Catching Up

Well, I have tons to catch up on, which I hate getting behind!!!!! So I'm just going to ramble on and yes maybe pictures will come later, but I don't have time to wait to load them. So Christmas was great. We stayed in Las Vegas and for the first time had Christmas at our house. Mat's parents came along with his sister and little boy Jamison. So we hosted Christmas. Christmas Eve we had our annual Bingo game and good food (alfredo pizza, bbq chicken pizza and other goodies), which was fun the Kincaids and Mat's co-worker Mike came too. Then we read and acted out the nativity -- we got everyone involved even Mike (who isn't a member) which he enjoyed it. Then we opened on present -- our PJ's!!!!
Christmas morning always seems to go by to quickly!! It was really fun though. Santa brought the girls Strawberry Shortcake dolls and Gage the traditional 1st Christmas cowboy hat. So we spent the day playing with our gifts and hanging out. For a good part of the day I prepped for Christmas Day Dinner. I was really excited to do Christmas Dinner myself and it all turned out great I was really proud of it (definetly will have to post pic of it). We had ham, scalloped potatoes, scalloped corn, rolls, salad, and apple pie.
Let see then on the 30th Mat's Aunt Wendy and Uncle Rob came with kids R.C. and Hailey to visit for the weekend. We played with them the next few days, going to dinner and breakfast and the Outlet Stores and Circus Circus. We had a good time it was really grate to see them.
On Jan. 2nd we headed out to Alamo, with my parents and then Mat's parents came. We spent the day working on Cache's graveside. We poured concrete and set his headstone, it looks very nice. It felt good to finish it and take care of him. It is really hard to believe that it has been a year since we lost our little guy -- sometimes I'm not really sure how I feel about that, somehow it feels like it went to fast.
On Jan. 3rd us and all of our family from Saturday went back into Vegas and blessed Gage. It was wonderful. The day before in Alamo I picked up his blessing outfit from Suzi, a wonderful woman who has made all of my kids blessing clothes from my wedding dress!!! She is amazing and so special we appreciate her so much!!!! His out fit was beautiful. The blessing was beautiful -- I'm so grateful Mat is a worthy priesthood holder.
Well after the world wind we got to settle down a bit. I've been trying to get into some kind of routine, hopefully I'll hit a groove soon.
Mat has been in Alaska the last two weeks, and I've been in Alamo!! He'll be home tomorrow and we are excited to get back to normal.
Hopefully I won't get to far behind anymore. I will posting some updates on Gage with some pictures. He is growing so fast and hitting those oh so fun milestones, so I've got to get those posted. Soon Soon!