I'm up in Santa Rosa right now spending Christmas eve with Matty's family. They bought a 7 foot xmas tree which we're going to decorate later. They're doing massive construction around their house so we have to sludge through the mud to get in the back door and last night China snuck in (actually I neglected to thoroughly wipe her feet) and left paw prints ALL OVER their wood floor. Good dog. :P

Matt's dad has an amazing menu for this evening. Lasagna (which he spent all day yesterday doing the pre-preparation) and black bottom pie (which Matt says IS TO DIE FOR). mmm.. can't wait.

I heard two pieces of unfortunate news from earlier on this week. Please send good thoughts to Mark and Lizette.. I'm glad I'll be driving down tomorrow to be with them.

Happy Christmas eve, everyone!