all dressed up and no place to go

After a lot of consideration and research into flights to places like Thailand and Bali, we decided to relax and stay home for the holidays.  (The fact that Gordy doesn't yet have a passport may have had something to do with that decision.)  In the end, we were pretty happy with our holiday location.  We put up a small potted pine tree (thanks mom!) and decorated it with little LED lights.  Todd got a few body surfs in. Gogo and I went for a Christmas run to see the horses down the street.

And, after Gordy tore open all of his presents from friends and family, we all had a yummy fish dinner.

It's hard to say whether Gordy was more excited about the wrapping paper and bags, or the gifts...

On New Year's eve day, we continued our tradition of ending the old year with a hell swim... Todd did eighty-four 100s and I did eighty-four 62.5s (100 minus the year - 16).  It took us just over two hours to complete and we were both frozen to the core by the end.

Gordy didn't seem to mind though because he got to spend his morning with Nana and Misha :)  

We got all dressed up, stayed in, rang in the new year with a Costco crab dinner (Gordy apparently likes crab) and were all in bed and passed out by 10:45pm.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!