pizza and ninja men

my friend elisa is great. she also enjoys farmer's markets, she speaks french, norwegian, and icelandic, she has made a bjork swan dress halloween costume and she plays the cello. we lived together for 2 glorious years, traveled around london and paris together, and she was one of my bridesmaids.

and this past week she hosted a christmas gathering where we drank hot coca and Glögg (a scandinavian version of apple cider), talked about funny christmas memories, and decorated and ate ninja men! (instead of gingerbread men hahaha!!)

ninja men!

me, my baby, and the christmas tree!

elisa and me!

and the next day kyle and I celebrated kyle's first day of freedom from school by going out to lunch at our favorite place--pizzeria 712! before i remembered to take a picture, we had gobbled up the pitas and spicy hummus, and the frisee salad with gouda and allred orchard apples, yum! but i managed to take a picture of our delicious pizza--hooray for the first day of christmas vacation!!

kyle's striped sweater is the other christmas present i got him! isn't it cute?!

                                                                      yummy pizza!