Close Your Eyes, What Do You See?

If you answered 'nothing', you'd be pretty close. A better answer would be 'Michelle's current score in Saskatchewan Roughrider Cribbage!' That's right, you heard it here first. The current series in SRC is 3 wins for Shaun, 0 for Michelle. It's been a sad state of card-playing efforts on the part of Michelle. Like taking candy from a baby. Or kicking a caterpillar with no legs. Or better yet, watching a goat get hit by a fast-moving freight train. One end winds up a mess, and the other just keeps on moving like it hit nothing.

You get the point, it has been an exercise in domination. And definitely, I'm not trying to brag. If anything, I'm just serving you, the audience, by making the point very clear so that you understand.

Utter domination.

So what exactly is Saskatchewan Roughriders Cribbage, you may ask? Well, it's a game that was invented around the same time as the Bible to let the whole world know which team is the best. Seeing as the Roughriders have only won one championship since the birth of the Bible, they figured it would be good to associate the Roughriders with other things that they actually have a chance at - like cribbage. Just imagine a 400-pound linebacker playing crib against an ninety-five year old. That kind of a picture should suggest instant victory, in some way or another.

So Christmas at our house has started early and has been brief. We haven't put our outside Christmas lights up, but yet we have had our first Christmas celebrations with Grandma and Grandpa Smith. That was a great time, although it always seems too short. We got some good card playing time in while they were here. Kaelyn got seriously spoiled, as usual. I'm astounded at how fast she can turn an empty wood floor into a catastrophy of tin pots and pans in a matter of a few minutes.

Speaking of Kaelyn, I wanted to update you on the words she is currently saying. She's got quite a few, so I'll just throw as many as I can out there: "peas" (please), "daddy", "mommy", "oopa da da" (oopsy daisy), "uh oh", "nana" (banana), "ta" (star), "dodgy" (doggy), "bah" (ball). The current two favorites are definitely "ball" and "peas". She attempts a lot of other words, probably because she's a girl, and she never seems to stop talking or at least babbling.

So we're looking forward to having a little time away, enjoying Christmas, and getting together with family. With that, I'll leave you with some recent pictures from the last few days. In the order the pictures are presented: Kaelyn's amazement at the tree, her and mommy decorating the tree, Grandpa Smitha reading Kaelyn a story, and finally Kaelyn unwrapping a gift from the Smith clan! As if the pictures weren't obvious enough! Hope everyone is having a wonderful pre-Christmas season! Smith family out!