Oops, again...

Once again I failed my two blog followers! I had every intention of posting before Christmas, and well, surprise, surprise, I ran out of time. Show some mercy though...we had 7 stops in 2 days, and 1 stop was 3+ hours away!

I hope that each of you had a wonderful Christmas. Ours was rather perfect. Joseph and I are so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family to spend the holidays with. The presents are nice, but the time with family and friends is priceless!

It's hard to believe that the first half of my vacation is gone...only one week left, and it's packed full, of course. We will ring in the New Year with our "peeps" (who else?!) and then the guys and girls will say goodbye and head off for guys weekend and girls weekend-YAY! The boys have probably put too much on their plate...as for the girls...food, drinks, movies, food, games, food, food, and girl talk, what more do you need?!

I would like to think that I will update again before the New Year, but I know I won't. We got a Wii...it's much more fun, so blogging may take a back seat. I wanted to take a minute to reflect on '08...it is hard for us to look back and see once again that our prayers for a healthy child were not answered, but we are ok with that and know there is a plan. We are just waiting to fulfill the plan that has already been made for us. On our lovely 3 hour ride home we were trying to think of a catchy '09 phrase. I'll entertain you with some ideas for the "Hedgepeth Motto 2009 Edition":

*'09 is mine (and then I thought ours, so that didn't work)
* My swimmers will shine in '09 (who was the author of that one?!)
I came back with...*My eggs are fine, your swimmers are fine, we will shine in '09

And finally, we came up with a little poem...enjoy!

We thought that '08 would be great...we never thought we'd have to wait till '09.
My husband is fine, along with his swimmers.
My eggs are fine, just waiting for swimmers.
In 2009 we will shine,
and KICK SMA IN THE BEHIND!

It was late...that's my only excuse. One thing that I do know about 2009...Joseph and I will be together through every step of the way. And we look forward to living the blessed life that we have with our family and friends. I guess we'll say goodbye to 2008, and we look forward to sharing our journey with you through 2009!

Have a safe and HAPPY NEW YEAR! As always, please REMEMBER JACKSON!

Nichole