4th of July Celebrations!!!

On Friday, we started our celebration weekend by going to the Balloon Fest. It's a tradition that the kids LOVE and Rich HATES :) but he humors us any way! The kids love to see all of the balloons go up. This year there was a bad air current that made them not be able to take off that day but they still filled them and hovered around so it was still fun for the kids.

This was the biggest balloon we had ever seen! They said that it was 179 ft tall! It was 3 times the size of the others. The kids liked watching it fill up.

Our first attempt at a family picture

.... and our second attempt. Apparently the kids didn't want to look at the camera that day.

~ too early maybe?!

Fun times! :) Hope everyone had a fun 4th of July weekend!

There's more to come for our weekend.... stay tuned!

Our 1 year Sealing Anniversary

1 year ago, on June 27th, our family was sealed together forever to Jordan and Cohen. I can't believe how fast this year has gone by! They are growing and changing so fast! There is nothing that compares to seeing all of your children dressed in crisp white perfectness and knowing that they are mine for Eternity! What a special day that was, that I know I will never forget and I hope the older ones remember through out their lives and have the desire to make their own families Eternal too!

Jordan had a Birthday!!!

It is so hard for Jordan to have to wait for his birthday! He is the first in the line of nine birthdays and to him it seems like forever till it comes around again! But he finally actually had his birthday! He was so excited! We were in St George for a family baby blessing and were able to celebrate down there with Rich's family. We went to a splash pad in the morning... pics may come later of that... they were taken on my cell phone, and then we went to Pirate Island Pizza for dinner.

We got the HUGE Kraken Pizza!

Then the pirates came out and sang to him and gave him his very own ice cream! YUM!

Then Jordan and all of his cousins got to go to the arcade and play games with their coins.

Jordan insisted since Cohen's birthday in January that he was having a cars birthday too!!!

So, he finally got it!




Opening his presents! So Exciting!!!


Thanks to everyone for all the gifts and birthday wishes! He had a great day! It's hard to believe that we have had him longer than he has been alive now :) Thanks for being a part of our family Jordan! We love you!

Memorial Day

We hadn't been up to my moms site in a few years so this year we made the trip up. We had the whole weekend planned out for over a month with things to do and it decided to rain all weekend. We still had fun though! The kids love to play in Terri's Gym and we hardly see them all day :) We drove up to some camp sites where we always used to camp and reminisced about the good ole days :)

On the way home we stopped in Brigham City like always to visit a few of Richie's relatives who are there and to have a BBQ at the Grandma's houses. It was fun to see everyone again. Some of them had never met the 3 youngest kids of our family yet.

Wow! It's been a while~

I apologize!!! We got a new computer and started using it instead of the old one where all of my pictures and familiar programs were and rarely even turn the old one on any more~ I barely had Rich show me how to upload pic's on the new computer but I still need the old computer programs to crop and do pictures so I have totally fallen off the deep end in the blogging department!!!

But... today..... it's turned ON!!! ;o) So I'll take a brief minute to check in.

In May, Micailey had her Hershey Track meet. She loves to run and "trained" for it for several weeks before. The day of the meet was SOOO cold! She did really good though! She ran the 200 and the 400 and placed 2nd in the 400 in her race.

Running the 200

During the 400, she ran with her hand in her sweat shirt pocket the WHOLE way! She's looking at me because I yelled to get her hand out of her pocket and RUN!!! She said she did it cause she was cold ;o)... well guess what~ you'll warm up when you run :o)


Brinley's Preschool Graduation Program

...waiting to start

Saying her part....

"We've loved going on field trips. They are so much fun!

Let me tell you about some we have done."

Getting her diploma from Mrs. Tiffany

Looking at her book the rest of the time... I would have tried telling her not to, but every kid in the class was doing the exact same thing :o)

Brin with Mrs. Tiffany

Brin is famous for looking away from the camera just as you snap the picture!



Awe Yes, and the announcement of baby Smith #8 :0)

at 20 weeks with our little boy!!!!!!!!!!

Dallas's turn for his Hershey Track Meet

Getting ready to run the 50

Macie watching the show

Grandma and Cohen

This one was way more pleasant to watch! We actually got hot sitting there!

Running the 200

Dallas also did great! If I remember right, he got 3rd in both races.

Jordan's Preschool Graduation Program

waiting to start

Singing a cute Bubble Gum song that we heard for several weeks before around the house :o)

With one of his cute teachers

Outside the school after graduation


That gets us through May ;o) Hopefully I can post June sooner than later!!!