Merry Christmas from the Smith Family

Merry Christmas!!

Nativity

1 baby Jesus doll: $3.00

7 costumes for Nativity story: $60.00

3 Burger King crowns: Free (+ a big smile for the guy at Burger King)

Watching the Sunbeams act out the Nativity story: Priceless

Getting ready...






The cutest 3 Wise men...



Our own little self made Bethlehem...what a handsome Sheppard! Way to step in at the last minute Bro. Goldade. I opted to be the Narrator.



Mary and Joseph on their way to Bethlehem...(still not quite sure they really like each other all that much...they think each other has kooties).

Christmas: Part One

It's the most WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!!

I'm so excited for Christmas this year!! Who am I kidding, I'm excited for Christmas every year!!

This year I was a little behind with my Christmas decor...it didn't get finished until December 12th!!! My obsessive compulsive disorder was about driving me crazy thinking about the days ticking away and my trees weren't even out of the garage yet!!

I managed to drag all my (many, many) christmas decor totes upstairs one night. After unloading all the totes onto the floor, coffee table and couches I decided I was to tired that night to finish. I can't decorate right if I can't even think straight! Well, after a couple days of our house looking like Christmas decor had been puked everywhere Blair started to call me a hoarder. I managed to find time to do it since he was now referring to me as "Betty" (have you watched the show? She was a doozie.)




I got to watch Bronson one night while I was decorating so he got to help me. He helped me decide on the right place for everything. Can't you see the thrill in his eyes over all that Christmas decor!?!



Trees...




The real meaning of Christmas...Man, I love my Nativity set.

My new BELIEVE sign...don't you just love it?!?! I do....

All our fun Christmas books and stories.

One of the reindeer lost his antler. I'm going to have to do some glue surgery.

Merry Christmas to you!!

Fall is my Favorite

Fall is my favorite time of year! I love to get all my fall decor out and plaster the house with it.

We had one of the best fall days this year when we were raking leaves in the backyard. We had them in a pile so we could bag them but I decided I needed to jump in them and relive the joys of childhood when we would jump in the leaves under our apple trees after dad had raked them up. Well, leaves aren't actually as soft as I remember them being. I nearly knocked the wind out of myself and then was attacked by my horse...I mean dog...I get confused sometimes because he's so big! This in turn started a huge wrestling match with B, Gibson and myself. To bad we don't have our own personal photographer because those would have been some great pictures!!



I was pretty proud of my cornucopia this year. I spiced it up a bit...

Happy Fall Ya'All!!

2 Turkey Days

This year Blair's parents came to visit a couple weeks before Thanksgiving so we decided to have a turkey dinner with them! Besides, can you ever eat to much turkey?



Hanging out with my favorite baby....Bronson is getting so big and fun. I'm lucky enough to get to babysit every once in awhile! I can't get enough of him!!



Before the feast at Garrett and Shelly's house.




Isn't that a beautiful bird? Garrett did a fine job smokin' his first turkey for our little feast.


Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures at my mom and dad's when we had Thanksgiving dinner there....we were to busy stuffing our faces!!

Dad's New Ride

Dad's new prized possession is his new cherry red Corvette! He's pretty excited about it and I thought it was pretty cool that Dad got to spoil himself a little bit since it always seems to be us kids getting spoiled.



This is a country road at 100 MPH......fast enough for me on the first ride!



He loves it...as do I! Maybe someday I'll get to drive it!