Have you ever had one of those days????

Have you ever had one of those days when it just seems like you can't get anything done? Like you just have this list of things that need to be done but for some reason the odds are stacked against you and getting it all done seems impossible? Today is one of those days for me! I am trying to get the house in order so when we leave on our trip my mom won't come to a dirty house. Yet every room I clean I have two little whirlwinds following right behind me messing it up again!!! It truely is a vicious cycle!! I am hoping that with nap time approaching, I may get lucky and BOTH of them will fall fast asleep and much can get done! Plus, I think I could use a bit of a break as well!!! I think I am letting my fears of flying take over me and my thoughts so I am stressing out even more than needs be!! Anyway, sorry about the ranting, but I actually feel much better and I am ready to go try again!!! I will let you know how it goes!!! PS baby just walked in with poop all over his hands!!! Love these days!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!

Happy Halloween!!! We started our day with Griffin's parade at school. He dressed up as a hobo for school. I love these pics of him!! He is just too cute!!!

Then we went up to Grandma and Grandpas house to do a trunk or treat!!

Here he changed his mind and said he is Pugsley from the Addams Family.

Gavin is Optomus Prime from one of his favorite movies Transformers!!!

We actually got him in a costume this year!!!!

Gaige is Bumblebee from the Transformers movie but he didn't like his mask!!!

Here are JC, Gavin, Griffin, Kylie, and Gaige getting ready to go trick or treating!!!

This was my costume!!! I have to say that I love it!!! My sister Stacey and I worked on it together and it was so much fun spending time with her!!! We laughed a lot and totally enjoyed it!!! So thank you Stacey for helping me and making me laugh so hard!!! Love ya sis!!!!

This is one of my FAVORITE pictures!!! I seem to have very few pictures of me with all 3 of my boys, so now you know why I love this picture and the next one!!!

Happy Halloween!!!! Love the Smiths!!!!!!

Gardner Village

We decided to try again with the whole Gardner Village thing. We went a couple of days before this and I had to do a LOT of convincing to get all three of the boys in a collared shirt and hair combed and faces clean, well, I got them in a cute spot , all of them looking at me and smiling, I went to take the picture and the battery was dead! Needless to say, I was FRUSTRATED!!! So, we (I) thought we would try again. The boys look VERY cute! And all three of them are smiling! Griffin, Gaige, and Gavin
(Griffin is growing up WAY too fast!!)

This is the look I got when Gavin found out that Gardner Village is more of a girl place, and not so much for boys!!!!!

Griffin is giving me the "Really mom, a pony ride?" look!! But I know deep down he is really having fun!! (Its okay Griff I won't tell your friends!!!)

Now Gaige, he smiles at ANYTHING!!! He really is having fun because he is still too young to realize that Gardner Village IS really more of a place for girls, and pony rides??? Um yeah, does anything beat a pony ride for a 2 year old? All in all we had a lot of fun! The pictures turned out cute and I also learned that I had a spare battery in the camera case the first time we went!!!

POPCORN PARTY!!!!

This day was SO much fun! Skyler took Griffin shooting, and the little ones just aren't quite old enough to go yet, So they were both pretty bummed that they couldn't go with Dad. So we decided that we would have a popcorn party! We got in our jammies, got our blankets, popped our popcorn and watched their FAVORITE movie!!!They both LOVE Billy Wonta (Willy Wonka) as Gaige would put it! The old 1970's version. They want to watch that movie at least 3 times a day! Totally their FAV!!!!

I only had to remind Gaige a few times not to feed the dog popcorn! The dogs are always following Gaige around the house! Or at dinner time they will always park right under him under the table just hoping for that little bit to drop!!!

This was Gavin reaction when he found out that sometimes (only sometimes) Mom can be as fun as Dad! It was really one of the most fun times I have had! These two are so full of personality! And when they sang all the songs with the movie! It made my heart melt! They are such CUTE little boys!!!

Fishing with Dad!

Skyler and Griffin took a trip up to Aunt Sue and Uncle Edward's cabin after the pinewood derby. They went up there to help Uncle Edward build a retaining wall and fix a pipe. I guess there was some fishing involved too! They caught 3, just enough for each of them to have one! And as you can see in the picture the view at the lake is AMAZING! Skyler and the boys LOVE going up there, they always have a great time! And Uncle Edward, if you read this, your bobble buddy says HI!!!

Pinewood Derby!!!!!!!

So we got to enjoy our first Pinewood Derby on Saturday!! It was one of the cutest things I have ever watched! Griffin and Skyler built a truck together, and they had so much fun, they would spend all this time outside getting the thing just right for Saturday! He won the award for Best in Show! He was so fun to watch! When it was his buddy Fine's turn to go Griffin started chanting Fine's name to show his support!! It was all just too cute! Good job Griffin, you did Great!!!!

My 2 Superheroes!!!

This was about a month ago that the two younger ones did this, it was so cute I had to get pics!!! They put their new underwear on their heads and told me they were superheroes!!! They are so dang cute when they are getting along and not beating eachother up!

