Christmas

Luca's first Christmas was great from start to finish. In the morning, we woke to find evidence of Santa's visit - a wooden sled under the tree. After taking the little marshmallow for a spin, we headed over to the Marsdens' for a cup of Christmas coffee. Then we spent a relaxing rest of the day at Papa and Gigi's. We missed those we didn't get to celebrate with in person, and hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!

Christmas Eve

White Christmas

We are fresh home from a pre-Christmas holiday in Park City - and looking at the U.S. weather map, we're lucky to have made it home. In fact, Omi was nearly stranded in Salt Lake City but last we heard was headed home thanks to her winning ways and a kind-hearted customer service agent.

Our Luca brought his Minnesota hardiness to the mountains and seems to have grown a few degrees cuter during our vacation. He found the house to be well-equipped for babies (thanks Dodsons & Racciattis!) and no doubt left some drool behind on a new favorite toy.





While we were gone, a snow elf named Chris stopped by and cleared our sidewalk and walkway of the several inches of snow that accumulated while we were away. Luca's first Christmas is sure to be a white one, and though he's still too little to take notice, we're looking forward to Santa's first visit.

Luca, meet Cereal

Our cool customer had his first experience with food-from-a-spoon this weekend.



In other exciting news, T is almost done with finals and will soon on be on winter break. Gigi has been spending some quality time with Luca in the meanwhile, helping us through this busy stretch and bonding with the little man.

To get in the holiday spirit we saw A Christmas Carol with the Hegstroms. As T says, it was totally awesome. What is not so awesome? A forecasted high tomorrow of NEGATIVE 2.

Luca Claus

Winter has arrived, and with it, the pretty white stuff. With our holiday spirit in tow we went down to Java Jack's, the local coffee shop which doubles as a seasonal purveyor of Christmas trees, and picked out Luca's first tree. He seems to enjoy decorating almost as much as his mother does.