Symes Girls

Facetiming with the Symes Girls!

Merry Christmas Eve!

Bell Family Christmas Party 2016

I kind of adore my family and my favorite day of the entire year is when we all get together for our annual Christmas party. It was especially wonderful this year because our Sherman's from Reno and our Husted's from Colorado were able to come!! We were missing Steve and Drew, but most of us were there and that hasn't happened in a long while. And those babes!! We had Henry and Lincoln there and that was so very wonderful!

Seth was my baby magnet. Henry took hold of Seth's finger and held on until it had officially turned purple. They were fast friends and Lincoln loved my Seth too. Those boys have good taste.

The party was at Beck's house this year, which is always fun because the family usually stays a little longer with dads house in town too. Jeff Bell even brought his cute girlfriend Erica. She's adorable.

 Beck wrote this precious little story about our family Christmases. It was so sweet and I loved it.

White Elephant fun!

My kids got spoiled! And we had fun spoiling Kailey, Jeff B, Brandon, Tiff, Lincoln and Sam!

We all went in together and bought dad this golden mercury dime. He seriously was so excited. :)

 

 

Memorial Day weekend

We spent the rest of the weekend in Evanston with family celebrating Kristi's birthday and decorating the graves.
This is what we gave Darbee for her birthday. She loved it!

This little cutie... they say she is stingy with her kisses, but she gave me tons! :)

Kristi and I went with Ron and Kathy to Randolf to decorate Minnie's grave. Minnie is Jeff's great grandma whose journal I read that inspired Knowing Amelia.

Happy Birthday Kristi Lee!

My kiddos making their memorial day notes for our flower pots. I always love this part of our tradition. We always talk about our loved ones and the kids learn more about their grandparents and family who have passed.

We also got to see our Symes family!

On the way home Landon fell asleep on Syd and she attempted to feed him part of her seat belt. HA!

I added this picture of our lilac bush because this is how it looked on Memorial Day and this was my momma's lilac bush. It's precious to me. It grew in her yard and she loved it for as long as I can remember. I'm so glad I have part of it.

 Kristi asked me to take pictures of Darbee while we were there. I haven't had my big camera out since soccer season. My phone is so darn convenient. And I'm not a photographer anyhow... anyway, I didn't realize how much I'd missed it! So in between Darbee pics I took a few other pictures as well.