Christmas Sunday

 

I got bow ties done as well as a skirt for myself!  The first time I got my own Christmas clothes done.  Thankfully Lilia had a hand-me-down from an old neighbor to wear and Anne's and Jane's I bought a couple of years ago for the big girls.

Pictures by Bubbe

It's fun whenever Bubbe comes to visit because she always brings her camera!  I love having nice pictures of the kids.  It was really cold this day and the kids were really great sports.

Papa was on smile duty and was great!

Lots of random happenings

I don't know where they got the idea, but Benny and Andy wanted to fly and made some suits for it.

Needed: haircut

Our timer shot to get a picture for Grandma's and Grandpa's Christmas card.

This turned out pretty well, but we ended up getting a nice one later.

Our Thanksgiving "Thankful Tree."

Our flax...

I had left our open 50 pound bag of flax up on my chair.  I think I knew this would happen.

A school worksheet of Andy's.

Our scavenger.

A growing Thankful Tree.

Andy's turkey from art class.

We finally got to visit with our good friends the Clarks who live in Ohio!  We are so grateful they were able to come and spend a long afternoon and evening with us.  It had been years since we had seen each other in Provo and it is fun to be close enough for visits like this.  I didn't get any pictures of the kids, but they played so well together.  Just like old times!  This is a picture of Chris and Laura pointing to a note Laura had written on our white board in Provo after a dinner we had with friends.  We kept it this long, I think we have to keep it forever now.

Disguises:

Lilia disguised as Benny.

I am not sure who this is!

Anne disguised as Andy.

Family Picture

Thanks to Grant and Becky, we get this great family picture from their reception! Thanks, you two! We love it.

Family Pictures

Spencer had the great idea a little bit ago to go downtown and get some family pictures taken. There are a lot of abandoned/dilapidated/"artistic-looking" buildings in Tulsa that could work as different backdrops. We got our friend Lynsie (of "Photography by LynLyn") to come with us and snap some pictures - with our awesome 8.0 megapixel point-and-shoot camera (Lynsie's business will really take off when she gets that DSLR). For the record, we really do love our camera.

We ended up with some that we really like.

And our two favorite family pictures:

cotterell family pictures

since dirk and lilly ann are serving a mission in north carolina right now, they are the only family members not accounted for. other than their absence, the pictures turned out great.

this picture cracks me up every time i see it!
andy has got such great personality.

all three

the reason i'm reluctant to pay for pictures...

after the above pictures, this one doesn't look too bad!