Trip to New Mexico, Part 1

First off let's start with last week. I had to go to work on Tuesday so that I could get my conference paid for so Jason got to spend the day with Callie. They had a lot of fun hanging out and going to see people. They even came and took me to lunch which was fun. Then, I took Callie to my PA Conference Wednesday through Friday and she did very well. She had fun meeting all of my friends and classmates from PA school and did well just hanging out or sleeping during the lectures.


We found out that there's about 10 babies that had been born within the last 3 months from people in our class or expecting. It was a lot of fun sharing pictures and baby stories. Here's the best group shot we could get of the girls. Amber was in and out during the conference so I didn't catch her and Rachel S. didn't come so that's why she's missing.


Then, it was off to New Mexico to visit Pops and Nana. We flew out of Oklahoma City on Saturday and arrived in Albuquerque a little after lunch time. We grabbed a bite to eat and headed to Aztec. Callie did very well on the flight, sleeping the whole time and also did well in the car during the 3 hour drive to Aztec. She talked with Nana a lot and only got fussy when she was hungry but took the bottle in the car with barely warm milk that I had packed.

On the Plane


Driving to Aztec

When we got to my parent's, we met the Prater's, Smith's, and Nienhueser at Dad's Diner to partake in yummy green chili cheese fries and their famous chocolate cake. Here's dad with the cake - yum!


Sunday we went to church. It was fun being back at home with Carissa because we grew up together at that church. It was the first time we'd been back in Farmington together since we've both moved to Oklahoma - almost 10 years!


That afternoon, Pops and Nana had an open house for people to come meet Callie. We had a few visitors and I got to see my high school coach again. I didn't get any pictures with people, just of Callie all dolled up.


Monday we ran around with Pops and he went to show Callie off to some of his customers. Tuesday, Nana took half the day off and ran around with us - again to visit some of Pops' clients. That evening we went to watch Nienhueser coach basketball and it was Callie's first game. She had lots of things to look at and new sounds to hear!


As a side note - Callie's really been smiling at us a lot more the last week or so and starting to even giggle some so here's a picture of a smile I caught on Tuesday.

Then, Wednesday, we visited Nana's school so that she could show Callie off to some of her co-workers. I also got to see some of my teachers I had which was fun. Here's Callie in Nana's classroom


Tonight we will go to church and then tomorrow we're going to Colorado to visit some other family friends. Friday we don't have too much planned - we are eating dinner at Nienhueser's house but other than that, no plans. Then Saturday morning we'll head back to Albuquerque to fly back to Oklahoma. We'll give details of the second half of our trip once we get home. It's been fun so far and the time is going by fast!