FAREWELL!

Sadly, it has come time to say good bye to this ole blog.  I have been putting this off for so long now.  It may sound silly, but ever since we had Violet the blog title just didn't fit any more.  We are no longer 6, and there's more to us now than just SMARKS.  How do you add a V to that any way?  

So much time goes into keeping up a blog.  It's our family journal in a way.  So it really is hard for me to leave it behind.  I have been keeping a secondary blog that I planned to archive all my arsty stuff, but if you think keeping one blog is hard, it obviously is harder keeping up with two.  So I'm simply going to just keep the second one up to date and it won't just be arsty...it'll just be anything I have time for.

so here's the link: www.eclecticnut.blogspot.com

And one day when I come across a boat load of money...I'm going to have 6SMARKS printed :)


So long blog!  I'm gonna miss you :(

LiGhTs

We made our annual trip to Temple Square to see the lights.  But this time we went after Christmas, before New Years.  There's a new tram station five miles from our house so we rode the TRAX up to SLC.

 We wandered around Temple Square and took in all the sights!

I love it when the tabernacle is open!  We went in for a quick peak.

I love to see the temple :)

Winter Break

Where's the SNOW???  We're used to getting a ton more during winter break.  So even though we got just a "trace" of snow the girls were headed out to sled... 

...down the driveway!

Now that's resourceful :)

Christmas 2011

Our Christmas was perfect!

We woke up early to see what Santa brought and opened presents before heading out the door to church.  The kids asked Santa for snuggies.  He must have had a hard time finding them, or maybe he thought they were hideous, but they got robes instead and they loved them :)

 

Aaron and I decided to keep Christmas simple and not too extravagant when it came to gifts.  We never go overboard, but we really brought it down a notch this year.  I was really worried the kids would be disappointed, but Aaron made me stick to the list we had agreed on.  I am so glad we did.  The kids were so happy and I had no buyer's remorse.  There was such a feeling of peace in our home!!!