Christmas 2017

Christmas morning!  Santa came!

according to Crouse tradition,
we all wait and go together for Christmas morning, no peeking!

thanks Grandpa and Grandma!!
it was sooo bitterly cold, but we made it out just for a minute

Sweet Emily with her new bike

Christmas is exhausting!

12.27 - Fun evening with the Chois and Brands

the best I could get of our kiddos!

Coach CJ is awesome. 
He rented out Trinity gym probably six times over the break for optional sessions. 
And Abby played most of the time too!

Headed to Nana's for Christmas #2 

Poor Chlo-Chlo was recovering from a stomach bug and slept most of the way

Merry Christmas, Nana!!
Chloe was awake, just being a stinker ;)

Happy New Year's! 
Chloe and I stayed in

While you'd never wish them sick,
the snuggles sure are nice!

We watched the New Year on Netflix, hehe
**Happy 2018!!**

'twas the night before Christmas

ice cream with Mommy AND Daddy
to celebrate passing sight word list one!! 
[Grandpa and Grandma came in time to take the Big Two
to Ryan's basketball practice, thanks!]

a little catch with Grandpa ⚾
love the afternoon views from my kitchen window, esp today's :)

Saturday morning breakfast at J Christopher's. 
Thanks to Aunt Lucinda for the Christmas giftcard!

sweet matching cousins

Grandpa and Grandma took the five grands to Las Palmas, thanks!

❤💚❤💚❤

Double date night with my sissy! 

PF Chang's giftcards from my parents, thanks again!

Christmas Eve church

Christmas Eve with the family and Conleys & Houlihans. 

🎄🎅⭐⛄

The kiddos painting suncatchers

sweet friends - Zo and Chlo

the boys!

Abs and Hannah decorating birthday cupcakes for Jesus

more of December 2017

Abby's first basketball game!  

LOVE watching these two play and love that they're both completely coincidentally #5!

Abby's quite impressive!!  So much hustle out there. 

the second grade girls
Abby is small but mighty!

Caroline, Lyla, Abby, Zoe 

Abby loves babies!
This is Lainey, the newest member of our small group

Chloe and Kayla
The girls performed Jingle Bells and
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer for us

Sunday, 12.17.17

For King and Country Christmas concert!!!!!

first concert for these two :)

loved watching Abby watch the concert! 
She was singing and clapping and loving it!

*small group Christmas dinner at Cinco's*
Brittany, Sarah [with Carlynn's newborn, Lainey!], me, Carlynn 
Our hubbies were there too [the Taylors were sick, sad!]

Two cats are the best!! 
Miles walked over to Milly and said
"hey there Sis, I'm just going to lay down right here on top of you."

Girls night with Christa, Alicia, and Baby Eden
We went to Nido's, a tapas place in Vickery
lots of fun and yummy things to share!

class parties!!

Mari and Chloe

Chloe and Jake

Abby and Lyla with Mrs. Baker

AJ, Jacob, Ryan, Lucas

fun afternoon with cats and origami

We made it to break!
Aaron came home with us :)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Sunday, Dec 10, 2017 - Venturing out to find Santa and Mrs Claus!

And yes, that's real snow in our Santa picture!!  How cool is that?!

Pretty sure we also went to Laredo's in Hammond's Crossing with the Conleys for lunch on the way there, despite the lack of pictorial proof!  We used to love Laredo's [Mexican] when we lived up that way before kids, and it's always nice to have an excuse to go back. 

I LOVE THIS!!!!

after our Santa visit, we went on a hayride and fed cows

getting kitties was the best choice ever :)

-Daddy and Ryan had scouts that same afternoon, so the girls and I took the critters to see Santa as well when we got home from our Santa visit.  I figured since they're our Christmas kitties and all, we should go this year.  So well done, so impressed with the pet store and Santa and the whole experience!

-They took all these great photos and gave me a flash drive of them as we left!

-Santa was so great, after the animal photo shoot, he called the girls up and chatted with them for a couple of mins.

-I think we need to take the kids to the pet store from now on!!

Snow day Monday cookie baking with the Conleys

Ryan's been working on this awesome guy off and on. 
A snow day is a perfect day to finish!

See?!?!  The shady side of the street!

Happy happy kitty Momma!!

piano "party" for Ryan and Abby 
[and the rest of Ms. Sarah's students]  
They did amazing!!  
Such a fun evening, super proud of these two!

Milly loves toilet paper rolls