New Year’s RV Resolutions

New Year’s RV Resolutions

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Christmas Eve 2009

It's Christmas Eve and we had a fantastic day.  First, Dennis and I sold our Joyner this morning.  A couple from Missouri who winter in Quartzsite came to look at it and bought it.  After an hour at Bank of America (THE WORST BANK EVER!!) we finally got our money and they got their title.  The poor saps had to open a checking account because apparently you can't get a BofA cashier's check with your BofA credit card unless you have a BofA checking account.  Give me a break!  What should have been a simple transaction and notarization became an hour-long chore.  The good news is everything went through and we no longer own the Joyner.

I worked until 4 and Dennis picked George up at the airport at 2:30.  We met up at home and got ready to go to Ray & Mary's for our 5th annual Christmas Eve dinner.  Ray's mom, sister and nephew were in from New York.  We took our dogs for a play date with DD and GG.  A good time was had by all.  We had some great wine, a FANTASTIC dinner and a nice dessert (Derby Pie).  I love Christmas Even with them!  We are now watching District 9.  Not very Christmas-y but interesting nonetheless.  Our dogs are SOOOO exhausted now!! 

Tomorrow we are cooking a turkey.  It's soaking in kosher salt right now in the kitchen sink in ice water.  It's going in the oven at 9am for a 1pm dinner.  We are also making mashed potatoes (real), candied yams, stuffing, broccoli/cauliflower casserole, Derby pie and Pumpkin pie.  And don't forget the cranberry sauce and Grands biscuits.  Yum. Lyn and Dan are coming over to have dinner with us.  It will be fun!

Saturday morning it's off to Verde Valley in the motor home.  We are spending Saturday and Sunday nights there, then driving the car home Monday.  Dennis and I are heading back up Thursday after taking George to the airport and getting home from work.  We'll be ringing in the new year with our friends Bill & Dave in Verde Valley. 

We hope everyone has a great Christmas holiday and day off from work.  Whatever it means to you, I hope that it's all that you hope it to be.  Happy New Year, and raise a toast to 2010 being better than 2009!  Take care everyone!!

December update

It's Sunday following a fantastic weekend. We are in Toledo visiting and Friday, George had his annual holiday party. It was a great time, despite the bitter cold! Saturday morning, Dennis and I headed to Williams County to go to my parents' house. We had lunch, took pictures and then had our Christmas celebration. At 4, it was off to mass to celebrate mom and dad's 40th Wedding Anniversary. It was a nice mass. Afterwards, we went back to the house and a big spread was waiting for us. Aunt Shirley is the BEST!  We had a terrific prime rib with baked potatoes, green bean casserole and biscuits. It was delicious! Aunt Shirley also made a very nice cake to celebrate the occasion. I've posted pictures in an album to the left.

Today we hung out with my family. Grandma and Pete came over and we got to visit with them. Uncle Bryce was there for a while. Aaron headed home and Aunt Marie and Uncle Jim stopped by. It was really great to see everyone. Dennis and I headed back to Toledo after dark. When we arrived, we went to dinner with George and Jerry, then came back and watched a movie. It's almost time to go to bed so we can spend the day with the Taylor girls tomorrow. We're here until Tuesday morning, then it's back to sunny Arizona. We miss our puppies most of all!

Pictures from the weekend are to the left. Enjoy!!

Picture above:  Don & Judy Muehlfeld, 40 years strong!!

Christmas Decorations 2009

Dennis and I finished putting up our exterior Christmas decorations today.  They look really great.  Dennis made a couple of videos of the lights just before dusk.  The videos turned out pretty good.  Check them out!

I also posted pictures from our trip to Roosevelt Lake in mid-November. The link is to the left. Enjoy!