New Years Eve at Temple Square

On New Year's Eve we made a trek to Utah to go to Temple Square and see the lights. PeeWee and Jen had never been, so we thought it would be fun. We caught the light rail from Roy into Salt Lake City. We got the time of the train wrong, so we were at the station a little longer than we wanted to be. And let me tell you how cold it was that night!

Jakob just loves waiting for the train in the cold!

PeeWee actually likes waiting in the cold for the train.

Jen and Kaiya, not so much.

Somehow Roscoe got out of the house with no socks on in the freezing cold.

I gave Mike the "Dad of the Year" award for that one.

Mike was a little startled to learn that his hair line is very similar to PeeWee's.

PeeWee getting little Kaiya ready for the cold.

I haven't been to Temple Square since the reflection pool had been put in.
It was very pretty with Mary, Joseph, and Jesus.

My boy is getting really big really fast.




Dad and Jakob enjoying the cold.

Mike and Roscoe. We found some socks for him, so he was OK.

Daddy's First Kiss

I had to share this picture. It's the first time one of the boy's (this one is Connor) leaned over and gave me a kiss. Sure it was slobbery and open mouthed, and he may have just been trying to eat me, but it is the sweetest thing in the world when you get a kiss from your little ones.

Christmas 2008

Christmas has come and gone. I can't believe it has gone so fast. This year we had PeeWee, Jen, and Kaiya for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Let me say how nice it is to have family over for Christmas. There's nothing like spending the Holidays with those you love.

I told Santa not to bring too much stuff for Connor and Bridger's first Christmas, they aren't going to remember it anyways. Do you think Santa listened? Heck no! They opened MAYBE two presents and were so intrigued by them that there are still presents under the tree for them. I'm pretty sure I'm going to re-wrap them as birthday presents for them.

My stomach still hasn't recovered from all the food we ate over Christmas. Erin made more food than a small army could possibly consume. But let me tell you how good everything was!

I hope everyone had an excellent Christmas, because we sure did in the Smith house this year.

These balls lit up and kept the boys busy for the rest of the day. They didn't even care about the other presents.

Connor just chillin'

Bridger with his new "cheesy" grin

Jakob's big stuff was a Wii, that Nerf machine gun that is way to big for this house, and an MP3 player that he has filled with his dad's Metallica, Poison, Van Halen, etc.

I'm pretty sure a demon got into Bridger for this one

Kaiya's first Christmas (PeeWee and Jen's baby for those that don't know)

Erin enjoying some Duck Hunt on the Wii

The Aftermath