More holiday fun

Saturday - spent some more time with Troy's family...

So tired... this trip has thrown him off his nap/bedtime schedule

Playing with his cousin

With his aunt

G.G. with all of her grandkids and great grandkid

Sunday - LittleBigMan's great grandparents came to visit us in Oklahoma City

Monday - last little bit of family time before returning to Colorado...

Goofballs

One of the most adventurous little girls I've ever met, and quite sweet too!

Having fun with Grandpa

We had plans to see some other friends, but Troy was feeling sick during most of the trip and LittleBigMan wouldn't nap so he was in a terrible mood. Things just didn't go as smoothly as usual this time, but we had a great time over all. It was so nice being back home with family for the holidays. I wonder if part of me will always consider Oklahoma home, even though we are quite happy here in our new home.

Speaking of home, we returned home this evening. We did our Christmas here tonight.

Getting the stockings

Helping Daddy open his gifts

Mama and 2 monkeys (the monkey I crocheted for him for Christmas... I actually started it while I was pregnant and JUST NOW finished it. Can you say procrastination??? LOL) He cuddled up with it when I put him to bed tonight. So cute!

LittleBigMan enjoying the blanket and pillow his Grandie G made for him. We are so sad that LittleBigMan will never get to meet his Grandpa Toy... but glad for the keepsake items.

Added on Dec 30th...

Our friend Pam sent LittleBigMan a gift while we were in Oklahoma. I was able to pick it up today on my way to run errands. The box was full of goodies... clothing, monkey stuffed animals and a Sit & Spin toy. He doesn't quite understand how it works yet but he L-O-V-E-S the music. Daddy helped him out on it and he had a blast...

Added on Jan 4th...
Wearing his new Sooners hat from Grams


Opening presents from Aunt Kristen & cousin H


Opening presents from Uncle Jeff & Tia Olga (Duplo blocks, which he LOVES)

Crazy Christmas

We went to OKC for Christmas. The weather was crazy and we were glad to get there before the craziness began.

Wednesday...

The kiddos checking out the Micky snow globe

Thursday...

Spent the evening by candlelight since we lost power that afternoon through Friday morning.

Had to cuddle up that night to keep warm.

Friday...

Christmas morning!

Shooting hoops with daddy.

LittleBigMan with Mommy

Spent the evening with the Furr family...

Troy's Brother-in-law and nephews

Snow drifts made driving conditions bad, but luckily our families only live a couple of miles apart

Troy goofing around with his Mom

Troy's sister & brother-in-law

Troy's niece, nephew and Mom

LittleBigMan playing with his cousins

Playing with his aunt and great great aunt

More family fun & photos to come...

Christmas with Grams

Though 2 of the 3 of us are under the weather today, we did a little pre-Christmas celebration with my mom today. We won't be able to get together on Christmas Day, so she came to visit us. Here are some photos from our time together:


Playing with the new racecar toy


Showing off his monkey slippers


Being super silly


Playing with his airplanes from the Straits with Grams

Favorite Photo Friday

Among the Aspens
Sept. 2005 - Red River, NM

Less consumerism, more Christmas

We try to keep it simple around here concerning gifts. I like to make little scrapbooks and sewn items for gifts. I have simply run out of time to make all of the handmade gifts I'd like to make this year. My goal is for next year to be a totally homemade Christmas! Hopefully LilBigMan will be old enough to help with giftmaking then. I have so many ideas tumbling around in my head of ways to show our son compassion for others this time of year (well, all year actually) and the true meaning of the holiday. Now for the hard part... to turn those ideas into action.

Tiny Tree Trimming

I finally pulled out our Christmas tree today. It is tiny, but just the right size for us.

LittleBigMan helped me put on the ornaments...

The fully decorated tree...

(His favorite thing is the 'bir-deeeee' on top!

Holiday Greetings

Favorite Photo Friday

Dusk

Photo taken at Capitol Reed National Park while on our honeymoon in summer of 2005.

Family Fun

On Friday, we spent some time at my cousin Kasey's house. Her parents and nieces were there. My mom came over to visit, too. We all had a good time...

LilBigMan with his Grams


LilBigMan with his Great Aunt Sharyl


The boys playing


Cousins Brooke and Sadie and Great Uncle John


Cousin Cortnee


Auntie Kasey and Baby Sadie


Not sure if the hat makes him look like a cowboy or an old timey coal miner


At the end of the night we (Kasey, Andrew, my aunt & uncle, Troy and I) played Compatibility. It's a pretty fun (and mostly hilarious) game.

The game allows for 3 teams (2 people per team) and has identical decks of cards for each person. The cards have all sorts of things on them. For example: a rose, the word "happiness", an expensive car, a baby, 2 clowns, etc... very random stuff. Then on each turn, the die is rolled to determine what the word is for the round. Example: in-laws. Then you go through all of your cards and pick out the ones the best represent your idea of in-laws. The more cards you get in common with your partner the more points you get. We played this game until almost 2 a.m. Yes... TWO IN THE MORNING. Various things were yelled out in the game such as "how in the HECK did you get that card for creative", "the word was SC-HOOL... how did you get THAT for school???", "I didn't dare put that card (a pic of a couple on their wedding day) for the word difficult!" and then toward the end I was getting really poopsy (Troy's way of saying I'm so tired I'm losing my mind).