O Christmas Blog, O Christmas Blog...

Hi Everyone and thanks for an amazing early Christmas! It was so great to see everyone.

Family...

Friends...

And of course, the snow...

Naturally, there were some minor issues. Emergency home repairs for inspection. A minor fender bender. The realization that our lawn guy disappeared with $150 our our money for supposedly cutting up this tree and hauling it away.

I will not miss that damn trampoline!

But ah well. Overall it was a great trip.

Glenn and I arrived home, after a wildly turbulent and frightening flight, to beautiful sunny 80 degree weather and happy, well-behaved pups.

Glenn's boss sent us a pretty evergreen wreath, which you might be able to see on our door here ...

Yep, pretty darn festive!

We spend an un-traditional Christmas Eve having Spanish tapas and sangria at a restaurant called Ceviche, which was lovely.

 It was rather dark inside, but we did try to take a selfie.

Glenn's phone doesn't take very good pictures in the dark. But fear not. He was inspired by the fact that both his dad and my dad got new cameras, so he purchased a new one with some Xmas money that is on the way. Hopefully, this improves the quality of this publication. :-)

On Christmas day, the dogs got their new beds from Santa and seem pretty happy with them.

Glenn did a great job buying me some wonderful and unusual gifts. I got some coveted Nike gym shorts, a new Swiss watch, and a frog we've named Roger.

The face is mother of pearl...

This shows how the top is faceted. So pretty!

And here's Roger...

I got Glenn a fire pit with palm trees on the sides, some firewood, fire starters, a piece of cement board to put under it to keep the grass from burning, and some sort of roasting stick for marshmallows or hotdogs.

It made for a cute little set up.

We attempted to take some night shots with another camera...

Blurry, but you get the idea.

I made us a regular old fashioned Christmas dinner: a roasted turkey breast, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing...the works. But for dessert, we had s'mores instead of pumpkin pie.

Not to be totally obnoxious, but please note I am wearing short sleeves, outside, on Christmas night. Crazy!

So anyway, I think that's about it for this special holiday edition of the Callihan blog. Hope you all continue to enjoy the holidays and Happy New Year!