Happy Birthday to my Daddy!

The day after Christmas is my dad's birthday. He decided he wanted to go eat at a place in Mt. Pleasant called Mardi Gras. When we got there it was also karaoke night! Colt had Christmas that day at his grandparent's in Watauga so he couldn't go and Lily ended up running fever so her and Nadine ended up staying home as well, so it was me, my parents, Joe, Heath and Jennifer! It was hilarious watching some of the people sing! We had a really good time and enjoyed celebrating his birthday together. My mom has more pics, but this is one of my parents that I took on my camera!

Happy Birthday!!

Here are a couple of more pics that my mom gave me later.

Heath, Mom and Dad

Joe, Me and Jennifer

Christmas Day

We spent Christmas Eve night at Colt's parents in Forney to be there Christmas morning with his neice and nephew, Davallen and Jacob. We heard them giggling at about 8 as they were looking down the stairs at what Santa brought and that's when the fun started! We all got up to see what Santa brought. The kids were fun to watch! We relaxed  and watched the kids play the rest of the afternoon and had lunch, then we headed back home. We did nothing the rest of the day and watched The Proposal together Christmas night. It was a great Christmas (our first Christmas as Mr. and Mrs. Smithson) and I enjoyed spending time with both of our families over the holidays!

Colt with Davallen and Jacob and their new DS's

David, Jacob, and Colt

Dede and Davallen

Christmas Eve

We spent the 23rd with my parents and were there Christmas Eve. Right about the time both of my brother's were supposed to get there and dinner was almost done the electricity went out! We had to take the dressing outside to cook it in the camper since it has a gas stove and we took our annual family pic in the dark! Right about the time we were done eating the lights came back on!

The whole family and Pistol too (mom's puppy)!

Shortly after gifts, Colt and I had to leave to try and get to his grandparents in Rockwall before it got too late. There was a lot more snow up our direction than there was at my parents, but luckily the roads weren't bad.

Colt, Linda, Tanner (Colt's half brother) and Tooter

Me, Colt, Linda and Tooter

Christmas Eve's Eve

We spent Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas Day with Colt's family so we planned on doing our Christmas with just us and the dogs the morning of the 23rd. Colt and I decided we didn't want to wait so we exchanged gifts the night before and we had our dog's Christmas the next morning!

Colt's a great gift buyer. He's good at paying attention to little hints and even buying stuff you didn't even know you wanted! I loved everything and we had a great time! Our Christmas together is one of my favorite times during Christmas!

Colt giving me a picture of my Nike watch since it hadn't came in yet!

Blowing up my new stability ball for working out. He got me a new workout mat too!

Yeah another sweatshirt! I got him a white one before Christmas and he just loved it and wanted the black one too! Surprise, surprise!

Him in some of his new workout gear. He was trying to look like a gangster!

The next morning we did the dog's Christmas. Colt was disappointed that all he had in his stocking was a note from me. He loves Turtles and I usually get them for him, but I waited til last minute and the gas station up the road didn't have them. It turned out to be a good thing though because he got tons of Turtles and Millionaires from everyone else this year!

Lucky and Alex each had a bone in their stockings which I shouldn't have let them have first because then they didn't care about anything else. Then Lucky got a little reindeer stuffed animal and Alex got a huge bone. Then together they got a big stuffed play toy! We love our dogs :)

I think Santa came!

Trying to get their bones out

Daddy helping him unwrap his present

Alex always wants what Lucky has even if she has her own!

Lucky and I

Christmas has come and gone

I know your supposed to leave your Christmas decorations up until after New Year's but today I took everything down. I had time and I figured I wouldn't have as much time next week so it's done! Here's a few pics of our house though before we took them down. Also I'm about to update the blog with everything we did over our Christmas break!

Merry Christmas from the Smithson's

Merry Christmas everyone! Colt and I did our Christmas with just us last night and we just finished the dog's Christmas this morning! I will have pics up later! Our dogs are spoiled :) We are heading to my family in Mt. Vernon today and for Christmas Eve. Then we will stop in Rockwall at his grandparents tomorrow night and spend Christmas day with his family in Forney. Hope everyone has a great holiday!

Christmas Party

Last night we had a Christmas party with friends and family over at Colt's mom and stepdad's house in Forney. It was us, Colt's parents, Gerald (Colt's best friend) and his girlfriend Allison, Gerald's parents (Jamie and Peter), Gerald's brothers (Sterling and DD), DD's girlfriend, Denean, and after dinner Bryce and Josh (two of Colt's other good friends from high school) stopped by. We had tons of great food (thanks to Dede) and afterwards we all played a few games of Mafia that Gerald's family introduced us to! Mafia was a fun game and kept us all lauging!

Colt and Gerald before dinner. Aren't they so cute?!

First Christmas as a married couple! I just love him :)

Before dinner. Dede did such a good job with everything and it looked fabolous!

Playing video games.. as usual!

Getting situated to play Mafia

Jamie and Steling explaining the rules of the game. Unfortunately Jamie got killed off the first play of every game and didn't get to play any.

Dede and Jamie

Barbee playing innocent and reading his Christmas book on the couch and I'm sure Colt was trying to convince someone to do something! Below, I stole a few of Dede's pics that she posted on her facebook.

Group pic before dinner.

This was a great start to the holidays and we had a lot of fun!

SDC Christmas Party - Dallas World Aquarium

We had our work Christmas party at Dallas World Aquarium last Friday. Colt was able to make it just in time before we started lunch. We had a great lunch, a few Christmas games and then were able to walk around the aquarium after the party. We also had a photgrapher there and here are a few pics from the party.

All we had was our phones, but here are a few pics Colt took as we were walking around.

You can't really see him in the pic, but this was a little monkey, and evidently he had to go to the bathroom and nearly sprayed it on Colt! It was pretty funny!

 One of the auditors told Colt that he thought the monkey liked him!

These were the little penguins outside. The penguins and the flamingos below were my favorite.