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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!  Last night we had our second annual New Year's party.  We welcomed in the New Year with the Stange's (Don, Donna, Kyle and Cory), the Leach family (Raymond, Angel, Alexander, Katherine and Madeline), Mark and Anne and Michelle's sister Dawn, nephew Scott and her boyfriend Reuben (our Pastor).  We had a great time socializing, playing games and the kids ran wild for hours.

We started the New Year by going to church and then most of us went to eat at Wendy's.  Weather started out today at 45 degrees, however it quickly changed as the wind picked up, with rain and then changed to snow.  It was actually feeling like winter.  If you can believe the weatherman that will change in a couple of days.  Just has not been much of a winter yet.  Tomorrow we will be off work and may go to mom and dads.

Dad is scheduled to have a procedure later this week.  He has a Dr appointment on Tuesday to see if he will get cardiac clearance for the procedure.  We are all worried, just not sure he is strong enough.

With the New Year are a lot of things ahead of us.  Trying to decide on what races to do...maybe race with JJ on the tandem at Barry-Roubaix?   It would be a lot of fun if we can work it into our budget and schedule.  Currently working on the tandem to upgrade it to a nine speed.  Maybe get that finished tomorrow also.  After that I am not sure of anything other than Iceman, we need to register on March 1st.  We will do the Slush Cup again.  I will ride the tandem with Brendan and JJ will ride in his age class.  Looking to see what races are on Saturdays so we don't have to miss church.

That is all for now.  Wishing all of you a blessed and Happy New Year!

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