Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year everyone!! I honestly can't believe it's 2011. 2010 came and went so fast. It seems like time just keeps speeding up. Every New Years Day my family makes homemade ice cream. Our two favorite flavors are Peppermint and Orange Sherbet. 

I don't care who you are, that is a great tradition.

It reminds me of when I was young. Every Sunday during the summer we would make ice cream with our neighbors, the Madsens. We'd invite another family from the neighborhood or ward to come too, and we'd sit outside and the parents would chat and the kids would run around and play. It was the BEST. I think back on those days with such fondness. 

Okay I just read back over that and I sound like an eighty year old. 

Nevertheless, I miss those days sometimes.

I've been thinking about this past year today. 2010 treated me wrong in so many ways, but I can't even dwell on the bad things that happened. Because despite the bad, it was filled with much more good. Sometimes I tend to let the bad drown out the good and I forget how blessed I am. One of my goals this year is to be unfailingly grateful. Grateful people are happy people, and everyone likes being around happy people. 

So, let the good times roll folks! 

Happy New Year!! 

I hope 2011 treats everybody right.

I, for one, am spending my first day of the new year going roller skating at Deleta. 

Totally pumped. 

Oh and PS... Hawaii pictures on the way.