Christmas 2009

Our little Family in front of the Tree

All of the girls in the Ford family on Christmas Eve.

Sadie Christmas moring in front of the tree.

Sadie's favorite gift from Santa, her stroller and dolly. As you can see her ball is in there and a few other odds and ends, she loads it up with anything and everything!

All the Smith grand kids reading a bedtime story with Grandpa.

We had a wonderful Christmas this year! We were not sure how much Sadie would understand on Christmas morning, but we were pleasantly surprised with how much she like her gifts and the whole day! On Christmas Eve we went down to my parents house and had a really fun night. We had dinner, went & looked at Christmas lights, acted out the Nativity story (It was so fun to watch Brynnley be Mary, she was so excited to hold her baby and be the mom! Sadie and Carson were angels and the rest of us filled in the other parts.), read a new Christmas book, got our pajamas on and got ready for bed. The next morning Sadie woke up about 7:00 and we went up and opened her presents from Santa and from us. She got books, the Leap Frog animal sound fridge magnets (which were a hit and still are!), yogurt melts in her stocking (we could have stopped with those and she would have been happy, she pretty much ate the whole bag while opening presents, silly girl!), books, clothes, and her favorite gift of all was her stroller and her baby doll. We were afraid that she would be a little to young for the stroller, but it was her favorite thing. All day on Christmas she kept loading up all of her stuff in the stroller and pushing it around, it was really cute! Devin got me a new Camelback Backpack which I love love love! I got Devin a Swiss Army knife and a sweater and few smaller items! After we did our little family Christmas, Kyle and Val and the kids and my grandparents came from their houses and we opened all of our gifts with my family. Our big gift from my parents was a new TV and we are SO grateful, thanks mom and dad! Sadie got so many fun toys, she is one lucky girl, thank you for all of the wonderful stuff everyone!! Then we had a very relaxing day just playing with toys, eating, talking and being together - my favorite kind of Christmas!

We spent several fun days with my family, we went swimming, went to see Princess and the Frog, played a lot of games and just had fun being together! Then a few days before New Years we went over to stay with Devin's family and had a lot of fun. We celebrated Christmas with them and had a good time! We spent New Year's eve together having yummy soup and playing games. We had a Bunko tournament, I had never played Bunko and had a really fun time! I actually ended up winning, as you know I am really competitive, so I was pretty excited! June and Nicole even had prizes, it was a fun night! It was so fun to be able to have a child this Christmas Season and celebrate with her. We loved watching her eyes light up and her excitement over the little things. We had a great holiday and feel so blessed!