Happy Holidays.........

Un-traditional lifestyle......un-traditional holiday celebration!

As much as we would have loved to fly home and take part in the craziness that is the holidays, it just wasn't in the cards for us. As I'm writing this, the news is on and profiling someone that has taken 3 days to fly back to Phoenix from the east due to the wild and deadly weather across the nation. Yikes! Of course, that is the worst case scenario....you know how the media is! Anyway, since we were just back east only 2 months ago, we made the decision to fly back east at a slower time of year, to hopefully have an easier commute AND to have a quality visit to hold us over for a few months.

Luckily we had the phone, and face-time to help us celebrate with our family (so we wouldn't feel too sorry for ourselves), and it was GREAT to see everyone so happy and healthy. In the meantime, Tom and I had each other and we had a fun holiday, though a little different than what we are used to. It was nice! Simple!

Christmas Eve breakfast

not too healthy....but certainly tasty

not easy making a traditional dinner in the RV kitchen....hahahah

lots of prep work for our Christmas Eve dinner later

not what we usually do on Christmas Eve.....but it was very nice and peaceful

looking forward to facetiming the family!!!!

carving the turkey...its hard to have two safely in the kitchen at once .....especially when one is wielding a carving knife! 

our own little celebration on Christmas Eve....just us (and a ton of food)

Cheers-we had a great face-time with the kids!!! (though the internet is not the best here)...and by the way, that's a diet coke!

some cherished items sent all the way from Virginia....coffee cups and water bottle (or beer?) holders....featuring our favorite little guy!

Most of our "celebrating" was on Christmas Eve, so Christmas Day was spent totally relaxing (and a little more face-timing). The weather was cold, but clear and sunny, so we took advantage of this huge and relatively "empty" campground and enjoyed the pool pretty much to ourselves. Christmas music was playing on the sound system at the pool and it was just really nice just reading and swimming. I realize I truly enjoy some of the same things I did when I was 10....swimming, bike riding and reading. Some things never change! As for Tom....he enjoys a good book now and then too. Hahahha.....I think he reads one a day!

We had no where to be and nothing to do, so we totally relaxed the entire day...and had a delicious (leftover) turkey dinner. Yes, untraditional.....simple....nice!

Christmas morning ..... cool but sunny

who's that crazy girl swimming in this cool weather??    (ahem..the pool is heated)

a Christmas visitor to our hummingbird feeder

is it really Christmas?

going on a bike ride through the neighborhood

there are miles of roads here in this RV resort

good biking!

Merry Christmas!

We had every intention of hiking in the nearby state park, but the weather did not co-operate. It was pretty windy for a few days...and we postponed our hiking until the winds slowed down to a nice breeze. Not a fan of sand and dust in our faces! Stay tuned for the hiking experience!