Thanksgiving Day

This holiday has been a huge change compared to past years. We are in a new house, my Grandpa isn't here with us for the first time, new baby.. just lots of change. Since Jentri is only 6 days old I didn't want to go anywhere but home. :) Jared spent the day with his family in Salt Lake so we missed him! I have had a hard time lately but today I can really look at the things I have been blessed with and say that I am a very lucky person to live the life that I do. I have two beautiful and healthy kids that make my heart shine no matter what the situation. I love them so much, words could never describe. Jackson is at his Dad's this week and it has been the longest week without him. Probably a good thing with the baby being home for her first week but I have missed him so much. I counted down the hours for pick him up time.. and I was there 5 minutes early. ;)


His behavior has been out of whack, it was on Saturday when we came home, Sunday and again today when he was here.. He loves his baby sister so much but I think it's going to take some getting used to for the attention to be shared with someone else. He had to go back to his Dad's at 4:00 and he wanted to take his baby sister to show off so we brought her along. On the way over we had 97.1 on and I can't even remember what song it was but he's like 'OH MY GOSH! This song just said 'My baby Jentri and Jackson are going to be brother and sister forever!' It was the cutest thing. He loves her so much.
He ran around wild all day long so I was only able to snap these two pictures of my two little turkey's together and don't mind that she is in a diaper! I was getting her dressed for the day. :)


Jentri is such a good baby, I feel so lucky. Jackson was a great baby too but he was in the hospital for the first 54 days of his life so I didn't really get to do those brand new baby at home things. He slept all night from the day he came home. For the first 2 nights, Jentri woke up every 2 hours to eat. I expected that for a while. Then for the next 3 nights she woke up every 4-5 hours, which was great! And last night.. she ate around 9:30, fell asleep around 10:00, and I woke up at 4:45 wondering what the heck and she was still asleep! She slept until 5:30 this morning. I was completely shocked. I had so much energy today, it was awesome! A 6 day old baby sleeping for 7.5 hours is amazing. She has been so alert the past two days, I just love it. She is such a beautiful baby girl. I am blessed! Nursing is going great. I was so afraid it wasn't going to work out and I am very thankful that it is! I love the bond that we share because of it!


My sister and her little family stopped by for a while. I love spending time with them, they live kind of far away so it's not very often we get to see each other. Tate is getting so big and he usually doesn't like me but today he warmed up and loved his Auntie. :)


Jackson brought the grapes out and gave Tate a huge lap full... hence his puffy cheeks :)


Jax was showing us how he made the Mayflower at school with toothpicks and cottonballs and he poked his finger. He needed a bandaid but we haven't brought the bandaids up from the old house so Gramma made him one from a cottonball and duct tape. LOL

Gramma loves her baby girl so much! I know that Jentri will have a great relationship with her Gramma just like I do. :) My mama is my best friend and I love her so much! I am so lucky to be her daughter!

[Don't mind the disgusting picture, we both just got done napping. LOL. I had to have one of us on Thanksgiving. :)]

Uncle Jared loves his nephew and niece so much! Jax was a wild turkey and wouldn't let us take pictures of him so I didn't get one of him with Uncle or Gramma. :( Dang it!


Today has been a great day and I am a very blessed girl! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!