Smith Family - December stuff

Hello there! Yes, this is an actual blog entry about our family...or at least one member of our family - Braden! December is turning out to be all about him.

First off, his school had a "holiday" concert. So cute to hear these kids singing songs about Kwanzaa, Hannukah, Christmas, and wintertime in general. Here's the boy, with his little elf hat on - sorry about the lighting, gym lighting is horrible for pictures!


December 6th was Braden's Eight birthday! We had pizza out at Pietro's Pizza, and came home and had some yummy Turtle ice cream cake for dessert. With eight candles, of course!



Last Saturday, we had a birthday party for Braden. I didn't think anyone was going to show up, because of the icy conditions. I guess I shouldn't discount the lure of cake and ice cream to eight year olds!

One of the games we played was giving the kids 90 seconds to pick up and hold as many blown up balloons as they could. Hayden was our winner, at nine balloons! Braden did pretty well at eight.


We also took our family tradition of building gingerbread houses, and extended it to a party activity. The kids loved it! I may have started a new tradition!





All in all, we ended up with six excited, hyped up on sugar kids running around having a good time. A few of our guests missed the guest picture at the beginning of the party - Ben and his mom walked from their house, because of the ice. Here they are making silly faces, because I had already taken the serious picture. Silly kids! Love it!!!


After the party, we took a look outside at the swimming pool, and began wondering how thick the ice was. After quite an effort, Brent broke a piece loose.


It measured 2 1/2" thick. Darn it, I guess we could have ice skated on it before we broke it up, but we weren't sure how thick it was.





















Guess that's about it, until I can post pictures of Braden's baptism, which will happen next week. Told you this December is all about Braden! But, here's a picture of Alexia with her hair all combed out, for your enjoyment and mirth.



Now you know why I try to control it with conditioner and pony tails or barrettes. Can you say POOF??!!

:)