Good bye 2005

Its so incredibly hard for me to believe that 2005 is about done. Its been a whirlwind of a year, with ups and downs, experiences I will never forget, things I already can't remember and memories to last a lifetime.

This past week has been awesome and busy, tiring and energize. I got to St. Louis on Christmas day at about 3 PM. My family greeted me at the airport and we came straight home. We like to open gifts one at a time here and see what the other person got. With 6 of us here and not starting til close to 4 we had extended family members arriving to our house before we were done, we had to do away with the Scheer way of things and dive in a little faster. It was great to see the extended fam. I went over to the Borgmann's house later that night. It was great to see all of them as well. My Godchildren keep growing and I can't believe that the kids are as old as they are. Jessie, my Goddaughter, is 9 years old. She is very into fashion and wearing matching earrings with all of her outfits. She got a pug for Christmas and his name is Jelly Bean. Luke is a year and a half now! He warmed up to me pretty quickly. I hate that I am not in his life as much as I would love to be. He is very into trains right now so that was fun to watch him climb all over his train table and play with his new trains.

I went to the Blues game this week. They are really bad this year but I went with my friend Katie and we never get to see each other! We had so much fun! Tuesday the fam went to AB (aka the Brewery)... you can't pass up free beer right? We went to Gus' Pretzel's afterwards and to Crown Candy to eat lunch. For those of you who don't live in St. Louis those places prob mean nothing to you, but they are fantastic places! We also had a girl named Yoshiko with us this whole past week. She is an intern at my home church from Japan. We did a lot of dance dance revolution. I am getting real good... so watch out Katy B....I am taking you down!

Tuesday Rachel and I went to the LYF alumni reunion! Holy cow. I didn't realize how much I missed the MO district until I went to that. I saw soo many incredible friends. The memories are endless. I will put pictures on here of me then and stuff... there was a slideshow that almost made me cry remembering all of our memories. Sigh. We had the Scheer/DiMercurio/Ehrhard Christmas Wednesday the Toettcher/Wilson one on Thursday. Brandon and Carole and I took Yoshiko to the arch and to Union Station Yesterday.

I finally got to see Kendra today! We had a good ole reunion with Chinese food which is also appropriate for us. Tonight my family and I went to the Ameristar Casino and then to Applebee's for appetizers and a Bud! I also went to the funeral home. A classmate of my brothers, someone I remember playing in their treehouse with and helping out with his baby brother, died on Tuesday. He was 26 and had some sort of cancer. Please keep the Hellman Family and David's fiance' in your prayers as they go through this tough time.

Well its almost 3 am here and this is a looooong entry. I will write more of my favorites of 2005 later on. God Bless you all! Happy New Year to you... May you ring in the new year knowing that Jesus Christ brings us new beginnings each and every day!