that is all TW cable gives us before turning back on. The TV just came back on to play automatically and no one remembered.

I love technology. :)

The next morning - playing games and watching the parade. . .

We took the kids outside to play golf in the back yard. Dziadek had given Madelyn some new clubs for Christmas so we wanted to test them out . . .

Not so bad - not the best form but she made contact!

Daddy giving Mads some lessons . . .

Check out Landon's FORM! Still looking down at the ball, weight forward, ball is out in front . . .

Another angle, different shot. Same thing. . .

Seriously, he's not even 4 years old yet! Looks like we got another Tiger Woods, ya'll!!

Jason giving Madelyn some pointers . . .

Great coaching, Jason! Now Mads needs to work on keeping her head down . . .

Madelyn collapsing after all that exhausting golf!

The next few shots are her posing for the camera - she is such a little superstar . . .

Cover of Children's Golf Digest . . .

The "looking off into the distance" pose . . .

We had so much fun and I love sitting down on New Year's Day reminiscing about the year past and all that happend and imagining the New Year ahead. 2008 really did speed by us but I pray that 2009 is another wonderful year for everyone!

Happy, Happy New Year!