Holiday Highlights 2009

We had a wonderful holiday season! I always look forward to December because we get to spend more time with family. It's always fun to visit with cousins at the Pearson family party. The kids had fun making gingerbread ornaments and dressing up for the nativity play. Look at my cute little shepherd and angel!

We love the Smith family game day. Jeff and I took first place this year! It turns out we know each other a lot better than we thought (or maybe it was all the practicing!). Christmas Eve at Grandma Forsyth's house equals new pajamas and more family fun. We loved having Heather, Taven and Andrew in town this year.

Christmas morning was exciting. Although Jeffrey was a little under the weather so he wasn't quite himself. Hannah had a lot of fun though. The smiles just kept coming!

A visit to Grandpa Don and and Grandma Merrilee's house brought more fun toys for the kids (and clothes for Mom and Dad!) .

Then a trip to Grandma and Grandpa Smith's house brought a really great surprise...Grandpa out of the hospital for Christmas! Poor Grandpa Smith had been in the hospital with kidney stones and pancreatitis. We were so happy to see him home and healthy! We spent the rest of the day there enjoying a wonderful dinner and more time with family.

The rest of the month we spent as much time as possible with Heather and Taven before they went home. This is us waiting to enjoy a yummy dinner at Red Iguana.

Then we spent New Year's Eve at Jeff's parents house. The guys were outside most of the time throwing stuff (i.e. clothes and toys headed to the D.I., fireworks, etc.) in to the big fire that Jeff's Dad built. Both the kids stayed up until after midnight then crashed before we even pulled out of the driveway to head home. We are looking forward to a Happy New Year!