Happy Halloween!

Maddox is a little young for Trick-or-treating so this year we opted for just taking him to the Fall Festival out at my sisters church. It was last night and it was so fun! Maddox was a football for Halloween this year. He was the smiliest little football you ever have seen. Those big brown eyes and yummy cheeks made the little costume precious! Our girlfriend Laura who is like a sister joined in with Natalie and I on the football theme and they were a bunch to be reckoned with. SO cute. We were able to get a few group pics of all the kids together. I hope everyone who is going out on Saturday has a very safe and fun Halloween!

Its a Football Baby!

Garrett (Laura's son) was Tony Romo...he even had a quarterback rag in his back pocket to complete his costume. Sitting by him on the hay is Madeleine (Natalie's oldest girl)who was a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader. She is holding sweet Maddox (we didn't let Tony Romo hold him for fear he may fumble him). Bottom row from Left is Natalie's twins Emma & Lizzie and then on the right is Laura's daughter Katherine. What a team!

Our guys...My Dad, Greg & Justin holding Lizzie, Maddox & Emma

Daddy is his biggest fan (other than me of course)

Happy Halloween sweet Boy.

I'm looking forward to looking at you and giggling with you in all your

many costumes to come.

You are the true joy of my life!

15 Weeks

These are just a few of my new favorite Maddox pics. He is really talking a lot and making lots of noise. He now sits in his bouncer that hangs from the door way and plays in his exersaucer. He loves to be on his feet. We also hit a big milestone in the past week. He is now taking 8 ounces of formula at a time and for the past 5 nights (were not counting or anything;)) he has slept through the night. I'm still not sleeping through the night but my sweet boy is sleeping 7 to 7! I know he cant understand it but I tell him everyday how proud I am of him.

Hanging out in his bouncing Exersaucer

I love that he is finally getting some meat on those thighs.

On his feet of course!

Those Big eyes...I love them!

Sweet little grin!

Loving His Pa

Maddox really loves when Pa (my Dad) comes by after work a few times a week to see him before he goes to bed. I love this sweet picture of them looking at each other.

Grammy, Papa & a Joe T's Fiesta

My Grammy & Papa came into town to meet Maddox for the first time and to celebrate Moms birthday. It is so special to me that both sets of my grandparents have been able to meet my sweet boy. I will cherish my pictures of them with him forever. We had a fun Joe T's night celebrating moms b-day!

Me & My sisters: Natalie, Amy & Me

Mom & Dad

Grammy, Papa & Maddox

Grammy & the Gass Girls

Maddox's 1st Dinner Date

We had a fun family night with the McWhirters & Bensons last week. It was such a fun night! Maddox loved hanging out with his friend Rowan and it was our first family dinner party with friends! Rowan was such a great little hostess for Maddox and he loved playing with her toys and hanging out in her chair! I was glad to get Greg together with Grant & Charlie. He really enjoyed it and is looking forward to hanging out again. I of course loved my time with Brooke and was so happy to catch up with Lindsey who I have not seen in ten years...weird. Lindsey is a mommy to be in more ways than one and we are so excited for her and Charlie. Lindsey brought Rowan and Maddox the sweetest little dinner place setting for their dinner party. Thanks Lindsey I cant wait for Maddox to use it! We are looking forward to many more dinner parties to come!

Brooke & I loved loving on each others babies! She loved Maddoxs Babiness and I loved sweet Rowans girliness! She is precious!

Maddox just flirting with Ms. Rowan!

Charlie has a way with the kiddos. He is gonna make an amazing father!

Handsome Man

Maddox had his first big dress up event last Saturday and he was the most handsome man there! My mom just because a director with Mary Kay again...Woo Whoo Mama! So on Saturday we got to go to her big debut! I was so proud of Maddox. He behaved so well and again was quite simply precious!

My Mom got all of us a little gift for supporting her through

her Mary Kay Business and she got Maddox a praise and worship DVD called Baby Praise. We put it on for him when we got home and as you can see in the above picture he loved it!

Those Big Brown eyes melt my heart!

Mommy & Maddox

Maddox Loves his cousins! From left: Emma, Madeliene & Lizzie

They are pretty crazy about him too!

Smiling because he is so proud of his Nani!

