Things we have done this summer!!!

Paul and I celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. Here we are just finishing off a deliciious desert at the Salt Cellar.

Baby Leah is growing up so fast, she has enough smiles to fill the whole world. She is almost 9 months and starting to scoot around, she babbles a mile a minute and is quite a little flirt. She has won all of our hearts and we cant love her enough.
The boys are also growing to fast, They are talking so well and melt hearts wherever they are. Carrie gave them a summer buzz and we went up to Prescott to see the rodeo and spend time with Sue and her family. The girls were the rodeo queens again and did a great job in the arena. The boys got to see Great Grandma and Grandpa there and they loved eating her homemade cookies.
Our baby boy Steven moved out, leaving us to be empty nesters. Is he cute or what???We miss him.


Mike went through the Temple which was one of the best experiences we have had in our lives.

Paul and I went on a Pioneer trek with our Stake as a Ma and Pa. We had a great little family with us and it was a really fun experience.



We celebrated a birthday at Cafe Rio...Beka and I went to New York to see Kent and the sights. It was Bekas first time so we wanted to see everything and thanks to Kent we didn't miss to much.
This is Kent and Beka in front of Kents place on Broadway, he is the 4th window up, he has great views from 3 sides. We all went to see Lion King which was great.

Can anything be more exciting than Times Square??? We had a great time!!!

The best thing about summer so far is that we get to spend time with thoes that we love, thats what makes our world turn!!!!!

MARATHON MAN IN BOSTON 2009

He made it through another one. Boston was a little windy and rainy this time but whats a little breeze when you are running faster than the wind????? Thats him just past the finish line. (Kent looking on)Carrie, Leah, Uncle Kent and I went out to cheer him on. This was Leah's first flight, she did great!!!Her friend Jasmine made her a few hats for the cold and this was my favorite, wouldn't she be cute with a full head of hair????

We went to the local famous bars!!!! (Just to take pictures)

and browsed the streets at night (not a lot of night life in China Town at 11:00)

And the boys were waiting for us at home, doing good stuff like going to church, do they look like angels or what???It was a fun trip, Im so proud of Paul, I think he will still be running at 120 years old.

Starting off 2009

Life has been exciting around here, with new babies, Christmas, and lots in between. This is one of my favorite pictures of the boys and baby Leah. (Landon, Leah and Braden) She was only a couple of weeks old here and the boys just adore her. Whenver she cries they drop everything and want to make sure she has her binki and is O.K.

Here is a proud Grandpa with Leah about 2 weeks old.

We had a great Christmas, this year the boys got new capes made by their mom and didn't take them off all day. They had their second birthday and had three celebrations. They are getting so big so fast. We love every minute we spend with them.

We spent some time at the cabin and spent quite awhile going on walks, one with Grandma and Grandpa and another with the moms, Carrie and Beka. Its so beautiful, we love spending time there, everytime we go we see deer, sometimes they just walk right by the cabin.

Im going to try to better on keeping up the blog, we love keeping in touch with all our friends, family and loved ones!!!!!!!

OUR NEW LITTLE BABY GIRL

She came not so quietly in the night, a beautiful 7 lb 13oz 21 inch little girl, her name is Leah Bee Smith. Mom and dad are doing great, Carrie was such a trooper and did everything perfect. Nobody cold ask for a better Christmas present

OUR THANKSGIVING

HAIL HAIL THE GANGS ALL HERE!!!

We had a great Thanksgiving up in the mountains. Almost all of our family were able to get together, thanks to our Utah family that drove all the way down. We missed Mark, Nancy, Megan, Steve, Jake, Heather, Dave, Molly, Jennifer, Peter, Caroline and Kent. Here is a picture of all that did make it. Also some pictures of the fun thing we did.


Mountain climbing and repelling

We didn't have any babies!!!

We slept very little,

We lounged a lot,

Had a lot of fun,

Enjoyed the Views,

Did a little shopping in town,


Played some wicked volleyball,

Played some pretty intense ping pong games,

Had a great gift exchange game going,


We ate...

and ate...

and ate...

and ate some more...

Inspiteof all that we had a great time, the best was spending time with the people you love the most....MY FAMILY... I have the best

I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving, and you enjoy the Christmas Season.

AMAZING !!!

This man is amazing. In his 50's and still going strong. This is him coming in at the finish line in the Logan marathon. He makes it look so easy. He loves it and has qualified again for the Boston marathon in 2009.

Mike, Carrie and I took a quick trip to New York to see my brother Kent. We had a great time, the weather was perfect and there is not better host/tour guide than Kent. We risked our lives to buy a few purses, wallets, and DVD's, enjoyed walking int the parks, going to the Farmers Market, Mike and Kent went to the show Spam-a-lot, and for the first time we went out to the beach and saw Coney Island before they tear it down. We ate at Grandpas pizza (our favorite) the Carnage Deli, and Serendipity where they served frozen hot chocolate. As usual it

went by way to fast, we had a great great time...thanks Kent, we love you!!!!

This last month we went to California and stayed at an awesome beach house. The weather was perfect and we had a great time. We were able to do some scuba diving, deep sea fishing, parasailing, San Diego Zoo, Six Flags, and great fireworks on the beach for the 4th of July. We could never get to much of the beach!!!!!