Christmas in Dallas

We went to Dallas for Julia's first Christmas. We had a lot of fun celebrating with family!

Pops doing his opening story and prayer.

Granjan and Chad with Julia

Is that Rudolf?!

Julia looked so pretty in her Christmas dress.

Pops with Ziva.

Wishing You a Merry Christmas!

We were a little worried about how Julia would react to meeting Santa. As you can see, she did great!

Julia's 4 Month Checkup

Julia keeps getting bigger every day! I can't even believe that it has already been 4 months. It is going by way too fast! As you can see below, she is about to outgrow the scale!

13 Lbs. and growing!

Julia with Dr. Jerry

Listening to her heartbeat

Julia's First Thanksgiving

We had a big group this year for Thanksgiving! We had so much fun seeing everyone. Julia got to meet her extended family. I think it was a lot for her to take in, but she did great!

I think she's having fun!!!

Growing So Fast!!!

Julia is growing so fast, we can't even believe she is already 3 months old! She has started to outgrow alot of her 0-3 month clothes. It makes me kindof sad to have to put them away, but she has some cute things to grow in to. I think blue is her color!

This was the dress that she went home from the hospital in!

A Day At the Fair

We got to go to the fair this year, which is one of the things that I look forward to every fall. Chad, on the other hand, HATES the fair! I love going on the rides, he gets sick even looking at them. I had to get a group together so that Chad would go, but I think he actually had a little fun! We took Julia, so this is how Chad walked around all day!

This was the first ride that we went on just to get warmed up.

This used to be one of my favorite rides as a kid. It used to be called The Rainbow.

This was actually the scariest ride I went on all day. I got on and started thinking about the fact that I was in a little wicker chair with little chain links holding me up. If one of thouse links broke...

Julia did really good all day. She mostly slept. Chad's back was pretty sore by the end of the day!

Our friends Bj and Jenny

THE CLAW

(I don't remember the actual name, but as you can see, it looks like a claw!)

Julia's First Bottle

Okay, this was kindof a big deal. I was really worried about starting her on a bottle too early, so we waited until she was almost 10 weeks old. She did just fine, of course. Now daddy can have some bonding time with Julia too!

I don't know how she's going to like this...

I think she likes it!

Julia's 2 Month Check-Up

This is the first doctor's appointment that we actually remembered to bring a camera. I need to remember to from now on! This appointment was a little traumatic because she had to get some shots. As you will be able to see below, she didn't like that part much, but who does?! Overall she was really good.

She loves Dr. Jerry!

She's growing so fast! Dr. Jerry said she gets an A+ in the weight gain department!

Getting her ears checked out

This is just before she got her shots. See how calm and peaceful she is...

Right after...

But she calmed down pretty fast when she was back in daddy's arms.

Now we know what our parents meant when they said, "This is going to hurt me more that it hurts you."

On to Dallas

From OKC, we went on to the last leg of our little road trip to Dallas. There we celebrated my grandmother's 85th birthday! Julia got to meet her Great-Grandparents, and all of her extended family on my mom's side (she meets my dad's side at Thanksgiving!).

Mimi and Granddad admiring Julia

Uncle Greg with Julia

Jill and Julia

She was so good for everyone at the party

This was the first smile we managed to catch!

On our way home. This trip wore her out!