Christmas, New Year's, HE CAN ROLL, and, oh yea, we're moving!!

Ok, so I haven't blogged in a long time and so much has happened that this may be a long post, so sit back, relax, and enjoy your update of the Devlin family... The holidays were wonderful, they started with the joyous celebration of Hanukkah I don't think Lincoln enjoyed his mennorah shirt quite as much as we did! Then came Christmas- we spent the day with my parents who showered Lincoln with gifts As you can tell, Lincoln is just overjoyed about all his presents- I don't think he understood what was going on and why all of us kept taking pictures of him. He recieved books and toys from Grandma and Grandpa and, in a true mom moment, I bought him a six pack of socks! I think we enjoyed opening the gifts more than he did but we always have next year to look forward to. A few days after Christmas we jetted off to Utah to spend New Year's with Nate's family. We woke up at 2am on New Year's Eve to be to the airport by 4am for our 5:30am flight (who said flying cheap isn't fun?). Now we have never traveled with a baby before but we had gotten some good advice from others and I thought I had it pretty under control, until we got Phoenix. Since our layover was a couple of hours we went outside the terminal to meet Nate's sister Kim who lives in Phoenix and who we haven't seen in quite awhile. We had a great time catching up and she got to meet her cute nephew but the problem came when we tried to get back through security to get to our flight. We underestimated how much time it would take and only left ourselves about 30min to get to the gate. Well, long story short, our line took FOREVER, I almost punched the lady behind us for her snide comments about our predicament, and the funniest part of the whole trip was the site of me sprinting down the hall (I literally started having an asthma attack- that's how out of shape I am), with Lincoln in his carrier, clutching the diaper bag, my purse, and our tickets with 5 minutes until our flight was taking off. Luckily we made it but I don't think we will ever make that mistake again. So we got to Utah and had a great time with the family. It was so fun to see all our nieces and nephews- they have all gotten so big! We only took one picture the entire trip (sorry- I am not a picture person) but it's a cute one so I'll post it That would be Christa's new sink- I turned around for a minute and Nate put Lincoln in it- it was too cute to not take a picture! We got home from vacation and about three days later, Lincoln rolled over all by himself! Here is the progression in pictures- one of these days we will get a video camera.


Ok- so if you have bravely made it to the end of this post than you will be rewarded with the exciting news that we are moving to Clovis, California on Jan. 30! I don't really know anybody who reads this blog that doesn't already know that but on the off chance... I now have three weeks to pack up our entire apartment (which I will remind you I just did 6 months ago) and move across the country! I'm so overwhelmed right now I don't know which end is up so please keep us in your prayers and we look forward to seeing you all soon...