Christmas 2012

We spent Christmas this year in Dallas.  There were 21 of us all at my parent's house!  I decided to take a break from the camera and everyone passed it around to take pictures...so most of these are taken by everyone but me!  It was fun to go through them and see what we had afterwards :)  Nannie and Aunt Cassie of course went all out with the plans and activities...it wouldn't be a Smith Christmas without all of their love and creativity!  Thank you both for working so hard to make things special for all of us! :)

We kicked of the festivities on Sunday afternoon with our Christmas craft.  We all made PJ shirts this year (BYO bottoms).  Everyone took turns dipping their hands and feet into the paint to make a reindeer!

Then we had to let the paint dry and finish the decor later :)

After some traditional eggs benedict for dinner, we played a game!  Nannie and Aunt Cassie cleverly put together this game for all the adults.  Everyone had to guess which ornament belonged to whom.  Then you would open a little present to get a clue and find out more...

So clues were read and everyone tried to match the ornament with the person...

This clue went with the taxi cab ornament and belonged to Caryn!  Each clue also had a verse to match with the person :)

Christmas Eve morning oatmeal bar, yum!! :)

Dogpile Uncle Stacey!

Aunt Cassie got in on it!

Then we were all off to play some kick ball.  We started by picking teams :)

These two weren't wanting to join in :)

The peanut gallery :)

Here are most of the players! 

Rudolph or Daddy? :)

Time to put the finishing touches on the shirts!

Merry Christmas!!

The Smiths

Sarah and Hannah

The Woodburys

The Dean girls

What? ;)  Lisa and Cassie

Baby girl with no name yet! :)

Dean girls

Blake and Lisa being silly!

The Wheelis crew

Sisters!

This kitchen remained crowded for three days :)

Just a little dancing :)

Decorating some Christmas tree cupcakes!

Nannie, thank you for everything that you do!!  We love you!! :)

Blake wanted to decorate too :)

Waiting to open presents (we open on Christmas Eve and then Santa comes in the morning!)

Hannah ready to start passing out the gifts!

Uncle Teddy having a little nap...

Fun shirts!

Christmas morning trying to wake up! :)

Santa came! :)

He went right for the candy!

I promise they loved these bikes later!

Thanks for cleaning up Uncle Teddy!

Cheese!!

Thanks guys for sharing with Brylie!

It snowed and we had a White Christmas!! :)

Hot chocolate by the fire...

Nursing Jack :)

Snow angels :)

Thank you to all!!  We had a wonderful time celebrating the birth of our Savior together!!  We are looking forward to all of the exciting things ahead in 2013! :)