Savannah's Christmas outfits

I know this sounds like a silly post, but miss SCM had some special Christmas outfits I want to remember!

her little Santa sleep sack/pantsuit that was SO CUTE (with Caddo laying beside her on my lap keeping her warm of course)

her cute socks! (sorry, upside down)

Her snowflake onesie that her aunt Anna painted for her!

little tshirt onesie to remember the occasion! :)

Smocked dress that was Anna's and matched our cousin Stephie's dress from childhood too.  Now it is on Savannah, how cool?

You can't see the writing, but this says My First Christmas down the left side.  Anna and I both wore this little tshirt on our first christmas when we were about 3 months old each.  Special again!

And just for fun, here are Birc's and my 'christmas outfits' hah!

And here's our mini tree that was a compromise for Birc and me.  I wanted a normal tree just like we get every year, and he wanted no tree at all since we have a new baby, so we decided to meet in the middle and get a 4 1/2 foot tree! :) We loved it :)

Patterson Christmas

My family had Christmas at my parents house and we had a great time carrying out traditions that we hold on to every year! We ate fried quail and all the fixin's and had strawberry shortcake for dessert.  That's how my dad's family has done it every year, for I'm pretty sure as long as I've been alive.  My mama cooks it all up and my dad fried the quail, and it was all very yummy! We loved getting to hang out with Granddaddy, Steve, Jan, Daddy, Mama, Anna, and Aaron.  It was low-key and very fun.  At the end of the night we got to read Savannah the Night Before Christmas story, and the story of Jesus' birth from Luke 2.  Very special. :)

Granddaddy and Uncle Steve chattin'

 Daddy frying the quail! YUM!

Uncle Aaron checking up on his favorite patient. :)

 Family pic!

SCM is a lucky girl that Santa LOVES obviously! She got tons of great stuff! Among those are a first Bible with her name on it, a jewelry box, some books, and diapers and wipes of course! :) I also can't leave out Birc's favorite gift of her's, the Hungry Catapillar stuffed animal, that has a zipper on his booty that opens up and out comes a huge blanket with a BUTTERFLY on it! How cool!

 SCM and my Santa presents! I got a roomba, a sewing machine, and some ornaments and other goodies in my stocking!

 Birc's awesome haul from Santa! A TV for his workout room, golf shoes, a law book[??], clothes, and other stuff in his stocking that I can't remember! :)

Anna and Aaron got SCM the sweetest things! The adorable dress, great books, and much needed diapers! I love that my sis picks out things for my sweet girl.  It makes my heart happy :)

Savannah is so lucky to get so much stuff-I only wish she could say thank you too, cause I don't feel like my 'thank-you's' are sufficient! This is what CC and Grandad got for SCM! a humidifier, lots of books, some thank-you notes, name cards, a sippy cup with her name on it, stackable blocks, a Nemo fish for the tub that swims, her first Madam Alexander doll-Peter Pan!, and some teething toys too!

Books from CC and Grandad [they had just written in them so SCM would know when she received them and the paper towels were absorbing the marker stuff so it didn't reprint.]

Walker Christmas 2011

My mom's side of the family always gets together the weekend before Christmas to celebrate, and we had a great time having it in Searcy this year so that Birc and I could go with SCM.  Everyone just drove up on Saturday and Sunday and we spent our time hanging out and eating, while catching up with everyone's lives.  SCM was a little over 2 weeks old here!

4 Generations! GrandJoyce, CC, Amy, Savannah

My mom's youngest sister, Maia meeting SCM

and my mom's younger [middle] sister meeting SCM [please ignore how exhausted I appear!]

Anna and Aaron had taken Tucker out to potty and Birc snapped this great shot! If only Tucker had been looking at the camera...

All the cousins, their boys, and the baby.  We missed seeing Graham, Lesley, and Cathryn so much!   We had a great time though and are hoping to get together this summer at the lake. 

My baby girl is growing up!

She's officially out of the newborn size diapers! :( We moved up to size one yesterday, after really struggling to get the newborn size to fit around her adorable belly. 

In SCM news, she is really loving her baths these days, and I know any day she will be smiling at us because she almost does it now.  She also LOVES her little activity mat (or whatever they're called?) and can stare at the 'safari animals' for a long time. 

My readers [I know, like 5 total]  will be glad to know I'm getting caught up right now and plan to have lots of blog posts coming up.  I can't wait to catch up on reading all my friends and family blogs too-miss Savannah has kept me very busy and very sleepy.  But I'm adjusting.

For now, here's a little sneak peak of her 1 month photo shoot from last Friday!

still not caught up...

I still want to post about our wonderful Christmas holiday, but it is already past New Year's and I can't get caught up! Hopefully soon.  Here's our weekend in iphone pics to show you guys what a great time we had as a family!

Savannah had her first two dinners out this weekend! Friday we went with Birc's mom and dad to eat at their country club, and Saturday we went to Graffiti's restaurant for New Year's with both our families.  Super fun!

After a little cold lingered around for a week, Savannah hadn't been able to sleep on her back very well but we are back to it now! She'd been sleeping propped up in her bouncy seat...poor girl.

Cadence-Bo-Badence finally has realized SCM isn't going anywhere, and she isn't too bad either.  He had been really scared of her until this weekend and he's finally coming around!

Caddo is still happy she's here.  In fact, he nominated himself as her first toy by jumping in her toy basket CC brought for our den!

With the 60+ degree weather, we finally got out and went on a little family walk! We like our stroller!

Savannah is finally really filling out her newborn clothes! She's getting ready to pack on the pounds (or ounces, at least) and be a cute pudgy baby!

We did a lot of sleeping so that was SUPER nice.

See?

Hope everyone had a happy and restful weekend! Now back to the grind...(for my hubby anyway)

Newborn Pictures

Savannah got her picture taken when she was 9 days old and I am so glad I had them done.  I debated on whether to get newborn pics taken, but these are so precious I can't imagine not having them! My friend and sorority sister from college, Cara Beth, took the pictures.  I haven't seen Cara Beth since college, so it was great to see her and watch her use her talents! She just started taking pictures full-time recently and you can see she is so good! I'll put a few of my favorites below.

Caddo-bo-baddo hung around the whole shoot, cause he knew Cara Beth loves animals and would eventually take his picture too! Such a pretty kitty :)

We love the pics and can't wait for the 4 month, 8 month, and 1 year pictures too!

Savannah comes home and other pictures!

While I try to get ahold of my life and get Savannah comfortable in her new home outside my belly, I have had to temporarily ignore my blog.  So sorry folks, but this newborn care is TIRING! However, life is going on and I had better try to catch up or I probably never will. 
We stayed in the hospital two nights at my doctor's orders, and so we came home on Thursday. 

Here's the dress I wore home from the hospital and now miss Savannah has worn it home too! She looked SO PRETTY even though the dress was a tad large on her. :) [sorry I can't seem to rotate it.]

Welcome to our home!

My mom drove over from Searcy and met us here so someone would be here to take pictures!

Showing Savannah her room, while trying to introduce the kitties to her as well.

We made it home!

After she had a bath, we took her "just born" picture that this new mama forgot to take when she was actually 'just born'. hah!

We are adjusting and I am finally feeling like my head is coming up above the water a little bit.  She'll be two weeks old tomorrow and I can't believe she's already that old!

Here's a precious pic of her I snapped with my iphone while she was really awake and alert.  Such a cutie! [I might be biased but seriously I think she's adorable!]