Arizona

 Kaden, Sadie, Ryan and I went to Arizona for a few days over Christmas break.  The weather was perfect and we had a great time.  Golf was on the schedule every day, but now that I'm a golfer, I enjoyed that.  Between the three of us, we switched off after 9 holes, usually with Ryan playing 18 and Cheryl and I switching to hang out with kids.  I played surprisingly well considering I hadn't been playing for months.  Which is good because the course is very busy and they send us out with two other people.  So it would've been embarrassing if I was hitting it out of bounds all the time (only a few times).  By the 4th day of golfing, my forearms were SORE though.  I'm not conditioned for that.  I barely made it.

This is how they decorate for Christmas in the dessert, lol.

My favorite part of going south in the winter is running.  Although I have never been super impressed with the scenery in Arizona (it's all brown and dry and dead and sharp) I found a lot of beauty this time.

And of course we hung out with the kids.  We took them swimming, in the afternoon and at night.  We played Pickleball, which everyone loved (Grandma has bursitis in her knee so she has a hard time playing).  We went to the movies to see Wonka.  We went out for ice cream. 

The only unfortunate thing is that I ended up getting sick.  I rarely get sick!  We went to dinner and were heading into the movie.  I had felt bad for awhile but at that point it was clear that I was coming down with a fever probably.  My throat had been sore but other than that I was fine.  Now I had a bad headached and getting body aches.  I was trying to play it off like it wasn't a big deal because I didn't want Cheryl worried about getting sick.  I wasn't coughing, sneezing, snotting, etc to spread germs so I just tried to stay a few feet away from Cheryl.  Ryan and I walked over to Target to purchase Tylenol because we had time before the movie, and I didn't think I was going to make it.  But as soon as I took the Tylenol I was much more functional.  I slept in and didn't run that next morning, but I still got up and went golfing.  No big deal.

Kylee and Dylan enjoyed having the house to themselves for a few days!