Sunday Smiles

We was a super happy baby yesterday!

She was full of smiles!

I can't really blame her---I smile a lot when he's around too :)

Her hair looks absolutely hilarious (and ridiculous) here!

Check out that belly, too!!

Love my days spent with these two!

It doesn't feel like it happens near enough!

Nursery Reveal :) Better late than never!

I'm laughing to myself as I post this 3 months later but I have had several people ask for pictures of the nursery. I meant to do this before she arrived, but well, we all know how that goes. So here are a few pictures of how it turned out!

For really no plan in mind--I think it turned out rather cute :)

 

Outside her door..

Part of her hospital door hanger and a cute little magnetic board that I can change pictures on

Reusing the cute banner from my Tahoka Shower for above her door

LOVED how this turned out

Josh's mom gave us this piece of furniture--it was white before and Josh painted it

Rocking chair and crib

 

This one turned out dark but had to have the view of the cute curtains and changing table.

Also LOVE the picture to the left--newborn picture of her in Josh's fire hat with him holding her

 Other side of the room

 

I love all of her nursery but this really is my favorite part.

I had seen this saying somewhere and so my mom made me a board. <3

The quilt was the first thing we bought and kinda based her room off of the colors in it.

Our poor baby has no bows to wear :)

And I don't even think this is all of them!!

 

I must say that I am pretty proud of how cute it turned out and for the price we payed for the cuteness!

The yellow piece of furniture was given to us.

The secretary was a family piece of furniture.

The crib was my nephews.

The rocking chair I bought at a garage sale.

The changing table we found on craigslist.

So for all the furniture in the room we spent less than $300!!

 

 

3 months

Time flies when you are having fun!!

Not a day goes by that I don't look at this little girl and smile. She is such a joy and Josh and I can't get enough of her! 

Yesterday she turned three months old!

Josh got on the scales with her and it is looking like she weighs around 12 pounds...this is DOUBLE what she weighed when she arrived in this world! 

We had a quick photoshoot this morning before running out the door for work and I was sad that she didn't show off her sweet little smile but I'm sure I will catch it soon.

She always looks surprised :)

 Big girl!

Trying to figure out what her daddy was doing

 Got to leaning a little far to right and looking a little frightened-

Don't worry her daddy saved her!

Sweet, sweet girl

We loved her arm on the arm rest!

At three months she:

-is sleeping through the night almost every night! We had a few dirty diaper issues that would wake us up in the middle of the night but I think we are over that for now.

-smiles and coos a lot

-is eating about 4 1/2 ounces about every 3 hours

-is still on a pretty good schedule. Since I have gone back to work I don't think it is quite as good as it was just due to the commute 30 miles back and forth

-still loves hanging out on her play mat

-had her first overnight stay with Mimzie and Pappy while Mommy & Daddy went to see George Strait

-is now officially in 3 month clothing! (This is just as of last week!!)

-wearing size 1 diapers

Reunited--if only for a night!

On December 29th, Josh and I went to one of my good friends from colleges wedding in Amarillo. We were pretty exhausted from all the holiday travel but I could not resist the chance to get to see all of my college friends---the times we get to see each other are WAY not near as often as I would like. So we loaded up again for a fun night of visiting old friends and dancing the night away....or till about ten, lol!

 

This girl and I were inseperable from the middle of our freshman year until we graduated. We were not looking forward to returning to the "real world" and never getting to see each other. She lives and works on her families ranch in Kansas and only comes to Texas a few times a year. We have so much fun together and she makes me laugh so hard! I have missed her like crazy! So even though we only got to see each other for a few hours---it was completely worth it! :)

 

Molly, Hensley and I

She is hoping to work her way up to honorary aunt status.

Pretty sure she is already there!

I love this one because Hensley is looking at me like, "Really, Mom?! Another picture!"

Family pic!

These are quickly becoming my new favorite thing!

See?! Told ya! Josh is such a good sport!

Then we had to have one by the tree, too!

LOVE YOU, Molly Giles Beckford!

Then I had to include one more of this little cutie by herself in case you couldn't see her very well in the other pictures :)

Christmas from the iphone

And here are a few from Christmas taken on the good ole iPhone!

 

Colt cheesing for a pic to send Aunt Nee

 

Hensley Sue in her cute, even if they were a little big, Christmas pjs

Ah! Love this one!

My sweet little girl on her first Christmas!

 

Mom got the little girl's all these cute little hats!

Again, Hensley's are a little big but I can't wait for her to be able to wear them!

