New Year's Eve and January 1st

New Year's Eve and the first day in January were a bit different, but they were good in their own way. Cassi stayed up in Boulder and Bryce departed for Texas. At home, it was the four of us..... but even Tyler headed out with his girlfriend's folks to enjoy a Denver Nuggets game. For the Prime Rib dinner (smoked on my new smoker), Katie, Audra and I feasted!

Audra is making chocolate pies... clad in her Tim Tebow Jersey.

Bryce, mounting up his deer horns, before departing to Texas for his Spring Semester at TBI.

Audra's new gifts.... a fancy coffee maker and a marble table.... up in our bedroom. Feel really spoiled with coffee in bed.

My father was a phenomenal journal writer. I always esteemed him for it. No less than a dozen times, I have started a journal....getting anywhere from 30 days in, to completing up to 3 months, but I never stayed with it. Audra loves to go back and read my "journal'ing attempts", so to further motivate me, she gave me a very nice journal for Christmas. When I couple that with the Waterford Pen that Mom gave me for my Master's Degree graduation present.... I have the tools and the motivation to stick with it.