I Love These Women

Meggan, Betsy and Sarah have carried me in word and in action for the last 6 months and a couple of weeks ago we celebrated with chicken enchiladas and sweet conversation. I couldn't be more blessed to have such amazing friends.

A Girl's Dream...

...well, at least this girls dream! I've always wanted a shiny Kitchen Aid mixer and for Christmas my sweet boys got one for me. Please be prepared to receive lots of baked goods.

Brotherly Love

Oh Tannenbaum!

We Razavis have a lot to celebrate this Christmas! We made it through the darkest valley of our lives so far and have come out cancer free! There are bumps and bruises from the journey that we'll be tending to for awhile, but we wanted to live in gratitude this season by celebrating in a "big" way. And when I say "big," I mean 12 feet of evergreen goodness. I went to a doctor's appointment and wished Isaiah and Ramin luck as they went out on their tree finding adventure. When I called them to see how it was going, they informed me that they would need my car to transport it and that "by the way, it's 12 feet tall and about 6 feet wide." After picking my jaw up off of the floor, I laughed at the constancy of my hubby. Hasn't it always been "go big or go home?" Has there ever been room for anything other than a real time display of his general passion for life? No. I learned, though that "mini-me" was the one behind the tree selection. Ramin had picked a more standard looking tree, but was quickly directed to "the" tree when Isaiah pointed and said, "Holy Silverado!" After that sort of passionate declaration do you have any choice but to purchase it? Once again, No. So, the tree made it home and with a hand from our friend Jason, we managed to get it up in it's tree stand. We all laughed and marveled at it's magnitude and how it took up a whole room of our house. We've since gotten it positioned a little further back and it is now decorated (thank you Martha Stewart for your 101 shatter resistant bulb package). True majesty. And there will be parties. Oh yes. Can you have a tree like this and not wear awful Christmas sweaters and drink egg nog around it? Merry Christmas everyone!

Little people. Big tree.

Our light engineer.

How many strands are we on?

So festive.

Line Ups

One of my favorite things about Isaiah is his love for lining up his cars. His love affair with cars began in earnest when he was 2 and he's still loving them and lining them up. Here he is on his 2nd birthday lining up his first car installment . As you can see from the second picture, taken not long ago, he's procured a few more cars since then.

At 2.

At 4.

Thanksgiving Shuttle Run

We had a great Thanksgiving. We loaded up with a cranberry apple pie and some whole wheat rolls and headed to Denver to the Annual Feast of the Unloved. Ramin's running buddies and their families created this event four years ago to give those who weren't traveling a sense of family and tradition. We ate good food, Sonny played with trains, and we ran-after dinner (counterintuitive to most of us, but perfectly normal for runners, i guess). They call it the FOTU shuttle run. They put on racing jerseys and flats, pinned on racing bibs and went out in sub 30 degree weather to race (crazy?). Anyway, Isaiah got in on the action and I captured some pics of the event.

The racers-one with an incredibly strange expression

Isaiah and the other cutie 4 year olds getting ready to race.

Go Zai Zai, GO!

Baldies

This picture was taken a few weeks ago when my brother was here, but I had to post it. He came to help us out and arrived with a bald head-one of his ways of standing in solidarity with me. What a great brother!