My "Kung Fu Panda"

Belle got the Kung Fu Panda DVD for Christmas from Grandma. We decided to watch it that night and this is what happened...

(click on the top image to the right under 'video bar')

Can you say sugar rush?

Christmas Pictures

Super Sledding Scenes

My favorite Christmas tradition is sledding on Christmas Eve day. Here are some pictures and video our crazy feats! Enjoy.

Christmas Fun 2008

It is a tradition in the Smith household to make Ginger Bread Houses at Christmas time. This year we did it with just our little family of four. This is how it goes:

• Buy house kits
• Buy extra candy (because you don't want to be boring and use what is included in the kit)
• Make Nana's special frosting
  
• Build houses, decorate houses, admire houses
• Eat leftover candy and frosting
  
• Get sick from leftover candy and frosting
• Take a picture of the mess and finished product
• Clean up mess and hover over finished houses so Tre and Belle won't eat them
  

Christmas Eve Jammies

This year Belle asked for "feety pajamas". I didn't know she liked them but I'm glad she told me. They are so cute on. They remind me of when she was a baby. Tre is super old with his grown up jammie pants and robe. I love new jammies on Christmas Eve.

Sorry about the 'quality' of the pictures. I left my camera at Nana's house last weekend and it wasn't working either. So these are taken with Jer's BlackBerry then emailed to me and imported to Adobe Photo Shop to attempt to fix them. Hmm...I'll have to figure something else out.

Merry Christmas!

The Roof

My mom loves The Roof Restaurant and so for her birthday she takes everyone out to dinner there in December. After buying Tre new dressy clothes and shoes, convincing Belle to wear a dress (skorts with knee highs were the best we could do), curling our hair, talking Jer into wear his nice clothes for just one night, and fighting the traffic and construction downtown we stuff ourselves silly.

I love the dessert tables, the rolls and the atmosphere. I also love dressing up since I wear workout clothes or jeans every other day of the year. After dinner we get our coats, hats, gloves and scarves on to brave the cold and walk around to see the Christmas lights at Temple Square. Tre and I had a blast. Belle and Jer tolerated it well. And now I have some cute pictures of my family all dressed up!

Fa'bow'lous

Haley, my friend, has created a monster. She came over the other day to show me how to make really cute hair bows for Belle and it just spiraled out of control from there. Here are some pictures of my creations. Once I started, I couldn't stop. I only stopped when I ran out of different ribbon color combinations. But, then I went to the store and got more ribbon. So fun!

If anyone has any interest, we'll be having a "bow party" soon. Everyone who wants to come brings a glue gun and two spools of ribbon. Then you get a bunch of different colors to work with and come home with a stash that probably looks like the pictures above. Fabulous!

Santa's Sister Comes to Visit

According to Anabelle, the Tooth Fairy is Santa's sister, Jesus is his brother, and the Easter bunny is his brother too. They all live with Santa at the North Pole except for Jesus who "lives somewhere else that I don't know".

On Friday December 5th Belle lost her first tooth. Santa's sister (the Tooth Fairy) came to visit that night and paid her $1 for the tooth. She was very excited to finally lose a tooth. She has been waiting and waiting and while chewing on a straw in the car it just popped right out! Yay!

Busy Bloggin'

Sorry I haven't posted for a while. I've been busy blogging, just not on my own blogs. I got nominated to start up a blog for my cute nephew Bridger. He is in the PICU at Primary's with some pretty life threatening issues. In order to satisfy every ones inquiries and concerns we thought a blog about his progress would be helpful. I have Bridger, Danny, and Staci in my thoughts from the time I wake up until I go to bed. I couldn't imagine what he is going through. I just want him better.

Cute story:

Tre told me last weekend that he "can't wait to see Bridger so he can play cars with him". So sweet considering he (1) has never met Bridger and (2) Bridger is only 3 months old. I love my sweet little boy. I never want him to grow up. But he'll probably be a sweet adult too. He loves babies unlike his sister who is "allergic to babies". She says she can't be around them because they make her mad and sneeze. Talk about polar opposites! I love my little girl too. She's strong minded as opposed to sweet and I love it.