I was able to spend a few days in Utah right after Christmas with family. I love it out there. It’s so peaceful, especially in winter when there is snow on the ground. Everything looks and smells so clean and fresh. Unfortunately the day after we arrived I hurt my leg and couldn’t walk much, so I spent a lot of hours putting together jigsaw puzzles and watching Arrested Development on dvd (if you have to sit around watching TV I highly recommend this show). I definitely did not get to take as many pictures as I would have liked, but it was a good trip nonetheless. It is always great to see family and sometimes I need to be forced to sit down and do nothing once in a while.

I hope you all have a wonderful new year and that you live life to the fullest at every moment…

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
~ Burton Hills

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas…

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

~ Charles Dickens