Happy Valentine's Day!

Hoping everyone has a great day letting those you love, know it! I love my valentines! They are the best!

Just catching up from our Christmas!

We had a great Christmas this year! We went to Temple Square Christmas Eve to see the lights and soak in the spirit of the season that special night! It was perfect weather! A little foggy, cold but not too cold! We then headed home to open new pj's, write Santa's note, and set out cookies. Jackson got a nativity story from Grandma Staley this year that we were able to share together Christmas Eve! It was a great night! One of my favorites throughout the year! I remember as a child being so excited, I couldn't stand it! And now, I'm so excited to see the magic again through Jack and feel the true meaning of Christmas as a reflect on what the Savior means to me!

At Tempe Square!

Getting ready for Santa to come!

Christmas morning! Santa found us!

Jack had a great time this year opening gifts! He was excited to give us our gifts he had picked out too!

And the long awaited FORK LIFT! Santa delivered! Jack about cried with excitement when he opened it! This will definitely be rememered as the "fork lift" year!

Chilaxin in his Lightning McQueen chair, using my foot massager, watching polar express - his new favorite movie!

He loves to do puzzles! He got these for Christmas and loves to put them together! ( He loves to play the harmonica he got too! Crazy boy!)

Of course, he convinced Steve to lay out all the tracks for a couple days to play with!

Eating chocolate Christmas morning! Every kid's favorite!

Smellie Family Christmas Party!

We had a great Christmas this year, despite all the sickness that found us! Colds, bronchitis, and headaches! We started out with the Smellie Family Party the week before Christmas. It is always a blast to get all together and enjoy the wonderful traditions we love so much! My grandparents have all of us up to their house in Logan for dinner, gift exchange, ringing of the bells, navitity reenactment, lots of treats, santa comes and visits, and of course my favorite, the giving tree drop off! They are wonderful traditions that I'm so glad we get to do each year! Here are some pictures from that night of fun!

Looking for the big guy!

There he is!

Jack sitting on Santa's lap, asking for the fork lift he wanted! (yes, a fork lift!)

Grandma kissin' Santa! (Missed the kissing picture, but by the look on her face, you can tell she enjoys sitting on his lap!)
I'm telling Grandpa!


The three wisemen! Luke, Nate, and Jack

The cousins acting out the nativity!


Playing the slot machine with Grandpa!


All aboard! Conductor Jack ready to go!

Our December festivities!

First of all... Merry Christmas to all! We hope you had a great Christmas filled with lots of fun memories! This year was a fun one! We had lots of Christmas parties, goodies, and lots of laughs and fun times! This post is a combo of things we did over the last month! Get ready for lots of pics! First off, Jack had his big Christmas party at preschool! Here are the three amigos themselves! Logan, Corbin, and Jackson after their holiday fun! They made gingerbread cookies too and he is proudly showing it off!


We had a few family photos taken and here is one of them!


We are in the process of finishing our basement and Jackson is in heaven helping Daddy! He figured out how to use the drill!

I went to St. George with my sister in law for a few days. The boys were staying home, working on the basement. My dad and Steve's brother came to help with the basement one of the nights and this is what they found Jack doing while they were working! Washing the sawdust off his feet in the sink! At least he's attempting to be clean!

Jack picked out gifts for us this year and wanted to wrap all by himself! He did a fabulous job! Don't you think?

Festival of Trees is a tradition we've had since we got married. We love going every year! This year Jackson had fun getting a "balloon sword" from the clown and loved the "Elmo" tree!

We also love to make gingerbread houses at Grandma and Grandpa Staley's! This year we decided to make a different kind of house! It was an island theme! We pretended to be in FIGI!

Jack and Grandma made one too!

Shutterfly Christmas Cards

Have any of you heard about the Christmas card deal by Shutterly.com? Well...you get 50 free Christmas cards just for blogging 150 word post about it. So here is mine. My sister introduced me to Shutterfly and she is my hero. She uses it all the time and is the one black mailing me to say this right now (even though I know it's true). Shutterfly has the cutest Christmas cards this year and we can't wait to order ours. My favorite sister and I have used Shutterfly in the past making photo books (http://shutterfly.com/photo-books/simple-path) for out parents. The quality of the pictures and the product is always great. We also got them back pretty fast. If you are interested in using the Shutterfly deal for your family Christmas cards this year (http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery), here is how:

1. Write your 150 word post about Shutterfly with some attachments.

2. Go to: http://networkedblogs.com/ar2IH and fill it out.

Then you'll get your promo code in a couple days! I've been looking at all of the cards and they are way cute. There's so many cards, I'm having a hard time deciding which one I want.

We hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

Jack's in Preschool!

Jackson's first day of PRESCHOOL! This day seemed so far away when we first brought him home from the hospital! And now its here! He started school in September and loves it! He was so excited!

He was waiting for his buddy Corbin and his mommy to pick him up for his first day! We surprised him with his new "Cars" backpack and that made his day!

Where has the time gone?

New family pics