December 17, 2016
Rancho California RV Resort
Aguanga, CA

It's been a while since my last post so I thought I would do an update to let everyone know what we've been up to...and so I don't forget how to do posts :>)

Our first trip around Temecula was to the Leoness Winery. Temecula is famous for their vineyards, and there are several.

Even the grandkids had a good time... after wine tasting we had a really nice meal at the on-site restaurant.

On November 7th, Jen surprised Marilyn with tickets to the filming of the Dr. Phil show. So they made the drive to LA and visited Hollywood and sat in the audience for the taping of two shows....Marilyn was thrilled....

On November 17th we flew to Denver to spend Thanksgiving with Julie and her family. Upon arriving we were greeted with strange white stuff falling from the skies.... it brought back memories of many years ago.

Anyway the snow looked great on Julie's new backyard water feature.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and spent some quality time with the Colorado kids and grandkids.

After Thanksgiving, Steven treated us with tickets to two Colorado College hockey games.

This one was against Air Force....

And this was against Wisconsin....

As the Strength and Conditioning Coach, Steven oversees the warm ups before each game... Here is Coach Woody...

We had a great time and really enjoyed the games...... Thanks Steven

We flew back to California the beginning of December and Marilyn quickly decorated for Xmas.

On December 3rd, we went to Sydney's Winter Piano recital.

Sydney has been taking lessons for several years now and it has been fun watching her improvement over time....she is really very accomplished.

And most recently I attended Evan's final soccer tournament in Coronado with Marc while Jen and Marilyn drove to Ontario, CA for Sydney's Cheer competition.

Notice the Coronado Bridge in the background....

Love those dippin dots after a game.....

Sydney's Cheer completion went very well and she had a couple of very good performances...

And finally, I attended Evan testing for his next stripe in Karate...

He earned his final Junior brown belt stripe... next up will be for the junior black belt.

So you can see we have been pretty busy doing a lot of really fun, family stuff. We are now on final countdown to Xmas and have several things scheduled such as the San Diego Harbor lights on Sunday, a trip to Julian, CA for their famous pies, baking Xmas cookies... and of course Xmas and New Years.

Marilyn and I both want to wish everyone a very safe and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.