Week 2 - Nana's turn...

Week 2 - Nana comes in to take over for Mimi -

HDG and Nana did some fun stuff - like making cookies...

then Nana put Harrison to WORK! :) I love it!!

That weekend we went up to North Georgia to get some apples - and basically just to get out of the house for a while...

Nana and Millie in Blue Ridge!

Harrison playing on the train tracks - his FAVORITE thing to do when we go to the mountains!

Family picture under a pretty tree - I love North GA when the leaves change!

just the girls :)

Harrison and Papa

I love this one!

After Blue Ridge we went back to Laura's neck of the woods where the fire department was having their Fall get together for all the firemen and their families. We're not technically family - but Erik (Laura's boyfriend) invited us - so we went! :)

Corey, Laura, and Harrison going on the hay ride...

Aunt Laura and Millie

Erik and Millie

There were also a couple "mini" horses pulling carriages that the kids could ride on - Harrison thought this was AWESOME! Please notice that he's trying to take the reigns from the little girl that's driving the carriage!! haha!

Notice how excited he is to be riding in between the two big girls!

Roasting marshmallows

Eating the marshmallows! :)

Papa and Millie taking a nap in the nursery

This is a vintage - 1980s after bath robe - I think it's ADORABLE...

Corey thinks she looks like a little gnome... I kinda agree - but she's the cutest little gnome EVER!

This is why we call her "smooshie"

I LOVE HER SMOOSHINESS!

Corey and his kiddos

Harrison loves to hold his little sister - and kiss all over her!

Nana and the munchkins right before she left! :(

Week 1 - Mimi to the rescue

I love that when we have a baby my mom and Corey's mom each come and stay with us for a week! It's AWESOME - I LOVE it - and I really really appreciate all the help. I genuinely have no idea how other moms do it without the extra help?!?! My mom got the first week with Harrison - so this time Mimi got to come home for week 1...

Here are some pictures from Millie's first week:

HDG helping Mimi feed Millie Kate a bottle

Mimi and MK "sunning" - trying to get rid of the jaundice!

My little redneck child wanted to take his shirt off while we were outside playing... cute right? :)

By the end of the night he had taken everything except his boxers off... crazy kid!

While we were in the hospital the Disney channel had a Handy Manny "Family Night" movie - so the first night we got home we had a "family night" and watched it!! Harrison wanted Millie Kate on the bean bag with him!! :)

Here she is up close!

Kisses from the boys! LOVE IT!

Since Aunt Addie lives out of town she had to wait until the weekend to come visit her new little niece - but don't worry she made the most of her weekend and spent lots of time with MK!

her first bath - she was NOT very happy!

Our friends from Nashville - the Prices - came to visit while they were in town for a wedding - here are all our ADORABLE munchkins!!! :)

Millie Kate meeting her first little girl friend - Lyla! :)

Harrison and Marlie are a MESS - trying to get a picture of the two of them was almost IMPOSSIBLE - I think this shot pretty much sums them up perfectly!

Here's the best shot we got.... oh well!

Family picture - if only Millie was looking in the direction of the camera...

PS - please check out my silly bands - pretty awesome right?? Aunt Addie brought those to Harrison as part of his "big brother" gift - and he gave us all silly bands to wear! They were Thomas - don't be too jealous! :)

Harrison thought the Boppy was cool - HAHA!

The weekend after Millie was born was Corey's birthday - so his family came over to celebrate! We had steak and potatoes and turtle brownies - and it was awesome!! :) I love this picture because we actually have the same shot of Corey with Harrison when he was only a couple of days old :)

HDG playing with G :)

Corey had to head back to work on Monday morning - so here he is with MK before he left for work... sad!

Millie's first trip to the park

Since the weather was so PERFECT that week - there was lots of outside time. Harrison even took his trains out on the back porch to play while Mimi and MK watched.

I think that about wraps up week one.....

October 11, 2010

I went in for an induction at 6:00am on October 11, 2010. They started my pitocin first thing that morning - and from there it was kind of a waiting game....

Here's me waiting....

and Corey and I waiting...

All day long she refused to drop down... so we seriously just waited and waited - and waited... it was a really boring day! :) HAHA! Finally somewhere around 3:30pm - I said I felt some pressure - and sure enough when she checked me I was ready to push! We waited until the doctor got there - about 4:00pm - and then 3 pushes later at 4:10pm she was here!!!

Millicent Katherine Garner

8lbs 12oz - 21.5 inches long

First bath - doesn't she look happy?!? haha!

Here's Harrison getting to meet her for the first time

and giving her the doll he brought her - how sweet!

and his first kiss for her....

and another...

First family photo of the 4 of us...

so crazy to think we're a family of 4 now!!!

The delivery room was a mad house - well not during the actual delivery - Corey was the only one in there for that... but as soon as they said people could come in we had somewhere around 10 or 11 family members in there - plus nurses... CRAZY - but fun! :)

the proud grandmas

the proud grandpas

the proud aunt - uncle - and future aunt

Here she is up close!!

Cute huh?!?

Dad and his snuggle bug

This is Harrison's visit the second day...

still super excited to see his baby sister!

Trying to get a picture of the 2 of them is almost impossible... oh well!

I thought this one looked like they were checking each other out - pretty funny!

Dad... waiting for the nurse to get all the paper work done so we can go home!!!

Millie and I right before we head home :)

Ok... time to go!!

Pictures of the belly....

A couple of weeks ago I asked Corey to take a couple of pictures of me and my big belly... I never got any "maternity" pictures with Harrison - and I'm kinda sad... oh well - nothing I can do now! Anyway - clearly these aren't professional - but for those of you that have asked for some belly pictures - here they are!

This is one of my favorites - because you can't tell just how BIG I am!! :) haha!

I love these... HDG is going to be such a great big brother!! :)

awww - my heart just melts!! :)

New videos of HDG

This video is HDG saying the pledge.... please notice that at the end he says "with liberty and justice frogs"!! He use to say "for frogs" but he dropped the "for" - it was funnier before... but oh well!! :) haha!

This is Harrison singing the 12 months of the year... however - he's still learning - so right now I only hear 10 months in the year.... haha! :)