Christmas 2009

This Christmas was so much fun because Drake actually knew what to do with his presents and the look on his face when he opened them was priceless. I finally understand why everyone says that Christmas is so much more special when you have little ones.

We traveled up to Oklahoma to see David's family this year. Our first stop was Edmond, we arrived on Wednesday evening and awoke on Thursday to find the beginnings of a blizzard. Yes, I said a blizzard, in Oklahoma. The winds were blowing 50 mph and the snow was coming down like crazy. By the next morning, there were 14 inches of snow in Edmond, which delayed our trip to Tulsa for another day (who got about 9 inches).

We finally were able to make it to Tulsa on Saturday and Drake was baptized on Sunday in the same church where David and I were married so that was a pretty special way to wrap up our weekend.

Drake has a blast with his Pops and Za Za, Uncle Cole and Aunt Sissy in Edmond and with his Mimo and Dado in Tulsa. Thank you all for the wonderful gifts, you did too much again this year (as usual).

I don't have any pictures from our trip loaded yet and honestly can't remember if I took any at all, but I do have some from our pre Christmas at home:

I just wanted to add this one because he looks like Cindy Lou Who from How the Grinch Stole Christmas :)

Everyone have a wonderful New Year's Eve.  While most of you are out celebrating in style, please think of me sitting at home watching Dick Clark's Rocking New Year's and hoping that I can stay awake until midnight!

Visit to the North Pole

A few weeks before Christmas, we met up with our friends, the Blacks (Betsy, Jared, William and Henry who is set to make his appearance any day now) at Bass Pro Shops so that the boys could meet Santa.  I still need to scan and load Drake's picture from that but he did great!!

I only took a few pictures-this always seems to happen when we're with people who we enjoy being with, because we are having such a blast that we forget about the camera!

Here David with Drake at the North Pole :)

And here are William and Drake on a boat (you know that song is going through your head too...)

Yes, Drake is going to kill us someday for making him wear a Christmas sweater, but it's cute isn't it?

Merry Christmas (a few days late)...

I hope that everyone had a safe and happy holiday!

Slumber party

Back in November (I know, I know...I've been terrible at keeping up lately) I took Drake to his first slumber party.  David's little brother Cole and a few of his friends came down for Cole's 16th birthday weekend so Drake and I took the opportunity to go and visit Betsy, Jared, and adorable William (Drake's BFF).  The boys had a great time playing together and I had a fantastic time with Betsy, Maranie, and Jared. 
Betsy, thank you so much for letting me stay and for taking pictures of our adorable boys!

Few more Drake pics

Look at this precious little mister.  He looks like an angel doesn't he?  

For those of you who haven't seen all of Drake's teeth...here you go :)

One of Drake's favorite toys is the busy ball popper, he likes to look down the tube before the balls pop out-he gets hit in the face quite frequently so it's good that it's a low velocity toy!

See his hair blowing in the wind :)

Kristen's Baby Shower

A few weeks ago we went up to Tulsa to go to my sister in law's baby shower.  Drake's little cousin Gage is due to arrive in February and we can't wait!

Halloween pictures

Drake wasn't feeling well on Halloween (just getting over a double ear infection, tonsilitis, and a reaction to an antibiotic) so we only put him in his real costume for about 10 minutes.  Here are the few pictures that we have of him as a dog :)

For the rest of the night he wore this his little glow in the dark skeleton outfit.

Doing his famous "monkey face":

Next year we may even try trick or treating!

A few pictures

I wanted to post a few random pictures of Drake, I will upload the Halloween pictures soon!

GO POKES!

For months David and I have been trying to find the time to get back up to our Alma mater OSU and go to a football game.   We decided that even if we didnt' get tickets to a game, going up Homecoming weekend would be perfect.  David's parents have season tickets this year and after David just mentioning in passing that we were going to come up for that weekend, they gave us their tickets to the game! Aren't they fantastic?  David and I had not been back to Stillwater in over 4 years and had not been to a game in at least 6 years-let me tell you, that place has changed!  We went with Neal, Kari, and the Drakester up to the walk around on Friday night and we could see a few changes, but nothing could prepare us for GAME DAY.  Back when we were in school, you couldn't really tailgate unless you knew someone and even then it wasn't wide spread.  Now campus is like 1 big tailgate party!  All of the bars and restaurants have tents with beer and food and even tvs set up outside. The stadium is now complete and is absolutely unbelievable, it looks nothing like the small stadium that I remember.  We really didn't have time to walk around the campus but that will be a priority when we go back.  I would like to let Drake run around on library lawn and see the place where his parents met.

The best part about Stillwater (aside from the win against Missouri) was that my best friend Sarah was there and her sister Mel (who I also adore) and her hubby Sean.  We had so much fun hanging out in the place where we all first met.  

Me and Sarah:

 















Me, Sarah, and Mel:

Thanks again Neal and Kari for giving us your homecoming tickets!  We had a BLAST!

Catching up...

 AUGUST

Back in August we went to visit my family and Drake was able to hang out with his cousin Matt who is 2 months and 2 days younger than him. They are going to be the best of friends!

SEPTEMBER

September was a less happy month for us considering that Drakey broke his left arm :(  He was trying to stand and fell on it wrong-this was verified by our Orthopedic surgeon (trust me, we were freaking out that something worse happened to him).  My mom came out from California to help take care of him since it was a big adjustment.  He was in a cast for 3 weeks and then was in a brace for another 4 weeks.  During this time our household didn't get much sleep at all, you see, Drake sucked his left thumb and the cast no longer allowed him to do this...he was very unhappy to say the least.  Once the cast and brace came off we figured that the first thing that he would do would be to shove his thumb into his mouth, but that wasn't the case at all, he actually no longer sucks his thumb which hopefully will save us a lot of money in braces!  He had just started to crawl and pull up when all of this happened, so we were really worried that this would delay him severely, but he still crawled all over the place and was still into everything.
We are very thankful that his arm has healed very well and that that chapter is closed-although I've been reminded by everyone that he's a boy and this may not be his last cast :(

David waited about a week before he added his artistic touch to the cast:

Drake and his BFF Maggie: