Only 3 months behind.........

New Years Eve with Friends

Cade goes to the Flea Market (the pulga) and becomes a cowboy with his buddy

Claire starts daycare

We lose Kalvin :(

this is the last pic I took of him :(

Colby's family comes to visit

Valentine's Day

Houston

We adopt Chaplin Ray

Bubba and sissy are in love!

Claire's 1st Road Trip and Merry Christmas from Us!

Claire had her 1st road trip to Austin, Texas for Aunt Carrie's wedding. She was a perfect angel the entire trip and for the entire weekend of fabulous wedding festivities! We even allowed her to have her 1st experience in a photo booth- I think she's a photogenic angel! Daddy and I obviously had a great time too!
And of course- Santa stopped by our house the following weekend.
Gigi, PaPa Chip, and Uncle Jarret came to visit us for the holiday weekend. We kept the Valley tradition and had a Mexican feast on Christmas Eve- consisting of tamales, rice, beans, and of course guac and queso! The power went out on Christmas Eve which allowed for some interesting family bonding and a comical assembly of Cade's bike by "Santa" with a flashlight and wine in hand! Thank God Santa still found our house in the dark!!!! It was an awesome Christmas morning, Cade had a blast, and Claire- well she was so excited that she slept through the entire morning! This was a Christmas weekend I will never forget!

Claire's 1st Turkey Day

Claire had a great 1st Turkey Day!
We were super classy and went to good ol' Cracker Barrel for lunch :)
Sadly we weren't with any of our extended family and we missed everyone terribly; but we really enjoyed our little intimate day together as a family of 4.
We have so much to be thankful for, including a Thanksgiving Cowboys and Longhorn win!

Oh and for all my girls out there that are wondering where's Claire's Turkey Day outfit? Well we had 2 adorable choices, and sadly both of them SWALLOWED her! She is barely fitting in her Newborn clothes, she's itty-bitty, and we LOVE it!

Baby Claire has ARRIVED

The date was correct, the birth plan was NOT correct......
I was scheduled for a simple c-section at 7:30 AM on 11/1/11. I was suppose to arrive, get my spinal, meet my baby and have a nice, simple, painless birth...... well.......
10:00 PM- headed to bed with everything packed and ready to go the next morning after a great night of Trick or Treating
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10:30 PM- feeling cramping like I have never felt before
12:00 AM- I wake Colby and tell him something isn't right and that I am going downstairs to try and relax
1:30 AM- I could not take the pain anymore, the cramping was coming every 2-5 minutes (I never went into true labor with Cade so I had no experience with these symptoms)
2:30 AM- get to the hospital, check in (which was surprisingly not too long), get hooked up to the monitors, having contractions every 1-2 minutes, find out I am in active labor, instructed with every contraction to NOT push, how people go through this without pain meds is crazy to me!!, the nurses immediately call the doctor
3:00 AM- doctor arrives, wheeled on back, spinal placed (praise God for that), csection and tubes tied, baby arrives at 4:11 AM :)
labor= 5hrs, c-section= 50 min!
Braylee Claire was 6.7# and 19.5 in
Dr Vela was AMAZING, and the hospital staff was FANTASTIC!
Best moment ever- the spinal :) and when Dr Vela announces that Claire has a head full of hair!