New Year's Day 2015

I am officially two weeks behind already in 2015.  It is very "old geezerish" to say this, but days just seem to fly by faster than they used to.

On New Year's Day Calvin and I took a walk along the Truckee River.  It was a cold but beautiful sunny day and it was fun to take a familiar walk in the winter time.

The river had chunks of ice floating down the middle and more ice along the sides.  It was only in the 20's when we were out walking.

But we were bundled up and ready for the cold.

This is the Virginia Street bridge which is scheduled to be replaced shortly.

I didn't know that Reno had so many bike paths that they had to number them. This is a segment of the yet to be completed Tahoe-Pyramid bikeway.

As I was looking at my phone pictures I stumbled on a whole batch of Alice selfies.  Never underestimate the entertainment value of a phone camera that makes a clicking sound when you take a picture.

Christmas 2014

We had a lovely white Christmas this year and got to celebrate with friends and family.  We had our traditional Christmas Eve with the Gabbarts.

Between our two families we had four little angels for the nativity-which consisted of dressing the girls up like angels and taking their pictures.  Hopefully someone got better pictures than I did.

These girls are twice as cute in person!

Other familiar scenes from Christmas eve...

and a new musical addition.

A few days later we introduced Alice to snow on an outing to Tahoe Meadows.  I would say that she was not overly impressed with cold and snow.

Racing down the hill on a sled didn't impress her much either.

even though Rosie clearly demonstrated how much fun it was on the sled.

This is a child that is clearly happier on the beach.