the new and not at all improved crisp family blog



alright folks, i have no idea what was wrong with the old page, but blogger, since it's free, i guess, is not in the customer servicce business, so here we are. i might go back and do some from charlie's first birthday, but other than that it'll just be current activities. because there are more than enough of those to choose from! Thanksgiving was wonderful, we saw lots of family, some extended family I'd never met before. We loved having Uncle Brett and Aunt Jess around, they are awesome with my crisplings!



of course these aren't in order. (really, if i came back with some perfectly well written, well designed blog, you wouldn't even believe it was me :-). we got our christmas tree thanksgiving weekend, which i think should be a tradition. patrick actually cut it himself! this was the first of many times charlie tries to get up close and personal with the tree.



i can't decorate the tree without christmas cookies, so hannah and i whipped some up. i tried not to control too much as she decorated the cookies how she wanted. (with nana overseeing)

my mom always gives gifts for each sunday in advent, so we opened the first ones a day early.

this is the cookie girl, right here! i think she ate 6. just that one night.

after our second thanksgiving dinner on friday, there was some target practice going on. i remember 6 yrs ago (i think), my first thanksgiving in haviland, before we were even married, patrick teaching me to shoot in this exact spot. this year he helped Jess. charlie and i just watched :-).

so ever since this summer, hannah loves to pretend she's roasting "mousemellows". here a pile of leaves did the trick.

thank you for going the extra click to our new blog, and i'm sorry for the last few months! Patrick has been working very very hard at his new job. He would like to hire another operator but right now there's only one, so he's sort of doing that job and the manager/sales job. he's often out even after dark, and it's getting fairly chilly here! The kids and I are doing well, we are just starting to babysit more. That, I hope, will keep us busy. or busier. we love our house decorated for christmas, i really will take some pictures. the most recent renovation was getting the clawfoot tub back in the main floor bathroom, Patrick's working on redoing all the old plumbing. more leaks! i'm not sure where's he's picked up all this knowledge, but i'm so proud of him. oh, charlie's walking!!! yeah! we're thrilled. i was done lugging him around :-). he also got 3 teeth all at one time. ok, thanks again for being here. i PROMISE to do better now that i have no excuse!