Will's baptism...

Mike and I felt quite official as we planned our first get together for Will. His baptism was on Jan. 4th at the Newman Center in Salt Lake City. It was just perfect if you ask me. He looked amazing and smiled the whole time. I was astonished as I looked around at the 50+ people who came to support him. They came from many different faiths and backgrounds both friends and family to welcome him to faith. And many more, who were unable to attend, sent cards filled with words of encouragement, congratulations and love.

Fr. Daniel warmed the water for him

Parents and Godparents

Ryan and Marisa have been friends for what feels like forever. They were there during our biggest moments. I thing Ryan was more nervous for his birth than Mike and I were! We recognize their faith and are honored that they are Will's godparents.

Posing with Fr. Daniel

Proud Parents

There is a lot of love that surrounds this little boy!

Our best Christmas ever...

William's first Christmas was my favorite Christmas. It was so fun to share this holiday with him. We had four days of celebrating Christmas! We decided that our first family Christmas card should star a naked chubby Will. We had fun posing him and he was a good sport about it. We called it quits when the paint started coming off the ornament and his face was covered in it!

Potential Christmas card photo

Acutal Christmas card photo

We kicked off the holiday with the Vaughn side getting together at my folks house. Mom whipped up a batch of chili verde (that was incredible) and we had the annual white elephant game. William received a lot of fun gifts and had a blast playing with his little cousins. He was so good the whole time being passed around from family member to family member all night!

Opening gifts with grandpa

Lily, Will and Jax in their Chrismas PJs

Next was Christmas eve. We spent the evening with my fam and went to a Christmas party at the bountiful golf course. It was a chili cook-off style with lots of types of chili and good conversation. William wore the cutest Christmas outfit, it was a red corduroy romper with Christmas trees and Santa embroidered in the front. Mike and my brother thought that he looked like a girl and apologized that he had to wear it all night. I thought it was adorable until everyone kept asking how old she was. Needless to say he only wore it that night and now he can't even fit into it.

On Christmas day we opened the few presents we gave each other. Mike gave me two picture frame collages one was pics of our wedding and the other was pics of William. They were the perfect gift and I hung them up in our hallway upstairs. It was the best gift! Will got some slippers for when he is playing in his exersaucer and a few new rompers. We also got him a few toys and books. Then we went to the Glenn family's Christmas breakfast with Mikes side of the family. It was delicious. His aunt Celeste made potatoes, bacon, sausage and eggs with chocolate milk and orange juice! It was a great way to welcome the day. We opened presents after breakfast and William got a bunch of fun noisy toys. He loved watching Kinsley's Elmo live. He would just stare at Elmo as he danced and told stories. It was pretty cute. I really wish we had our camera there. The day continued with opening gifts and grandma and grandpa Glenn's. Will was spoiled there with more fun toys and Mike got an awesome blue ray player. Now we can swap netflix with his fam. Rob and Hilary and uncle Smoosh were there and William soaked in all the attention. Next we went to the Garcia party with all of Mike's mom's side of the family. That was a lot of fun. We got tons of gifts and just about filled the car with Will's stuff. This was the first year that we drew names with the cousins and it was great. William had done so well all day and in pure exhaustion fell asleep on the floor. He got this glow worm from John and he loved it!

Opening gifts with John

Just exhausted

The long day ended with a nice sit down dinner with my folks. Mom had made some delicious prime rib with all the fixings! She even made plain sweet potatoes for William. We pulled him up to the table to join us and he lasted about ten minutes before he fell asleep...in his highchair! He literally had his eyes closed with his mouth open, leaning forward to eat the sweet potatoes. Poor little guy was down for the count. Then we all sat around the Christmas tree in the living room and opened our gifts. It made for a perfect ending to our first Christmas.

Our sweet boy