Michael Adam Smith

This summer we had a new addtion to our family!
This is Michael Adam Smith
Keith and Amy are so happy to have this new little
guy around. He is such a sweetie! And guess what!
He actually has dark hair! His brothers and sister
are all fair haired cuties! Anyway, we love him soooo
much!

Denver Aquarium

Also while I was in Colorado we went to the
Denver Aquarium. It was so fun!! Lots of
interesting creatures to look at! I got some
fun pictures but the only way I could get
a picture of Sophie's face was through the
glass, the little stinker! They have a
couple tunnels you can walk througha and the
fish swim right over you! And the shark tank is
so awesome! Some really cool looking sharks!
I hate to say it, but that aquarium just kicked
Utah's cute little aquariums butt! Going to our
small one just wont be the same now!

Sophie's Tutu

While I was in Colorado last week I sent Heather
and Phillip on a date. Sophie and I stayed home
and made her a tutu! She decided that I should
do all the work and she would just choose what
color to do next, but we had a great time doing it!
As soon as it was done she just had to get in her
ballet clothes so she could dance around! I snapped
a couple pictures of her while she did her silly
dance! What a cutie! I love that little girl!

Hill AFB Museum

A few months ago my friend Vairin
and I decided to take a day trip up to
the Hill AFB Museum. He is very into
Airplanes and had never been, and I
hadn't been since I was a kid. It was
really fun to see all the aircraft!! I
have always been interested in them.
We had a great time!

Float Voting

A few days before the Days of '47 parade they put all the floats on display for everyone to
come view and vote on. This year I took the girls and we met their cousins there. They all
had a blast looking at the floats and had a very hard time choosing their favorite, you could
only vote for one per person! The girls got cute butterflies painted on their faces while we waited for the cousins. Here are a few pictures that the girls took on my camera of some of
their favorites!

Fourth of July

This year for the 4th of July I went with Leanne to her dad's place in Wyoming. It was INCREDIBLE!! I have never seen such an amazing display of fireworks in my life! We were completely surrounded by them! Every direction you looked there were more! Here are a few pictures I snapped that I think look pretty cool!

Elsa and Vairin

My friend Vairin brought over his little girl Elsa
today and we decided to take a few pictures. She
is just to adorable! I can't believe she is going to
be 3 in a couple months!

Concert Pics

These are some pics of a few of the many
concerts I have been to! I took all of these
on my phone, and they're not the best pics.
But I found if you make them Black and
White, it makes them look MUCH cooler!!
I LOVE live music ofany kind, but I
especially love Rock concerts!!
I am thinking about printing a bunch of these
and putting them in black frames with white
mats and using them as the main art in my
living room! What do you think??

More From the D40

So these were from the first day I had
the D40. Little Miss begged me to use my
new camera and posed for a few shots
for me. It was quite fun! I love the light
in these shots.

The poses are pure Little Miss!! She
is surely not camera shy!! I took a
ton experimenting with settings,
but I liked these the best!

D40 Pics

So I've borrowed a friends Nikon D40 to try
and learn how to use a manual camera. I
Havent had much time to really use it, but I
have had fun shooting a few pics here and
There of Little Miss! She's too cute, and I
miss having her sister home to take pics off
now that she's in First Grade!

I'm not such a great photographer as yet, but I
do like these pictures. And I only tweeked
them a tiny bit on my computer!

While on our daily walk we saw this bush and
it looked so beautiful with the morning dew
still on it that I couldn't resist taking a pic.
Could have turned out better...... But I still
like it!

My Birthday!!

So yesterday was my 23rd birthday!! I had such a great time! I got to spend the day playing with my little girls, which is always fun, especially now that it is good weather and we can play outside! After work, I got together with a bunch of my friends and went to Jump On It in Lindon. It is such a fun place!! It is a whole bunch of trampoline's hooked together into one giant bouncy floor!! We had an absolute blast!! And as an extra, they had a "sky bungee" out in the parking lot. Its the thing that they put you in a harness bungee corded to 2 poles and you bounce super high and do backflips and stuff!! I got to do it for free because it was my birthday! It was a bit freaky at first, but a total blast, and exhausting!! Needless to say, I am very very sore today, but it is so worth it!! After that we all went to Los Hermanos (think thats spelled right) A really great mexican restaraunt, in fact the only one I've ever really liked!! It was such a great time!! So I've had 3 "birthday dinners" this week. On Monday, Leanne took me out for steak at Texas Roadhouse. Delicious of course. Then yesterday, mexican. And today I went to dinner with my friends Sparky and Kristen at Joe's Crabshack. I love crab, but I don't get it often. So that is what I asked to do for my birthday! I love hanging out with those two!! And REALLY fun (sarcasm) At Joe's, for birthdays, they like to make a big deal, a really big deal when your friend works there and asks for you to be humiliated! Well Kristen, you failed!! I was deamed the "Super Model" and had to dress up in a top hat and boa and walk the runway while they all sang very loud to me. Quite fun acctually:) So it has been a fantastic birthday!! Thanks everyone for all the birthday wishes!!

