Thanksgiving and other fun things

It has been awhile since I updated our blog. Since then we started our holiday season with Thanksgiving! Austin spent his first Thanksgiving pretty much sleeping. That was good though, because we sure had a busy weekend. Thursday we ate at Ryan's grandma's house. There are so many people there and it can get a little crazy! The food and conversation was great as always. That night we went to my sister in law's parent's home for a little pie and conversation. We got to spend time with Grandpa and Grandpa Streit, my brother, sister in law, niece and my sister in law's family.

We do love Black Friday sales, but we decided to sleep in this year. Austin is pretty good at sleeping through the night so we didn't want to wake him up for no reason. We spent the time at home, it was just one of those days.

On Saturday we went to my parent's house. Two of my aunts and uncles, my grandma, her sister and then my family was there. Austin did a good job at entertaining everybody!

Now we are getting ready for Christmas. The garland has been hung, but that is all for now. I'm so excited to start celebrating special holidays with my new family. I swear it just makes this time of season ever more special!

In camo, like Daddy!



Always so alert!



Blankie time

Caught a goofy grin

Rock star hair!

At Thanksgiving, with cousin Calleigh

That's right..thankful for mommy!

No more pictures mom!!!!!

Cuddling with my puppy blanket

Hanging out with Grandpa Streit.

Daddy, Mommy and Austin

Tummy time!

Austin hates tummy time, but gosh darnet I'm going to take a million pictures of him. He is pretty much the cutest kid ever and I only say that because I am totally unbiased. I'm so excited so next week, it will be our first Thanksgiving and I'm excited about showing him off to people that haven't met him yet. Until then, here is my cutie pie honey bun.

Two months old. Where did the time go?

On Friday Austin celebrated his two month birthday! The day didn't start out great, as it was spent at the doctor's office getting his shots. Thankfully (maybe), he was so hungry and crying from that I'm not too sure he even noticed the shots. Mommy had a bottle ready for him right afterward and he seemed pretty satisfied. Not surprising, he's a big boy. Weight was 15 lbs, height was 26 inches. He ranked in the 98 and 99 percentile respectively. I've been told to stop feeding him fertilizer. :-)



For fun, we put him in his coming home outfit. We knew he was going to be big, so it was a 0-3 month outfit. I can't believe how much he has changed. Even his face and everything.

Austin just a couple days old.

 

 

Austin at 2 months

I love him soooooooooooooo much!

Happy Halloween

Austin had his first Halloween last Sunday! He dressed up as a skeleton and even had his own pumpkin with his footprints on it. We didn't do trick or treating this year, maybe next year if he is walking. Instead we just stayed at home and passed out candy to the kids in the neighborhood.

Helping carve his pumpkin

Austin's footprints

Puppy and kitty's pumpkin

My sweet boy

With his pumpkin

Smiles

Such a hectic weekend!

This weekend was very busy in the Smith household! On Saturday we had two major events. First was Austin's baptism at St. Anne's Catholic Church. It was a great experience and we're so happy. We're very thankful for my brother Andy and sister in law Cassandra for being Austin's Godparents. We know they will continue to be a great support system for our growing family. Austin was such a good boy and didn't even wake up during the baptism!

Saturday afternoon Ryan's work was having a picnoc cookout at a park in Tempe. It was such a great day to be outside. We had hamburgers and hot dogs, side dishes, and yummy desserts. They even made smores, but we left before they had those. It was a great time with some great people. I'm looking forward to Austin being old enough to play and stuff. Right now he's cute, but he doesn't do much. :-) I know I'll regret that statement later.

Since Austin is going through all of his first, I want to make sure we capture plenty of pictures and do a lot of fun things. Since it is almost Halloween, we went to a pumpkin patch today to take pictures. It was good times because my brother and sister in law brought their daughter, Calleigh and Cassandra's mom and my mom also met us there. We got some great pictures! He's young so it was hard to pose him and he wanted to sleep, but at the same time Calleigh was so excited to just run around that it was hard to get her to sit for pictures. It is okay, I love all the pictures we got.

Getting in the Swing of Things

Ryan started back to work October 4th and Austin and I have been getting used to being together during the weeks. It is probably one of the most difficult things, to work and take care of him. His been having a lot more awake times during the day and that comes with wanting more attention than in the first few weeks. We've been excited to see little smiles though!

Well I guess this is a big smile! Austin turned a month old! I can't believe it has been a month already! Well now it has been a little over a month. Every night I look at him and just think that it is a miracle that he was grown inside of me and that he is a perfect combo or Ryan and I.

Austin went through his first storm earlier this month. He slept through the whole thing in his swing. I must be a mom because I was sitting there praying that the electricity didn't go out because his swing would stop swinging. We got a good amount of hail, it almost looked like snow! Max and Molly played in it afterwards, but boy did it make a mess!

We're excited about some upcoming events to share with Austin. We have his baptism coming up on the 23rd and the next weekend is Halloween! We're so excited to carve Austin's first pumpkin. :-) Here are a few pictures from the last couple weeks!