Category Archives: Holiday

This year Caleb’s birthday fell on Easter so we had a double celebration. In fact, we celebrated Easter, Caleb’s birthday, and Rebecca’s birthday (since we were unable to have a party for her birthday).

The theme for the birthday party was Toy Story. Caleb has been asking for over 4 months for a Buzz Light Year cake and a good friend of our made him a wonderful rocket cake.

We spent the morning at church and then the family was over and we had a delicious meal, cake/ice cream, presents, and an Easter egg hunt.

It was a wonderful way to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus, and our children’s birthday.

Jamie

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter this year.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!
I can’t believe it is next week. My, how this year has flown by, especially the last couple of weeks.
We have our tree up and decorated as well as our nativity set up, but that is about it. A little behind, oh well. We have listened to a lot of Christmas music to make up for the lack of decorations around our house. 🙂
Here are some pictures of the kids decorating the tree. I hope you enjoy. I will be posting the CrockettTimes Christmas Newsletter as soon as I have mailed it out to those that do not have email.

Again, Merry Christmas!
Love Jamie

We have so much to be thankful for this year and I thank God for all his saving grace.

We just returned today from our Thanksgiving holidays with all our family. We spent Thanksgiving day up in Toppenish with Dustin’s cousins. It was great as all the Crocketts and Rigdons were there. I think this is a first since we have been together that everyone has been able to make it. Great food and company. We have so much to be thankful for. Poor Caleb burned his hand on the wood stove but he seems to be healing quite nicely.

From Toppenish, we headed up to Spokane to be with Jamie’s parents and sisters. It was a long day as we got in late on Thanksgiving and got up REALLY early to hit the Black Friday sales. We celebrated with a big turkey dinner, very good. mmm… We ended Friday night visiting with Jamie’s parents and sister.

To skip around a little bit, we had an ultrasound last month that showed that the baby is strong and healthy. Prior to that, Dustin’s trip to Germany was more than just a meeting trip for work. He went there for a meeting but also we have the possible opportunity to spend 18 months over in Europe so he was aslo there to see what it was like there. We had to make a decision within a week and after much prayer, we decided we wanted to move forward as we feel that God is directing us to be there. This is not guarenteed and God could still shut this door, as we are waiting for approval from Dustin’s work, but at this point, we are proceeding our lives as if it is.

Some of you know of our decision, but we did not announce it very publicly because we wanted to tell Jamie’s family in person and we were not able to do so until this weekend. Although it will be difficult for my family if it does come to be, they were positive and seemingly supportive of our decision at this opportunity of a lifetime. We did try to sweeten the discussion by having the ultrasound tech place in a card (that has been sealed since last month’s ultrasound – mentioned above) the gender of the baby. We did not want to find out (and didn’t with the first two) but we knew my family really wanted to know and since we are planning to leave when the baby is aobut 3 months old, they could have that extra time knowing. [Just an FYI: IF we have more children, we will NOT be finding out the gender prior 🙂 ]

We are very excited. We are hoping to find out from Dustin’s work within a couple of months. We know that God is at work and we have peace knowing that whatever happens, it is what God has planned and we will be okay.

What am I thankful for this year? Well, as I started this post, I am thankful for God’s saving grace. I’m also thankful that He has a plan for our life, that is so much better than I may know, and His peace. I’m thankful for my wonderful husband and our beautiful children including our expanding family, our family and friends, and the amazing opportunity God has placed in front of us. I could continue on (as this is the condensed version) but it is late.

I hope your holiday was wonderful, Christ-filled, and safe.
Love Jamie

BTW… The results are that we are having a girl.

P.S. Thank you so much Heather for answering all our questions regarding this opportunity and for blogging your experience in Germany in such detail. You really helped us make an informed decision. We appreciate it and look forward to seeing you when you get back next month.

This week has been a busy week.

On Wednesday, we went to the pumpkin patch. The kids had a lot of fun, although it was very cold. We picked out a couple of pumpkins that we carved yesterday. The first time our family carved pumpkins (which the kids also enjoyed). Back to the patch though. We went on the carousel, looked at the animals, and went through the hay maze. Kimberly rode the airplane ride and went down the inflatable slide.


On Thursday, we went to Disney on Ice. The kids had a blast and were mesmerized by seeing some of their favorite characters. They both got into it clapping and cheering along.

Friday we carved our pumpkins and we went to a Halloween birthday party. Unfortunately Mary (birthday girl) was not feeling well. It was a lot of fun though with dancing and visiting.




Today (Halloween) I took the kids Trick-Or-Treating and we handed out candy. Both the kids had fun walking to the houses we knew and saying “Trick-Or-Treat” to get goodies. They also really liked handing out candy to kids that came to our door. Kimberly would yell, “we’re coming, don’t go anywhere!”. We ended the night watching Pete’s Dragon.

I hope your Halloween was fun and safe.

God Bless.
Jamie

Well, I attempted to take the kids’ Easter pics and Caleb’s 10-Month pics last night (by myself – which is very difficult with a toddler and an infant. When I saved them, I titled them “Take I” because I was not sure how they were going to turn out. I sure LOVE Photoshop, I do wish I would have been able to get more shots of the kids though, however, I was loosing my patience and we were done.

Here are a few of the ones I liked.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook