Merry Christmas

Three Crawfords, Christmas Eve
4 Crawfords, Christmas Day
5 Crawfords, Christmas Day

Kelly opening presents christmas morning
Liel with her new toothbrush, she always wants her sisters, and with three teeth of her own I thought she could have one too
The best $25 gift of all, from daddy of course
Liel in her "Baby's first Christmas" bib
Daddy teaching Julia the art of fencing :) or something like that

Merry Christmas

We want to wish a Merry Christmas to our Friends and Family. You have been often in our thoughts throughout 2007 and we trust that God’s hand has been visible in your lives. God made himself known to us in many new and wonderful ways this year. May God’s loving hand be seen in your lives this coming year.

Happy 4th Birthday Precious Julia Marie Crawford

Enjyoing our DQ ice-cream cake.
unwrapping presents
matching birthday pj's

daddy took the two older girls out for a while one night and mommy and Liel had some special time together. Of course I took the opportunity to snap some pictures :)
Two boxes of presents arrived from California and Julia was almost more interested in the box with packaging peanuts than the presents!
I just love seeing my girls interseted in music. We often sit and sing together or they dance while I play.
Even Liel seems to enjoy the piano.

Girls just having fun
Pretty Playing Girls



my Poor Little Rich Girl :) So cute

My hubby and his gals
thought it was cute, if even a little kiddish of daddy too
Pastor Pine showing our girls his harp
Kelly and Jelly, need I say more?

Finished product of a gorgeous christmas Tree, thanks to my hubby.

Kelly and Daddy in the attic getting the boxes down to decorate

Boxes are opened and being sorted
Our helpful girls with the ornaments

Julia adding the star on top

First snowfall of December 2007

Kelly and Liel in the swimming pool eating snow.
Julia enjoying the snow in our yard
Daddy taking the girls for a sled ride
Kelly fell off the sled on her face one to many times, so she got a shoulder ride
And Julia got a solo sled ride

Happy Thanksgiving friends and family, from the Crawfords

This beautiful Fall scenery draws to mind the Fall of 1998. That Thanksgiving of 9 years ago was a very special one for me, one that I'll always remember. It was the first Thanksgiving I shared with Kirk, and my precious family (though we were only dating at the time). I'm so glad he was able to partake in that memory with me, at the Spahn's Home with lumpy mashed potatoes and all! Sweet, cherished, Memories.

Fall Excursion

We went for a walk the other day, it was just so beautiful out and the weather was fairly warm. The girls loved it, and of course I had to be snapping pictures the whole time :)
Julia actually somewhat cooperated for me, by sitting on this pile of firewood. Sweet girl. It's so great that we can have such a fun adventure right outside our backyard. It kind of reminds me of the wonderful times we had in Hatfield when we had a lot of fun roaming land to play on.
Kelly and Liel were fairly cooperative for this shot too.
Liel mostly road in the stroller, but Kelly was thoughtful and gave her several pretty leaves, which inevitably ended up in her mouth. ha!

Happy 2nd Birthday Kelly Joannah!

Here Kelly is after just getting her happy birthday-good morning- balloon dump! It took her a few seconds to smile. At first she just looked at us like, huh? I have a picture of it, but thought this was much cuter.
Birthday Carrot Cake (which Julia tells us is what her wedding cake will be when she gets married to daddy :)

Poppy bringing Kelly a pretty helium balloon (Burd's and their balloons on b-days, it's a tradition!)
Grammy helping Kelly with her pretty new barbie.
Daddy and Kelly checking out the new purse set (fake nailpolish, eye shadow, make-up brushes and blow dryer with real noise)

Liel enjoying Kelly's new toys!
Kelly, Happy day after your b-day. Here she is enjoying some of her new toys, in her very pink bedroom. What a girly-girl.

Dr. Julia, Playing Dentist with Daddy (what a good sport!)
Cutie Pies in same shirt. Thanks Grammy, I love having my girls dressed similarly.

Our trip to the Maryland Zoo. We had great weather and a lot of fun (but we missed our Daddy)

I wonder if Kelly thought she was suppose to climb out the whole or something :)

Julia was happy to pretend she was a turtle, but wanted to see some live ones.
Kelly enjoyed being spun in this pretend turtle shell. I think she could have stayed her for quite a while.