So, the votes are in, and I've won an award!! Most Inconsistant Blogger!!!

HCG Diet

Ok, so this last weekend I began a diet called the HCG Diet. I have created a blog for it, but it is private. If you are at all interested in reading it, let me know and I'll send you an invite! Thanks!

Catch up/ Ramble

I think that is all the pictures I am going to get to tonight. I need to get more of the recent pictures from the camera at work. I was really bad and completely filled my memory card and then kept putting of backing up the pics so I could clear it. Therefore, all the recent pictures are on the work camera!! But a few other things that have been happening lately....... Hmmmmm.....
Since the last time I posted I have gotten a boyfriend, and broken up with said boyfriend. Christmas was great! I got a Bluetooth headset from my parents, and I love it. I made super hero capes for my girls, I'll post pictures later, they just loved them. New years has come and gone, I can't believe its 2009!! My life has gone on pretty much as usual.
Oh, and a couple weekends ago I went to Colorado to visit my sister and her family!! I had a great time, it was just what I needed. We did practically nothing but visit and play with FiFi, my neice(my nickame for her that her mommy hates!!)(I capitalized it Heath!) It was nice to have 4 days with no stress, no worries, and just do nothing! Thanks for letting me come guys!! I love you!!
Oh, Bug has lost 5 teeth in the last year!! Can you believe that! I even pulled one of them! It was so weird! But she was afraid she was going to lose it doing her gymastics, so it had to be done(and yeah, I think she would have lost it, it was super loose!)
Very exciting news!! Little Miss is pretty much potty trained!! It is so nice not to have to change diapers or worry about pullups!! She practically did it herself, which I think is great. She just decided that she was going to be in big girl panties by her birthday, and she did it! She turned 3 on January 3rd. She's so big!! This time last year she was still very much a baby/toddler, not talking much at all!! Now she'll talk your ear off, she's so smart! We enjoy doing "School" While Bug is at Kindergarten. We work on shapes, numbers, letters, etc. She is even starting to sound out simple words, and if you write her name, she can copy it for you!! Reading and Writing at 3!!! She's such a smarty girl!
Jade is loving Kindergarten, which I knew she would. She always loved preschool so much! She is a great reader! She is also quite the artist!! She has started drawing things in perspective!! She is also learning Spanish at school, which is really fun!
Well, I think I'm done going on and on and on for tonight!!

Summer Gymnastics

So this is from way way way way back! (I'm a slacker) Bug is in gymnastics, and at the end of the summer they had a meet for the families to come and see all that they had been working on! She is a great little gymnast! I'm always so proud of her! She does things that amaze me, and slightly terrify me!! I think her best event is the bars, but her favorite is the beam. They are working on back handsprings! She's 5, and can almost do a backhandspring!! Wow baby!!

I also gave her that leo! I wanted to give her a little something to show her how proud I was of her! She loves it, and that makes me so happy, I love my happy little girl!

The Bean Museum

These are from our last trip to the
Monty L. Bean Life Sciences Museum.
It is a great little museum down on BYU campus.
It is full of all kinds of animals, and the girls just love it!
We have been there several times,
and I even remember going with my family
when I was a little kid!
And the best part about it is
ITS FREE!!
So any parents looking for diverting things
to do with the kids durring this cold season,
Check it out!! Its a great place!

Catch up / Halloween

I have a lot of catching up to do, and collages seem to be the best way to do the pictures, so bare with me, there may be several! This first one is from halloween! My Girls were beautifuly terrifying Vampire Princesses!! They looked fantastic!! The little boy is in Bug's kindergarten class and we carpool with him to school!

Ha Ha, so I'm a big dork and just realized I already posted about Halloween. I blame the Benedryl!