crew's first christmas + a video

Yes, I realize it's been 3 weeks since Christmas, but this mama has been busy with going back to work. (booo)

We loved every second with Crew this past Christmas. We went to our church for Christmas Eve, spent Christmas day with my side of the family and Christmas night with Will's side. I know Crew was worn out, but he did so well.

Who can resist a baby in a Santa outfit?!

Our Christmas card this year

and a short video of the few clips I got this holiday...

I can't imagine how different next Christmas will be when Crewboo can walk and open gifts!

2013 in review

What kind of blogger would I be if I didn't do a year in review post? I didn't plan on doing one until finding the following piece of paper in our 2013 memory jar. This has been the best year of our lives with the birth of Crew. This year brought blessing after blessing and I have loved looking back and reflecting on it.

january

Will and I started a new tradition of a memory jar with writing things on little pieces of paper throughout the year and then reading it the following New Year's Day. I'm so glad we chose to start this when we did!

We spent a lot of time together riding. We haven't done much of this since last January because of being pregnant.

februrary

We found out we were pregnant!

I shared how we told our families about our big news

We celebrated Will's 25th birthday with dinner at Carrabba's

march
We celebrated 3 years of marriage by announcing our pregnancy on our anniversary

april
We went to our gender ultrasound and gave the secret envelope to Kelly for her to prepare for our party

We had our gender reveal party and found out that we were having a boy!

may
I shared why we chose Crew's name

Will graduated with his Masters from seminary

june

Will got ordained at Faith Baptist

I shared about all I've learned from pregnancy

july

I went to Myrtle Beach with my family....

...while Will went to Kenya, Tanzania and China

august

We had our first baby shower with the couples' group from church

Kelly took our maternity pictures

We were given our second baby shower at our home church

september

Kelly and Roxanna gave us our third baby shower

We went on our babymoon in Nashville....

...Chattanooga,

and East TN.

october

Only the greatest month of our lives...we had our first baby, Crew William Kassner. I shared all about his birth

Kelly took his newborn photos when he was 8 days old.

november

We celebrated Crew's one month birthday

We dedicated Crew to God in front of our church and family

I shared Crew's birth day video

We had our first Thanksgiving with our little turkey

december

Crew turned two months...already

We started cloth diapering full time and love it

I took Crew's picture for our Christmas card

We celebrated my 25th birthday

We had Crew's first Christmas!

Can't you see why this has been the best year...thus far?! I can't wait to see what 2014 has in store for our little family. I'm so excited to watch Crew grow and learn and experience new things. God has truly blessed us!

Christmas Festivities (aka Photo Overload)

Our Christmas weekend was jam-packed and I hate that it went by so fast. I love spending time with our families and just having time for some R&R.

Harrison, Shannon & me

Cody thought he should wear a Christmas vest for our little family shindig. Cameron was pretty excited about it too.

Colin, my youngest brother, and Harrison (our cousin)

For Christmas this year, Will set a budget for our gifts to each other. We both went over that budget (thanks to the help of his parents--a Kassner loan)

I got Will a shotgun he's been wanting for duck hunting. He mentioned the name and model of the gun months ago and I somehow remembered it and had the help of his dad in purchasing it.

Will got me tickets to three shows at the Orpheum. I can't wait! I love Broadway shows and actually haven't seen any of these. (Memphis, Rock of Ages, Anything Goes)

Christmas day at my parents' house

Remi thinks he's a lap dog

Getting warm by the fire

Poor Colly Wolly was sick on Christmas day

Ok, I wasn't going to put this on here because...well, look at the face I'm making. I told Will to dip me for some sort of cliche picture and in the process I somehow "slipped" (or was too heavy...or he was too weak) and almost fell flat on my back...or my head. It's just a little Matrix action.

I hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas together!