MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE

Merry Christmas eve everyone! Today has been a great day! Full of old and new traditions, it was great to share some of mine and be a part of Mike's. Today me and Lisa spent all day baking, She made a pound cake and a chocolate cake, we had also made sugar Christmas cookies the night before. I had made confetti cake cookies, my moms famous bean dip and my grandma's hot apple cider. :) Some of the traditions the Maziarz family has are, singing happy birthday to Jesus so we baked him a cake sang to him and ate it YUMMY. Then we re-in acted the Nativity scene of Jesus birth. Jenn wrote a great script we all dressed up and sang along as the grandpa's and grandma's watched. As for Mike and I being the newlyweds, of course we were Mary and Joseph! it was a lot of fun. Also all the kids had performances for the adults hehe it reminded me of when I was young and I use to gather up all the cousins to sing or act out a play for everyone! There were a lot of singing and piano performances so cute. Another tradition is to open up a gift on Christmas eve which of course they were pajamas, which is also one of my families traditions. All the kids put them on and looked so dang cute and cuddly. This year is just a little different but still just as great. I miss my family but they sent me some pictures of the kids with they're pj's so I felt a part of it. Oh and an early Christmas gift to the family from Mark and Christy, Christy announced at dinner that she was 2 months pregnant! YAY!
Hope everyone has a great Christmas!

The kids in their new Christmas jammies!

Our Christmas play (from top right: Mark, Karl, Dave, Mike Bottom row: christy, Merek, me baby Jesus, Max, Beau, and Mila the angel)

Beau playing the piano for us!

Singing happy birthday to Jesus, Merek blowing out the candles.

THE SMITH'S CHRISTMAS EVE

Ryann and Nate opening their jammies from grandma Deanna of course Ryann has no shirt on.

Nate so big and handsome

Ryann so silly as usual

Nate and Ryann doing a Christmas performance at teacher Ally's house!

Oregon Christmas

These past 2 weeks have been so fun and eventful I have never been so busy since the wedding. We have visited all mikes brother's and sister's and played with all the kids...i think i have been to every mall in Portland and Salem Oregon :) lots and lots of christmas shopping. Its been fun catching up and being the newlyweds in the bunch. And I am just falling in love with all my neice's and nephew's more and more each day I see them. The first day we got to Portland we were greeted by Mila and Jenn we went to Ikea and then to Beau and Max's christmas sing a' long so fun to see all the elementry kids sing songs and have another festive production. We were greeted later that night by the Garlock's Lisa, Dave and Sawyer, they had finally got into town from St. Louis. We all stayed at the marriott downtown, it was sooo nice! The next day we spent all together and then went to the Blazer Game with the whole gang even Mike's dad Al joined us. It had been a long time since the whole family had been together like that. And P.S. the Blazers won. Keeping the winning streak going! The next day we, and the Garlock's headed down to Salem where we would spend the rest of the trip at Al's house it was time to put up the tree, decorate the house and bring the christmas spirit to Al! For the last week we have been eating all of Lisa's wonderful baked treats, Shopping and Shopping some more, babysitting little ones and having great dinners every night then putting the little one down (Sawyer) and hanging with Lisa and Dave and watching christmas movies downstairs where we all have been staying :) Its my first christmas away but its been amazing so far and I love spending time with my husband and my new family.
 

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and David Archuleta Concert

              We attended an amazing Christmas concert the night before we flew off to Oregon and it was the best way to kick off the Christmas season! The best part was we waited for about in hour outside in the freezing cold at the conference center in downtown Salt lake in huge lines and when we finally got up there it was FULL, they over gave tickets..poop! Except Mike is tricky and he snuck us in.. and what do you know we found 2 seats for us in the middle, lower level! I knew David had a great voice, but MAN can he sing, he was amazing, gave us the chills and felt the magical Christmas spirit.

christmas with my mom in Idaho

This weekend I'm at my moms house in idaho we had our own early christmas lots of fun spending time together and opening presents.

 My gift to my mom! She loved it.

 Opening my new black sparkly Toms shoes 

 Lisa's new shirt 

 My mom's new coat from me.

Lisa and Teddy opening presents

Later that night my mom and I went to downtown Boise to have a night on the town with some of my mom's friends and my old babysitter hehe so fun!

At our hotel..

 My old babysitter and my mom..

 I even rode the mechanical bull...

 all the girls..

My mom and Beccie even rode the bull so funny!

Teddy in his uniform

My brother is going into the national guard this is him in his uniform so proud of him!

Julie's baby diaper cake

My friend julie is having a baby boy named Walker in January! I made for the first time a diaper cake it was so easy and so fun i did 3 layers and wrapped receiving blankets around the layers i picked brown and baby blue so I decorated the cake with those colors.

A recap of the year 2010

Its getting close to the end of the year and as I'm new to blogger i decided to do a recap of the year. A lot of great things have happened to me and mike. Here is a timeline of things that have happened to us and our lovely family and friends.

Starting in february Mike took me to Las vegas its "our" place we love to go to get away from boring provo. To my surprise Mike had finally proposed to me . :)

In May my Lovely best friend Sharlan Burrup, since freshman year of highschool got married in the Los Angeles Temple.

In June i spent a lot of time with friends and family for my 2 bridal showers and bachelorette party!

Also my bestfriend Lacey had got engaged!! yay!

On the 4th of july my mom got married to a wonderful man Mark Taylor. It so great to see her Finally happy!

On a sad note Mike and I had to get rid of our dog "Benters". Bentley was the most amazing dog i have ever had, he was my little baby.

Then on August 14th 2010 Mike and I got married for time and all eternity in the san diego temple. It was the best day of my life :)

Then came the honeymoon in Cabo Mexico it was beautiful and so fun to spend time with my newly husband :)

In september  there was a new addition to the Smith family my cousin Sandy had a beautiful little baby boy Ryder!

Nate and Ryan loved baby Ryder such good cousins

 

On September 20th My stepfather deployed to Iraq what a sad day for my mom! You are in our prayers Mark!

For Halloween we were Snookie and Pauly D from the jersey shore what a good laugh we got out of those costumes. hehe

For Thanksgiving we went to California to visit my family and we went to disneyland it was Ryann's and Nate's first time! 

 

Nate loves his brother in law! hehe