Thanksgiving Celebrations

We did an early Thanksgiving with TJ's family as our previous post talks about and then celebrated Thanksgiving day with my family in Apple Valley. It was also my sister's 30th Birthday, so we celebrated her BIG 30 on Saturday with our closest friends, whom we call our 2nd family, and friends. It was our first big night out away from our princess. And yes, I was very nervous, but she was in good hands. She actually did really well and took the bottle while the Debelak Family all pitched in to watch her! She has just started taking a bottle of breast milk every few days to get her used to me going back to work, so that has been my biggest concern with leaving her. We still have a lot of kinks to work out as for pumping and getting her really used to taking the bottle, she would prefer the boob, but I have to work. :(
It was so nice having TJ home all week, he was off from baseball, we got to spend a lot of QT (quality time) together with our little family of three. Sunday we finished our weekend off by going to church, having our family pictures taken in the park (Rhowan didn't cooperate as well as I'd hoped for, but you can't ever predict or time those things perfectly, so we'll see how they turn out!) and then going to see his grandparents, Rhowan's Gigi and Papa to spend some time together since we didn't see them this year on Thanksgiving.
We hope you all had as wonderful weekends as we did. We are looking forward to this holiday season with our new bundle of joy. Keep checking as I continue to be obsessed with my camera and will continue to post pics! :)

love to you all,
The Bruce Dugout! :)