The Idaho Pikula Family: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Saturday, January 3, 2009

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Happy New Year everyone!!!
I know I'm a couple of days late announcing the winner(s) of my Birthday drawing, but better late than never, right???
Okay, so since I had 2 entries, they will both be WINNERS!
Linda - whose birthday is December 19, and she had a SPLENDID day - all about her
and
Melanie - whose birthday is NOT in December, but HAD a baby on December 31!!! CUTE, CUTE, CUTE baby Audrey!

I will write more later, but email me to collect your loot!

love,
Heidi

1 comment:

Angela Zweifel said...: I added you to my friends and family list on my blog. Looks great!; January 3, 2009 at 2:00 PM

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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman
Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

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