New Year’s Eve has never been a wild and crazy time for me and this year was no different.  Paige and I went out for dinner and then to see a fun movie called Did You Hear About The Morgans? We did stay awake to see the new year but only by a couple of minutes.  New Year’s day, we went to Waterfall Glen to meet up with some CHUGs for a run.  It was single digit cold and as it turned out, only Tony, Ian and one of Ian’s friends (Cathy) showed up.  We had a nice 13+ mile run on packed snow trails - thanks for organizing the run Tony.

After the run, it was off to Clinton for us.  We met up with some of the family for chinese food.  After dinner, it was off to Jim and Brenda’s house for more socializing and some yummy dessert - it was fun to see everyone.  Back at the grandparents’ house, it was movie time.  Four Christmases is what we decided on, unfortunately, we didn’t get to see the end of the movie because the disk stopped playing after an hour and a half - argh!

Saturday morning was a lazy one with Jim stopping by for coffee.  We hit the road around 11:30 AM to make it back to Chicago in time for our scheduled massages, which were glorious!  After a quick stop at the grocery store, we were home for the night.  We had so much fun on Friday, that we headed back to Waterfall Glen for our run on Sunday.  When we got back to the car, we had a message from Brelly about meeting them for dinner.  After a quick call, we decided on meeting at Portillo’s, a personal favorite of mine.  They were fresh off a cruise and getting engaged, so we had a lot to catchup on - it was awesome to see them.  A huge congratulations to the happy couple, we couldn’t be more excited for you two!