Christmas, revisited

I finally had some time to update the blog, but I couldn't stand to skip over all that's happened in the past 4 months. So getting back to Christmas 2012--

Since it was my year to work both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we had a lovely intimate celebration at home with our little family of three. We attended the Christmas Eve service at church, and snuggled up each night by our first full-size tree filling our bellies with warm, delicious, homemade Zuppa Toscana. 

Then we hopped in the car the very next morning and made an unusually long, dangerous trek to Chicago, passing over 45 vehicles on the side of the road. Once we got there, we were so excited to see what our little Otis thought of the snow that not even the miserably cold weather could keep us indoors. The Bernals were kind enough to save their Christmas festivities for us and we got to ring in the new year there too!