Smith Christmas Weekend Extravaganza

This past weekend was the annual Smith Christmas Weekend Extravaganza. I love this weekend. Basically it starts with tree hunting and ends with exhaustion. There's also tons of shopping, eating and fun having in the middle.

This is my tree. It's a lot bigger than I thought. For some reason they always look much smaller in the forest. It is HUGE! I can't seem to get a small tree!

Here's the famous Sandra Smith tree. It will look amazing with all the stuff she puts on it.

We also celebrated Preston's birthday! He got Scrabble and a bike! You can see how excited he was!

We ate at Joe's BBQ. It was good. You will notice that there are a lot of empty plates!

This is what we all felt like at the end of the weekend. And yes, Squareknot is laying on the diaper cake Mom made for Mindi. I have no explanation.

All in all we had a great weekend. We hit all the stores we could and even got to go see Preston perform/direct at Jesterz! I already can't wait until next year!

Baptism

This is my little adopted niece Annalise. She just got baptized. I'm never disappointed at baptisms. I've been to a few and I always think that since I've been to a few this particular one won't be so special but they always are. Every baptism is special. I always feel the Spirit and it's always especially strong. Annalise's baptism was no different. This little girl was taking a very important step and her Heavenly Father was very pleased with her. I'm glad that I could be there to see it. Congratulations Annalise. You're such a special girl and I love you!

Moving

Guess what...we've moved but not to New York. We've decided to stay here in Mesa. I have to say I'm a little disappointed but excited too. Making decisions is hard but in the end both Zach and I feel a little better about staying here than moving. I guess we'll just have to wait a little longer for our adventures. Anyway, I'll be starting school in June so I'll have some time on my hands the next few months and I'll be filling that time getting my new apartment all set up. Moving is always an interesting experience. Below you will see Zach stuck below the mattress he was trying to put into the truck. If this was a video you would hear him yelling for help and see me running to get the camera. He did finally get out without any damage to him or the mattress.

Below you will see my closet.

And this is Zach's closet. I don't think I need to explain much. I sure do love this husband of mine!

Turkey Trot

This past weekend I ran my first 5K. I know that's not a lot to most of you out there but it was to me and it I'd never done it before. I ran the whole thing and did it in 35 minutes!

This is after the race with Zach and Squareknot. As you can see I'm still standing and yes I'm wearing my Dad's alien hunter doorag.

This is with my best bud Aubrey. I was so glad I got to see her because I don't get to very much. She's amazing and ran it in much less time than me. She's even run a half marathon! What a stud.