And Gentry modeling hers! :)

Carter Christmas

Josh got off work the morning of Christmas Eve and I had the car loaded down and we headed to Dalhart as soon as we could! I couldn't wait to see everyone!

 

About halfway there we heard that one of my cousins got sick the night before and so that whole part of the family wasn't going to come just to make sure they didn't pass along the germs to the rest of us. We got to Dalhart about lunch and had our big meal with Me-Me, and the rest of the crew that was there. It was delicious as always! We had a relaxing afternoon and then we got ready to go to Christmas Eve service--which is always a favorite of mine! I am so sad though that I didn't get a picture~! Oh well.

 

Christmas morning we woke up to blowing snow! We bundled up baby girl and the little boys and made the dash over to Me-Me's house to see what Santa had brought! Rett & Colt must have been really good this year because they had lots of goodies set out and there was even something left at the barn that wouldn't fit it Me-Me's house. Too bad we couldn't even see the barn due to the weather. Popo, however, ventured out and brought it down to the house--it was a horse! The boys were so excited. (There aren't any pictures of this either because we were facetiming Aunt Nee and videotaping!!) Gentry and Hensley must not have had time to earn near as many since they hadn't been here the whole year. But they did get some essentials like clothes and books. I'm guessing next year their pile might be a little bigger :)

 

Finally after things settled down a little, I had time to snap a few pictures!

 

 

Love this boy--not quite sure what he is eating!!

 

Such a cute picture! The 3 Little Wann's in their Christmas pj's!

 

 

These next set of pictures crack me up!

Rett, Colt & Gentry: "Ahhh, there's Hensley Sue"

 

Gentry: "Oh hiiii, Hensley! I can't wait to play with you!"

Rett: "Gentry, you can't touch her! She is too little"

Rett: "Could I get a little help here?!?!"

Look how talented he is! Totally blocking GK while still holding Hensley Sue!

 

 

Me-Me got all the little boys matching red vests---they were so adorable!

The boys were pretty excited.

Big hugs for Me-Me...

 

And even a high-five!

<3

The older boys all got matching jackets too!! :)

All bundled up for the cold!

 

It was kind of a crazy Christmas with about 1/2 as many people there as there should have been. Whitney and Garrett only got to come for a few hours due to the weather and working.

And up until Christmas it had been SO warm that I never could get in the Christmas spirit. But regardless of all of that, it was a wonderful Christmas. We enjoyed every minute of spending time with the family we did get to see and all of the amazing food--but mostly celebrating the fact that it was Jesus' birthday! Thank you Lord for sending Him to us!

I've Got To Brag....

I've been uploading pictures so that I can catch up on all my blogs but I had to take a minute break to brag on my little girl!

My sister has always had the best sleeping kids. So I, of course, wanted to know all of her secrets. We have read Baby Wise and Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child and called Rebecca LOTS of times for advice. We have tried from the beginning to get her on a schedule and to put her down when she sleeps so she learns to sleep by her self. She has done great napping (for the most part---we have had our times of not wanting to nap!) so I had a feeling that it wouldn't be too long before she started sleeping through the night. They say that a baby can sleep through the night at 6 weeks of age (based on due date---not birth date). This, for Hensley, was the weekend before I started back to work. Well, Josh and I held our breath but we still got up in the middle of the night...darn it. But every night we held our breath and wondered "Is this it?!"

I went back to work January 2nd and that night she slept from about 7 pm to 4 am!! 

WOOHOOO!!! 

She has been doing GREAT every since then. She has slept till 6 and 6:30 a few times but there are still nights we get up at 4ish. But---when she sleeps 8-9 hours in a row I am not going to complain!

Ok---I am through bragging but I just can't help it. :)

Oh wait one more thing....

How cute is she!?!?!

Ok, I'm done now--I promise. 

Hawthorne Christmas

We had two Christmases in one night, December 22nd.

We had the Huckabey Christmas (Lisa's family) and then after they left we had Josh's immediate family Christmas.

 

Have I ever mentioned how amazing they are?

Seriously, I am so blessed.  I kinda feel bad that I have such amazing in-laws and can in no way relate to people's stories about their horrible in-laws. But mostly, I just feel blessed :)

 

Hensley and MawMaw (Lisa's mom)

This is her 3rd great-grand

Hayes Crossan, my  sweet nephew

(6 months)

Sporting the new hat Lisa AKA Mimzie found him..he was thrilled

 



 

Opening his presents--he really like the tissue paper

Hensley in her 1st Christmas Hat!