Christmas 2010 is coming to an end

All of the festivities are done and Christmas 2010 is coming to an end.  There were many new memories and fun times. I will let the pictures speak for themselves...

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Back Tracking...

As I was typing up our Christmas greeting I realized I had forgotten to post about another exciting time for us...Tom graduated from NCO Academy...Congrats!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from the Cook's!  We won't have a white Christmas, but I am pretty sure we'll see some snow in March!  We have had very little snow, so far, maybe it's all ended up in North Dakota!  We have been enjoying the Christmas season, with parties, looking at Christmas lights, shopping, eating, wrapping gifts, attending our church's Christmas Eve service and we are looking forward to more fun tomorrow...opening gifts, spending time with friends for lunch and enjoying time with each other. 

Tonight we will read the Christmas story with Gregory and as he says he really liked the story about the baby at church tonight...we asked him, you mean the one about baby Jesus?  Yeah that one.

Earlier the boys opened one present each and so we got some pictures already of the fun and then we got a family picture too.  Merry Christmas...as we all remember what this holiday is all about...a baby born a long time ago in Bethlehem, who came to save each and every one of us....and for this special gift we are especially thankful for.  Thank you Jesus.

Joshua's 11 month's old

Hard to believe that this month Joshua will be turning a year old.  For this photo shoot Joshua was not feeling well...he ended up having the flu for nearly the whole week.  Glad to have a happier Joshua back, now that he is feeling better.  Oh and since we were at the ER recently I know Joshua is 20 lbs and 4 oz.

First photo is Joshua and the second one is Gregory...my how different they are becoming...cute, but different.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

On Saturday after Thanksgiving we kept to tradition and set up our Christmas tree.  Of course the boys had fun helping and as always everything seemed new since it hadn't been seen for a year!

I think the pictures speak more than words could share...so check out the rest of the pictures here...http://tomandroxannecook.shutterfly.com/

Thanksgiving

Wow, I can't believe that I haven't posted about Thanksgiving yet!  So, here it is!  We went up to Winterpark, CO area and wow was it cold!  There was lots of snow at the nearby ski resorts and we had an adventure with Tom driving up the mountain, Joshua screaming most of the way up and then having negative temps while we were there.  There was lots to do at the camp we were at, but it was too cold to go anywhere with Joshua still being so little (and crawling).  So we spent most of our time eating (yummy food in the dining hall), driving around the camp (so beautiful and nice looking cabins) and relaxing in our room (we stayed in a lodge, rather than a cabin).

We still got to have our Thanksgiving meal (and I didn't have to cook)...after we got home I did make a meal on Saturday so we got to have some leftovers after that :-)

Joshua did much better on the way down the mountain especially since he was sleeping.  We even enjoyed a little "Black Friday" shopping just outside of Denver (at the Container Store).

We had a good "mini-vacation" for Thanksgiving this year.  More pictures here... http://tomandroxannecook.shutterfly.com/