Happy New Year!

Hannah had her first slumber party away from us to ring in the new year. Jason met his parents half-way in Ionia on New Years Eve day and dropped Hannah off with his parents. They have been having a great time with her, and we've been enjoying some couple time.

After I got home from work and Jason returned from Ionia, I made a nice prime rib dinner for the two of us. We got out the China, candles, and all. It was so good. We had great conversation and really felt like we had a nice date night.



Around 10:00, we bundled up and headed downtown to check out GR's first New Years Eve on the Grand (neither of us could remember the last time that we actually headed OUT at 10:00 at night!). We had intentions of trying to get into one of the downtown establishments, but we didn't feel like waiting in line. Instead, we checked out the activity in Rosa Park Circle.



This is where the ball was when we got there...



...and this was how we watched it drop...



We decided it was too cold to hang out around town, so we came home and watched the ball drop from the warmth of our family room :-)


Happy new year! We wish you may blessings in 2009.