Thankful

FYI, this is a LONG post with LOTS of pics!  Thanksgiving week started great with me having the entire week off work to hang out with my favorite girl!

Wednesday morning Hannah wanted to help her Mommy make pies for Thanksgiving day.  I love the face she's making.

Just hanging out in her bumbo looking cute

Hey Mommy!

Love that sweet smile

Chocolate cream pie done!  Hannah looks excited doesn't she??  ;)

Thursday morning we woke up and Daddy and Hannah watched the parade while I made the pumpkin pies.  Hannah LOVED the parade!  It was so cute, she really liked watching the dancers the most.

After the parade we got dressed up and took some pictures before heading over to Lainey and Pops house.

She always makes this face.  She tilts her head down and looks up at you.  We think it's pretty cute.  :)

Oh my gosh, can it be?!  A family picture where we're ALL looking in the same direction!

B made it in the picture!

Leah and Haley's Gabou came to visit all the way from Ohio.  Hannah loves her too and liked making faces.  She looks like she's yelling "hey guys!" here.  Ha!

Miss Hannah has been ALL about her tongue this month too!  Actually, since she was born she's stuck her tongue out a lot but she really has figured it out this month.

Leah being silly with her Mommy

Big girl giving her Aunt K some lovin.  Love her so much!

Leah and Aunt K

Pretty girl  :)

Sitting up like a big girl!

Hannah hanging out with her Lainey

Almost all of the Autrey fam!  The sun decided to shine on half of us during the picture but hey, it's a miracle we even all got in one picture!

Townsend and Josefovsky crews.  The guys are way outnumbered now!

The girls!

Mary, Haley, Leah & Tracy

Hannah was sleepy from all the turkey so she wanted to take a nap.  Hair bow in, dress up to her waist and all!

Emily and Hannah

The next day Austin, Hannah and I headed to Waco to celebrate Thanksgiving with his mom's side of the family.  Hannah got lots of attention from everyone. 

She was happy :)

Hanging out with her Papa/Coach. She thinks he is just SO funny! 

This picture made me laugh, they are just checking each other out

This is Hannah's 2nd cousin Sam, he's about six weeks older than she is.  His face cracks me up here.  He wasn't quite sure what to think about her!

She was talking to him but he thought she was a little strange.  Ha! 

You think we have a happy girl??  Love her!

She surprised us to by holding her own bottle when CiCi was feeding her!

All of the 2nd cousins! 

Hannah, Garrett, Miles, Sam, Emory, Cole and Noah

After dinner we headed to Georgetown for the weekend where Hannah got lots of CiCi, Papa/Coach and Aunt Rachel time!  She's hanging out watching football here.  She watched a lot of football on Saturday and even got babysat by Coach!  She slept the entire time for him too so he had it pretty easy. 

I'm not doing a great job lately of taking pictures because I feel like I never sit down so that's the only one I got from Georgetown.  Oops!  We had a great Thanksgiving and we have more to be thankful this year than ever.  Hannah is our little miracle baby and we are thankful every day when we get to see her sweet little face. 

Rock-A-Bye Baby Shower

Two weeks ago a few girls and I hosted a Rock-N-Roll themed baby shower at my house for our friend Liz and baby Adelina (due date is Christmas Eve!).  Liz is one of my oldest and bestest friends and is probably the funniest person I've ever met so it was a lot of fun getting to throw her a shower.  We worked hard to make sure there was food she loves, drinks she loves (when she's not preggers) and a theme she loves since she has never been one to shy away from a personal concert.   

Champagne cocktails bar

Lindsey found someone on Etsy who made the invitations and all the accessories to go with it.  Gotta love Etsy!

Popcorn favors for the pop star momma!

I found the cutest guitar diaper cake (also on Etsy) for the mommy-to-be placed right along with her all time favorite foods - beef jerky and pickles!  The only thing missing was a plate of cheese.  Liz has quite a mature palate.  ;)  Hey, you like what you like! 

Yummy cupcakes

Rock-a-bye baby invite

Adelina's own water bottles!

Mommy-to-be!

