Christmas Morn

We had an awesome Christmas morning at home with out little fam. It was really fun to watch the kids amazed by all their gifts, but it was more fun to be spoiled to death by Aaron. He's a good Santa.

Christmas hair

Festive Stuff

Two weeks until Christmas:

I hid ONE unwrapped gift for the baby in a bag, in the closet, under a pile of shoes. Did he find it? Yes. How? Super baby powers.

10 Days until Christmas:

Krinny was a star at his Holiday Performing Arts show

5 Days until Christmas:

Went on the Cruise of Lights with the kids. You may or may not see that we are standing on a boat in the rain. Not fun.

2 Days until Christmas:
2 angels looking at the lights

Meeting Santa for the first time. It went well.

Family of Four

Tasha took some photos of our family for us

and I thought I would share a few, or a lot of them.

Tasha, thanks for capturing all the happiness and the kisses!

Hoiliday Soiree 2010

This year was our third annual Smith Holiday Soiree and it was a real hit.

On the menu were mini sirloin burgers grilled to perfection, with tons of fixins to choose from.

Some of this year's party highlights included : ugly Christmas shirt contest, Oreo challenge from Minute to Win It, a custom-made game of Family Feud with questions about our family and Christmas, a white elephant gift exchange, and a drunk driving incident. Yes, that is what I said.

Here is Aaron manning the grillAnd me showcasing my dinner
Kai's car, which he just purchased 5 days prior, was parked out front of our apartment and a drunk driver slammed into it! We heard what sounded like an explosion and ran outside to find the driver start to drive away. My brothers and Aaron chased him down, in their holiday socks and reindeer antlers, and caught him before the police arrived. He was arrested for driving under the influence but not charged with a hit and run. The police didn't think the situation qualified for a hit and run since he never actually got away. He would have though if it weren't for the 6 holiday men hunting him down though!
The damage doesn't really show up in the photos, but it was pretty bad. He even hit the car so hard that it threw it up on to the curb, and pieces of the siding were strewn up and down the street.

Way to put a real damper on the night

We're just glad that no one got hurt, including the two little kids in the drunk driver's mini van!

Regardless we had a great night as you can see..

More Sweet Stuff

Me and my handsome man

Silly head

Warning: this is really funny.

The past few nights Kali has been having trouble sleeping and has fallen asleep at the foot of her bedroom door, where she could see under the door crack. This is a pic of her face pressed up against the crack, completely passed out. Its difficult to open the door to move her when she is blocking it with her dead weight!

In no particular order, our family is thankful this year for:

Nap time
Dora the Explorer
Golf
Family
Spongbob
The Lakers
Crock pot dinners
The Little Mermaid
When daddy comes home
Baby bibs
Showering
Our callings at church
Fruit snacks
Our beautiful car we got in February
Baby giggles
Aaron's job
My job
Bottles of warm milk
Beauty and the Beast underwear
Oreos
The beach
Friends
The gospel!

Sweet Stuff