The Holidays

I am back at work today. It’s going to be a hard adjustment waking up early again. I had been sleeping until about 10 am when I was in New Mexico. At least this will be a short week. We have Thursday off and I am thinking about taking Friday as a vacation day. I can surely survive 3 days at work.

We had a great time in New Mexico. Of course, the trip went by super fast. I can’t believe Christmas is already over. We got to Los Lunas about 11 at night on Friday the 19th. We then woke up pretty early to try and be in Clovis by lunch time. Chad was having a major craving for Jaunito’s. We left Buster with my parents because we didn’t want to overwhelm Sherri’s house with another dog. Jaunito’s was awesome just like I knew it would be. We ate lunch with his mom and grandma.

The rest of the Clovis trip was spent eating, playing the Nintendo Wii and lounging around. It was so nice. On Sunday we went to Nan’s house and she made taco salad. It was so flippin’ delicious. Nan truly is an awesome cook and I loved having some of her homemade food. That was the only homemade meal we had the entire Clovis trip. The rest of the time we ate out. We went to Jaunito’s a couple times, Something Different, Twin Crownies, Shoguns, and a couple of Chinese buffet restaurants. I can’t believe little ‘ol Clovis can have so many awesome restaurants.

We were also able to show his mom, Nan and his dad the ultrasound DVD. It was awesome to be able to share that special moment with the family. His family hadn’t seen us since we found out we were pregnant so everyone was super excited to see us. Every time I see the ultrasound DVD I see something new and different. I don’t think I will ever get tired of watching it.

We made it back to Los Lunas by Christmas Eve afternoon. It was eating all over again. Before we went to my grandma’s house I also showed my parents the ultrasound DVD. They watched it a few times. They were so excited to see it they just had to see it again.

The food at my grandma’s house was awesome. I had been craving tamales forever and I enjoyed every bite of them. Yum…Yum. We exchanged presents with all the uncles and aunts and munched on Christmas goodies; after we went looking at Christmas lights in Albuquerque.

We actually slept in on Christmas morning. Chad ended up waking everyone up to open even more Christmas presents. It felt like we opened presents for hours. Chad, as always, spoiled me and got me a million different cool things including: my favorite perfume, a Pomeranian calendar, a new blue tooth headset, a gift card to Motherhood Maternity and a bunch of other stuff I can’t even think of right now.

We spent Christmas day at my other grandma’s house. Again, we ate and opened presents and generally had a good time. Chad played and played with my little cousin Mikey and reinforced just how special he will be as a dad. It almost brought a tear to my eye.

Holy cow on Friday we went to go see the movie Marley and Me. Wow. What a tearjerker. I started bawling during the opening credits. I read the book so I already knew what to expect. But that didn’t stop me from sobbing at the end. Chad and I sat there holding each other and cried our faces off. It was almost embarrassing. It’s about a couple who gets a dog, then has kids and establishes their life. The dog teaches them all about family, love and all that other stuff. It was like looking in a mirror. If you want to sob your head off go see Marley and Me.

We also went to Sandia Casino, my favorite casino of all time. While we were there we won a couple hundred dollars on roulette—holla! I love that casino it has a huge non-smoking room with all the table games which is very nice.

We came home on Saturday because we had so much stuff to do at the house. When we were at Wal-Mart yesterday we bought Cayden a few Christmas onesies. They were on sale and I couldn’t help myself. I had to buy the 6-9 month size. I can’t believe next Christmas we will have a creepy crawler in the house. It is truly unbelievable. I am looking forward to it already!