Christmas Eve

For Christmas Eve we went to our grandma Joyce's house (Shawn's mom) with one of Shawn's sisters, Lori and her kids Sarah, Aaron and Isaac we had cold cuts and opened presents from Grandma and enjoyed each others company.

"Hurray it is Christmas Eve

We ended the night with putting out cookies for Santa Clause and righting letters to him.

Come quick Santa!

Smith Family Christmas Party

Monday was grandma and grandpa kits (Jill's parents) annual family Christmas party. We all get together and have dinner than a very special visitor comes.......Santa Clause! He gives all the kids a present and this year was no exception.

Adam could absolutely not wait for Santa to come. He had spent all week watching "Barney's night before Christmas" episode that when we told him Santa was coming he was very happy.

When Santa came in all of the children gathered a round to sing Rudolf the red nose reindeer and wear Santa's glowing blinking Rudolf nose.

Adam of course hoped on Santa's lap when his name was called. Santa gave Adam a train set.

Audrey received a barbie

"Super" Olivia also received a barbie too.

Marissa got an "Cullen" sweatshirt (from Twilight the main characters name is Edward Cullen)

Wyatt got a protein shake mix....He loved it

We had so much fun!

Cheerleader

No matter how many time we tried to persuade Olivia to not become a cheerleader she had her mind set and was determined that was what she wanted to be

Last Saturday was her first real meet. Olivia was so nurvus that she almost started to cry right before she left the house saturday. She did so well and her team over all took 4th in the comppettion!

notice how heavy her makeup is Marissa came home from swimming Saturday morning and ran down the stairs where she ran and to Olivia and then said "Hi! are you Olivia's friend form cherz. Mom i didn't know you were taking anybody?" then after staring at Olivia for a few brief seconds went "oh my gosh you are Olivia!" that got a laugh out of all of us.

Olivia lifting her teammate up sorry the picture is so bad

again sorry the picture is so bad

Olivia and her favorite cousin Kira. Kira was nice enough to come and sit through the whole six hour competition

Christmas Dance

The Bountiful Christmas (or I guess we have to call it Winter now) Dance was held this last Saturday at the University of Utah Ballroom. As this was girl's choice, I was asked by a beautiful girl named Jesse Noakes. I was initially tempted to decline, as he had some reservations to being in the midst of such depravity at the dance (get it? it was at the U.) I decided though to say yes.

She asked him by putting a poster on our door with the mastercard bit about "a date with your friend to the Christmas Dance.. priceless." And put a large pile of candy on the door. We attempted to open the candy hurriedly, until my mother noticed with such alarm, letters written on the sides of the candy. Thus, as a witty answer, I froze a paper inside a large block of ice, set it on her door tied with a bow, and put a paper saying "My answer is Priceless" with the Pr crossed out, saying "my answer is iceless." I know, don't laugh too hard.

The dance began with my mother taking pictures, much to the little ones delight. Girum mauled Jesse, and Audrey, well you can imagine. Overall though, the pictures at home went well, and both my date's corsage and my boutonnière were excellently hand-crafted.

We left eventually to dinner of gourmet pizza, driving through a massive blizard. The dinner was served, and might I say it was delicious. My date was wearing a magnificent pink and black dress. I thus matched the color scheme with a pink shirt and black tie. I was quite pleased as well as two of my best friends were in my group, Spencer Schmidt (son of piano legend Jon Schmidt haha) and Colby Jones (son of legendary pharmaceutical rep. Tim Jones.) Spencer is in white, and Colby is the short blonde.

The dance was quite fun, being held at the SNOT (School North Of Town) ballroom. The DJ was great, and the pictures went off flawlessly. The dance concluded with us going and watching the Dark Knight at my friend Kim Tran's house. A very good evening concluded with one of the best, if not the best, movie in Hollywood's glamorous career of fine cinematography.

Family Photo's

For family photos for our Christmas card we went up the canyon and Jill set the camera on the tripod with the timer on and ran back and forth thousands times till we finally got one decent photo. I thought i might post our oh so glamorous photo shoot.

Individual shots

"Marissa the camera is right here not in the sky!"
Children shots

"it's okay baby don't cry."

Family shots

"Wear did Jill go?"

Finally one good one

The Polar Express

Jill, Olivia, Marissa, Audrey and Jill's good friend LaWane and her daughter Nicole went on a magical journey to the north pole on the polar Express!!!!! All Aboard!

Marissa and Audrey reading the book The Polar Express together
LaWane and Nicole together

The Conductor punching the girls tickets

And of course it could not be complete with out SANTA CLAUSE!!

MARRY CHRISTMAS

Halloween Dance

Wyatt was asked to the girl's choice Halloween dance at his school. Below is the invitation given to him by his unknown date.

In case you can not read it, it says "Don't leave me out to hang in the cold and windy rain. Bring me inside and wash me all clean to see who has asked you to Halloween!"

It turned out to be Wyatt's friend Ali Lloyd.

Arn't they cute together the went as Cowboys and Indians. They went with the drill team, of which Ali is a member. The drill team was also cowboys and indians. They had a marvelous time, despite the awkwardness made by the fact that Ali's boyfriend (whom she got shortly asking Wyatt to the dance, as friends mind you) was in their group. It was fine though, as Wyatt is friends with her bf.