Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from AZ!

Ryan flew from MI to L.A. to finish recording, but only got a day of recording in before coming down with laryngitis and having to fly back to Tucson. (I was sad he couldn't finish the record, but happy to have him home!) It took him over a week to really get his voice back, so we got really good at sign language and writing notes. :)

We celebrated Christmas for 3 days in a row! On December 23, we had the Hair Tree Christmas Party (Lori's hair salon that I work at sometimes while in town) at Bazil's, our FAVORITE Italian Restaurant owned by Grammie's friend, Bebe Bazil.


Christmas Eve was the big family celebration for Ryan's mom's side of the family.
Here's Grammie and Lori posing by the pies...


Ryan and Sara both letting everyone know that they are "Greens"...


Cousins Traci and Joe in town from San Diego.


Papa David jammin' out on his new ipod shuffle...


Aunt Terri and Jim


Me and our new Christmas ornament!


Lori with her new dog (Patches on the right) and Bella on the left.


Christmas morning we all went over to Ryan's stepmom's house to be with her and Rachel.

Here's Ryan digging into the orange cinnamon rolls...which also happens to be what my mom always makes on Christmas morning!


Rachel lounging in her new Minnesota Vikings jersey...their dad's favorite team!


The whole family outside claiming it's "wicked cold", a.k.a. 56 degrees (which is FREEZING for Tucson!)


Then we went back to Lori's for lunch to feast on leftovers from the night before!

Ryan and I had a relaxing evening at home...we made dinner and watched "V for Vendetta".

Oh, Ryan is still having a hard time with coughing at night and we read online that dark chocolate high in cacao is supposed to act as a cough suppressant, so Ryan has been downing 1/2 of a candy bar every night before bed...our kids (someday) are going to love our medicinal recommendations! :)