Starting off the new year's family dinners

We started the new year's family dinners off  at our house.  We had a great turn out just missing Derek, Moss and Christie and family, and Beacher.  We also celebrated the first of our many January birthdays with Eden! She's now in double digests at #10! Grandpa and Grandma Sheffield joined us for the cake, candles and present part of the evening.  Happy birthday Eden!  We love you! We love you all and look forward to more great family get togethers in 2017! We added a new thing to the evening that I hope we can continue.  After it was pretty much all said and done and the kids were playing we gathered the adults around the table and had a little family report/council time where everyone kind of reported on what their family was doing and had a chance to bring up anything they wanted to share with the family as a group.  We  talked some about the plans for Family Camp along with the other stuff this time.  It was nice.  Let's do it next time!