smith family...our crazy life: Holidays 2008

Here goes on the massive update...so to catch up, we had a wonderful holiday!! we spent most of the month having well needed family time!! Daddy had lots of vacation time to use....and had several days home...one of those he spent taking jackson to the annual OMC live nativity where he got to pet some fun animals and see lots of friends....mommy, daddy and jackson had the most fun just driving the neighborhoods looking at all the beautiful christmas lights...especially on luminary night!!

This year was the first year that littleman really grasped the concept of Santa...mommy and jackson had the best time baking cookies for santa and the reindeer's. Littleman rolled out the dough, cut the shapes out by himself and decorated them with colorful sprinkles. He then needed mommy's help leaving santa a letter....but was very specific as to what he wanted said as seen in the picture below. Christmas day was the best!!! seeing Jackson's face when he woke up (rather when nathan and i woke him up because we were beyond excited for him!!) was the best experience aside from birth....it was so cute, he first went to see if santa ate the cookies he made and then he sat down on the floor in a daze...10 minutes later he slowly realized what was next to the tree......his very own kitchen and all the other loved toys! we rounded out the rest of the day with brunch at kiki's house and dinner with all the family that evening.....it was a very wonderful day...we are very thankful and blessed to have this little family of ours!! we cannot wait until next year to see what having two kids at holiday time will be like!!