Happy 2013!

We started Dec. with an emergency call from Larry’s mother so we headed to Prescott. She had a blood clot in her arm and was in ICU for a day until the blood clot dissipated. She was moved to a regular room until she was strong enough to walk and on Sat they let her come home. She had agreed to go to care facility for week or so until she was stronger but when the time came to go she refused to sign the papers so we ended up taking her home instead and the county has been checking in on her since she refused to abide by the doctor’s recommendation. It is a situation we are not happy about but when older folks get so stubborn and won’t listen to any kind of reason, you just have to let it go.

I did all my Christmas shopping on line and it was so easy. I for one, dislike shopping of any kind so on line is the least painful.

The weather turned cold so Larry did not spend much time in the trailer working although he has several projects he wants to do. He does not like the cold and I am not overly fond of cold weather either. It is hard to get motivated to go walking each day when the highs are only in the 50’s.

We had our family Christmas get together in the clubhouse where we are staying. Everyone was able to come which we are very grateful for. We had a White Elephant gift exchange and had a lot of laughs over some of the gifts.

Waiting for others to arrive

Enjoying our meal

Ceret opening a gift she doesn't like

Us on Christmas Day


I found some puzzles for the holidays on line and printed them out for anyone/everyone to work on to help pass the time while we were waiting for everyone to arrive. We did have a very nice day. We also were able to get a good “family” picture with one addition, Alex’s girlfriend, Karen.

Back row: Colby, Vince, Alex, Todd, Adam, Shane, Larry
Front row: Bethany, Dawn, Karen, LaTia, Ceret, Ellen

We ended the month with another mystery shop at a pizza place just half a mile down the road. It was very convenient and we enjoyed the pizza. It is nice getting paid to eat out!