Christmas?

When we were in San Francisco, we had to keep reminding ourselves that it was December. There were plenty of decorations and even an ice skating rink, but I will admit its not the same without snow.

The huge Christmas tree at Fisherman's Wharf.

Fish statues ourside our hotel decorated with garland.

The huge Macy's at Union Square. This store had 9 floors and the top was "Holiday Lane," all the Christmas items. Santa was there too.

We bought Allie a Christmas ornament. We had to!

There's an ice skating rink in the middle of Union Square. I kind of wanted to try it, but all the people skating were really good and I havn't tried on ice skates since about third grade.

We went in some of the grand hotels around Union Square too. Inside the Westin St. Francis hotel was a huge castle. If I remember correctly what we read, this started out as a small gingerbread-type castle several years ago, and look at it now. It was on a rotating base with a train traveling around in the opposite direction.

More decorations at the Westin.

When we got home, there was plenty of snow! While snow doesn't make Mama and Dada happy, Allie seems to enjoy it.

I got this picture of one of the first times she saw snow. Precious.

Of course, the snow didn't really help us get ready for Christmas last weekend! The month has gone by so fast. I've run 9 miles this month and its already half over. We haven't done any Christmas shopping because of last weekend's blizzard.

Sunday morning we were snowed in, so we just lounged in our pajamas. It was fun, but not productive. We haven't put up the Christmas tree and probably won't because its so late. Kinda bums me out though because we won't be able to hang up the ornament we bought Allie in San Francisco.

This is the only thing I've done so far for Christmas. Three kinds of Christmas cookies that we've been eating all week. The sugar cookies didn't turn out, but everything else did and boy is it good.

So we're hoping to get the rest of our Christmas stuff done this weekend. We have our shopping plan and we're also hoping to do something fun. And there's also my Christmas concert on Sunday. 'Tis the season, even if we got into it late!