What a wonderful Christmas...

We have just returned from a whirlwind of traveling... we traveled from Austin to Cisco to Roswell to Lubbock back to Roswell to Alto to Cisco and back to Austin. Wheewww, isn't that exhausting just reading it?!?

We spent a couple of days before Christmas with my family in Roswell, then headed to Lubbock for Christmas Eve & Christmas Day with the Johnson side and what a Christmas it was! There was the Blizzard of Cisco 2009 that stranded my in-laws on I-20 only 10 miles from their house for 4 hours, not moving. Thankfully, they ended up making it to Lubbock 9-10 hours later!!! Keep in mind that it is a 3 hour trip! The Wilcoxen/Collier clan was stuck in Cisco until Christmas day, but thankfully everyone made it safely to the Penas in Lubbock. Ryan and I enjoyed spending Christmas afternoon with the Grahams/Weathers/Blanns! So much much fun and so many laughs! On the 26th we headed back to NM and spent a week in Alto with my parents and enjoyed more snow! We were gone for 2 weeks and our sweet Gage is only 4 weeks old! Boys been traveling half of his life! We had a wonderful time sharing Gage with family and were so thankful that we had the opportunity to do so. It couldn't have been a more special 1st Christmas with our son.

Gage is doing awesome and is such a sweet baby. He's eating up a storm and has began to smile at us when we talk to him. So exciting! For the most part... he's sleeping really well at the night and only wakes up 1-2 times. Gage is quickly outgrowing many of his clothes. He's wearing a few newborns sleep n' plays, fits well into 0-3 month clothes and actually fits into a couple 3-6 month outfits! I guess everything/brand fits very differently.

We are so in love with Gage and are so thankful for him. It's so true when people say, "You really never know how much you can love someone until you have a child". Now I realize how much our parents love us and would do anything for us. Pretty amazing. We have a beautiful life.