Christmas 2010

Well, I finally got around to posting our Christmas. Unfortunatly I didn't take as many pictures as I should have, but it was still a great Christmas. With birthdays just past we had a hard time thinking of MORE toys that the kids possibly needed, so I resorted to making some fun pillows (which have been great in pillow fights) instead of covering the floor too many more toys.

Eden Christmas morning. Eden also got an easel with a white and chalk board.

A friend gave us a Ginger Bread House. We had a lot of fun putting this together.

Eden is still just starting to understand the joys of Christmas morning, and I'm sure as the years go by, this scene will be a little more active from both children. In the end, it was a very relaxing Christmas.

Enoch and Audra in the swing

We had cousins stay with us over the Christmas break. It was the first time we had people stay in our home and we loved it. Cousins to play with from morning to night. Enoch had fun with his baby cousin Audra. I never realized how much my boy has grown until I saw him next to another baby. Here is Enoch, Audra and the swing:

Snowman

The week of Christmas we got the most amazing snow storm. It snowed almost a foot over night:


But the temperature was warm and by Christmas it was all gone. But before it melted we took time with cousins to make a beautiful snowman!

Birthdays

December is a busy month, two birthdays and Christmas...so even though these posts are older, I wanted to share in our Birthday joys:

Enoch had his first birthday at the beginning of the month, I can't believe that he is already one! As tradition we gave him his own birthday cake:

It's always amazing to see what a one-year-old will do with a cake. Each child is different, and here is proof:Eden was not as messy, good thing the rest of us had our own cake to eat from.

Then it was Eden's Birthday, she is now three!


We let her choose the kind of cake she wanted. The snowman won and three buttons were perfect for three candles.
We invited a few cousins over who brought her some fun princess gifts. Her Snow White doll and princess jammies (which she is wearing) were definitely some of the favorites.

Birthdays were fun and got us ready for Christmas when it comes to present opening. We can't believe how fast time has gone, we now have a 3-year-old! and our baby is now 1! Time sure goes by fast, but we're loving every minute of it.

Enoch and the car

Who ever says that we train our boys to like cars and girls to like dolls has not met my children. Eden loves dolls and only has them because that's all she wanted to play with when we would visit her cousin's house. I felt bad that I didn't have any for her to play with at our house so we bought a few dolls and a small doll car at a yard sale this summer. Enoch found her little doll car and saw it's real potential:

So who ever says that we train them to like these things is nuts, because Enoch found any car he could to push down the hall, even though it was indeed, a girl car.

Halloween

Here are some Halloween memories from the Smith home:

My DI find this year was a warm Tigger costume and the best Snow White dress that has since been worn multiple times.

Dad is great at carving pumpkins, I just let him get his hands dirty and I made doughnuts.

Pumpkin lights!!!

Of coarse the weather has been great all week, except for the Treat-or-Treat night when it poured rain! Luckily it stopped just in time to go out, but it was still really cold and Snow White had some alterations to her costume. None the less, she still looked so cute and had so much fun Trick-or-Treating.

Daddy time

Sometimes I'm just tired and I need a nap. I usually only get time for one on a Sunday when daddy is actually home. When dad watches the kids, he always comes up with fun things to do, here is a movie that he made with the kids:

For your information: a YOT is a character from the book "There's a Wocket in my Pocket" by Dr. Seuss. He looks scary, but he's actually one of the more friendly ones in the book.