Happy New Year to you!

It's the start of a New Year so we all begin thinking about making resolutions.
A resolution usually means that we want to resolve to improve or better ourselves and that's always good, especially in the spiritual areas of our lives.

Here are a few of my resolutions that I want to work on this year...

A better prayer life....
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray,
and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice." Psalm 55:17

Counting my blessings....
"Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits,
even the God of our salvation. Selah." Psalm 68:19

Spending more time in God's Word..

"More to be desired are they (God's Word) than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Living the Christian life is just one day at a time - day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment.....and that will all add up to doing our best for Him during this New Year.

Saying Good-bye is so hard to do!!!

We awoke to 5" of beautiful snow the morning Ben, Rebekah and Brock were leaving....


Playing with Nanny's toys one more time!

In the car...ready to go!

Nanny...what is this COLD white stuff?????

Brock's first experience with snow!
He has a U of M snowsuit and boots....

Fun in the church toy room.....

More fun pictures from Christmas Day

Christmas at the Lanning's Home

Brock got a "rhythm" set from Nanny and Papa...lots of musical "noise" to come!

God's Helping Hands

Last night in AWANA we had the group

"God's Helping Hands" that shares through puppets. What a wonderful night that was!

See the pictures of our night on our website..

www.rollinschurch.org and click on "photo's"....there were about 220 AWANA kids.

80 Years Young!

Happy Birthday to my Mother, Ruth Lehmann on her 80th birthday! We celebrated in July with all the family - but her actual birthday is December 19th! Celebration included a lunch out with her friends at my Aunt's home, and then to the Cleveland Symphone tonight with her brother and sister-in-law. Happy Birthday...and many more! We all love you!

A little R & R

Last night we decided to take a much needed R & R and drove to Prudenville to a great Lodge. There was only one other couple there for the night, so we practically had the place to ourselves. It was a rustic lodge, but very comfortable and cozy. Just what we needed!

Wonderful Friends, YUMMY food, and beautifully decorated home

Last night we were at Don and Brenda's for our annual Christmas dinner with Dave, Barb and Audrey. What a great night we had! The food - a stuffed pork roast with all the trimmings was soooo delicious! It sure is fun to get together with friends during this time of year!

Lunchtime Buddies

What a fun lunch we 4 gals had at Applebee's in Big Rapids. Sharon came from Kentwood, Deb from Cedar Springs, and Beckie and I drove from Manton. What a great time we had together. We try to do this 3-4 times a year - celebrating birthdays! Deb's birthday is on Christmas Day, so we did a lot of celebrating with gifts and fellowship. We've had this great friendship for MANY years, and we are so thankful that we are all in the same state of Michigan again and can get together! Love you three!

Small Group Christmas Party

One of our small groups ......

Here are our "white elephant" gifts we received!

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