Sorry for the delay in posting the Christmas pictures...but here they are! My friend Christina and her Mom, Michelle, make the stockings that we have. They sent ours out a few years ago, our names are on them too. This year they sent the snowmen this year for the kids. They are so adorable!!
Dean and Spencer in the morning after a really early wake up by Spencer. Dean usually takes the "morning shift" with the kids since I still get up with them at night when they need help finding their pacifiers. They were just too cute cuddled together and then he smiled right when I snapped the picture!
Dean doing what he loves to do...play games on his computer...Aubrey doesn't feel the same about it! It worked to put her to sleep though!
Spencer opening his first Christmas present...he still didn't have an idea of what he was supposed to do. Give him any other piece of paper though and he will have it shredded!
Aubrey fell asleep right when we started to open presents.
Spencer opening more presents. He is sitting on his new quilt that Dean's mom made him. Aubrey got one too, but hers is pink...very special!
Presents were opened, he got dressed for church and then fell asleep with his Grandpa Curt!
Aubrey with Uncle Eric chewing on a present that was yet to be opened!
Sitting with Grandpa in the new
jammies from Pat!
Nana and Grandpa with Spencer and Aubrey....the matching
jammies were just too cute! I will probably do that every year from now on!
And the fighting begins and the present isn't even opened yet! They fought back and forth for possession of the tube for a while before we finally broke it up.
That one present lasted a long time before it finally got all the way opened!
Finally playing with bath
squirters that were inside the tube...
Uncle Eric also gave them a handful of balloons from his work. They love to play with them...the simplest things amuse them for the longest time!
This was the first present that she took after all by herself....she just kept ripping a little at a time until it was opened!
Dean was taking pictures of the two of them and this one just made me laugh! I love her face!!
Christmas morning at our house. We got them bean bags...they sit in them pretty good, just have to watch Spencer on his dismount. He isn't really
graceful and hasn't crawled yet, so he just kind of falls out!
Both bean bags, although they are in each others bags....
Spencer playing with his favorite toy...the plastic bowl that we put the rings in. He loves to put it on his head like a hat!
Spencer and I opening his present from his Wisconsin Aunties.
Dean and Aubrey opening her Wisconsin Aunties present!
Mom with the babies reading one of their new books to them. Spencer is really listening to her.
Uncle Eric playing with the babies after all the excitement of Christmas day.
Add Dean to the picture. Spencer is sitting in his chair and saw I was taking the picture...he is going through a phase where he gives me the cutest smile with his nose all scrunched up.
He went from fussing to his smile when he saw the camera. He is with my niece Italy.
Uncle Eric and Aubrey.
Spencer is not pleased with the ribbon on his head.
Aubrey went under the tree and was watching the train go by her...I happened to snap the picture just in time for this shot!
We had a wonderful time with family over the holidays. It was such a joy to watch the babies enjoy
their first Christmas. Now we have a 1st birthday to plan and celebrate their first year!!!
As hard as it is to believe, they will be one in just under a week! I can't imagine that it was a year ago! It went WAY too fast!!
We had a wonderful time with family over the holidays. It was such a joy to watch the babies enjoy their first Christmas. Now we have a 1st birthday to plan and celebrate their first year!!!
Merry Christmas from the Crossons!! Here is the first picture with Santa...believe it or not only Aubrey cried! Spencer looked very cautiously at Santa, but never cried! They didn't smile for the picture but they didn't cry either...so a successful trip I think! Enjoy your holidays!! We love you all!
Spencer is holding my card from Dean's family....it was cute...and I really could use a time out too...although I'll take mine without the drink or it will just turn into a nap! 
Spencer wanted to feed himself, so Dean gave him the spoon and he did a pretty good job of getting it to his mouth! I was impressed!
He didn't want to wait for his Dad to reload the spoon though...
This is Dean with his niece Brittany. We got to spend some time with her and her sister Bethany and loved every minute of it! 
Bethany is the one standing and then Aubrey and Spencer are on the floor. Dean's mom's house looked like a tornado hit, but they had fun playing with their cousins! 
Another view of the cousins playing on the floor...
I have been pulling Aubrey's hair up in pony tails lately! She looks so cute with her hair up! It is getting so long on top and gets in her eyes, but I don't want to cut it yet, so this works! 
Our church had a hayride through the Keizer lights, so we took the kids with us too. (Keizer has a neighbor hood that goes all out with the Christmas lights and most of the houses are all lit up.) It was a lot of fun to ride through looking at the lights from the back of a trailer! We took our two and Dean's two nieces and had such a great time! The babies did great, even though it was literally freezing out! We had blankets and snuggled up close! This is Dean's mom Cheryl, his sister Julie who is holding Bethany, and me with Aubrey.
Me and my little girl enjoying the lights!
Dean with Spencer having fun too!
They love to eat whatever we eat, so Mom fed them some of the soup she made...they LOVED it!! Good eaters!! 
He also LOVED the pumpkin pie for dessert! :) He just woke up from a nap that he really didn't think he needed, but we knew better! He woke up much happier and hungry for some pie!
Here is Dean with Italy and Aubrey. Beautiful girls!!
My sister Theresa with the kids. She was able to visit from Arizona for Thanksgiving...it was great to see her and spend some time with her!
Dad and Spencer...you can really see the Krueger in him when they are together!
Amya and Aubrey with one of their barrettes in her hair....it didn't stay long though. 
The big girls helping Aubrey walk....she would let them do anything as long as they were giving her attention! She loves her cousins
