Busy Christmas Week

As always the week of Christmas is extremly busy filled with family activities, we love the holidays.

These are just a few pictures that had been taken the first of this crazy week.

The kids love playing mario kart.

Smith family Christmas eve party. We ate a very filling lunch. The kids hit a pinata and got lots and lots of candy (didn't get any pictures of that, however Jenny was very funny). Decorated Ginger Bread houses since the weather was too horrible for any one to travel during the week. We all played chimes and then Santa came. Hagen and Jared

Grandma Mikits and Sidney

Tallon and Melissa

Sarah and Melissa

Des and Olivia

Jacob and Kaleigh

Jenny and Sidney

Chimes

Aunt Jenny played Santa this year. She was a pro. Little Sidney fell asleep before she could go sit with Santa.

Before the kids went to bed on Christmas eve they got to open one present from Mom and Dad, pajamas of course, don't they look amazingly cute. Christmas morning! The kids slept in until 9:00 am. The funny thing was that Jared and I layed in bed wide a wake waiting for the kids to wake up.

Little Sidney would have been happy with just wrapping paper.

Hagen loves dinosaurs, if you couldn't tell.

Kaleigh was fun to watch. She has finally gotten Christmas morning down and kept asking for more presents.

The weekend after Christmas we always go to Vernal to spend a little time with my family. The kids had fun and definately enjoyed opening more presents. Grandma Carol with Hagen, Sidney, and kaleigh

Ginger Bread Houses 2008

Every year my kids are so excited to decorate ginger bread houses. Last night (Dec. 14th) we celebrated Des' birthday, opened gifts, and then let the kids decorate their houses. I think majority of the candy ended up in their bellies than on the houses. They all did a great job.

In memory of our father

Yesterday, unexpectedly, we lost a great man, a wonderful father and grandfather. This is one of the last pictures I have of my dad and I thought it was very fitting to show this picture of him and the grandkids. The grandkids really loved him and they were always excited to be with him. I miss him.

We put an obituary in the Lake Tribune and the Deseret News for Wednesday, 26th, of November. It was a short and simple but we created a blog in his memory for a little more of a personal note. If you would like to add any of your own memories to the blog, please do.

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Rolling Over

For the past month little Sidney has rolled from one side to the other, but couldn't quite roll all the way onto her tummy. But last night she finally did it!! She couldn't figure out how to get her one arm out from under her and eventually got a little upset. Pretty soon she will be sitting up, I am excited for that. however, I can wait for her to start crawling, I don't completely have my house baby proof yet.

Halloween!

Here they are, my cute giraffe, bumble bee, and elephant. We did as we normally do except that Jared had to work so it was just me with the help of Grandpa and Grandma Smith watching Sidney as we went tricker treating in a Lehi neighborhood by Grandma and Grandpas house. The weekend before Halloween we took the kids and Ily and Olivia tricker treating at the zoo with Grandpa Olsen. It was amazingly busy and something we will most likely not do again. We spent three hours trying to get through the crowds and waiting in line for candy and when we were finally walking to the entrance to ride the train before leaving we turned around to find that Hagen had some how wondered off and was no where to be found. Lot of tears (on my part)and twenty minutes later he was found in between the giraffe's and lion exhibit. But all said and done we did have a good time.

Little Sidney was all tuckered out.

Kaleigh, Ily, Grandpa Olsen, Sidney, Hagen, and Olivia

Isn't he the cutest elephant you have ever seen.

Kaleigh was being really shy so this is the best picture of her in her costume.

jared and heidi smith and family

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Pumpkin Carving

For FHE last monday we carved pumpkins to put on the porch.

Kaleigh thought it way too yucky to put her hand in the pumpkins so she decided to paint her little pumpkin she got on her field trip.

Hagen loved pulling all the pumpkin insides out.

Little Sidney thought it was entertaining to just watch what was going on around her.

Kaleigh thinks that when the candles are lit that the pumpkins are awake and during the day when the candles are not lit the pumpkins are sleeping.

Just Hanging Out

We haven't had a lot going on the past two months. We are looking forward to cooler weather and our fun trip to Oregon for Thanksgiving.

August 2008- Growing way too fast!

Our three cute kids. It amazes me how fast they grow. Kaleigh started preschool at Westmore Elementry. She goes Monday thru Friday and loves it. I also love it because I get a little break. She especially loves going to dance and I can see a huge improvement compared to where she was when she first started her dance class last year. She is your typical girl. My cute little Hagen is no longer a baby. He is a rough and tumbly little boy who loves any kind of sport, dinosaurs, cars, and really really likes to tease Kaleigh. He is starting to talk really well and he is almost potty trained (yea!!). And last my sweet little baby. Sidney is amazingly cute and amazingly chunky. At her 2 month apt. she weighed 12 lb's!! She loves her brother and sister and makes the cutest squeals when they play with her. She is starting to giggle and smiles a ton and when she cries she pulls her bottom lip over the top one.

I am so blessed to have a wonderful family.

Aug. 6-7th - Family Camping

This last weekend we went REAL camping. NO toilets or showers or swimming pools. We drove through A.F. Canyon until we found a dispursed camping site next to the stream. The first day was the roughest for Kaleigh, she immediately found a red ant and picked it up and it bit her then she tripped over the tent opening all night. The next morning was better and she finally wanted to stay. Little Hagen loved it. He was a big helper especially when it came to keeping the fire going. He also fell in the fire as he was walking backwards trying to get a good distance away from the water. Luckly he had a thick coat and hat or he would have gotten burned. Sidney did great, she just hung out with mom and ate and slept the entire time.

Aug. 2nd, 2008- Smith Family Camping

We camped with the Smith clan in Nephi this last weekend. We had a great time and the kids had a lot of fun playing with their cousins. We are excited for next year.

Grandma Mikits-Grandpa Smith w/ Sidney- Grandma Smith

Kaleigh made sure she was ready to go into the water.

Jacob and Reed
Melissa, Mark, and Reed

July 27th, 2008- Sidney's Blessing

We are now a family of five, can you believe that! Thank you everyone for all your help and great food.

We are so thankful for our three kids.

Smith family

Great Grandma Mikits and Great Grandma Mormor

Since we couldn't get my side of the family all together for pictures, I don't have one. Don't worry we will definately have one by Thanks Giving. This last picture will have to work with my parents and Jared's parents and both great grandma's.