Tubing!

Today I didn't have to work so we decided to take Gage out for his first time tubing! Although it didn't scare him or make him mad or anything, I don't think it was his favorite thing. Like Derek said, probably next year will be better!

"This isn't too bad, I just don't get why I am stuffed into all of these clothes!"

Stacking!

Gage is so into stacking lately, and I love watching him do it! He concentrates so hard, then gets so excited after! Here are just some cute shots of him stacking... whatever he can find!

YAY! I did it!!

I'm Bad! I'm Bad! You know it!

First of all, I love the fact that Gage and Derek were rocking out to Michael Jackson while I was gone, so cute! Gage loves dancing to music. Whenever he hears it, he will just drop whatever he is doing to rock out! Here is a little video of him getting his groove on with his walker!
(sidenote: please excuse the messy house, we had just gotten back from vacation!)

Christmas!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! I know I'm a little late on the post, we just got back in town yesterday so I've been busy! We had a great holiday. Christmas Eve, after I got off work, we went and had Christmas with Derek's family. Then we headed to our Christmas party with my extended family. Lots of food, family, and fun! We spent all of Christmas day at my parents house.

"Check out this awesome book!!" Gage thought it was pretty awesome!

Opening his "deer" from Uncle Kody and Aunt Cherri! He was kind-of confused because he is used to seeing deer on the wall, not where he could play with them! But he warmed up to it pretty quick!

Yay! Check out my new airplane! He loves being pushed around on the airplane while he makes the music play and the propellers spin. When they stop he will put his feet down to stop it so he can get the music started back up again!
We had such a great Christmas holiday, we hope your family did as well!!

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San Carlos - Mexico

The day after Christmas, Derek and I went to Mexico with Derek's family. We stayed for almost a week, and my parents watched Gage for us. It was so hard to not see him! We "skyped" with him a few times but we decided that made things harder on him. It was really nice to have a long relaxing vacation with Derek though, we really enjoyed having that time together.

Deep Sea Fishing

The dolphins swam along with the boat with us. They were so playful and would whistle back to us when we would whistle!

Out snorkeling! Check out that body suit! :) I didn't even care, it kept me so warm!

Kisses to the "starfish of death!" Really though, check it out! Kinda scary looking, huh!!
We got to go up to the lookout over the ocean, had campfires on the beach, went kayaking out to "honeymoon island", lots of walks down the beach, and of course watching the sunset on the beach with my hubby and fresh chips and salsa!