May your days, may your days, may your days be merry and bri-i-i-ight…

Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and happy New Year friends, family, and anyone else who stumbles on this page. Thanks for reading my blog, and, more importantly, for your companionship!

Ryan and I are back in Cleveland after a short trip to Oahu. We figured this might be our last trip for a little while, so we got in some good seafood eating, sunrise hiking, and beach sitting. I’m pretty psyched to spend the rest of my incredibly generous vacation time (seriously, 17 days???)  in C-town meeting up with family and some friends. On the list for today: baking some chocolate-raspberry cookies, last-minute record shopping for Christmas, and maybe some Prosperity Social Club. They have the best decorations.

Merry Christmas from Cleveland: This is Ryan and I hanging out at the lighting ceremony downtown.

And Hawaii: Where it smells like pineapple and flowers even at Christmastime.