Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Steven and Anna's Visit

Steven and Anna came down for 10 days after Christmas.  

The cousins greet each other.



The kiddos playing together






Papa with 5 of the 6 kiddos

Eva and Aunt Rachel share a scarf

Amanda, Eva, Hudson, Deborah

Eva and Hudson entertain Hugh.



Hugh

Jon

Aunt Deb and Hugh

The children always have fun together.



The girls (joined by little brothers) had a tea party.



Anna reads to one of our little boys...

...while nurse Eva checks out the other.

We took the children to Chiparoos one day.




Time for some family pictures!






Christmas Day

Nativity Scene Ornament

Hugh checks out the tree

Working on Christmas dinner

Stockings are probably everyone in the family's favorite part of Christmas day!




Stockings wouldn't be the same without gag gifts.  The newest member of the family usually gets picked on the worst (Daniel, beware!).  Someone put this hideous thing in Russell's.

Somebody else got a gag gift!

One of the little boys discovering what's inside his stocking.

Miniature bride and groom ornaments for Amanda and Russell!


Fun shirts...Russell's says "If this shirt offends you, you need a history lesson!"

and Rachel's says "This is what the world's best sister-in-law looks like" 

Rebekah made Mama Flo this model of her house

Our little girlie got a dollhouse.  Here she and Rachel enjoy setting it up.


One of the little boys picked this shirt for Mama Flo all by himself.

Jonathan came down for a week over Christmas.  We all enjoyed having him here!


More dollhouse fun


Another gag gift!  This one from Rachel...it's a horrible hat/scarf/gloves.








A very important gift - Russell received his edition of the Smith dictionary.  If you're going to be part of the family, you have to speak our lingo.  (And if you're not part of the family, no, you can't read it!)

Monday, April 4, 2016

Hugh

(In case you haven't caught on yet, we think this little guy is cute!)

Hugh discovers Christmas lights

"How does this work?"




Posing with Mama Flo, his great-grandmother

Funny face



When Hugh saw this candy cane he picked it up and started to use it as a cane.  :)