Visitors

We have lived here for almost 4 months now. My Mom has been here twice. We visited with Glenn's cousin up in Prescott. Glenn's Uncle came to our place to visit for the day. Our friends Ben & Rececca are coming to visit in a couple weeks. My sister and her boyfriend have tickets to come visit in March. Bob and Beanne will visit in April. My sister in law said they hope to visit in the spring. Tonight we are meeting a friend from PA who happens to be in AZ visiting. We really miss all our friends in PA and hope to stay in touch with everyone and see them again but being able to see our family so often is the reason we wanted to make this move and I gotta say, it's really nice. We have had more visitors in the few months we've been here than we ever had before so what we hoped for has so far, been great! I love being closer to everyone so that we are able to have so many visitors and when things settle down, we can travel to our families places as well. We love having visitors so if any of you want to come visit, we have great guest accomodations!

Thanksgiving Review

I hope everyone had a great Turkey Day. We had Thanksgiving dinner outside which was just awesome! We thought about the chilly temps we usually have on Thanksgiving and it made us enjoy our mid 70's weather even more!!!
Everything was SO good! I am usually a traditionalist when it comes to Thanksgiving but this year I decided to try something different for the pumpkin pie. I made the Barefoot Contessa's Pumpkin Banana Mousse Tart instead. OMG, it was SO good!! When we had dessert, we decided that this is the new pumpkin dessert going forward. There will be no more pumpkin pie, now it will be pumpkin banana mousse tart on Thanksgiving and Christmas. I don't usually do many Barefoot Contessa Recipes because they almost always contain butter and/or heavy cream. The tart has both but what the heck, it's Thanksgiving!

Gobble Gobble

I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your family and friends and all the yummy food! We will be spending the holiday with our friends Duane & Stephanie. We thought we would have a couple more people but that fell through so it will just be the four of us which is just fine. We will have a great day! I made Cranberry Orange Walnut Sauce and I am going to make a Pumpkin Banana Mousse Tart. I also bought a bag of potatoes, Brussels Sprouts (for those of you that say Ewww, if you've never tried tried them roasted, you must do so. They are SO good), and we will take a couple bottles of wine. We are hoping to have dinner outside as the weather is supposed to be mid 70's. Nice! Enjoy.

I'm a Slacker

My Sister in law recently wrote to me and asked if we had been out of town because it's been so long since I posted anything. Nope, I'm just a slacker! I've also had a horrible cold so I'll use that as an excuse too! Last weekend, I had no voice at all. I've never lost my voice like that before. I would open my mouth to talk and only a whisper would come out. I'm doing much better now but Glenn is now fighting a cold. It's that time of year I guess, even in the desert. Here is a couple pictures I took a few weeks ago. The previous weekend, we had turned a corner near our house and I counted 13 balloons. It was so pretty and wished I had my camera with me. I keep watching for them to take off from that field again so I can get a picture of the sky full of balloons but in the meantime, I'll post what I have.