November + Thanksgiving 2012

We went out to California Pizza Kitchen with Josh & Taylor

Con did great!!

Love his face here!!

Growin' Big...

Our date at Chick-fil-a before we left for Dallas :)

We arrived to Dallas Wed before Thanksgiving & went to my parents church Wednesday night

He has been LOVING this snuggie pouch...its a godsend!!

 Greyson & Conrad at church together:)

family foto:

All dressed up for church:)

Jodan ran in the turkey trot!

We had Thanksgiving lunch at my parents early morning, it was yummy!!

Matt's family was all sick, so they werent there this year::we missed them!

Celebrating Grandpa Dunn's Birthday:

all of us girls:)

food was good all day! 

(photo courtesy of Vanny Lowery:)

I got to meet Norah finally!

(and Ella actually-I should have gotten a pic with her too;)

First Thanksgiving!

Tired out....

Vanny Lowery was kind enough to take a few family photos of us for our Christmas

card while we were there...

I love this one:)

It was windy!

We literally only had about 10 minutes to take these pics..so I didn't bother to

wake him up:) hehe...

We went back to Dallas on Saturday. We went to church for the first 

time just as a family in Austin. Conrad had a blast...I think;)

bein' a silly boy!!

Gettin' better at tummy time-seeing himself in the mirror:)

That week, we put up the Christmas Decor!

What a special year it was getting to put up the decorations with our precious

little boy to share them with;)

Conrad's personalized stocking that came from Grandma Ault:)

Puttin' the star on with Conrad in the pouch:

doggies...lovin it:

mystified!

We played some Christmas Carols and sang for Conrad, he loved it. We are

so blessed this Christmas season. 

5x7 Folded Card

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Kansas Trip 2012

On November 5th Deb, Emma, Gabe, Conrad and I 

decided to drive to Kansas for Lileigh's adoption.

Her adoption was scheduled for Tuesday, Nov 6th at 10:30am

in St. Francis, Kansas (their home town).

We left after Conrad's first feeding (around 4:00am) and drove almost straight

through to a town about an hour out from St. Francis because we were

surprising them:)

Emma was so helpful in the car!

Conrad just started fitting in regular newborn (8-10lbs) outfits this week! 

Before he had to wear the smaller newborn outfits (5-7lb size)

Funny pics in the car!! 

how much longer mom?!

I need to go!!!

Eating breakfast at the hotel the morning before the adoption:

Conrad in his special adoption shirt:)

Nana made special shirts for all of us to wear. They said:

"We are family, Lileigh Landers" and then our relation to

Lileigh....(i.e. Aunt Emma, Nana, Uncle Gabe)

Walking in to the adoption-Becca was completely surprised!!

This is Jordan's mom (Nana) with Becca (Jordan's oldest sister) and Becca's

youngest: Jackson and Lileigh -who was being adopted today!

Keeping Jackson company during the adoption:)

Such a neat thing to witness:

The Landers Family, now a family of 6!

Me and Con (4 weeks old:)

All of us after the adoption was complete!

I love his baseball outfits:)

Started using the wubbanub this week

Adoption party that night at their house:

Lileigh Grace:

She was18 months old at the time of adoption. 

They got her through the foster care system, from the hospital, when she was born 14 weeks early.

They did a great job taking care of her and she is thriving now:)

Conrad got his first real bath tonight!! He loved it so much, especially with Grace and

Emma helping:)

Jordan was watching via face time:

Another picture of him in the bath. It was so cute!!

Taking a nap the next day with me:)

Grace playing with the big kids!

Becca and Conrad!

Trip to McDonald's -pretty exciting around here!! :)

He's pretty excited about his 1st trip to McDonalds....

candid conrad.

Jeff's Birthday!! He's 37

Conrad on his heap of laundry....

Nana and her craziness......

Jayce and Gabe making up raps...hehe

Watching funny videos on the iPhone 

this little wig came free with Madagascar 3...

hello!

Becca let me borrow this awesome pouch from Kangaroo Korner. It is no longer

available, so I am so grateful! He loves to snuggle up with me:)

I'm so grateful I went on the trip because that was the last week I was on a NEW

antibiotic....and it made Conrad really gassy and fussy-especially at night. It was
miserable, I felt so bad for him. I'm glad to be done with all the medicine!!

Funny video of Conrad just sleeping/chillin...