Happy New Year! It's 2008! Where did 2007 go? We spent out New Year's Eve celebrating with wonderful friends at Eric and Denise's house. Jennie, Chris, Ty and Jess were there, along with lots of other folks. We had great appetizers and counted down to the new year together, watching the ball drop over Times Square and shared a toast to welcome in the new year. We stayed there till about 1:00am and then had to come home to the many pups that we currently have staying at our house. Dog count: 1. Zoe 2. Napoleon 3. Lola 4. Kota. Napoleon and Lola belong to Britani and Adam, who are in Jamaica for a week (lucky!). Kota belongs to Christie, a girl that Bryan's brother Derek is dating, they are here visiting from the US Virgin Islands. Kota went home today, so we are down to three dogs. It's been surprisingly quiet. The dogs are getting along well. I spent this morning watching the Rose Parade on HGTV and I love when the floats are from cities that I used to live in like Alhambra and Arcadia. When I was a kid, we went to watch the Rose Parade, so I always try to catch it on TV on New Year's Day when I have the chance.

 

Okay, so the last time that I posted was before we had even left to Malaysia. We spent two weeks there and had a great time, eating good food, meeting up with my old high school friends, YC, Swany and Gwen. We had the chance to meet Luis, Swany's baby boy and he is absolutely adorable. We were in Kuala Lumpur and Penang and met up with a lot of my extended family. It was hard coming back to a whole lot of snow and cold weather! Especially since we got sick after we got back and had to go straight back to work. I love my job training, but training sucks when you have to be sick and perform in front of a class full of people. All I wanted to do was crawl into bed.

 

For Christmas, we drove up to Bemidji for a long weekend and stayed at Derek's house. We celebrated with different families each night, first Gary, Kay and family and then with just Linda, Derek and Adam and then over at Bunny's house with the Hanson side of the family. It was great to get time off work, relax and just do nothing. I got some cool Christmas presents, the Scene It movie game, a waffle maker, All-Clad Emeril cookware and other fun things. The weather has been cold the past few days, but it's supposed to get nicer, up to the upper 30s and even some rain. That's really weird for January!