Holiday Highlights #2: Crick Christmas - part 4

More family pics from Christmas!!!!

This has got to be the most adorable picture of Adrielle I have seen yet!!!

I be a pirate, matey!!!

Great smiles from Mom & Dad Crick. :)

Holiday Highlights #2: Crick Christmas - part 3

More family pics!

Isn't Adrielle such a little goof?!

Time to open presents!!!

Hanging with the cousins!

From left to right: Jo & Curt, Ethan and cousin Brian,

Aunt Joan, Uncle Jim (Dad Crick's brother).

Holiday Highlights #2: Crick Christmas - part 2

Here are some more Crick Christmas pics!

More pics of the Crick family!!! This is the 2nd oldest sister, Rosanna, with her family: husband Quinn, and sons: Taylor, Grayson, and Cayman.

Mandy, Pete, and Adrielle!!!

Mom & Dad Crick with the grandkids + Ethan!!!!

Dusty and Kimberly Smith

We have the privilege of spending every other Sunday afternoon with the whole Crick family, with a fabulous dinner by Mom Crick, so we get to see each other fairly often. We love that!

Holiday Highlights #2: Crick Christmas - part 1

Here's Curt & I, at Mom & Dad Crick's house for the annual Crick Christmas celebration!

A view of the livingroom where we celebrated with gifts! This time we got to have Lydia, Mandy, Pete, and Adrielle with us!!!

Holiday Highlights #1 (continued): More Christmas Cookies!

Ok, well it looks like adding pics is still difficult for some reason, even though I'm in a public place with Wi-Fi. Oh well, here is one more, so you could get a picture of our Christmas cookie fun. From left to right, is Ethan (8 yrs, brother-in-law), Grayson (3, nephew), me, and Taylor (5, nephew). Here's to Christmas cheer!

Christmas Cookies!!!

What is a Christmas celebration without Christmas cookies? In this first post of my series, "Holiday Highlights," I wanted to share with you a fun tradition I started with Ethan (my brother-in-law), and Taylor and Grayson (my nephews). I'm not sure who enjoyed it more, me or them, but we all had a blast getting really messy with icing and sprinkles. Grayson (3) found out that his favorite thing to do was to dump the colorful sprinkles continuously on a single cookie until I caught him. After the cookie-making, we had a pizza dinner, watched a movie, and then I brought them home.
p.s. Kudos to the VanVugts for giving me the "Taste of Home" cookbook - I used their recipes for sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies, and they were the rave in my family and Curt's!!!

Unfortunately, I am having some problems with the computer I am using in uploading pics, so I was only able to upload this one pic of some samples of our finished product! We can't wait to get our own fast internet - hopefully next week! :)

The Reawakening of our Blog!!!!

Dear family and friends,

I can imagine that most of you have almost lost all hope of ever being connected to the Cricks via the crickconnection blog, and we would not blame you! The original intentions of keeping up with a blog since marriage were unfortunately put to the side as the busyness of setting up home, getting adjusted to our new married life, and working together on the farm took over. I (Joanna) got to participate this past year in every phase of farming tobacco, which was not only fun, but I learned a lot! As the year progressed, we generally got busier and busier, and finally closed with the harvest one week before Christmas! What a blessing it was to work together side by side! But this, along with our very, very slow dial-up connection may explain much of our lack of blog presence...

However, with a New Year often comes new resolve, and we would love to keep in better touch with regular posts this year. This was Curt's last year of farming, and we also hope to get high-speed internet when we arrive back home (we are in NJ now!). So hopefully the odds are in our favor to be regular bloggers now, with God's help most of all!

My next post will be about our holiday visits in KY, AR, and NJ. What I would like to do after that is give everyone an overview of this past year through a series of entries called "2010 in Pictures." So that's just a heads-up for ya'll! (I'm working on the Kentuckian talk!)

In the meantime, BLOG-WORLD, HERE COME THE LONG-AWAITED CRICKS!!!! ;D