One Month Old!

Wow-time flies! It's hard to believe our little peanut was one month old last Friday! It was an exciting day because it was also her first road trip to Dallas. And, her aunt Reanna and grandpa Long were in town. Fun times all around! For being one month old, Brie really did fantastic on her road trip. The first about 30-40 minutes when we were trying to get out of Austin (in some super not fun traffic) she was not really loving the car ride, but once we finally got out on the open road, she calmed down and the rest of the ride was fairly quiet. We traveled up to Dallas because Reanna, mom and I threw a baby shower for Katherine. We're so excited for baby girl cousin Long to arrive! Only 4ish weeks left--depending on if she wants to be an early bird or make us all wait and arrives late. The shower was actually a combo in person shower/virtual shower since Kat still has lots of good friends and family up in Minnesota. We hooked up with the Minnesota crew via Skype and it really was a lot of fun!

The hard part of the weekend was Sunday morning, when we had to say our goodbyes to everyone and head back to Austin. My mom has been with us ever since the day after Brie was born, and I loved having her here to keep me company, hold Brie so I could shower, hold Brie so I could nap, clean, do laundry, cook, etc! It was so hard to say goodbye to her, and to grandpa and Reanna. Hopefully, the timing will work out right and we will see them again soon when baby Long arrives! I had a friend tell me it's lots harder to say goodbye to family after you have kids, and boy was she right! I know how much my parents and sister love Brie and how hard it will be for them to be so far away from her, and that makes it super hard for me too! It's a good thing we have such great technology these days and we can have frequent Skype video chats!

Now that we're back home, we're settling into our new life as a family of three. We're trying to figure out our routines (well as much of a routine as you can have with a one month old!) and how this will all work with just me and Justin to tackle everything. It's going to be a fun journey--that's for sure!

We're looking forward to all of the new things that Brie will start doing in the coming weeks and you can be sure there will be blog posts about all of them :).

Here are Brie's one month photos and a couple pics from the shower:

One month old!! Friday August 19th

Oops--this is what happens when mom lets go--good thing the cheetah is so soft and cushy!

Amazing Diaper cake that mom made...she's so talented!



The parents to be!



Mom & Kat