Christmas 2017

Another wonderful Christmas.  We had a great Christmas Eve getting onsie pajamas and playing our new board game Dominion.  Then Christmas day was perfect with a call from our favorite missionary and some gifts and then visits with some of the Smith family at Nana and Grandads.  It was so nice to spend fun times with those I love and to celebrate the birth of our Savior!  I love Christmas!

Smith family progressive dinner...12.17.2017

Each Christmas we have a progressive dinner where the whole Smith family gathers for different courses of a meal at 3 different houses.  It's one of the highlights of the season and we enjoy it so much.  Let the pictures show the story...of our family!

Thanksmas dinner and gifts.

Since Grandma Libby was in town early in December we delayed Thanksgiving and celebrated Christmas a little bit early...so Thanksmas 2017.

We had a wonderful time gathering together for our big dinner.  Of course we had Christmas crackers with the traditional hats and corny jokes!  After dinner we exchanged a few gifts and enjoyed each others company for the evening.  It was a beautiful Thanksmas night!

Sister Kathryn Smith is home!!

On Tuesday, December 5th we all gathered at the Salt Lake airport to welcome home Sister Kathryn Smith.  She had completed her 18 month mission and was coming home to her huge loving family.  It was such an amazing day and having her home is great.  What a great early Christmas present indeed!

Well done Sister Smith!!

Decorating the tree for 2017!

We got the tree up early this year because we were going to be having an early Christmas dinner at our house while Grandma Libby was in town.  It was a fun evening of going through all the kids ornaments from all the years and decorating our tree.  The "theme" of our tree is great memories and family moments.  I absolutely love decorating the tree and getting the house ready for Christmas!

I'm grateful to be able to celebrate Christmas with those I love and to remember the reason for the season...Jesus Christ!

Thanksgiving and Vegas

This Thanksgiving we were able to eat with the Smith family and then head out to Las Vegas for a soccer tournament that started the next day.  We had a wonderful dinner and visit with the family that was there at Chad and Cynthia's.  I even took my camera there to make sure I took some pictures.  I took a few and then put it away to eat my dinner and my pie before hitting the road.

We drove to Vegas in really good time and got to our hotel at 10:30pm.  Evan, McKinley and David went out to the outlet mall to experience Black Friday shopping, while I had the room to myself and went to bed!  They had a great time and got back around 1am Vegas time.  The next afternoon Evan had 2 soccer games in which he played great.  Saturday morning McKinley and I went and did baptisms in the Las Vegas temple (we didn't take a picture??!!)

 Saturday afternoon and evening we had 2 more games, and the team lost in the semi finals with PKs.  Evan scored 3 goals in 3 games and played very well.  It was warm and amazing weather and we enjoyed watching him play.

 In between games on Saturday McKinley and I went to the roller coaster inside the NY NY and walked to see the sharks at Mandalay Bay.  It was fun to be on the strip in the afternoon before it got too dark and weird.

Sunday we drove home and it was a little bit slow with all the people on the road, but we got home in time for Evan to go to work and for us to unpack and unwind.  All in all in was a great trip!