High Five Friday

1. We are so spoiled living in Arizona during the winter. The weather is amazing although I wish it was a bit colder to wear boots and scarves. We took a family bike ride on Saturday to Chick-fil-a (or as Zander calls it Moo Cow). I was wearing shorts and sandals in December.

2.  For our ward Christmas party, they had a live nativity and milk and cookies with Santa. As you can see below, Zander liked Santa a lot more this year over last year which you can see here and here. No crying this time, but he also didn't have any eye contact with the big man in red. Hopefully he'll do better for Christmas 2013.

3. My work Christmas party was held at our office this year. We had fabulous appetizers and there wasn't a non alcoholic beverage in sight which was not so fabulous for me. We all had a 1 in 10 chance of winning door prizes like an IPad, 50 and 60 inch tvs, cameras, surround sound, and gift cards. Sadly I didn't win anything. The party was fun and went long into the night with a dance off and beer pong in our conference room.

4. It's been great living closer to civilization. Lots of things we can do and the best part is that we can do multiple things in one night. After our ward Christmas party, we headed to San Tan Village for the Hot Air Balloon Festival.

5. Our good friends, the Merinos, came to visit us for a week so we tried to pack in as many activities as we could with the Clawsons and Kietas. On one night, we had SomeBurros for dinner and went to see the Mesa Temple Lights.