Merry Christmas!

The last few days have been a fun, but somewhat hectic whirlwind of Christmas activities and travel to Seattle to celebrate Christmas with our families. We're ready to settle down, relax, and enjoy time with some of our favorite people. I'll leave you with a few highlights from our Christmas season. We wish you a peace-filled, festive, and safe holiday weekend.

Christmas 2010

• We try to do an annual Christmas date. This year, we visited the tree of lights in Zilker Park, ate dinner at Austin's legendary Mexican joint, El Arroyo, and then visited the flagship Whole Foods to pick out dessert (freshly made dark chocolate caramels with sea salt) and watch the ice skaters at the rink on the roof of Whole Foods.

• A few days later, we drove out to Fredericksburg and the wine country to do a little tasting and pick up our wine club shipment at our favorite winery, Pedernales Cellars. On our way home, we passed by the Pedernales Electric Company in Johnson City, and saw the coolest Christmas lights we've probably ever seen. It seems a little ironic that this is sponsored by an electric company (or maybe not ironic at all?), but it was breathtaking.
  

• And I know I've already shown our Christmas tree several times, but I just love how cute it is. We'll always remember our first married Christmas tree.
  

Merry Christmas, y'all!