2011 Highlighted

As 2011 winds down with only a mere 30 minutes left, I think back on the kind of year my family and I had. Here are a few highlights.

In January we all participated in a 21 day fast at the request of our pastor and that opened the door for us to hear great things at our church’s Holy Spirit conference in February. 

The Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl and that made my wife and me very happy and we are hoping for a repeat in 2012.

I got terribly sick with the flu in February which I seldom get the flu but it was so bad, I can’t forget about how awful I felt.

In the spring, my son Isaac played on a soccer team for the first time and he loved it. Our daughter Anika joined the local swim team and she was way better at swimming than I thought she could be. 

In June we took our first family vacation in four years and went to Yellowstone National Park.  It was the first time Myleen and the kids had been to Montana and Wyoming and it had been 47 years since I was last at YNP. 

We spent most of the summer shopping around for a new house, visited some great friends in Seattle on Myleen’s business trip.

The kids and I got to golf, A LOT during the summer.  I think I got in 13 rounds of golf. That is great considering I averaged 1 and a half rounds of golf the previous 11 years. 

In October we made an offer on a 3300 square foot house and moved in on November 22nd. 

Also in October Anika started piano lessons and she is doing very well with it.

Myleen has been battling different ailments this past year and the Lord has brought her through each of them. 

As I look back on this past year, I’ve  been blessed by my growing kids and how well they’ve been doing in school. I’ve enjoyed working with the little people (ages 3-5) at our church, Valley Christian Center, and now that we’ve bought a home, I’ve enjoyed setting up our nest and looking forward to spring when we can sit out on our gigantor deck. 

As we move to a new year, I look forward to seeing what God has in store for us as a family and being able to be used by God in whatever capacity he has for my family and myself. 

I pray God’s best for all of you and May you have a very Happy and Blessed New Year.

Jeff Foxworthy and Idahoans

I was born in Idaho, and recently moved back to Idaho, therefore I am Idahoan. FORGET REDNECKS; THIS IS WHAT JEFF FOXWORTHY HAD TO SAY ABOUT IDAHOANS!(via my niece Camille) 1. If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don’t work there, you live in Idaho 2. If you’ve worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Idaho 3. If you’ve had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who diale…d the wrong number, you live in Idaho 4. If ‘vacation’ means going anywhere s………outh of Salt Lake City for the weekend, you live in Idaho 5. If you measure distance in hours, you live in Idaho 6. If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Idaho 7. If you have switched from ‘heat’ to ‘A/C’ and back again in the same day, you live in Idaho 8. If you install security lights on your house and garage but leave both unlocked, you live in Idaho 9. If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Idaho 10. If you design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in Idaho 11. If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph –you’re going 80, and everyone is still passing you, you live in Idaho 12. If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in Idaho 13. If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction, you live in Idaho 14. If you find 10 degrees ‘a little chilly’ you live in Idaho 15. If you actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your IDAHO friends, you live in Idaho. (Original source unknown).