Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas Everyone!! Christmas has come and gone but I wanted to share the pix of my cute kids who were soooo very excited for Santa to come.

On Christmas eve we went to Riverdale for the Smith family Christmas party for great food, swimming, and Santa. When we finally got home we cleaned the house really fast so that Santa could come then we read from the bible and the kids opened their pajamas from mom and Dad. Cute little Sid loved her pj's and pretended she was a frog for the rest of the night. We couldn't get Sid and Hagen to stay in bed as a result of an hour nap on the drive home. Finally, at midnight everyone was sound asleep and Santa was finally able to attempt to bring presents to the house. Christmas Morning finally came after a long night and again Mom was the first awake. Why is it that Mom is more excited for Christmas morning than anyone else?? Instead of waking up the kids, mom laid in bed and watched a little tv. Finally, 8:40 AM rolled around and Kaleigh ran up the stairs to check for presents and then woke everyone else up.

My little Kaleigh isn't so little any more. She got an MP3 player, cute little hat, earrings, a baby alive doll and a pillow pet. She has spent the past few days walking around the house with her cute little hat and earphones in her ear.
Hagen was super cute opening his gifts. He also got an MP3 player, and dinosaur toy, a pillow pet, Kung zu pet and the most popular gift besides the MP3 player a nerf type shooting gun. He shoots everything, even his sisters and Dad until he gets in trouble. His second fav. gift is Lego Batman. He plays the game every day.

Sidney was in heaven she got a little people house, pillow pet, a baby alive, a new blanky (so that we can retire her old blanky that is falling apart and stained). After all the presents were opened she sat on the couch with her baby, blanky, pillow pet, and her M&M's and watched beauty and the beast. It was so entertaining watching her reaction to every present she opened.

It was a great Christmas. My favorite gift this Christmas was how happy my kids were with everything that they did and received. I love you Kaleigh, Hagen, and Sidney!!

White Christmas (hopefully)

Even though, I don't really like snow it was nice to wake up this morning to snow and it has snowed all day. Hopefully, it doesn't rain or all of a sudden get warm and melt before Christmas day. Kaleigh, Hagen, and Sidney went and played in it for a while and had a ton of fun. Until they got too cold. Friday, the 17th, was the last day of school until next year and they had their Christmas sing program. Hagen was a cute reindeer singing Rudolph.
Kaleigh's class sang the perfect song. "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth". Kaleigh had just lost the first of her two front teeth.

For family home evening we made a Lowes build and grow project and it was really cute watching the kids get all dressed up to put together their Kaleidoscopes. Sid, especially since she had her goggles up side down and wouldn't let us fix it for her.

You can tell I haven't blogged in a while, I am usually better at posting on a regular basis. Here is the pix of my cute kiddo's in front of the Christmas tree that they had decorated the weekend after Thanksgiving.

Jazz Game Suprise

So, on Monday we were given tickets by Nuskin to go to the Jazz game. I wasn't so excited to go but was willing since it would be a night with out any kids and a good date. To our suprise, when we got the ticket we found out that is was a club 100 ticket. At that time I had no idea what that meant. We got to eat at the Club 100 buffet (the food was amazing) and during half time we got to go into the club 100 half time room for drinks and all kinds of snacks. I think the best part of it was that we were sitting 2 rows from the court next to the basket. You could see the sweat dripping from the players. It was a lot of fun, thanks NuSkin!
This was our view of the court from our seats

Snow!!

So this is Kaleigh's creation, her snowman. He is probably one foot tall. On Saturday night it snowed, this isn't from the supposed blizzard that we were supposed to get and didn't. She we so excited to get home from church and eat lunch so that she could go outside and build her first snowman for the year. Sidney was a good helper!
This pix is a little more blury than I thought. Kaleigh had a Thanksgiving program in her class. She was super cute and did great reading her lines.

Operation Dry Wall

Tonight we started the process of replacing the drywall in Hagen's room. When a thumb tack falls out of the wall, you start to realize something is wrong. We have been meaning to do it for awhile but now that Sheldon and Julie have moved out, now is perfect since the room is already empty. The kids made every effort to make sure they helped. The kept saying that the needed to work hard so that dad wouldn't give up (not that he would).

Sidney was helping Jared push the mattresses up the stairs or at least she thought she was. kaleigh and Hagen helped take the drywall pieces to the garage. Kaleigh wanted to get the biggest piece every chance she could.
I think that all that pushing on the mattress wore this little one out. She made a bed for herself and her baby and very quickly fell asleep.

Hagen helping vacuum all the small pieces left on the floor.

A little clean up and then on Saturday we can start hanging dry wall. I am looking forward to having this room back together so that I can get Hagen in his own room and most the toys out of the family room.

BYU vs. UNLV

Jared was given 3 tickets to the BYU game this last Saturday. I am not a football fan, so I didn't want to go. I told him he could go and I would watch the kids. Jared was an awesome dad and wanted to take his kids instead of inviting friends. The kids loved it. Kaleigh came home singing cheers and songs and asking when they get to go again. Hagen was a little bored. He had fun, but was definately ok with going home at half time.

Halloween 2010

We had a fun halloween this year. First we went to a ward fall party where we ate chili, pie, and had a trunkertreat for the kids. Then we went tricker treating with Grandma and Grandpa Sylvester and Sheldon, Julie and Jace. The kids got too much candy. I think I gained 5 pounds this past week with all the soda and candy I have consumed. The kids are still as skinny as can be and they have eaten more candy than I. After we finished tricker treating we went to a party at a friends house in their barn. It was a fun night, but we were so tired the next day.

