Christmas 2012

Christmas 2012 was wonderful.  Christmas day for us is always crazy but we have 4 houses to hit that day and that's not counting our own home.  For Christmas Eve we go to Josh's parents house and have a delicious dinner, play games, open pajama's, and this year we started having the kids act out the nativity (normally Josh and his dad just read it).  We invited some of my family to join us this year and it was so much fun getting to spend that night with both sides of the family! 

 

 

Here are the kids in all their jammies!  You can tell what they are into just by looking at the type of pajama's they got this year!

Here they are acting out the nativity.  This pic just about shows how it went down.  Jaxon took the whole thing very seriously, Brynlee was such a gentle Mary who loved her baby to pieces, and Bridger was eating and smiling for pictures the entire time!  He is such a funny little guy!

 

Here is the loot on Christmas morning.  Brynlee got a scooter, clothes, dress-up stuff, a camera, etc.  Brecken got a playmat, clothes, baby toys.  Bridger got an Elmo, Thomas the Train R/C, clothes, cape, etc.  Jaxon got a R/C helicopter, clothes, Wii game, and construx (they don't make these anymore so I had to buy them on EBay.  Josh used to play with them as a kid and Jaxon LOVES to build stuff with them.) 

 

Here is Bridger opening a present at the Crowther's (first stop on Christmas for us).

Jaxon with his HUGE R/C Mario Kart from the Crowthers.

Brynlee with her fairy outfit from the Crowthers. 

 

I didn't take any pics at any of the other stops for the day.  Even though Christmas Day is exhausting I love it.  The kids will only be small for a short time and I'm trying to take it all in while I can.

It's a BOY!!!

Brecken Jay Crowther joined our family on November 9th.  I had a scheduled C-Section and everything went very well.  He wasn't as big as we all thought he was going to be.  He was 7lbs. 9oz. and 19 1/2 inches long.  He has the cutest little nose and a head full of hair.  He is such a happy baby and handles the craziness of 3 older siblings very well.  He wakes up once a night to eat and then goes back to sleep.  We love him to pieces and are so glad he's ours!!!  Here are a few pics right after he was born.

 

 

This pic was taken minutes after he was born

Sleeping away in the hospital.  I LOVE that my kids have hair when they are born!!

Such a cute face!

Oh just look at that little nose!

The kids love baby Brecken.  Especially Bridger.

Jaxon can't get enough of him either.  Too bad they were all sick the first 2 months of his life.  They didn't get to touch him much at all during that time.

What a good big sister Brynlee is:)

Brecken really is a wonderful baby and we couldn't have asked for anything more.  We all love him like crazy.  He was a surprise but I wouldn't have it any other way!