A few weeks of relaxation, reloading, and restarting healthy habits

Apologies for the radio silence on my end friends, nothing all that "blog worthy" has been happening in this household over the past few weeks. After a month of traveling, eating, and spending money non-stop in October, Ryan and I decided to designate the beginning of November as a time to detox from our crazy lives for a few weeks, translation: relax, reload, and restart healthy habits. We have been working out again and cooking new, healthy recipes at home. We have also been trying to accomplish as many of our wedding planning tasks as possible so that when ski season arrives we have lots of time to hit the slopes. November is a typically dreary, rainy month in Switzerland's cities; but, we don't mind because it gives us an excuse to relax (and play with Pumpkin) and it means that the mountain tops are piling up with snow!

After our relaxing early November, here is what is on the calendar for the upcoming months:

Next weekend: hosting our second annual Thanksgiving for American and non-American friends
End of November: headed to Berlin for the weekend to celebrate a friend's birthday and check out the city
Mid-December: headed back to the US for a few days for a work training and then headed to Jordan (!) to visit my brother (Andrew)
Week of Christmas: fly back to Switzerland with Andrew and it will be just the three of us this year for Christmas, sniff sniff :( But, we are excited to have Andrew with us and we plan to make the most of the situation by decking the house in decorations, opening presents, lounging in our PJs, going to the mountains in the afternoon to stay with friends and enjoying a big Christmas dinner and skiing.
Week of New Years: Ryan's brother and his fiance visit for the first week in January and there is lots of skiing on the docket! Ryan and I have approximately 2 weeks off over the holidays which will be fantastic!

What are your holiday plans? Are you taking it easy or going the adventurous route and doing some traveling?