FINALLY (a few) of the Hawaii trip!!!

This is the view from the back door at the condo we stayed at!!

This is me feeding a rooster! Kauai was covered with roosters! Everywhere we went, walking o the side of the road! Literally EVERYWHERE!!!

Skyler and I at one of the many waterfalls we went to! We rode on horseback to get to this one! It was SO much fun!!!

This is just a shot of the waterfall.

This is the Hawaii state bird, it is the NeNe. Any of you who know Skyler know that is was really hard for him to be this close to geese and not be able to shoot them!

This is the lighthouse! It was SO VERY windy that day!!!

This is Jen, we went on the trip with her and her husband Kevin. I love this picture of Jen!! It shows how windy it was and how beautiful Jen is!! LOVE it!!!

This is the water by the lighthouse! The waves were crashing on the rocks like crazy this day!

Skyler and I at the condo just before we left to come home!

Jen and Kevin at the condo! And in case I haven't said it before, Thank you Jen and Kevin for inviting us on such an AMAZING trip! We had a lot of fun!

Going back to Private!!!

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COMING SOON!!!

So the Hawaii pics will be here soon!!! I am still trying to figure a few things out! Right when we got home our computer crashed, so we had to have it fixed and we changed some of the features on it. And I am still trying to figure them out. So soon I promise, soon!!!

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!!!