Wednesday, November 30, 2011

A long winded update

I guess since it's December 7th, I should tell you about how great our Thanksgiving was, and update you on what's going on in our life now. 

We had such a great time in Texas over Thanksgiving. Andrew and I really do have so much to be thankful for.

We started out the Thanksgiving Festivities at Gran's house on Thursday. We ate a bunch of yummy food, watched football, and the girls made ornaments while the boys went hunting.


Kylie Beth at Gran's house
On Friday we celebrated with the very large and wonderful Crosby family. Ate a lot of yummy food (again), played with kids, sang songs, chatted with family, and held babies. 
Us and Phoebe at Crosby Thanksgiving
Crosby kids riding the train
A few sweet Crosby babies 
Saturday we met up with my grandparents, cousin, aunt, and uncle. We ate a lot of yummy food (yet again), laughed at my crazy family, tried to teach my grandad to attach pictures to emails, and laughed more thinking about my grandad getting kicked out of a mall for taking pictures at a victoria secret for a photography project he's doing.

On Sunday we bought our first Christmas tree after shopping around for what felt like hours. We were determined to get the best deal so we started at Walmart, then went to Target, then to Michael's, then back to Target where we finally decided to not be cheap-os and just splurge for the tree we loved. We brought our tree home, unpacked it, and decorated it while listening to Christmas records. It was so fun to make those memories together. Our little New Orleans abode now has plenty of Christmas cheer.

 
On Friday, only 5 days after we left, we made the journey back to Texas to celebrate Andrew's grandpa Crosby's wonderful life. He passed away on Friday night and we were blessed to be able to go and spend a few days with family. The entire 4 days were truly a celebration and a really special time to worship together. It was the most meaningful service I have ever been to, and made me incredibly grateful to be apart of a family that loves the Lord so much.

When we got back this evening we made a b-line to the hospital to visit the newest member of our New Orleans crew. Nolan was born while we were gone and we couldn't wait to visit him and his mom and dad. He let us hold him, squish his chunky cheeks, kiss his soft little forehead, ooh and aah over how long his fingers and toes are, and he even showed off by sucking his fingers for the first time. He is the first baby of our little friend group, and let me just tell you, this little guy is going to be one spoiled kid.
Check out this adorableness:
Seriously the cutest newborn I have even seen.

 And I'll go ahead and leave you with that because, honestly, what is better than a picture of a sweet newborn baby sucking on his fingers?
The answer to that question is nothing. 

1 comment:

  1. So sweet! I agree it is such a blessing to be apart of the Crosby family! Glad I have gotten to see you bunches lately! Hopefully see you at Christmas!

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