Merry Christmas to All

Where to begin? Our Christmas (along with most Oklahomans) was anything but normal or expected. Our plan was to go to Snyder on the 23rd, come home the evening of the 24th and have our little family Christmas and Santa gifts in the morning. Then, mom and dad were supposed to come up on Christmas day and open gifts and help us get ready for the Zinn Christmas at our house on Saturday. However, the Blizzard of 2009 had other plans... Instead, we made it to Snyder and ended up being stuck there. Aaron's mom lost power so we had to load up and head into town to stay at his Grandma's (small) house for the next day and night. We were alittle sad, but glad to not be stuck somewhere on the road. On Christmas day we headed home on the snow covered, but not too bad roads. It was crazy to see all of the wrecked and abandoned cars all over the interstate. After 4 hours, we made it home. We had to come in our back door, bc our front door was blocked by the snow. I had enough time to get a roast in the crock pot, put away some things and then we had our family Christmas and ate and opened gifts; just the three of us :) Saturday's plan changed to everyone going to my Mee-Maws instead of our house. We didn't originally plan on making the drive, but decided to surprise Mom and Dad and showed up! I was so glad we did, bc I was beginning to think I wasn't going to see my family at all. Aaron headed home that evening and Wyatt and I stayed with Mom and Dad so that we could ride to Ada for the Hobson Christmas the next day. Aaron ended up getting off work early and was able to join us for a nice get together. So, that's how our Christmas played out. Now, I'm enjoying some time at home with our little guy.

Super Seven

This past month has been a very eventful one. You have had alot "firsts" and it seems like it has flown by! Here are 7 of your big happenings during your 7th month.....
1.) You celebrated your very 1st Thanksgiving with a lot of great family time.
2.) You went to Daycare for the 1st time and are doing great. It seems to be a good fit for us right now.
3.) Santa Claus! You got to have your very 1st picture taken with Santa and it made us so excited for all the Christmas' that are to come.
4.) Your first two little teeth came in. This made you a bit fussy and caused a low temp.
5.) Poor Baby.... You got your first ear infection this month and had to go to the Dr.
6.) You can now sit up all by yourself. It's so fun to see you sitting up and playing and grabbing on to all of your toys.
7.) Crawling?!? Okay, so your not really crawling yet, but you are trying so hard and can get up on your hands and knees and rock. It will be no time at all now and you'll be on the move...

Here Comes Santa Claus....

I LOVE Christmas time and this year is so much more exciting having Wyatt here to celebrate with! We headed to Bass Pro on Friday night (which happens to be one of our favorite places!) to meet Santa for the 1st time. I was a little afraid that we wouldn't get a good pic, bc he would be distracted by everything going on around him, but just look at the pic. Pretty adorable, if I might say so :)
(P.S. If you need a place to take your kiddos to see Santa, this was great! We didn't wait in line and it is FREE!)

So Thankful :)

We had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving break. We got to spend 5 nights at my parents and my brothers family did too. It was so fun to get to spend so much time with them and their precious little girl. Thanksgiving day was spent with my mom's side of the family and then Aaron's family. On Friday, we headed to Maysville for a day with my Dad's side. We had a great time visiting with everyone and ate WAY too much yummy food :)

Cousins :)

Our growing family

The great-grandkids

Wyatt and his 2nd cousin Dane


Gooo Pokes! (okay... so the game didn't go as we hoped, but don't we look cute?!)


These next two are part of our attempt at a photo shoot of the kiddos in their matching pj's. We decided it's near impossible to get a pic of them both looking at the camera, but we still think they look great :)