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It's not looking good for blogging in 2009 since it's January 13th and I'm just now doing my new years post. I'll get back in the swing of things soon, I hope.

A day or two before New Years, we had my papa's brother, Vernon and his daughter Becky over for dinner. It was so good to see them. Vernon lives in King about 25 minutes away and Becky lives in TN. We had a good visit and they just ate up Tyler! :)

We had a great New Years. Since it happened to be on Wednesday night, we had a singing service at church. It was really good and we all enjoyed it. Then a bunch of our friends came over to our house to play games and bring in the new year. We had a blast and so glad we have great friends to celebrate with. Of course Tyler passed out about 10:00 so he rang in the new year fast asleep in his crib, but I did manage to get a picture of him.

The next week we headed to Colorado for the National Conference for Youth Ministers (NCYM) or something like that. It was in Colorado Springs. So we left really early from the Raleigh Airport and had a direct flight to Denver. It was a great flight besides the fact the Tyler of course had a stinky diaper and there were no changing tables so we had to lay a blanket in the floor and change him right there while people were walking back and forth to the bathroom. I did change a wet diaper in my lap a littler earlier, but I wasn't going to attempt the stinky one, I don't think the people sitting around me would have appreciated that so much! But anyway, we made it. I was surprised that there was NO snow on the ground. In my mind when we landed there was going to be inches of snow everywhere, not so much. We rented a car and headed to Colorado Springs (about 45 minutes) and we did see snow on the ground here and there, but nothing like I had imagined. The conference was great. There were so many awesome speakers and the singing was just amazing. Tyler did great the whole week as always. It was just really neat to be with my family all week. We didn't get to do much site seeing because Tyler couldn't handle to much of the elevation, but we did make it to The Garden of the Gods. It's an amazing park with giant rocks and stuff like that. We managed to take a few pics, but not too many because that day it was pretty cold and we had to get back to Denver to catch our flight.

The flight back was great. Tyler slept all 4 hours despite the fact that there were about 4 other kids screaming their heads off. I felt so bad for those mothers!

So Sunday, we were back to the grind of everything. We had a great trip and so thankful to our Elders for letting us be a part of such a wonderful thing!It was hard coming back to work Monday after being off all week, but somethings, you just got to do.

Tyler had his 4 month check up today including his shots. He did great and only cried for about 30 seconds. Thanks to David for being a tough daddt and staying with him while I left the room, I just can't bare that, but I guess sooner than later I'll have to get over it. But anyway. He weighed 15lbs 10oz (70%), 25 1/4" long (64%) and his head measured 17", I think, which I forgot what percentile that was but it was average. But the doctor said he's right on schedule and looks great. So we were happy and thankful for a great check-up!

Also, we're definitely thinking of my papa this week,as always, but he died a year ago on the 12th. I can't believe it has been that long. What a short time a year feels like. What a great man that will be missed forever, but always in our hearts! Love you Papa~