Why I Haven't Blogged in a Million Years

I have been a major slacker in the blogging and e-mailing department, and for that I apologize. The Christmas season seems to get crazier every year. As per Smith family tradition, we made poppy seed bread (should "poppy seed" be hyphenated? It's driving me crazy. I might even look it up...) for our neighbors and people in our ward. It was a daunting task. Look at how many we ended up making and eventually delivering:

Dylan and Sadie had a ball helping Ben and I deliver bread. They are both dawdlers, which made it kind of annoying for me, but in the end, we got it all done in a relatively small amount of time. I just think they look so cute all bundled up: