Life in Texas: Christmas in New Mexico

So a couple of weeks ago we went to Taos to spend Christmas with my family. Being almost 7 months pregnant I was not looking forward to the eleven and a half hour car trip. But we changed things up a little this time and on the way to Taos stopped in Clovis and stayed the night with my aunt Gayle. We were so grateful to her for opening up her house to us, it really made the trip much easier. We left Friday afternoon around 5, Tim and Shara came with us so we actually had two pregnant women in the car. We were really excited for them to come with us and get to experience Taos in the winter and Christmas with the Marianis. We got to Clovis around 11:30pm New Mexico time. We met up with my little sister Kelley and her boyfriend Eric who were driving to Taos from Massachusetts. The next day we got up and left Clovis around 9 and made it to Taos around 1. It was a great trip. We really didn't do much but spend time with family and eat yummy food. We had leg of lamb for Christmas dinner and it was amazing. Brody got to experience the snow which he loved. We opened more presents then I think we ever have. It was fun to watch Brody with the whole experience. He really liked to help pass out the presents and was really good at pulling off the bows but he wasn't very into opening them. He loved all his presents from Gramma, Papa, his aunties and uncle Shane. There was so much stuff it almost didn't fit in the car on the way home. Thank goodness one of our presents was a really cool storage container that fit on the back of our car. It felt like way to short of a trip, I think I could have stayed another week. We had such a great time, I love seeing my family and spending time with them. I'm already looking forward to next year :)