Primary Chorister

Jo decided a while ago that when she grows up she wants to be a school teacher, the other day she decided to add primary chorister to that. Here is an example of her favorite thing to do the past few day.

William is being a good little pupil…..for the most part.

Bikes

Jo has grown out of her tricycle that one of our neighbors in Vidor gave us, so we finally caved and got her a big girl bike! She is so excited about it. Her only problem is that she's learned it tips over more easily than a tricycle and gets a little nervous sometimes. With Jo having big girl bike William has kind of taken over her tricycle even though he's not quite big enough, but Jo is nice and helps him out.

Gardening

We're trying out a garden this year, since we actually have a yard to do one in. The kids have loved getting it ready to plant the seeds.

 While digging in the dirt William found a footlong earthworm, he was so insanely excited!

Long time coming

Alright, I really am going to try to do better about doing more blog posts. Here are a few pictures from the past few days. All I have to say is I love my kids, and I love springtime in Utah!

 First time making mud pies.

 Dandelions for mommy!

 Olives. Yum!

 Enjoying Rootbeer floats.

Ketchup

This past year has been very crazy, we had William last June and this June we had another little girl join our family! Needless to say, I have been very tired. Josh has been super busy too, this last year he was working two jobs, going to school full time (this included lots of time spent doing research for his Sr project) and doing everything he could to help out at home with me not feeling up to par. He is truly amazing, and I am so grateful to have such an amazing, patient, and loving husband! :D His work payed off however and he graduated in May with a perfect 4.0 GPA! He also managed to do it without going into debt at all. Doing both at the same time is just amazing in my mind. My work also payed off and we have a cute little baby! So..... that is why neither of us have posted anything for quite some time. I am hoping that things will return to some state of sanity now and can get more done both with blogging and in the real world. I'll go ahead and post some pics from graduation and Baby Savannah (since that is the real reason people look at the blog anyways) I might try to do some posts from this past eight or nine months, but no guarantees! Thanks to everyone for all your support and encouragement the past several years, each of you has made such a huge impact on our lives and we love you all so much!

We had lots of fun this Christmas!

Jo and Will got lots of fun things to play with and wear. They eventually played with things other than the boxes and wrapping paper.

Everyone loves Duplo.

Why won't kids look at the camera when you want them to?

Very cute Jo.

Love the red hair.

Hummm....

Loralyn learned how to knit slippers this trip. We'll see how long the first pair take her. Maybe if you ask nice she'll make you some.

December is birthday time in the Smith home. Grandma and Grandpa Smith came down to have some fun with us here in Vidor.

Guess who just had to be a princess for her birthday!

We had a pinkalishous good time...

There were plenty of presents to open...

and a fun time was had all round.

Jo had a great time with grandma and grandpa. We don't get to see them too often so it is always fun when they get a chance to visit us. Maybe next time Destiny and R-Dee will come too.