Packing Fun for All!

Holy HUGE Bag, Batman!!

And how is this NOT big enough for all my stuff!!  And where are my packing fairies!?!  Must be on permanent vacation with my cleaning fairies.  Everyone is fired!

Christmas in Bama

For those of you who haven't been to the rolling hills of northern Alabama, you are missing out!  I just returned from a two week trip back home for the holidays.  My parent's live on 100 acres of the most beautiful land in the south!  This is what I get to see when I go running at home... 

Of course, it only stayed this way until Christmas day where we had RECORD snowfall!  We got somewhere around 4 inches.  That's the most snow northern Alabama has EVER seen on Christmas day!  Everyone was so excited to have a real white Christmas... having lived in the Chicago area for almost 5 years now I was not near as awestruck at the "blizzard" outside (yes 4 inches constitutes a blizzard in Bama).  But it was beautiful!

Of course my absolute favorite part of going home is seeing my family and friends... specifically my sister's four amazing kids!!  I'm in LOVE!



I hope everyone had and is still having a great holiday season!  If not...take a trip to northern Alabama!  This blogger thinks it's the best EVER!!