January 2011

January isn't the busiest month for the Smith house. School started up again, which was nice since it has been too cold to send the kids outside to play. The next few months should start to get a little busier but for right now it is nice.

The girls dress up almost every day and dance around the living room to the music on the radio. It is pretty cute!
Hagen spends atleast one hour a day in this exact spot playing Lego Batman or Lego Starwars. We have had to put a daily time limit on his playing time or he would play from the moment he comes home from school to the time he goes to bed.

New Years Day in Vernal

My lucky kiddos were so excited to go to Vernal to see Grandma and Grandpa Sylvester the weekend of January 1st. We had a nice dinner, opened presents, and just hung out. This cute pix was taken after the kids opened their little gifts from Sheldon and Julie in Hawaii. The girls all looked so cute with the little flower in their hair. Lance, Jared, and Matthew spent a good majority of their time flying their toy helecopters all over the house and trying to shoot everyone. I am glad they were so entertained.

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.