Boys Weekend & Missing Momma

I was away this weekend for my friend Lindsey's Bachelorette party. I will say there is nothing easy about leaving your baby for the first time. I was so sad on Friday when I had to say goodbye. I knew he was in good hands at home with his Daddy all weekend but the bottom line is there is nowhere I would rather be than with my little guy. Don't get me wrong it was a great weekend and I needed to get away and learn that Yes he can survive without me but it was still hard. Lucky for me I have an amazing husband who loves his little man as much as I do. Greg played with Maddox all weekend and they had a great time! I do hope in a small and selfish way that he missed me just a little bit! Greg was so sweet to send me pictures of Maddox every hour or so. I must have received over 30 pictures while I was away...some of him sleeping, some of him waking up, some of him eating, some of him playing. Each picture made my day! I also think that Greg was reassuring me that he had things under control! I never doubted ya babe! Below are some of my favorites that I got while I was gone. Our little guy is growing and growing and growing!

Hanging out with Daddy!
Trying so Hard to wake up!

Maddox is so smiley after a good afternoon nap...who isn't!

Quite simply...adorable!

I think the title to this picture that Greg sent was Look at me Mommy I just burped really good!

Its been a Great Day!

Today Maddox has officially reached the double digit mark. He is 10 weeks old today. It is hard for us to believe that so much time has passed. He is doing just great. Last night he even slept for a 7 hour stretch! It was glorious! Maddox started Mothers day out last week for one day a week for three hours. We were blessed enough to get into UCCs Weekday School and so we jumped on the opportunity. This will assure him a spot in the coming years to attend a wonderful school as I go back to work. Last week was harder on me than it was on him to leave him. He did great and even got to take a ride in the bye bye buggy. It seats six little ones and they take them outside for a little ride each morning. It is the cutest site to see. Maddox has two teachers and one of them is my grandmothers age. She is so loving and sweet with the little ones. She takes a ton of pictures everyday and today she gave us a pic of them on there ride last week. I will brag on my son for one quick second and say that they told me he was the only one who didn't cry while they were on it. That's our little man...always up for a new adventure! On meet the teacher day I was so pleasantly surprised to see an old friend holding her sweet baby girl in our classroom. Brooke is from Ft. Worth and also went to Tech. We ran into each other when we were both pregnant but had not seen each other since we had our little ones. It was such a treat to see that her little girl Rowan would be in the same class as Maddox. We went for coffee today after we dropped them off at school and it was the highlight of my week. I don't have many friend in Ft. Worth who have kids so it was nice to sit and chat with another mom. WE did do a lot of talking about our kids but also just caught up with each other. I am really looking forward to more chats, play dates and fun to come with Brooke and Rowan. As today is wrapping up and my sweet little man is fast asleep I am unwinding with a smile on my face. Today is a great day...We have a healthy and happy 10 week old amazing baby, I got to spend some time with an old friend, Greg got some great news at work today and life is just wonderful.

So...here is the pic of the Bye-Bye Buggy. Maddox is in the back and Rowan is right in front of him!

Its Fun For Friends to meet your Kiddo!

I had a suprise run in with a friend from Ft. Worth who I also went to College with at Tech on Friday night at Glorias in Dallas. It was great to see Meagan and spend a few minutes catching up. The most fun was introducing her to Maddox. It made me realize how proud I am to show him off and I cant wait for more of my friends to meet him.

A visit from the St. Louis Nurses

Maddox got a special visit this weekend from his Meme & Papa who had not seen him since week one and he got to meet his Uncle Travis & Aunt Anna for the first time! It was such a fun holiday weekend. It was truly great having them here and we hope they come again soon!

Maddox is so excited to meet hi Uncle Trav!

My sweet sisters-in-law and Mr. Maddox

Aunt Kris finally got to hold him...Unlce Dwaine usually trys to take him away from her!

Maddox was so content with his Uncle Travis.

All the Nurse men on the front porch!

These are great pictures that Maddox will treasure when he is older!

Once night we cooked out at our house and the laddies hung out on the porch!

With Sampson of course!

The guys hung out inside and listened to music and caught up.

Their cousin Steve was in town also (thats him in the middle).

Maddox relaxing on the couch with his Papa.

And Rocking with his Meme!

It was really fun having Meme & Papa here to see him wake up in the mornings.

He is such a happy baby in the morning.

They loved watching him play!Hanging out with Aunt Anna!

Three generations of Nurses in this pic!

playing with Uncle Trav!

1 Down...Forever to go!

SO I am one week late on my posts but I wanted to acknowledge that the second best day of my life to date was a year ago last Monday. The day I married my best friend. Greg and I were laying on the beach in Antigua this time last year celebrating on our honeymoon. It has been an exciting year so far. We have had so much fun being married and have welcomed the best gift that a marriage can bring having welcomed Maddox into our world. Greg had a wonderful evening planned with dinner reservations, cocktails and fun....then we were offered tickets to the cowboys game and being the huge sports fans that we are it made perfect sense to celebrate our special day together at the game with Kris & Dwaine. I am blessed beyond words with my amazing husband and with the future that we have together. I look forward to many years ahead!