Visiting Santa

We went to Tanglewood Mall to visit Santa. We have had such good luck there each year.  We never have to wait and we have always had a Santa with a real beard!!  LOVE!  When Nicholas was 18 monthes old - he threw an absolute fit!!!  I was fully prepared for David to do the same.  I told Nicholas - just sit on his lap and smile, DO NOT worry about David. haha!!!  Believe it or not - NO TEARS!!!  Now, he wasn't 100% thrilled with the big man in the suit but he took a concerned picture, waved, blew kisses, and gave a high five!!!  I say that was a success.  Grandma takes all of the credit because she said she showed him pictures of Nicholas and Santa all day saying that he wasn't allowed to be scared :-)  Too funny!

My boys....LOVE THEM!

Playing in the picture booth

As Nicholas said...HOW EMBARRASSING1

Almost too big for the toys

Who needs 50 cents when it makes noises on its own?!

Concerned face, but no tears!
Crawford Boys Santa Picture 2012

Downtown Adventure

We went downtown to the Hotel Roanoke to look at the display of Christmas Trees and see some the Dickens of a Christmas.  Well, let's just say - CRAZY!  Hotel Roanoke was beautiful...I just love that place in general!  The trees were really nice.  Nicholas was given a dollar to vote for his favorite tree - he took it so seriously!!!  Then we went down to the market to see some of the Dickens of a Christmas activities...BUT the Roanoke Christmas Parade was still going on...2 hours after it had started!!!  The market area was nuts-o!!!  We walked around but didn't stay for too long.  Maybe we will try again next year.  We are going to go to Bedford this weekend to see the Elks Home lights - I have gone there ever since I little.  Enjoy the few pics...

Nick's favorite

How cool!!??

Obviously, I need to read up on how to take pictures with a tree behind you....LOL!

Church Program

What an amazing production!  Thank you to the wonderful ladies that put together the children's performance for our church...they do such a great job. What a huge task to take on...5 years old to 12 years old, working together on stage, sharing the word of our Lord.  WOW!  I'm horrible at taking pictures during programs...but here are a few.  Nicholas was a shepherd.


Nicholas in a group song.



The whole gang!

An attempt at a close-up.

Posing

Chasing after his big brother...

Posing on the props from the performance.

A David Funny....

I went in to check on David last night and this is how I found him.......

First of all, the hands behind the head are adorable.....but check out his legs and feet....

Yes, they are through the slats of his crib....and his feet are chilling on the wall!

He is too funny!  He was also ticked when I turned him around.

Family Photo Shoot

Each year we try to get some good family pictures to use for our Christmas card and for the family calendar.  We decided to go to Hollins University this year.  We also brought along my sister to be the photographer.  She did such a great job!!!  I can't post them all, but here is are a few of our favorites!!!



The Crawford Family
2012

 

Sitting down

 

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!!

 


Nicholas and Daddy hanging out

 


David climbing on the rocks

 


Family shot in front of the tree...

 


The photographer and two mad boys...hahaha!!!

 


David, looking for a place to run.

 


Nicholas, such a goofball!

 


Trying to do a family shot at the fence, but got a new friend instead.

 


Almost there....

 


Better shot of Katherine and her two fellas!

 


HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRANDMA!
Nicholas and Grandma eating the dessert....not sharing!

Stationery card

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Thanksgiving

Nicholas' favorite thing to ask right now is "do you know what Thanksgiving is backwards?" and of course no one has a clue what it is and his response is "Giving Thanks".  hahaha!  We just went with it....he has really enjoyed Thanksgiving this year.  He has taken the thankful part pretty serious.  They have discussed being thankful at school and at church....and we are reading the new Junie B., First Grader book about Thanksgiving.

David...well, he doesn't have a clue what it is yet.  But he is having a great time...and can eat a lot of the Thanksgiving foods :-)  YAY!

We had a nice Thanksgiving with the family.  It started Tuesday night at Cracker Barrel.  Jeremy's parents went to South Carolina to visit his brother and his wife on Thursday, so we celebrated together a little early.  At first we were disappointed that Cracker Barrel wasn't serving turkey....but it obviously didn't hurt our appetite...the food was great and we had a very nice time.

Wednesday was an early dismissal day at school - YAY!  We went to the Thanksgiving service at our church.  It is always such a nice service....church members get to share freely what they are thankful for and they serve communion.  David had a different plan...he and I hung out in the back hallway.  I was thankful to be able to hang with him :-)

Thursday morning, Jeremy played in a golf tournament.  Yep, a bunch of women were happy to get their husbands out of the house while they cooked :-)  That evening we went to my parent's house for dinner.  The food was great and we took a few pictures. 

Pop-Pop cutting the turkey....yummy!

 

Family Picture

 

Oh geez, Katherine in the kitchen!

 

The dudes

 

Looking at the pictures...

 

Nicholas and Ty

 

hahaha...Jeremy posing!

 


David playing in the leaves

 

Heath/Crawford/Lawson Family Picture

 

The Crawford Family