home sweet home

for the over-achieving bloggers out there, this is going to seem like old news, but i just want to say how much i enjoyed the holidays.

tara and i got to spend a week with my side of the family in sunny arizona.  it was great to have my sister and her family as well as my brother and his family all together.  we visited sedona for a couple days, went to a really good dinner-theater, played lots of games, hungout with some old friends, did a little shopping, took family pictures, and went to my all-time favorite restaurant for new years eve...pf changs.

oh, and ate lots and lots of really good food.  my mom is a crazy good cook and i would've gained about 7 or 8 lbs if we hadn't hiked the mini-mountain behind my parent house almost daily.

the older i get the more i realize what a gift being with family is.