Thanksgiving 2012

Well, seeing how Thanksgiving was almost a week ago and the Christmas decorations are now up, I guess I should finally get around to sharing a few photos from our Thanksgiving.

 

We had a great Thanksgiving.  It was really low key compared to our usual hectic, going from house-to-house, holiday schedule.  We spent the whole day at my Mom and Dad's house.  It was the first year for my Mom to host Thanksgiving in her new house and everything was wonderful. 

 

It was a smaller crowd than we sometimes have, but we had a great time.  We enjoyed a fabulous feast and then enjoyed relaxing, watching football and playing games.

 

A few pictures of my Thanksgiving cuties in their turkey outfits : )

 

 

Our new Thanksgiving tradition...having the kids write down what they are thankful for on this tablecloth.  I look forward to having this tablecloth in 18 years filled with many wonderful memories.

 

 

My sweet little family.  I'm so thankful for these three!

 

 I hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

 

{{Side note...Black Friday 2012...If you're a regular around here, you know that I love Black Friday shopping.  You can read about Black Friday here, here, here and here.  But this year, I made what I consider to be the wise and responsible : ) decision, to skip it...something about a crazy 2 1/2 year old.  Anyways, having Black Friday withdrawals, I decided that me and the Little Lady would do Black Friday from our couch.  So Thursday night we stayed up, drank coffee {me, not her!} and shopped away online.  It was an acceptable substitute for this year, but next year, we'll be back at the real thing!}}

 

Smile : )

A couple of weeks ago we had our family pictures, along with some newborn pics of the Little Buckaroo, taken. 

 

If you know me, you know that I stress over getting good family pictures, but this year I really had to tell myself that I needed to be happy with whatever we got, because with a 2 1/2-year-old and a 2-week-old, let's be realistic, it's really out of your hands. 

 

But, I'm thrilled because we got a ton of great shots!  Here are a few of my favorites.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That bright orange box from Shutterfly should be making it's way to us any day now.  I'm so excited to see our Christmas cards!

What Tressie's Thankful For

I was trying to explain "thankfulness" to Tressie.

I then asked her what she was thankful for.

"Papa...and my house...Papa...Gunner...Papa."

Not hard to tell who the Little Lady's favorite person is!

 

 

 

 

A Few Phone Photos

Goodness...I am behind in the blogging world!

Here are a few phone pictures to catch you up on a little of what we've been up to.

It seems like Grandma, the kids and I have been making a weekly trip to the big city lately, mostly for doctor's appointments.  Gunner got to make his first visit to Fargos.

 

 

On one of these trips to town, which always seem to turn into marathon-day-long trips, especially when you throw a doctor's appointment or two in the mix, the kiddos were both done by the time we got to Target for groceries.  Thank goodness, they both just went to sleep.

 

The Little Buckaroo turned one-month-old!  Here's a comparison photo: one-day-old and one-month-old.

Gunner's one-month check-up with Dr. Hoover went great.  He weighed in at 10 pounds 2 ounces (up nearly 3 pounds from his lowest weight of 7 pounds 4 ounces) and grew to 22 inches long.  Poor baby was also due for a shot.

The Little Lady is OBSESSED with Rapunzel and the movie Tangled.  Last week when she was watching it, she grabbed this blanket and said "Look Mama, my pretty hair."  She's been dragging this blanket around behind her ever since.  Such an imagination!

 

So there's just a little bit of what's been going on around the Trailerhood!

The Little Buckaroo {{One-Month-Old}}

Our Little Buckaroo is one-month-old today!

I know, it's so cliche, but this month has gone so fast.
After we got through our first week of running back and forth to doctor's appointments and spending another night in the hospital to treat his jaundice, we settled into our "normal routine" {if there is such a thing for us!} and things are going great.

Gunner is a really good baby.
He really usually only cries when he's hungry or when his sister pinches his nose {yes, she really does this when we're not looking}.

