What A Lovely Time Of Year

i'm missing my family right now- not because of the time of year (because of nutcracker i never had enough time to travel home for christmas to be with family throughout my adult life) but because i didn't get to see them this past summer. having little I.J. during the summer kind of threw off our usual visit to Az.

LOVE you guys! know that i'm thinking about you.

here are some pics of our christmas house. one day we'll have a real tree again!