I think December, in general, is a very busy month for everyone and ours was no different. Here's how the first week started off: Lobo basketball games, lunch with a girlfriend, board meetings, two weekend Christmas parties, and Lee traveling to Las Angeles for work. While in LA, Lee met with several UNM donors and/or prospective donors, including Hank Baskett and Penny Marshall. He also attended a Lakers basketball game at the Staple Center in a suite, none-the-less. I stayed home with sweet Landon while Lee traveled to LA.
The second week was a little more low key. We had Lee's staff over for dinner for their annual Christmas party...yes I cooked dinner for 17 people! Landon had his 15-month well check up and shots. He finally weighs in at 19 lbs 6 oz (and that was right after he drank a 6 oz bottle!) and he is 29.5" in height. Still tracking below the chart for his weight and 10% for height but we already knew we have a petite, extremely active little boy. Also, that weekend brought in some of our Tucson friends, Gabe and Richard. They came in town for the New Mexico bowl, which U of A played in and won! It sure was nice having a house full of company and familiar faces. While the guys went to the bowl game, Landon and I went to his babysitter's college graduation party. Jaymie is such a sweet young lady and we are blessed that she's staying in town and will still be available to keep Landon for us. We ended the weekend with Lee's board of director's annual Christmas party. It was fun to see everyone that Lee works with on a daily basis.
The third week was a little busier for us but still so much fun. Landon had to get more shots, we had dinner with friends, our family Christmas "morning", brunch with some of our Notre Dame/Phoenix friends that were in town, and a Lobo basketball game before flying out to Texas on Saturday night.
Since we were going to be in Texas for Christmas this year, we decided to have "Christmas morning" a few days early with our little family of 3. Here are a few pics....
Once we flew to Texas, we spent the night of the 22nd - morning of the 26th with my family in Dallas. We did lots of playing at Lolli Land, cooking, baking, visiting my grandparents, going to Christmas Eve service at church, spending Christmas Eve with mom's side of the family, Christmas morning and brunch with mom, Jason, and Harley before heading to see Dad and his side of the family in Ft. Worth that late afternoon. Here are a pics from our Dallas trip....
We left Dallas around lunch time on the 26th to head to Houston to see Lee's family, where we stayed until the morning of the 30th. While in Houston, we had Christmas and Christmas dinner with Lee's family and cousins Blakely and Daniel, out to eat at Pappasito's, watched our niece roller blade, spent the afternoon and dinner with our friends The Dukes at their house, had massages, watched the Duke basketball game and had lunch with the Urrego's, and had Lee's favorite home-cooked dinner.
We headed back to Dallas on the morning of the 30th and had lunch at Snuffer's with my mom before relaxing the rest of the day. We had a great dinner that night and then all headed to bed, so we thought! Landon woke up at 10:00 pm just screaming his head off and nothing we did would comfort him. He seemed so uncomfortable, so I decided to give him Tylenol at 10:30. It didn't help at all. Finally, around 11:30 pm we decide to go to the ER because he wouldn't stop screaming. I was afraid he had his first ear infection and we were flying back to ABQ at 9:00 am the next morning....so I didn't want that flight to be miserable for him, us, or everyone else. He screamed all the way to the ER and stopped once we got him out of the car. I filled out the paper work and we sat down. He, then, proceeded to look at us and smirk. We thought that we had just gotten "punked" by our baby so we decided to leave. He started screaming as soon as we drove off. We turned around, parked, and walked back in. We were seen right away and we were told he was "just teething" and they gave him Motrin before we left $75 later. He slept like a baby the rest of the night (thanks to Benadryl) and we flew home that next morning! Crazy end to our Texas trip but it was a great trip, none-the-less.
Well, as you can see our life is so full with a happy, healthy baby but our hands will definitely be full in the coming year!
