Grant's reindeer!!

Grant brought home a folder of what all of the kids in his class would do if they had a pet reindeer. Most of the children said they would ride it, play with it or feed him. Not my son, Grant said he would give it a shower. Which is funny because last week in the middle of our first snow storm last week Grant wanted to give Murphey our dog a shower with him. While Grant was trying to get him in and I was trying to get him out Grant slipped and fell causeing him to bite his tongue a few times and cut his chin, we took him to the ER where they glued it, the next day he woke and it had split open again, so the clinic glued, butterfly bandaged and then bandaged after that. less then two days later we were back at the clinic because they had all come off and it was open again.
I guess all he really wants are clean animals. Hmmm!!

Family Pictures!

We had our family pics taken in arizona, these are a few of my favorites. I have a lot of favorites!! We had them taken with Josh's family-I have only seen 75 of over 300 and I probably love at least 30 of them. I am so excited and glad we did them. Grant and Richie had tons of fun and Lucie with the girls had a lot of ridiculous fun as well!

My necklaces!!

Josh's sister Misty taught me how to make necklaces when I was there. They have a store where you can buy necklaces for cheap and then you break them apart and mix and match the beads with other ones to make cute necklaces. I really want to thank Misty for teaching me how to make them. I really enjoyed getting to know you and your kids more. These are Lucie's and they are actually much more cute in person. It is Tinkerbell, Hannah Montana, Hello Kitty and a Duck one. They all actually really sparkle and are adorable, the picture does them no justice. This is what some of the necklace look like when I buy them.

This is what I turn them into, brown and purple.

Brown and green

all brown

oh well, we got this one twice. I wish the colors showed up better but maybe later.

I do want to say that we did get professional pictures taken of Josh's mom and dad, sisters and their kids/spouses so I will post those when I get them.

Arizona Part Two!

Lucie was so excited for Tobie to come over and play that one day she stood by the door for over 20 minutes waiting.

Grant fell asleep with Grandpa on Aunt Carol's couch. Lucie and her cousin Maycie had a sleepover at Grandma's house

The were beat for quite a bit of the trip.

We went to an indoor play area that had rides and everything was covered in one cost and since there was no one there the lady just followed us around and let us ride whatever we wanted as many times as we wanted to. All of the pics that are on rides are from here.

This is Josh, his dad, his two uncles(his dads brothers)and the two Grants(one is ours and one is uncle Rick's.)

This is Josh and Grandma Penny-his dad's mom







Madie, Tobie, Maycie and Lucie-all of the kids spent most of their time at Aunt Carols house-and the trampoline was there favorite.

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Our Super Fun Arizona Vacation!

These two pictures should be at the very end, but it is 11 at night and this is where they showed up. This is a picture AFTER our trip when we first got home and Josh was unloading the car. What is significant about this picture???? It is the man I love, coming out of the house I love, to carry in the kids I love, in the city I love. I LOVE IT ALL!!

This is Lucie eating a cookie/ice cream dessert that Maylinn made and it was so good I came home and made it myself.

The first picture I took of Lucie and Tobie I asked them both to smile and this is what they did. The freeways in Arizona are HUGE, 6 lanes going in each direction.

All the smith boys

Grant, Grant, Lexie and Lucie (Grant and Lexie are Rick's kids.)

Aunt Maylinn in the jumper with the kids

This is the first time my babies have ever flown. They were sooo cute.



Awww, she LOOKS so angelic.

Lucie and her baby buckled in.

With 45 minutes to go on the plane Lucie finally fell asleep.

she did however need to sleep with her feet up on the plane window.

For the first time in 5 years we just went back to Arizona to visit the Smith side of the family. We have seen Josh's mom and dad and two sisters a couple of times when they have come out here but we haven't seen most of his family in five years and they have never seen Lucie-and Grant last as a baby. There are soo many pictures that I won't even try to put a caption on most of them. I do have to apologize to Aunt Carol because we spent soo much time at her house and I don't have a single picture of her(I am sure however that you don't care.) Grant and Lucie loved getting to know there cousins, and I had alot of fun with Josh's mom, sisters and aunt. I do want to deeply thank everyone who made our trip to Arizona enjoyable!! We will never forget the times we had.

Halloween Fun!!

We just made Jack-O-Lanterns. It was fun, dad opted for the potato head face-which quite honestly isn't a bad way to go!!


Last year my mom made these halloween outfits for Lucie, her baby and matching ties for Grant and Josh. Lucie's didn't really fit her anymore but I really wanted halloween outfits so I put some lace tight things under her dress-which is now more like a shirt. Next year it probably will be a shirt and I will pair it up with a skirt!! The first picture is a silly face, the second is this year(unfortunatly due to the love she has for baby lulu her one eye is permanantly in the blinking position and will need to visit the hospital some day soon) and the third is last year!!

Our Family!

Grant had a project at school where he needed to bring in a family picture and since we don't have one I went to my sisters house and had her snap a quick picture of us(I didn't want to be the family that has to bring in three seperate pictures just to get all four of us in it.) I think it actually turned out REALLY cute!!