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Hey Everyone! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Please email me pictures of what your Christmas has been like and what’s happening this New Years – I’d love to see them. Okay, here’s the clan on Christmas morning before they barge through the barricade and into the presents! From left to right: Lilly (3) Marcus (4, who is Emily’s sister’s son), Baby Hudson on the chair (1), Gracie (5), Anya (19) Gideon (7), and Hayden (10). Whew! That’s a lot of kids!
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\nWe are off to Breckenridge in the morning for 6 days of R&R. I’ll post from there when I can. I hope you all have an incredible New Year!<\/p>\n

One of the best things I’ve ever done this time of year is an exercise I do with Leadership Executives called New Year, New Results. You can print it here: Download new_year_new_results3.doc<\/a>. I have all of the World Racer’s<\/a> going through it right now. They leave on January 2nd for 319 days to be in 12 countries planting churches and doing orphan ministry!<\/p>\n

Eat lots of black-eyed peas and cabbage on New Years Day! And keep me posted on the Bowl Games since we won’t have cable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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