Let the festivities begin!!

We Smittcamp's LOVE any kind of party!!! And this week and weekend was filled with them. This past Wednesday night we had so much fun walking down Christmas Tree Lane with the whole Patricio family. We just LOVE the Patricio's! They make us feel like we are family, which we are so very thankful for! Then, Thursday night we had a wonderful evening spent at Bill and Linda's house. They hosted a holiday party on benefiting Children's Hospital. Their house is sooooooo very beautiful all the time, but especially this time of the year with the Christmas decorations. It was a great evening!





Friday night came quickly and we accomplished A LOT! We celebrated an early Christmas with the Penner side of the family. We had dinner at my parents house, then went Christmas caroling at a couple of people's houses, then walked through Candy Cane Lane in Clovis to see the pretty lights and the Moerman's even had SNOW on their yard! After walking through the neighborhood we went back for dessert and then we did our entertaining gift exchange. For this everyone gets to open a gift, then we take dice and if you get doubles then you can steal someones gift or if no doubles you pass the dice to the next person. People are constantly stealing...definitely craziness for 10 straight minutes! We put the timer on for 10 minutes and at the end of the buzzer everyone is stuck with what they have...good or bad. It is so much fun, especially with like 20 or so people! Here are some of the memories from the evening...


For this next picture with my sister and my mom, there must have been a camera facing the other way because she is still smiling just not looking at our camera! I love that girl!


Aunt Christy looooooves Aubrey Rose too! She is so sweet to my little girl. Thanks Christy!!!!

Some of the cousins. Jesse just can't take a serious picture.

Oh what a year does! All these guys became dads this year, and they are doing a phenomenal job at it too!!

So this was the gift Jesse was so lucky to go home with! The funny thing was, and so fitting for my brother, he chose the gift! He stole it from someone so that he could go home with this new prize possession.

Oh his lucky wife! Thanks Allie for putting up with him!


Saturday we got to experience the most beautiful party. My cousin Jon, married the most amazingly creative event planner. Andrea is so sweet to spoil close friends and family with a Christmas celebration. Blake and I were absolutely blessed to be apart of it. This was such a fun evening. Thank you so much to Jon and Andrea for such amazing hospitality and their kindness for spoiling all of us with such a beautiful evening!

















And then Sunday quickly rolled around as well. It began with a fun Christmas celebration at church. It was so fun to have all the children involved. It was wear your tacky Christmas sweater. It was hilarious!


Here are all the tacky sweaters. It was a riot!


Sunday afternoon Aubrey and I had a wonderful time at Logan DeManby's 2 year old birthday party. It was at the Little Gym. Aubrey Rose LOVED all the entertainment! Thank you Travis and Katie for making us feel so special and for such a fun afternoon!



Logan, Aubrey Rose and Grace Scalzo

This is the best we could do. Logan DeManby is on the left and Taylor is in back. So fun!


You would think after a weekend like that we would be pooped. Well Blake is on his way right now to Minnesota for work and I am home still excited about my weekend while Aubrey Rose is sleeping. She is pooped. She is definitely my little trooper though! Aubrey Rose this is what, we, Smittcamp's do! And we wouldn't have it any other way!