I can't wait for Hannah and Adelina to grow up together!  Liz and I have big plans for these girls, they are going to be best friends, they just don't know it yet!  :)

Lots of yummy food

Amber got our girls the cutest little ruffle bottoms

I made Liz some burp cloths and I've never really appreciated how large they are until now since Hannah spits up all over the place these days.

To go along with the theme, I got Adelina some rock star clothes for both mom and dad

Liz got a ton of great gifts including this NKOTB onesie!  Gotta love old school boy bands 

Liz rockin' it out

Mommy-to-be with her hostesses

Me, Liz and Lindsey.  Our friendship began a LOOONG time ago when Lindsey and I took Liz to the movies one night and we've stayed close ever since!



Congratulations Liz!!  I can't wait for sweet little Lina to arrive and for you to get to experience how special motherhood is.  It's the best thing in the world and you are going to be such a great mommy to your baby girl. 

Uh Oh

It looks like we've got a little thumb sucker on our hands!

Baby girl LOVES to stick her fingers in her mouth and she's just recently discovered that she has a thumb also!  She's the cutest little thumb sucker I've ever seen.  :)

Cereal Is Yucky!

There was a big event at the Townsend house last night!  Miss Hannah got to try rice cereal for the first time!

Take a look and you can decide if she liked it or not....

First taste

That is a look of pure disgust on her face

Austin and I could not stop laughing at this picture because we've never seen her make a face like this!  Best.  Picture.  EVER.  Hahaha! 

Pretty sure more ended up on her chin and bib than in her mouth

Looking at Daddy with the video camera giving him the "help me Daddy" eyes.

But it was all worth it because she got her bath afterwards!  How sweet is this?!  She's just holding onto her Daddy's finger while getting her bath.  Love it.

She's such a big girl now!

One Year Ago...

One year ago today our lives were changed forever.  We got the news that we'd all anxiously been waiting to hear, I was pregnant!  I remember that day so clearly.  I had only been home from the hospital from my kidney stones incident for four days and I was back at the doctors office getting my blood taken, then off to my regular acupuncture appointment (that would continue until I was 12 weeks pregnant), then a stop by Tracy's to see Miss Leah and back home to wait for the phone to ring.  Every single time my phone rang that day (and it rang a LOT because all of my family and close friends knew we were getting the news that day) my heart would drop thinking it was the dr's office calling.  Nurse Allison finally called at 3:30 while I was sitting on the couch distracting myself with some Beverly Hills 90210 (ironically it was the episode where Janet tells Steve she's pregnant, I'll never forget that!) and told me my blood test results were in and I was pregnant!  Dr H called not much later to congratulate us and I just could not stop crying.  I seriously have never cried such happy tears in my life.  We had gone through the hardest year of our lives and to have it all end the way it did we couldn't have been happier.  So, 10 days after the embryo transfer, little Miss Hannah was growing by the day and it was just the beginning of the greatest thing that's ever happened to us!  

B and me impatiently waiting for Austin to get home to give him the good news!

B wearing his Big Brother shirt to surprise his Daddy with the news

A year later we get to spend every day with this sweet baby girl and we couldn't be happier!

Hannah Lee you are the greatest gift your Daddy and I ever could have received and we love you SO much!  We smile every time we see you and never could have imagined love this big.  Your smile warms our hearts and your squeals and coos are music to our ears.  You ended 2010 on the highest note for us and 2011 has been better every day.  We love you baby girl!

What a difference a year makes!

Early Bird

I got woken up this morning 10 minutes before my alarm went off because someone has found her voice and IT IS LOUD!!  I couldn't even be upset that my alarm hadn't gone off yet because she's just too stinking cute!

(Photo courtesy of CiCi who sends me sweet pics throughout her and Hannah's days together)

It really was cute though, she was just squawking (yes, squawking is the appropriate word for the sound she was making) and cooing away.  Baby girl LOVES the sound of her voice now that she realizes it's her!

Another big event happened this week, Miss Hannah rolled over on her own!!  Video to come!

It's also worth noting that while she was up early this morning talking away, she got to fall back asleep into a blissful slumber while Mommy and Daddy had to get up and start their day.  Still worth waking up early to hear that sweet sound. :)