Christmas Day 2007! We decided to do something "spontaneous" and fun on Christmas Day! So, we took our puppy, Lizzy to Mt. Baldy! We were hoping to take her to play in the snow, but the California sun melted it away on Christmas Eve. (but you can see some snow up in the high mountains in this picture!) We had fun and we let Lizzy run free in Cameron's Dad's backyard, which was so fun for her (and us!) We hadn't seen her totally free in a yard before, so it was a big moment for us as "parents". :)

We spent Christmas Eve with Cameron's Mom, Peter, and Ted and we had an amazing Polish dinner! We spent part of Christmas Day with Cameron's Dad, Amir, and Iraj and Ferial. We had a Persian feast with them. It was wonderful! My favorite dish is "tadiq" - the best form of Persian french fries there is!!!

We really missed my parents in Oregon for Christmas, although we had "officially" celebrated Christmas during our time up there for Thanksgiving. We kind of "scoonched" the two holidays into one, which was fun! We got a Christmas tree, my mom, Stephanie and I got up at 4:00am, and went shopping at Washington Square, Cameron and I got the opportunity to fly with Jerome, and Cameron even flew the plane for awhile!....life is good! :) We feel abundantly blessed.