Families are Forever

So I love this picture frame of me and all my siblings back in the year 1981. Rachelle is 7, Me 4, Kami 2, Ryan 10, Randy 9, Travis 5, Darren 2/3 (?). Any way whenever I look at me and my family I always wonder what we all thought we'd be doing when we grew up. I remeber wanting to be a dog groomer only because rachelle wanted to be one. haha We had a lot of good times together. I remeber helping Rachelle and her friends dress up darren like a girl and showing him to everyone all up and down our street in South Jordan. I remeber Travis's endless torment...we later became and have become very close. I remeber Kami...she was a great playmate. We had a club named Kamber we thought we were very creative. I loved playing dog catcher in the bassement in Utah and later in St Johns playing KC. We have been very blessed to be so close as siblings. We have been blessed with amazing parents who loved us enough to raise us in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I feel that in these hard times that knowing that I have a Father in Heaven who loves me and will take care me pulls me through on a high note. I don't feel afraid (maybe concern) of this wolrd. We live in a wonderful time. I love my family and am so grateful for all of them each one has left a lasting impression on me. I am who I am because of them.

Getting Ready For Halloween

I love Halloween! It is fun to dress up and be someone else for a night. My kids are trying to figure out what they want to be this halloween. I am nervous because my face painting skills are rusty! So I am practicing for the real deal!!!

Brooke wants to be a Butterfly Princess this year so we are trying out different looks!
Holly just wanted a pumpkin (did I spell that right?) on her cheeck! Oh by the way her forehead is burnt my me, in the bathroom with a curiling iron (You know from game Clue)

Brooke trying out a different looking Butterfly!

Don't worry this is Kaiden...Not Darth Mal! He wanted to pose a bit scarey. I think his eye are scarey. If looks could kill!! Move over Darth Mal here comes Kaiden!

Not so scarey looking Darth Mal (Kaiden). This Halloween he wants to be General Grievous. So wish me luck finding that costume.

Sunrise Ski Lift...We went Oct 11, 2008.

It was freezing cold at Sunrise. We all were excited to go for a ride on the lifts. I have never been in the fall and couldn't believe how beautiful it was. Wow. Well we went to Sunrise to get our kiddos free lift tickets for this season of snow skiing. :) We went with Camden and Marisa and their munchkins. We had a good time but froze. It is too early to be this cold. The kids loved riding up the Mountain on the lift.


Now that is gorgeous! The fall colrs the lake in the back ground. Bearthe taking. I didn't realize how much I would enjoy this ride up the mountain. This is a pic of Kayme, Brooke (tip of her head) and I on the lift headed up the mountain.Just gorgeous. Can't wait to hit the hills once it snows!!

Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam (Brooke)!!

Hey this was just to cute not to share with you all.

We were driving in the car and this was a cute conversation I had with Brooke (4yrs old)
Mom: "What church do you go to Brooke??"
Brooke: "Hmmm...we go to our church. "
Mom: "I know but what is the name of our church?"
Brooke: "We go to the Church of Jesus Christ AMEN!" (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
I laughed she is so funny.

Then I said to her Brooke are we Christian?
Then she laughed and said "No mom I am Brooke, Christian is the boy that lives next door"!!
So of course I let her know that we are Christians.
And that I know that our Savior loves us and that we are all children of God.
I also let her know that he knows each of his children here on earth and that he made us all different.
I love being a mom, so fun.

I am day dreaming of the summer fun we had!!

I stole this pic from Marisa's Blog!! I just love it so much, I absolutely love my nieces and nephews and of course my own kids!! We were at Roosevelt Lake at the Smith Family Reunion! I'd have to say that Flynt did an excellent job setting up this memory building family time! Thanks BABE! Isn't that the hudgest (is that a word??) Tube! It was the best!

Deja Vu!!!! This was so perfect for our 10 year Anniversary!

For those of you that are lucky enough to have not heard our Honeymoon expeirence! Well this wouldn't be our 10 year anniversary trip if we didn't have car problems. So Fun!!
We were on the I5 heading to Disneyland! So fun right well of course this is fun we are kidless and having the time of our life, then suddenly the car start acting funny then it is pulling hard to the right we have a blow out great! We a flinging tire bits at everyone on the freeway!! Mind you this is California Freeway were everyone is sooooo polite and helpful. Everyone got right out of our way we were able to get over 4 lanes in no time. Amazing! Haha (people were scared to death of all the tire bits hitting there cars) Well we pull over and this is what we see. I said hey babe this is so perfect you are so romantic to try and reinact our honeymoon. (Flynt is just so thoughtful like that, the only thing we were missing was hmmm Tyrell, Melanie, Mom and Dad Smith) Oh well! Haha...

Nice tire! The tread was completely seperated.
Flynt even looks good changing a tire! How does he do it!! (notice all our stuff in the background) We spent some time finding a place to buy a new tire and having it mounted...So yes we were late for Disneyland. So much for the "MAGICAL" Kingdom. :) Just a side note by the end of our Anniversary trip we eneded up buy 3 new tires for mom smith's car. It was great really!! AND THANK YOU MOM SMITH for watching my little people at home whom I missed so much but also enjoyed being away from. Bitter Sweet!

What do you think of when you hear the words DEEP SEA FISHING?

I THINK WOW YOU ARE GOING TO CATCH A SHARK, A SWORD FISH, ANYTHING HUGE!
Okay so I was mildely disapointed with what I caught when Flynt and I went Deep Sea Fishing! I was sure that I would catch something that I could mount and brag about for the rest of my life. Well as you can see I was just happy to actually catch something. Everyone else on the boat were able to catch ALOT of fish. NOT ME! I caught this! It is a Red Snapper. I swear I really had my mind set on catching a sword fish the size of Flynt. NOPE!!!
Flynt and I woke up at 5am to go Deep Sea fishing...tip!!! DO NOT WAKE UP EARLY ON VACATION!!! j/k I have always wanted to go Deep Sea fishing so I was excited to go!
This is the boat that took us out into the ocean to catch tiny fish. I am not bitter. Nope not at all.