Whew...I think I made it!

We'll, I think I finally caught up! I'm trying to not let the randomness of my posts bother me, but it is really hard having them all out of order!

One last post of 2009...some playing in the snow!




Perry did the majority of the building for the snowman, but said there's now way I could have got the head on there with out Parker's help!

Parker is hiding out in his snow fort, having a blast out there in the freezing cold!
He doesn't seem to even notice it!

We'll see ya in 2010 (that's twenty-ten) for the Guts folks and the rest of the cool peeps!

Winterfest...am I really still in Tulsa?

Ice Skating, while its snowing...in Tulsa, how can this be?

Well, one of the activities on Grandma's calendar to us was a trip out downtown to go Ice skating.
I'd never ever heard of an outdoor ice rink in Tulsa, but evidently we have one this year.

Libby's friend Abby came along with us, and we had a great time.Everyone did a pretty good job skating and no crashing, even though Parker only seems to be able to go full steam ahead!

Libby and Abby

Libby got ice skating lessons for Christmas from her dad so maybe she'll be able to teach us a few cool moves in a couple of months!

While we were there the boys saw a friend from church and we had a little bit of a snowball fun going on...I even joined in on the fun!

Thanks Grandma and Crappaw for taking us to winterfest, it's was a blast!

December Happenings

We took the family to Rhema to see the Christmas Lights...it was Corban's first time and he seemed to enjoy it even though it was super cold!

The Church took all of the volunteers (Eric and I) to see The Christmas Carol in 3-D at the I-Max Theater. Guts Church filled the entire theater, it was a great time of "Gathering and Connecting". We also came to the conclusion that Eric doesn't see in 3-D....but the film was great anyway! When we started talking to the kids about it, they said they hadn't seen it...I couldn't believe it! So Eric picked up the "classic 1980's" version had a movie night with popcorn and reeces pieces.

We went to the Annual Kaplin Christmas Party and got to catch up with great friends and check out their car collection...Perry had a blast! I'm sure it's some sort of sin, not knowing how to identify these cars, and even if I knew what they were I'm sure I couldn't spell it right.

I think this one is my personal favorite :) But what do I know?

We finally got around to getting out the decorations the week before Christmas and we finished the evening we watched Eric's favorite Christmas movie...Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas.

Then the 3 days of fun began with the family celebrating my birthday at the Dock Dinner at church, with Parker and Libby starring in the "Christmas Counting Spelling Bee" program at Church. They both did awesome! Parker was spelling bee contestant #5 Ferris Wyler, the "nerd"...who by the way...ties for first in the spelling bee and has the role of Joseph in the Christmas manger scene.






Christmas Eve...can you believe that it started Snowing, and snowing and snowing. We missed the Church's Christmas Eve service, but we did make it over to Aunt Sara's for the Family Christmas Eve Program. By the time we got home there was 6-8 inches on the ground, but with the wind blowing the way it was it there were drifts about 3 foot high in front of the house.