May your New Year be Filled with JOY

For nearly 20 years I have given out Christmas cards with our family's picture on it.  We usually take it at Thanksgiving.  Andrea had to work so she didn't come home for Thanksgiving.  I wasn't interested in giving out cards with one child missing.

I decided to do something different and send out Happy New Year Cards with a picture from Christmas when they were all home.

And home they were, our house was filled with lots and lots of noise and people.
This last year was a year of changes, but 2013 looks to be even more eventful.

Briana starts her last semester of college.  She will graduate from Liberty with a Business/Marketing degree.  Now comes the hard part, getting a real job.  She may finally move completely out, which will be a little strange.  Briana has always been very attached to home and family.  Pray for her as she seeks the Lord's will in the next stage of life.

Andrea is a Junior at Liberty.  She is studying Health Promotions/Nutrition.  She stays busy with school and working at J Crew.  She is our social child and brings many new people into our lives.  We visited her for her 21st birthday and met her friends at her birthday party.  She has certainly enriched her life with many great friends

Joanna graduated HS this year.  She also finished her AA at the community college.  She is joining the United States Air Force.  She swears in on Thursday.  She will be in a civil engineering unit.  It is what they call a Red Horse unit.  She will travel and build things.  That is a little simplistic.  She will be reserve and plans to attend Liberty when she is not deployed.  We are very excited for her.

Krista is a junior in HS.  She has worked hard at tennis this summer in hopes of moving to the next level.  This should be a great year for her as last year was not too bad.  There should be a trip to the state tournament in the very near future.

Not much has changed for Jimmy and I, except for the fact that we are getting (and feeling) much older.  Jimmy is still working and working and working for Sysco, we are grateful that he is healthy enough to work as hard as he does.  He is thankful for the ice pack, it seems he is icing different joints and muscles each week.  I am still running, Jan 1 completes my 5th year.  I have good days and bad days, but glad I can still hit the streets.

For those of you who have been friends forever, here are some pics of the extended family.  Mom (Esther) retired this year.  Dad (Jim) was supposed to but Winn Dixie or whatever it is called now had other plans and keep extending his time there.  Both are doing well.

Parents, sisters and husbands.  Margaret was not here this day

Most of the cousins...  All grown up

May Your New Year be Filled with Joy

From the Tyson Family