A New Year

  It's a new year with new starts! New Years Eve was a blast, went to Nat's house and enjoyed spending time playing games and eating some of the best home made noodles ever! YUM! I was able to see Jennifer, an old school friend that I haven't seen, well since school! It was so nice to be able to see her even if I didn't get to spend as much time catching up with her as I would have liked to. Mandy and Jen came as well as Eric, Nat's boyfriend who I had never met before.

  We all enjoyed a great game of Spacefarers of Catan, which I had never played before but was really fun (mostly because I won) :D After that game Mandy, Jen and Jennifer had to go to other engagements. So Nat, Eric, Justin, Nat's Mom, and I played a train game...the name of which escapes me at the moment. The point of the game was to get your train line from European city to another. But it couldn't be just any two cities, you where given what cities you had to connect on little cards. I lost...really really bad! LOL it was fun just the same as Nat and Eric where being very entertaining and slightly competitive about it. After that game was over it was almost Midnight, sadly Eric had to go home before the New Year but Justin and I hung around to see the ball drop at time square. It was a very fun but quiet way to bring in the New Year and I loved it!

  In other news, Mom and Dad are going to Hawaii in February to see Greg and Rach and the new baby. I am so excited for them and can't wait to see all the pictures they take! Much less exciting (but still exciting for me) Justin and I found a great deal on all the seasons of Ranma 1/2, one of my favorite anime, and he bought it for me...just like that out of the blue! He really is one of the most giving and kind people I know. He was so excited for me, and what meant so much more to me then the DVD's was the spirit in which they where given to me. He was just so pleased he could do that for me and it was a reminder to me of how greatly blessed I am to have such a wonderfully kind man as my husband! This is also kind of cool because Justin and I are starting to learn Japaneses using the Rosetta Stone program and we plain on watching the show in Japaneses after we watch it in English to see if we can understand at least some of it. We also start school in about a week, (though we do not yet know what classes we will have.) and I am really excited and am really hoping to be able to have classes with Justin again this semester! It really makes the classes so much more fun when we get to take them together!

  As fare as prayer request updates, Justin and I have been only doing so so on our new years resolution to have a bible study together every day. We have only done it about every other day and we would love some prayer on this. It is something both of us feel is very important and really want to do better! Another prayer request would be that Genna (my best friend) and I are trying to fix some communication issues we have been having and could use every ones prayer on this as well!

  Well certainly not the most inspiring or interesting update but an update none the less. :p