It was SO fun to stop in Memphis overnight and stay with the newlyweds, see all the progress they have made on their new house, and get a glimpse of their life together there.
After a night in Memphis, the four of us caravaned up to Wheaton together. The further north we got, the colder and snowier it was! The following day the six of us spent time in Chicago. One of the most remarkable things we saw was at the Chicago Botanic Gardens - every year they have a model train and city display. All the buildings are replicas of famous sites in Chicago and they are made entirely out of natural items (nuts, bark, leaves, etc)! 
In the afternoon we visited the Baha'i temple in Evanston, near Northwestern University and amidst ritzy lakehouses on Lake Michigan. The 9-sided temple was completed in early 1950s. Dad remembers visiting it with his father as a child, who remembered seeing it being built when he was a child growing up in Highland Park and delivering meat in a horse-drawn wagon for his butcher father.
A stop at the Hershey's shop and cafe on Michigan Ave. Yes, that is a 5 pound bar of chocolate that Noah is holding and No, we did not buy it.
Seeing the lights on the Magnificent Mile was worth the cold!!
We decided to have another Christmas Day celebration (on New Year's Eve). Here is Noah calmly finishing up a pencil drawing for Katie (of her former Wheaton house that she lived in for 8 years).
Cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning, of course!
And a Christmas afternoon walk around the neighborhood. It was FREEZING and the snow was too dry to make snowballs (though we did our best anyway). But that is the wonderful fun that such a walk involves!
We definitely missed having Steve & Tiff and Avery & Bella (getting cuter and chubbier every day!!!!) with us this week. We hope to see you soon in 2010!
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