Transplanted

Man, it’s amazing how much you can appreciate your family during the Holidays if you recently moved to another state (not that I didn’t appreciate them before). It also may have been the lack of snow in Atlanta and the near blizzard conditions, but I caught a heavy dose of the Christmas spirit when I was in Salt Lake.

My very sweet mother put us up for a few days:

And decorated her house in perfect Paula fashion:

And although I had to work while I was there, we got to see lots of our friends, too. In fact, we were going pretty much non-stop from the 22nd to the 27th when we flew back to Atlanta, but it was well worth it. We’re lucky to have such great friends.

Here are a few more highlights from Christmas Eve:

 (Me and my sister.)

 (My cousin Brittany, her husband and little boy, Finn.)

 (My nephew and niece opening their presents.)

 (The adults watching patiently?)

It was a great Christmas. Here’s hoping the New Year is, too.