Christmas is over and now the New Year! 2010 Here we Come!!

12-29-09 - Ione's birthday is just about over. We had a very good day, went to Pizza, took in two basketball games. The Lynden Boys & Girls team have a Christmas tournament at Lynden Christian. The girls played and beat Bellevue Christian School and then the Boys team beat Seattle Christian. Both teams won by more then 20 points. So that was fun to watch since it was the first games of the season we had watched. But Jessie our grandaughter has a broken pinky finger on her left hand and isn't playing. Hopefully we will maybe see her play one or two games before we have to leave.

Then we had to go to Brett & Pam's house, for birthday cake, ice-cream and Ione opened some presents. It was low key but I think she enjoyed the gifts.

We have been home since the 19th of December. Have had three Christmas parties and now it is time to kick back. We will be leaving for AZ on the 10th of January. The weather has been really cold the last few weeks. At least it hasn't been raining like it did for the first week we were home. But the rain is coming and will be with us the rest of the week.

We can't wait to hit the road and travel down the coast on Hwy 101 this year. We haven't done that road for many years so should be fun if the weather is going to work. Will be driving the Geo Tracker down which is new to us but is a 2002. We traded in our purple 1989 Suzuki Sidekick which had 240,000 miles and we had owned it since 1991. This new car has more bells and whistles. Now we have A/C, power brakes and power steering. So things are looking up and should be a better car to also tow behind the Motor Home. That's it for now.

Lynden Girls Basketball!!

Just an update on girls basketball at Lynden. The girls are off to a good start and have won all their games, so are now 3-0. Jessie hasn't been starting but is the first girl off the bench. She has been playing some good defense and her offense needs to be stepped up a notch. So far she has only made about three points so will have to practice on putting the ball into the hoop.

Well we are home for Christmas should be able to see about four games which will be lots of fun. So are looking forward to the games well we are home.

Will I ever catch up!!

12-14-09 - Time is marching on and we are scheduled to fly back to Lynden on the 18th at 8:40 PM from the Mesa Airport. Don't know where the time goes and aren't looking forward to going home to snow. As I write this just received a email from a friend that lives in Lynden. Well the ground is white and I think they have about two inches of snow. So things are really looking like Christmas up there.

We will be spending time with family and friends for Christmas and then into New Years! Then will be driving back down the coast by car about the 10th of Jan. as we have another car that we left home earlier when driving down and towed the Dune Buggy. So the coast should be a nice chance for us as we haven't done the coast route for years.

Our weather is finially warming up here in Happy Trails which is really great as our weather for the last three weeks has been below normal by about 10-15 degrees. The rest of our week is really busy with a fun pickleball tournament on thursday the 17th. Also have a pickleball meeting on the 16th with a potluck so that should be good.

We will be enjoying our last days here at Happy Trails before hitting the road to the snow country. But I'm a kid at heart and really do like a little snow at Christmas to get you into the mode.