The little man likes to eat...A LOT!
Not the best nurser, so I pump and feed him. He consistently eats 3 to 5 ounces every three hours.
He's growing like crazy...his little cheeks just keep getting chubbier and chubbier.
We go for his one month check-up on Wednesday, I'm anxious to see how much he's grown.

 

Looking a little sleepy...

 

A hint of a sweet little smile...

 

Are we done yet, Mom...

 

Growing!

one-day-old and one-month-old

 

Trick or Treat

We had a fun Halloween this year.

My Mom and I took the kids to Limon to trick or treat at John Wayne and I's offices and then John Wayne treated us to lunch.
 
I saw this tutu version of an Indian costume on Pinterest months ago and knew that's what I wanted to make for the Little Lady's costume {I'm sure this will be the last year that I get to choose her costume!} and then I just happened onto the adorable little papoose costume for the Little Buckaroo online.

Mama's Little Indians

She's a pretty loud little Indian.

Her Daddy said that her Indian name is "Talks A Lot."

After a much needed nap, it was time to go to Kit Carson to trick or treat.

First stop was Great Grandpa and Grandma Hammer's house.

How GW spent most of the night...

 

T giving GW his treat from The Greats.

Grandma took the Little Lady up to the houses while I stayed in the Suburban with the Little Buckaroo.

 

 It's so fun to have such a nice little town to trick or treat in!

The Little Lady was a little shy, at like the first house we went to, and then she was WAY into it.  By the end of the night, she was yelling "more places, more candy!"

It was a lot of fun to see her having so much fun.

 

Then we came home and had chili for dinner, got into our Halloween jammies and of course, went through all of our candy!

 

It Lasts a Lifetime

Your name, that is.

Ugh, the agony of naming this cute little guy.

Gunner.
Easy enough.
We knew we'd call him Gunner, but what would his full name be?
What would his birth certificate say?

If you read my earlier post, you know that John Wayne and I were in disagreement over what his middle name should be?
I wanted Hammer.
He wanted William.

I honestly wasn't loving either one.
I LOVED the idea of using Hammer, but didn't love how it sounded.

A couple of weeks before he was born, we came up with the idea of naming him Augustus Hammer Golding and calling him Gunner.  I liked that, a lot.
So we kept that name to ourselves, but I think in the back of both of our minds, Augustus Hammer was the name.

So Gunner is born and immediately, the name issue starts bugging me.

People ask what his middle name is, we tell them that we're not sure yet.

We send out our announcement texts, emails and FB posts simply as "Gunner."

Every time our room is without visitors, we look at each other and say, "Well, what's it going to be?"

We sent the birth certificate lady away on several occasions.
Finally when it came down to that being the last item to check off on our discharge sheet, we did it, we wrote down "Augustus Hammer Golding."

I then called the pediatricians office to make Gunner's first appointment.
They ask me his name and I tell them Gunner.
They ask me his middle name and I immediately panic and feel the tears welling up.
What have we done, we've set this poor child up for a lifetime of name confusion.

I get off the phone and the tears start rolling.
John Wayne tells me, yes, you probably should have told them that his name is Augustus.
That's when I knew we had to change it, his name just needed to be Gunner.

So Gunner it is.
But then there was still that issue of the middle name.
At that moment I'm pretty sure I could have won the middle name argument with whatever name I wanted.  John Wayne gave me that 100% go ahead for Hammer.  Like many arguments in my life, once I had the satisfaction of knowing that I could have it my way, it didn't matter quite as much to me.  That and I still didn't like how Gunner Hammer flowed, well really, didn't flow. So...

Welcome to the world Gunner William Golding.

We've been complimented numerous times on what a nice name he has, so that makes me feel good.  That and knowing that we hopefully helped him avoid a lifetime of name confusion.

{And yes, I've found myself calling him "GW".  We call the Little Lady "T" and well "G" is just too close to "T", so "GW" it is.  John Wayne, you win.}