Griswalds in Cville

Did your lights flicker last night? If so it was probably because our neighbor was stealing electricity from your grid to power his cornucopia of lights-complete with creepy Santa gnomes which eerily resemble Brandon. Our street is part of the Charlottesville trail of lights and so we are blessed by a little friendly holiday competition of seeing who can force more of their neighbors to buy back up generators for the winter. Lily has been visibly nervous, this being her first Christmas and all, that her parents are the only one's without a neon arrow directing Santa down the roof. For some reason cars don't seem to slow down to look at our 2, 3 foot trees with lights in the front.

We are all very excited to celebrate Lil's first Christmas this year and had a lot of fun picking out her first Christmas tree. Surprisingly she's only asked for Mrs. Potatohead (she's gotten quite advanced with her baby sign language). That only means one thing, Dad is going to have a stressful Christmas eve trying to get that thing assembled before morning. Don't laugh if you haven't seen the new millennium edition. I thought I knew my anatomy pretty well but I'm just not sure about all her new parts. I heard they downgraded the man to just a few crucial, utilitarian parts. This proves once again that women are indeed more complicated. Word is that Hillary Clinton was behind the changes.

Anyway, we only have a few more office parties and a few more nights on call before we get to come home for Christmas and we cannot wait! We hope you all are having a great holiday season and hope to see you soon! Love Court, Ry and Lily


Do you see Brandon?

Who doesn't love a penguin at Christmas time.

The more blow up yard ornaments the better.

Are you feeling woefully inadequate yet?


This house is visible from space!