White Christmas (Eve) Stroll

Well, this morning we were hoping to depart for Chicago to spend Christmas with Chris' family and friends. Nature however, had other plans in store. In the past 24 hours we've had approximately 8 inches of snow, which made traversing the Iowa and Illinois landscape pretty near impossible in our Corolla, especially with Ava. So today we were stuck at home, waiting for the snow to clear, drinking plenty of coffee and hot cocoa mixtures (we had no food in the fridge). While we would have rather been in Chicago to share in the holiday festivities with everyone else, it wasn't all bad being stuck at home for our first major snowfall. The snow was beautiful, and made for some nice photos, as Chris decided to head down to the river for a hike.

We're looking forward to next winter when Ava will be able to play in the snow a little more, right now we're trying to get her to take more than one or two steps on her own without plopping back to the floor, or looking backwards for our guidance. Merry Christmas to everyone who happens to check this blog (all 5 of you), here's to hoping that your travel itineraries worked out better than ours.

"Green" X-Mas Tree

Wrapped with Grandpa

"Christmas Lights"

Of course we're Coldplay fans, duh. . . but this song is definitely one of the better releases in recent memory in the Christmas genre. Not a bad video either.