Tis the season

I love the Christmas season and so does Claire. We started decorating in November and getting our house all festive. One of our traditions is to make a cookie recipe that Jason grew up with (Kruis almond cookies) when we get our Christmas tree. The house always smells good with cookies baking, and a fresh tree being decorated. Claire loved decorating every single cookie this year and I loved it too! I would frost them and just pass them over to her. We were finished in no time. So now we have all our decorations up and are enjoying our cold weather. Jason has been making us a fire every night this week due to really cold weather. It is 19 degrees outside right now and there is snow on the ground. The girls loved playing in the snow (it was more like ice than soft snow). The roads are still pretty icy over here and since most of us don't know how to drive in this weather (exceptions for my hubby) we having been staying inside. I love being inside near the fire and cuddling with my girls when it is freezing outside. What a fun blessing to get some snow in Fort Worth. 

Decorating the cookies

A few of her creations

She is like her mommy when it comes to loving Christmas.

Santa Hannie

Claire in the snow

Claire and Grace playing in the snow

Mommy and Claire

Gracie

It's a BOY!!

At the end of November we were so excited to find out God has blessed us with our first baby BOY!! Here is a picture of Luke Alexander Kruis who will, God willing, be joining our family at the end of April. Bring on the blue, our house really needs a color change. 

Luke Kruis

Cowgirl museum

My parents took the girls to the Cowgirl museum so of course they had to dress the part. We also went to check out the Curious George exhibit at the children's museum. It was a fun day and I was trying so hard to get a picture to use for our Christmas card but it is quite the challenge to get 3 babies to all look and smile at the camera. Here are some pictures of the Kruis cowgirls.

Playing at the cowgirl museum

This wasn't at the museum but it was such a cute picture I had to add it.

Still trying to get that perfect shot

Hannie playing at the museum