It's a Christmas Miracle"

...to quote the venerable Andrew Sherwood.

Our plane was an hour and a half late out of Omaha yesterday. Yet, somehow, we made a connection in Denver that we only had 50 minutes to make -- if our plane was on time out of Omaha and into Denver. We thought that we would, hopefully, have been able to get on a later Reno flight from Denver based on later people with late running planes with a Denver connection. However, we were ready to run to the next Reno flight off our very late Omaha to Denver flight when Alicia happened to turn around when we were getting off the flight from Omaha and noticed that the flight information board said "Reno." Although no one knew, or deemed to tell us, it was impossible for us to miss our Denver to Reno flight because it used the same plane as our Omaha to Denver flight. If someone had told us, it would have made for a much less stressful first leg of the trip. We almost got off the Omaha to Denver flight because we figured, with holiday travel, we would rather get stuck in Omaha than in Denver. So, long story short, we made our Reno connection and are home after a very good Omaha visit.

In other, very fun, news, Carter rolled over for the first time today. He'd been getting close the entire Omaha trip, but didn't quite make it. We'll do our best to get video the next time he does it (just don't hold your breath -- you know how cooperative things are when you want to catch them on video).

Also, yes, I know, I was very negligent in blogging everyday while we were gone. However, you, all of Carter's faithful followers are o.k. I will try to blog regularly but you will all survive if I miss a day here and there. I will, however, try to update the Picasa albums even on days I miss blogging.

Merry Christmas! (a few days late, but, it's still Christmas -- we even celebrated our Christmas (Alicia's, Carter's, and mine) today).

-John (and Family)



Smiley Super Carter!



"Gifts??? I thought this fun paper was the gift!"



Look at all the fun stuff under the tree! (Don't forget to notice the most fun thing under the tree)!