Jammie day

I really like New Year's Eve day.

There is absolutely nothing that

needs to be done.

I have 3 days off,

so fully intended to do 

nothing today..

which I did!

This morning for some reason,

the birds were in the bushes

out back of Harvey

 (Harvey the RV..cute, huh?).

I took my camera out, 

and perched myself on the recliners

and watched out the window.

I got a picture of a

woodpecker..

According to my new book

Stokes Field Guide to the Birds 

of North America..

this one is a Hairy Woodpecker.

There were some cardinals too, 

but they are hard to get..

they don't sit still!

I did get a Jay..

He was pretty too!

The rest of the day was
spent reading..
both magazines, and
things on my Kindle.

Tonight will be spent
having a few munchies,
cocktails,
and hopefully watching the
ball drop at midnight.

We'll see ;-)

This and that..

Been a quiet week after 

Christmas..

I've spent time reading

out of my new Kindle Fire..

George is always looking

at the RV parts catalog :-)

 

We saw an ad in Trailer Life

for products from 

E Foods Direct

We decided to order

the sample kit (free with shipping paid!)

So tonight we tried the first

packet..Tortilla Soup..

 Just boil 4 1/2 cups of water, and

whisk the packet in..

 and enjoy!

 It doesn't look too bad, does it?

 It was surprisingly pretty good..

Our fur-kid Oreo slept 

peacefully..(that's all he (she?) does!)..

Oh! Our friends Alex & Nicki

bought us a gnome

to guide our travels.

I had been looking for one

such as the Travelocity gnome..

but this one is even better..

he's an Eagle's fan :-)

Hope our travels next year

are better than

the Eagles had this year!

Christmas 2011

We hope everyone had a

blessed Christmas this year!

Ours was quiet.

Since Friday I was off

from work,

George set up the Wii

for us (or me!) to play.

I played one of my favorite games,

Wario's smooth moves..

Gotta love all those Mario games :)

Later in the evening, Heather

came over to spend some time with us.

We exchanged gifts,

she got us an Olive Garden

gift card, George a Dunkin D

gift card, and me gift certificate

to my favorite nail place!

I made us some appetizers,

and George was the best bartender :)

Saturday, Christmas eve,

I got up and baked some cookies.

Now, these are the pre-made dough..

I don't have a mixer in the RV.

They work just fine!

Christmas eve evening, George

and I went out for our traditional

chinese food..

then off to my church

for Christmas eve services.

Singing Silent Night by

candlelight always moves me.

Christmas morning was quiet as well.

Since I sing in my church's choir when I

get the chance,

we headed off for early services.

On the way home,

we stopped off at

George's son Chris's house, 

to see the granddaughters,

Jaelyn, and Jillian.

Poppy George helped

put together the presents..

Once we got home,

we had those cookies to ice!

At last..oh yeah,

there are presents to open!

George got a nifty wrench,

 I got a bird book I've been wanting..

and what every RVr needs..

a cute lil fur-kid..

well, not 'real'..but almost!

 

Just getting to the last gift to open..

my Mom and Dad called to wish us 

Merry Christmas..

and I was opening the best gift!

A Kindle Fire!

Learning how to operate it..

It was a great Christmas,

and now we have more things

for the road.

Including a cute lil not so real

fur kid :-)

Nuttin..

I didn't blog last weekend,

as not much was going on.

We had a nice 'jammie' weekend..

not really getting out of our jammies :-)

We started out on Saturday

having gingerbread pancakes.

We did do some grocery shopping,

(not in our jammies, but would have)..

and bought some munchies to have

during the Christmas weekend.

George also shored up the
styrofoam barricades that were
up around the RV.

I pruned the two rose
bushes that survived the flood..

I have 4 days off for the holiday.

Our friends are coming over 

tomorrow night,

for our first entertaining 'event' 

in the RV.

Only 3 more days until
Christmas!

Bowling with friends

This has been a busy weekend!

Yesterday was the task of 

cleaning 'RV'..

you know, the vacuuming, 

dusting, cleaning the kitchen & bathroom..

takes all of 20 minutes, TOPS.

Love it!

Then it was off for groceries,

a pedicure for me..

and some relaxing time.

We had a date with our

good friends,

Alex & Nicki to

go out to eat.

We ended up at

TGIF's for appetizers

and a few drinks.

The night was still young, 

so we decided to go 

bowling!

George and I haven't

bowled since one

of our first dates..

so we were up for

the challenge.

George and Alex

had fun making

fun of our form..

Laurie

 

George

 

We bowled 3 games,

and had a great time,

especially this game:

since I beat George!

Most of these pictures were

taken either on my cell phone,

or Nicki's..I never

think to take my good camera

for these outings.

We had a great time,

and left with smiles

on our faces..

Today was spent 

at church, then I 

went Christmas caroling

with the church choir,

to sing to the 

shut-ins at the nursing homes.

That is always very rewarding,

to see the smiles on their faces,

when they remember some of

the old carols.

We're looking forward

to some more activities

as the weeks close in

on Christmas!

A little snow...

It  poured buckets all day Wednesday,

then changed to snow.

It's the second snow of the 

season...the first one was

the day we were supposed to come

back from the wedding..so we missed it :-)

We only got 2",

so we can deal with that for now.

It melted as it was sunny and 40 degrees yesterday.
Weekend is slated to be sunny & 45..that's nice!

Now, for those of you that

asked to see the baby pictures...

Laurie 18 months old

George 6 months

Cutie pies!

Christmas fun!

Our church,

St. John's Lutheran

has an annual Christmas dinner.

We usually have it at

a restaurant, that has 

wonderful food.

This year was no different.

The committee that organized it,

had everyone that wanted to

turn in a baby picture, 

and then we had to match it

to the adult that was attending.

A lot of wrong guesses on mine,
but George's was picked out
right away!


We played some games,
one involving reindeer antlers
;-)

I think George should have
worn the antlers!!

They also talked me into
getting up and singing
with two others,
the Christmas song,
a la Alvin & the chipmunks..

That was hilarious!

We had a great time, with
good food, and good friends!