HAPPY HOLIDAYS

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday. Now with Christmas approaching, faster than I am ready for, I just wanted to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. For Thanksgiving this year we kept it small at my mom's house with her and her parents, myself, my husband, my brother, and his youngest daughter. The weekend that following however we followed my brother to the mountains! A small get away that was EXTREMELY needed! I left my husband in charge of my dogs, since he hates camping and cant camp now that he is on oxygen. My dad, my mom, my brother, my youngest neice, and myself out in the mountains where my grandpa Heeding used to take my dad and my dad always took us. It felt like going home as we pulled up into wide canyon outside of Holden. I have not been camping since meeting a "city boy", so its been 12 years since my last camping trip. A weekend of mountains, fall colors, camp fires, ATV's, fresh air, and tons of deer all over the place. I am burried in project, but I do this every year to myself. If they all get done great, if not oh well. I am not going to stress out over them. This time if year is hard because this is when we lost my grandpa. I still regret that they would not let me see him before he died. I had a cold and they told me to stay away so that I wouldnt get him sicker. I offered to wear a face mask, but still they said to stay away. He gave them a run for their money though. Getting up from his hospital bed and wondering the halls with is hospital gown flapping in the breeze. Landon and Ryan showed up and the nurse told them to get him back in bed. I miss him a lot. After he died Landon and Ryan and I think Brande went and decorated grandma's house for Christmas. She took it all down and said she didn't feel like having Christmas that year. Now she can have Christmas with grandpa and her siblings and uncle Bill. I hope you all have a great holiday season. Talk to ya next year!