Christmas in Arizona (Or the Beginning of Christmas in Arizona)

Since I grew up in the cold frozen north of Minnesota, all my childhood Christmases involved snow, sledding, skating, and always bundling up to step outside.


I could not imagine that Christmas could be Christmas without the cold and snow.


And now here I am in the sunny south where we never have snow.  And it's okay.


So this is what the beginning of the Christmas season looks like here.

Any snow is the fake variety.  As in the fake snow and polar bears on the 15 foot tree I saw at the restaurant where Doug and I had lunch today.