it's the most wonderful time of the year...

.... or so i've been told.... there are packages to wrap and cookies to bake and cards to fill out and address - there are people to call and people to see and people to maybe catch a cold from - there are carols to sing and church pews to fill and wonder to feel....

 and just the day after tomorrow,

yes tomorrow, we will have survived all of the above with verve and can look forward to out with the old and in with the new... in just a week from the most wonderful time of the year...

if it's so wonderful.... um... why is it at the very end of the year?

twelve fourteen

without it.. there wouldn't have been...












so today ... will always.. be a good day...



always....

T is for Turkey and Two... S is for

skating! i bet you thought i was going to say Santa - but that is yet to come

Thanksgiving weekend was a birthday weekend for the little miss, who is now officially 2! The other milestone was the first foray into the sport with skates and ice - lol - she's been walking around the house in double-runners for weeks now - and was not much of a fan of ice to start - but once she figured out that daddy wouldn't let her fall - the buzzword of the day was .. "MORE?"

there was also the third in the wedding trilogy - but those are photos for another day...