I love Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday, mostly because I love spending time with family and having great food, plus there's no stress of gift-giving like there is at Christmas time. Anyway, this year, due to having a baby a week ago, we didn't go anywhere for Thanksgiving. I was a little sad at first, but my parents came to spend it with us at our house and it was absolutely wonderful! They made way too much food for us, but it was delicious and we have tons of leftovers! Here are some great pictures of our Thanksgiving.

Family photo!

I love this picture of my mom and Mya. If you know my mom at all, you know she doesn't like posed picture, so this is a rare shot. It's great!
Papa giving Mya kisses! He's so funny!

Dan and Mya taking a quick nap. So cute!

Mya's begun her modeling career. My mom bought her the most adorable outfits and this is one of them. It's so cute, even though it's still a little big. She's going to wear one of the other ones to her first Sunday at church.

Just a couple more pics

Mya is sleeping right now and although I should probably be sleeping as well, I decided to post a couple more pictures. But first here's a quick update: Mya is doing her best to be nice to her mommy and daddy. She sleeps about three hours at a time during the night and doesn't usually scream unless she's really hungry. She started smiling yesterday, mostly due to gas, but Dan and I love it anyway. Overall, she's doing very well. Tomorrow is Mya's first Thanksgiving and we're excited to share it with her Mima and Papa Russell. I'm sure we'll have some cute pics from that. We hope you all have a great day of thanks and enjoy time with your own families! Grandma and her two girls! Cute, huh?

Mya loves football season already! Touchdown!

This has been an everyday occurence since she got home. She sleeps while we're trying to burp her and it makes it very hard to wake her up because she's so cute!

Welcome to the world!

Our little one has finally arrived! Mya Jae Barnes was welcomed to the world on November 20th at 5:22 p.m. She weighed 7 lbs. 13 oz. and measured 19 inches long. She is just gorgeous and perfect in every way, but of course, Dan and I are a little biased! So here are some pictures of our beautiful daughter. Enjoy and I'll update more later!

Here is Mya's room all finished and ready for her!One of many delivery room pictures! Daddy and his little girl.

Mya's first car ride. She slept the whole way... like a baby!Mommy and Mya relaxing at home.

There WILL be a baby!

No one can be pregnant forever, that's what I keep telling myself. And sure enough, there is an end in sight! My most recent update is that things are progressing and it looks like baby is getting ready to come out and join the world. However, if she decides she doesn't want to come as soon as we think, my doctor's going to help her come out by next Thursday. So no matter what, we will have a baby by next Thursday! Yeah! I'll update again soon... with pictures of our new baby!

Update

Dan and I are anxiously waiting for Baby Barnes to make her debut. We have 11 days until her due date, if that even means anything to her. The baby's room is done, the car seat is in, all the clothes are washed, etc. etc. Now we just need a baby. Dan is ready for her to come too. He keeps telling her that she can come out anytime she wants, but she's not listening. Anyway, we really don't have much else going on right now. Here are a couple of pictures of the baby's room and a picture of me at 38 weeks.

The circles are peel and stick and they are the most amazing invention ever. I was just in there this last weekend and I didn't like the way one of the walls looked, so I peeled off the circles and rearranged them. Cool, huh?

This is the wall where her name is going to be spelled out. We should be getting those any day now and I'm excited to put them up!
This picture was taken after my doctor told me that the baby had dropped. I couldn't really tell before, but from this picture, it does kind of look like it. And when you have strangers telling you that they think the baby has dropped, I guess it's official. :) We can't wait for the baby to come and to be able to celebrate with all our family and friends!