Merry Christmas 2024

What a great week off of work and school we've had! It's been busy, but we've also had plenty of time to rest and recover. Ava is finally over the flu, and went back to work on Thursday and Friday of this week. Scott had just two days off this week, but found plenty to do at home during that time. And G took a course in 3D printing on Monday, and then also helped me to sort out and clean his room. We gave him a new, tall LEGO organizer for Christmas, so he's currently upstairs sorting out and categorizing all of his bricks and minifigs. The amount of STUFF that kid has is ridiculous. It's too much!

I've been busy checking out the newest club in town...a new LifeTime opened up in our city, and I hopped on the discounted rate available for residents. I have a few good friends that also joined, which makes it even more fun. I did a gentle yoga class on Friday late afternoon, followed by a session in the hot tub. I dipped my toe into the cold plunge (too cold, TOO COLD), tried out the steam room, and sauna, and enjoyed the hydro-massage chairs. On Saturday morning, I took an intro to Pilates class, and it became very apparent that I do not have a lot of upper body strength. Next week, I've signed up for a GTX (half cardio, half strength) class, a Barre class, and then back to yoga on Friday. I'm going to continue with the yoga class on Fridays as it's the perfect way to wind down after work, and relax into the weekend. I'd like to find at least one more weekly class that I can sign up for on a regular basis. I'm really excited to be trying something new, and am looking forward to getting fit and healthy!

We had a very lovely Christmas this week. My parents hosted us for Christmas Eve (Deb wasn't able to attend due to illness), and then we hung out at home on Christmas day and took it realllly easy. I don't think I even walked 5,000 steps that day. My whole goal was to read and nap once we were past the festivities...and I met that goal!

Lovely flowers from Scott

I was watching a Christmas movie, and look who's on top of the Nice List. Garrett G! G got a kick out of seeing this :)

Kicking off the Christmas Eve fun!

Ava spent much of the night working on a puzzle...

After I took this pic, G hopped up and asked to take a pic, so I could be in it. What a sweetie!

Butterball soup...so good!

I asked G to read "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" once we got home

Snuggling in with Pria on Christmas morning

Santa came!

We still have several more days before we return to work and school, and we're going to make the most of them. Welcome 2025!

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