Christmas 2009

This Christmas was wonderful. Cody, Crosby, Poppy and I ate crepes with strawberries Christmas eve morning. I love them and growing up loved when my dad would make them. So, I decided that would become one of our Christmas traditions. Crosby was a little confused.... he only wanted syrup on them. I think he thought they were a pancake and syrup goes on pancakes. Then we opened our presents and headed over to moms where we ate lunch and opened presents. Then that evening we went to the Christmas Eve service at Oslo. After church we went to dad's and opened presents. While there Crosby got his train track that he carried the box around everywhere. We didn't get home until 10:30 but we had to put together the train track (I did it along with instructions.) He played on it until midnight. The only way Cody got Crosby to go to bed was tell him that the train needed to sleep. Then the next morning Santa came and brought Crosby a big tractor with a grain cart. Then we went to Amarillo where we had Christmas at the nursing home with Mamaw. It was a lot of fun and Crosby was so tired and exhausted when we left.

Kynlee and Crosby in their matching pajamas.

Kynlee and Crosby with Mamaw.

Crosby saying HoHoHo which usually sounded like Ho-O-O... kind of like he was laughing. One day Cody was going to Guymon. He told Crosby to get a hat and go with him. Crosby chose the Santa hat.

Oslo Christmas

Last night we had our Oslo Christmas. It is one of my very favorite days of the whole year. It is like having one big family Christmas and it is only about once a year that we all get to see each other. We missed Paul and Barbara (she was having shoulder surgery that day.) We also missed Luke who is in Costa Rica, Chad and Andrea. We had a fun time anyway. I have put some pictures on to show us all. Each year we take a picture by the fireplace. It is crazy that none of us has aged... we still look the same as the one 5 years ago. Well... maybe we have changed a little and there are definitely more kids now. I put the picture of Charlie and Crosby in because I thought it was so cute. Even though Crosby doesn't get to see Charlie very often when he does... he loves Charlie.

Sweets

Christmas can't be Christmas without sweets. So, yesterday Randi came over and we cooked all day. We made carmel popcorn, decorated sugar cookies and made Kaycee her peanut butter balls. All of it was very enjoyable. I had to do something I am not good at doing and I just had to let Randi and Crosby make the cutouts and decorations as they liked without me hovering. Crosby loved cutting the cookies out and the decorating was fun... but I had to tell him we don't put the whole thing of sprinkles on one cookie. He would put tons on the cookies then the ones that fell off he ate. The picture of Crosby rolling his hands together he really learned to make them into balls.

Update

It has been forever since I have posted anything. It has been busy around here. We try and go to the basketball games which keeps us really busy. We had both of our families here at Thanksgiving. It was wonderful.... and we have so much to be thankful for. We have been getting ready for Christmas. I love this time of year. It makes me so happy. Lately Crosby has been really into coloring. I put a picture of him on here coloring. Also, he loves Santa. Crosby thinks Santa is good for candy... oh if he only knew. Cody brought Crosby up to the school because Santa had stopped by to take pictures with the kids. Cody said when Crosby walked in the door and saw him he ran to him to give him a hug. Then he was able to see Santa again in Amarillo at Bivins when he went out there to see Mamaw. What a wonderful day for a little guy. Oh and did I mention we are now an underwear wearing boy. He even can wear them through the night which doesn't always make for peaceful sleeps when he comes in at 2:00 in the morning to let me know he needs to potty. Oh well... at least he goes:)

Pancakes

While we were in Colorado for our 5th anniversary we did some shopping. While in Williams and Sanoma we found these cool pancake molds along with the pancake poorer. We got the animal molds. So, Sunday morning we made them. Crosby helped stir while I put the ingredients into the bowl. Crosby thought they were cool but didn't just want one... he wanted all the different animals at the same time. He got upset when he only got a lion and monkey. It was fun though.

Costume

This year Crosby was a cowboy for Halloween. Cody had wanted him to be Spiderman but how could I pass up this costume? We found it while in Colorado so I had to get it. The day after Halloween we had to go to Guymon and Crosby wanted the baby horse (the costume) to ride in the back seat with him. I was glad he liked the costume. Kennedy is one of Crosby's bestfriends... she was Hannah Montana but had lost the wig by this time.

Dogs

Well, we have been so busy so these pictures were taken about a month ago. As some of you know, Cody got me a puppy (I know, shocking for those of you know that really know me and know that I am not a dog lover) but Harley was wonderful! I got Harley when Cody and I had been dating for a year. Well, Harley died earlier this year. In September Cody came home with... another schnauzer. I had wanted my next schnauzer to be a toy and he found one in Amarillo. Stills, yes that is the new puppies name, may end up not being a toy but he is a wonderful puppy. Him and Crosby are so cute... well, I think Crosby annoys him more than anything but it is cute to watch. You are probably thinking what a weird name Stills is. Well, let me explain. I don't know how many people have asked us if we named Crosby after the band... No, we did not. I hadn't even heard of them until we had Crosby. Since everyone asks us that we decided to name our border collie Nash and our schnauzer Stills. So, we did name our dogs after the group. And at times in the backyard we have Crosby, Stills and Nash. So, this is a picture of Crosby, Stills and Nash :)

One day I looked in the backyard and Crosby was pushing Stills around the backyard in his dump truck. I thought it was so cute... I'm sure Stills didn't find it so cute.