Sidney-Witch Kaleigh- Hannah Montana Hagen- Bumble BeeIt was super cute watching Sid walk down the sidewalk and shake her little hips as she strutted from house to house.
Jared, Sidney, and Uncle Sheldon at the ward party. This picture made me laugh.
Brooklyn and Kaleigh playing at the ward party.

Extremely Busy Week

So, here it is. We finally had our 20 week ultrasound. Seems like it took forever to finally get to this point, and now it is here I hope the next five months go really really fast. This little BOY was quite the poser for us. We got some great pictures and he is measuring exactly where he needs to and looks quite healthy. Hagen told the technician doing the ultrasound the baby's name is Wolverine. We got a kick out of that. Still working on a name.Gotta love school Halloween parties. Today was the day. I signed up to be the room mom in Kaleigh's class this year, since Sidney is finally old enough to be somewhat behaved when we go into the school. It was a lot of work, as if I needed something else to do this week, but really a lot of fun and I also enjoy being able to get to know the kids in the class.

Hagen is Bumble Bee and Kaleigh is Hannah Montana
We also carved pumpkins. Kids had a ton of fun. Didn't really like getting dirty but they love being able to see their pumpkins lit on the front steps.

Smith family happenings

I haven't been so great at updating our blog so on this update you get a whole collection of everything from the end of September until now.

So, a while back we got 5 chickens, in the hopes that all five would be female and mid-September all five chicks would be laying eggs. As it turned out four of the five chicks were roosters and had to be given away. What are the odds?? So the end of July I purchased three new baby chicks, guaranteed female. Our one chicken who is finally old enough layed eggs! We were all excited to find eggs one day!! The kids think it's a lot of fun to go out and see the egg the chicken layed. In January our other three chickens will be laying eggs and hopefully we will be getting at least 4 eggs a day and I will never have to buy eggs again.


We also went to the state fair the end of September. We went with Danny and Rachel and their cute kids and then met up with my brother, Julie and Jace as well. It was extremely crowded so we didn't all stay together but definitely had fun looking at all the animals.

We took this pix because the cow that received 1st place name is Hagen! The kids had fun petting the cows, sheep, and pigs. Especially the newborn baby cow.The kids had fun sitting in an army Hum V (not sure I spelled that right) at the fair.

Our next fun event was conference weekend. My family from Vernal came out to visit with Sheldon and his family since they are only in Utah for the next month. We all went to Chucky Cheese with Jared's parents and my nephews, Boston and Talon, and Niece Kemayla after the second session of conference on Saturday and then all the guys went to the priesthood session and when they came back we all had icecream. A little crazy but it was fun to all be together. We also played Miniature Golf for Jacob, Jared's brother, on the 9th of Oct. to celebrate his birthday. It was really funny to watch Hagen and Sidney because the would hit the ball half a dozen times then they would pick up the ball and either drop it right into the hole or sit it next to the hole and knock it in with their club. It was pretty entertaining.

Zoo Trip

We were able to have Sarah and Reed for the weekend so we planned a trip to the zoo. It was a little crazy with just Jared and I and six kids but we made it and hopefully everyone had fun. Sidney, Hagen, Reed, Olivia, and Sarah (I don't know where Kaleigh was in this pix)
Hagen was able to give the bird a dollar donation. He thought that was pretty cool.

Dad, Mom, and Sidney looking at the Giraffes

Reed and Hagen on the train

Olivia, Kaleigh, and Sarah on the train

First Day of School!!!

So excited for school to start for my sake and the kids as well.

This year Hagen tested to be able to get into the free preschool that Westmore Elem. offers and he made it. I think part of it was that he couldn't even tell the teacher how old he was, even though he asks me all the time. He is so excited and loves that he get to go to the big kid school. My little Kaleigh is in 1st grade this year. She is getting so big and so smart that she amazes me every day with what she learns and how well she is reading. She has become really picky with what she wears. Last year I could pick something out and she would wear it. This year she would rather find something else than wear what I have picked out. But the best part of 1st grade is that she now gets to eat school lunch. She thinks that is pretty cool.

Mesa Falls Marathon/Yellowstone Trip

We usually do a little something before starts to end the summer and start a new school year. This year we went to Idaho with my two brothers and their family. We stayed with Julie's aunt and uncle who live in Rexburg. They were really nice to accommodate all of us. My brother, Sheldon, and his wife, Julie, signed up to run the Mesa Fall marathon (Sheldon) and half Marathon (Julie). They did awesome! I don't know that I could do that my self. After the marathon was over we all hopped into our vehicles and drove to Yellowstone. Surprisingly, Jared had never been. We had a lot of fun and we were really sad to only have one day their, but the time we had was pretty amazing. It did rain a good part of the day but I think it made the sites even more amazing. Our family waiting for Old Faithful to erupt. The kids thought it was really cool, but couldn't quite understand the concept of hot water squirting out of the ground.

Olivia, Kaleigh, Juile, sheldon, Sidney, and Hagen sitting by the old faithful lodge.

Jared and Sidney checking out some of the sites.

Cute little Sid thought it was fun to poke her little head out of the blanket and smile at the people.

Sidney and Kaleigh

While we were driving we came upon a bison eating on the side of the road. We also saw a huge elk, but couldn't get a good pix since he was back in the trees.

We headed home on Sunday but before we left we went to the Sand Dunes and had a lot of fun.

We had sand everywhere. The kids took a good bath when they got home.

Sidney and Jace playing in the sand.