Thanksgiving and Christmas With Family

We spent several weeks in Falcon, Colorado with family.  We spent Thanksgiving with our son’s in-laws and then had an early Christmas with all our kids and grandkids.  It was nice to see everyone again.  The weather was spring like and then we had snow storms.  We had lots of heat being pumped into the motorhome and stayed nice and warm.  As soon as we had a window in the weather we headed for Salt Lake City for Christmas with our son and his beautiful family.  We had to drive south out of Colorado Springs to Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Las Vegas, and then north to Salt Lake City.  The weather along I80 (Wyoming) and I70 (Vail) was snow snow snow for days and we felt it was safer to go south, even though it doubled our mileage.  That’s what’s nice about being retired, you can be very flexible in where you go.  We will spend 10 days here in Salt Lake City before heading south on 26 December.  Our plan is to spend a week in Mesa, AZ and visit our good friends (Carnes’) there.  From Mesa we’ll be heading further south to Port Aransas, TX for a couple weeks on the beach.  From Port Aransas we’ll head over to Galveston for 7 days on the beach as well.  Leaving Galveston we’ll make our way over to Orange Beach, AL. for 30 days (Feb) where we’ll hook up with our friends from Michigan (Bachelor’s).  We met the Bachelor’s in Galveston last year and made plans to meet up again this year.  Beautiful beaches all along the coast there.  From Orange Beach we’ll make a short trip down to Cedar Key, FL. for 30 days (Mar) where again we’ll meet up with the Bachelor’s.  Time for some golfing and good fishing.  We’re pretty excited to get down where it’s a little warmer.  We are enjoying our travels and every days is a new adventure.  Attached are some pictures from our travels during October – December.  Enjoy.  

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all.   Love comes your way from the drifting Dwelle’s.

Bruce with his family in Minnesota while the motorhome was being worked on. 

Bruce's brother Glenn training some new pups for pheasant hunting.
Really happy to have been there during their training.

My sister-in-law Bonnie took me on a kayaking adventure down the Zumbro River.
Had a great time.

Bruce's brother got this bear and had it stuffed.

Bruce's dad.  Love this man very much.

Daughter Jennifer (middle) and two of the best daughter-in-laws.

Lily, Macie, Bryce, and Carter sharing their musical talents.

Son Jared and his beautiful bride Rebecca

Spending a little time with my wonderful mother-in-law

Early Christmas dinner with family.

Macie is our gymnast.  Very good too.

Lily is our musician.  Plays the flute.  Very good too.

Son Adam with his little man, Rowan

Darth Vader at a balloon fest in Colorado Springs

Love this pictures of our son Jared & Becca and Jesse & Jennifer

Another great picture of our daughter and her wonderful husband.

Zoe (left) miss her lots.  Trent is top dog now.  Cats have no say.

While we're on the road, the kids look after their grandma.
Great kids they are.

Rowan likes his poo-pa's hat.

Arrived in Salt Lake City with 8" snow on the ground.

It was very pretty, but give me the sun any time.

Santa came to house to see the grandsons.
They were good boys.

We even got to sit on Santa's lap and tell him what we wanted for Christmas.

Lawson got his purple belt in Karate.
Very proud of this little guy.

Don't mess with this little guy.