Holidays with the Zugers

The evening of December 10th we were graced with our very first Texas snowfall. It rarely snows here, I believe the last time was in 2004. It was pretty for the few hours it lasted before the sun came up and melted it all away!

Chuckie in front of our little Christmas tree!

December 19th we left for North Carolina to spend a few days with my parents before heading up to Virginia for the holidays. As always, we had a wonderful visit! We were able to tour the Tryon Palace all decorated for Christmas. It was beautiful! Even though it was December and the weather was a little bit rainy we had a great time touring the homes and gardens and of spending time together over dinner!

On our way up to VA we spent the night with our friends Jacqueline & Bruce in Charlottesville. We went wine tasting and out for dinner. They were wonderful hosts! We were so excited to get to spend some time with them and we are even more excited to celebrate with them this coming June when they get married! Below are some pictures from Charlottesville.

After Charlottesville we headed up to Woodbridge for the remainder of our trip. We spent Christmas Eve with Sara's family and Christmas Day with Sim's parents. We are so blessed to be able to travel and spend the holidays with our friends & families! We miss them so much living in Texas but we cherish every opportunity we have to be together!

Once we got back to Houston it was almost 2009! We started the year off by going to the Houston Zoo together. It was a beautiful January day and the zoo was SO nice! Plus military gets free admission! Can't beat that!

We finished off the day by going to the Waterwall. It was actually the place I wanted to bring Sim to before for our anniversary (see post- http://sszuger.blogspot.com/2008/06/celebrating.html) but it was closed then. We went on a cool Saturday and the place was VERY crowded. Lots of couples were waiting to get a picture in front of the fountain! Here are ours.....