Griffin's 1st day of 3rd Grade!!!!

So I know it has been FOREVER since my last post! And the sad thing is I haven't really been that busy! Just other things to do! Now here I am posting because I have something fun to post about. Yesturday was Griffin's first day of school, he is in the 3rd grade now! He is growing up so fast and turning in to such an amazing little boy! I don't think I could be more proud of him. He was a little nervous to start school this year because of all the trouble we had last year. But then something must have changed because he was sooo excited to go and was even up and ready to go by 7:15. School starts for him at 8:00. The first 2 days have been awesome for him and I hope that they will stay that way the whole year. Here are some pics of my little stud muffin!

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Fun in the sun!!

Gaiger!!!
Skyler---------->> Griffin

Gavin actually smiling!!!! Griffin and Gavin

With all this nice warm weather we are having my boys decided to go have a little bit of fun in the water. So here are some pics from our water day fun!

Zoo Fun!!!

Gavin

Griffin

Mom and Gaige

Gaige

Here are some cute pics of our trip to the zoo!

Griffin got his Bobcat!!!

Ok so this is from a little while ago but like I said before, I am just learning how to post pictures! Griffin has been working really hard on earning his scout awards and I think it only took like 20 minutes to pass off everything he needed to get his bobcat award! But he was so dang excited when he finished! I am so proud of the little man he is becoming! At his pack meeting, they told hgim that he had to get on his hands and knees and eat a bobcat brain! I think it was like red jello with a little frosting on it but I am not totally sure! Anyway, he did it! And he was so excited to do it! The kid loves when all eyes are on him! So with everybody watching he hammed it up!! Very cute!!! We are so proud of you Griffin and we love you tons boy!!!!

Its about time!!

So I think I may have figured out how to post picture on this thing!!! I was playing around and I think I may have done it! So with that being said you will all see A LOT more pictures of my family on here! It just takes me a bit longer than most people! Now you will all get Smith overload!

Should we really buy a trailer?? Help us decide!

Ok, so it has been a while since my last posting. We went camping a couple of weeks ago and it was quite the trip! It seemed like anything that could go wrong, did! We got to our campsite and things went pretty well until the night came and we went to bed. We woke up to the carbon monoxide detector going off! We finally got it to stop after about 20-30 minutes of messing with it. The next morning it went off again, and we figured out that we had the generators turned the wrong way and the exhaust from them was coming right into the trailer. So we got that problem fixed. Well the next day, it was a little warm outside and I forgot to bring sunscreen for the boys and Gaige got so sunburned on his face that his eyes were almost swollen shut! Then on the last day we were there, I borrowed some sunscreen and was putting it on Gaige when I thought I saw a booger on his cheeck. I wiped it off and then realized that it was a blister from the sunburn. So he had this nasty looking scab on his face for a while. We got everything packed up and ready to go, we were driving off and my uncles dog went right under the trailer, we hit him a little. He is fine, it just rolled him around a bit but he is alive and ok!! We FINALLY got home from this awesomee experience, only to find that somewhere along the way we lost the keys to the trailer, so we had to call a locksmith to come open it and make us new keys! The best part, the carbon monoxide detector was going off AGAIN!!! So, needless to say, it was quite the camping trip and definitely one for the books!!!

My baby is growing up!!!

Hey all!!! I hope you had a good weekend! We had an awesome weekend!! And I get to start the week out with some great news!!! My little Gaige who is only 22 months old is starting to potty train!!! He went to Skyler yesturday and told him that he needed to go pee so Sky put him by hte toilet and he went!!! Then this morning he told me again that he needed to go and I put him on the toilet and he went again!!! I am soooo excited about this! I am sad that my baby is growing up but I am happy because I wont have to buy diapers anymore!!! He is such a cute little kid!!! Anyway I just thought I would share that exciting news with all of you! I hope you all are well!

Walking gives me a fever

Last night we were getting ready to go over to our neighbors house, well Gavin said he wanted to ride his scooter over there and I told him that he could just walk cause it is right next door! He then looked at me and with the cutest look on his face told me that he couldn't walk because walking gives him a fever!!!! He is so dang funny!
Last night as well, when I finished typing my blog I turned around to get up and my sweet little Gaige, he got into the toothpaste and smeared it all over the carpet and all over his head!! It was quite the mess to clean! I will put up the pics I took of the mess as soon as I figure out how to do it! These boys, I am telling ya!!! Gotta love them!!!

I think I am going to like this

Ok, so a lot of the people out here have blogs, and I was a little on the fence about it. Then I thought I would just look into starting one, and I saw that you can invite people instead of having it open to everyone! Now I feel a lot better about posting the pics of the kids and Sky and I. I think this is also a good way for us to all stay up to date on whats going on. Since we don't talk on the phone as much as we should. So with all that said I hope that you guys like the blog and that maybe you will start your own so we can read whats new in all your lives!