Gobble, Gobble!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year.  Our #1 thing on the list was our healthy, happy baby girl born who was only two days old.  

My mom is amazing for so many reasons, but she really outdid herself for Thanksgiving this year.  She was a life saver and watched the three boys while we were in the hospital.  She even kept them an extra night so that we could settle into life at home with our newborn for a night before the troops returned.

So somehow she managed to cook an amazing Thanksgiving dinner with all of the fixings while also caring for the boys.  I didn't bring a thing this year...just showed up with baby in hand and ate. :)

Here is Jovie cuddling with Aunt Kelli.

 Mark and Greta

Jacob spent most of the day picking out his favorite black Friday deals

Smiley Grant

2 day old Jovie

Jovie cuddling with her biggest brother, Mitchell

Cuddle time with Grandma!

Smiley Greta.  Isn't she adorable?!?!

For some reason, Macallan refused to wear clothing that day :)

Sleepy Greta

Sleepy Jovie

Mav

She's got her hands full! :)

Grandma's Turkey Butts

Greta (2 months) Jovie (2 days)

Mommy and Jovie snuggles :)

Welcome Baby Jovie!!!

Although our bundle of joy was 9 days late, we quickly decided that the wait was worth it! :)  Early on in the pregnancy, we had decided not to find out the gender of our fourth and final baby.  Although we knew there was a slight chance we might have a girl, our track record had us convinced that we were expecting our fourth boy.  BOY, were we wrong!!!

At 2:20pm on Tuesday, November 26th we welcomed a GIRL!

Jovie Moriah Folks

8 lbs, 8 oz

21 inches  

 Labor and delivery couldn't have gone better.  This last time around my body seems to finally know what it's doing :)

She got a 9 on her apgar score and passed her newborn tests with flying colors.  We are SOOOOO thankful for a healthy baby!!!

I absolutely love this picture of the first time the boys laid eyes on their baby sister!  They were SO excited to meet her!!!  Oh, this little girl has lots of eyes looking out for her!

My mom watched the boys for three full days while we were in the hospital and even gave us a little more time to get settled at home.  We were SO thankful!  

Gotta love Macallan's "cheese face"!

She is the PERFECT way to complete our not so little family!  We are completely in love :)

Macallan turns TWO!

We celebrated a very special TWO year old in our house on November 10th :)

Instead of throwing a big party, we kept it simple and focused on lots of quality time together with our two-year old, especially since he will be a BIG BROTHER any day now!

He LOVES Choo=-Choo trains, we took the boys to a local Train Museum.  The highlight was a ride down the tracks on an old caboose.

The conductor gave us a little history of the train, which Mitchell especially enjoyed.

We toured a section where they repaired and refurbished old trains.

The whole experience was enough to wear out the little guy :)

I took this picture on November 9th, his last day as a 1 year old.  We're practicing our number 2 :)

Next up was a trip to an indoor trampoline park.  There are trampoline's EVERYWHERE!  He was the littlest guy there...but he didn't notice :)

Mitchell practiced flips into the foam pit!

I didn't get to jump this time.  I wonder why?

We capped the night with a FOOTBALL birthday party.  Grandma and Grandpa came over, and so did Aunt Kelli, Uncle Mark and cousins, Grant and Greta.

We all enjoyed some typical Football appetizers and football watching, Macallan's favorite past time! :)

He loved opening his presents, including his little football and his new backpack.

He knew EXACTLY what to do when the cake with candles was put in front of him.  No help needed to blow those babies out :)

He is obsessed with his new football jammies that Grandma and Grandpa gave him.  He was all to happy to wear them to bed.

Night, night little man.  We are LOVING our toddler days with Macallan.  He is learning and growing so much each day.  He's talking up a storm and we never know what's going to come out of his mouth next!  Times are sure to get interesting as we welcome Baby #4 in a matter of days, but we know he'll be a wonderful Big Brother!