Smith Family: September 2011

Sunday, September 11, 2011

It's about time... which I haven't had much of lately

Hello again, it's been a while since I've posted photos on here, but the last few weeks whenever we opened our scriptures to a random page it was always talking about keeping a record, and I thought, "I guess I better catch up on that blog."
I still don't have much time to make it cute and fun, so this is just the bare basics here. Photos, photos, and more photos. Since they are worth a thousand words each, I'm hoping that counts for something. Sorry about the sideways ones, this site seems to do crazy things sometimes and I don't know how to fix that.
When you get to the bottom of the page you can click the "Older Posts" button to see the rest, there are a lot from our visit to Utah on here too.

Big Day

Ella has started kindergarten! the first day went smoother that anticipated, we even had time for some photos before the bus came. This was actually the second day for the boys, Ella is on an alternating day schedule, which I really like rather than the half-day kindergarten that many schools do.

Summer Projects

We;ve been busy with outdoor projects this summer. The girls made $50 each by repainting our playhouse...

I've been working on a solution to the erosion problem on our brick patio... I poured cement underneath so hopefully that will hold until we can build some sort of retaining wall. I also re-stained the steps in the photo...

The beams and railing on the porch were getting pretty faded so I restained them. I didn't realize how much work it would be to paint every single side of all those rails and beams, but it looks so much better now.

Officially aTeenager!

Night on the Town

My hubby likes to spoil me... after eating at my favorite restaurant he took me to the Josh Groban concert downtown. It was pretty awesome, now only if we can get those Michael Buble tickets next year...

Lake Michigan Coast

Life at the Lake

Summer's bounty

I love the flowers our yard produces in the summer, a fresh bouquet every week!

Summer in Utah

As usual, blogger is flipping my photos all sorts of crazy directions and I don't know how to solve it easily, so I guess we'll just have to crank our necks a bit...

The Mind of a Child...

When Solei was a toddler, she found some bark that was lying at the base of a tree and said in disgust, “Ooooooh! Tree poo-poo!”

When the girls were little, we were taking a walk with the dog who was bombarding Sierra with her friendly but slobbery kisses. Frustrated, our sweet little Sierra yelled out “NO KINA, I'M NOT YOUR ICE CREAM CONE!”

Telling Ella how to crawl, Caden explained “But I’m four, so I crawl standing up.”

I was sitting with Caden one day and I told him that the couch used to be a cow (it is leather), and I said (half jokingly) “did you know that cows turn into couches?” To which he replied, “No they don’t, they turn into pies!”

Watching the Tabernacle choir sing during conference, Solei (who was 8 yrs old at the time) said that they should sing “Do as I’m Doing” (with all the motions, I’m sure).

We put in an underground fence for the dog and Caden (age 5) saw us burying the wire. We then put up little white flags to mark where it was. A few days later he went outside and turned on the hose. When I saw him, I asked him to turn off the water. He looked at me questioningly and asked, “Until when? Until the fence grows?” He thought it needed watering!

Taron (2) looked at the varicose veins on grandmas legs and said, “owy... lightning!”

When Caden was 5, he would ask if he could go play with his friend in the morning, and I would sometimes reply, "No, it's too early". Well one day he finally asked me "can we not play on 'too early's? Can we play on 'one early'?"

Sierra told me one night that when she was little, she used to think the word “couch” came from the word “cow”, and that our couch had a cow inside (partially true since it is leather). She would try to sit down carefully so it would not run away. She thought the wood parts inside were it’s bones and the black pegs on the bottom were the feet.

Sometimes Taron (age 2) would find dog poop and say “Eew! Dog poop!” and then proceed to stomp on it as if it were a bug.

Caden (age 5) and I were talking about the sounds letters make and he asked if I knew what the sleepy letter was. I replied that I didn’t and he said, “It’s the Z... when you go to sleep then the Z’s come out of your head. And there’s a big round white thing too but it’s invisible. Maybe he had been reading too many comic books...

Sierra (age 8) made a Halloween card for her friend and wrote ENSTINE (meaning Einstein) on it, I thought it was an odd thing to put on a Halloween card so I asked if she knew who Einstein was and she said "Isn't he the guy who made Frankenstein?"

Caden (age 5) asked if it was a ghost who said the sacrament prayer because he couldn’t see anyone at the podium but he could hear the voice.

When Taron was 2 he would always respond to an “I love you” with “Much”.

Taron (3) woke up one morning, started to play and when I asked him if he wanted a pancake, he said, “Oh yeah, I was supposed to be hungry!”

Dad was singing “Jesus wants me for a sunbeam” and Taron said “Jesus likes sunbeans, they’re delicious!”

I was teaching Taron (5) how to read, and came upon the word "loose". I told him, "the two O's say "oo" and the E is silent. Slowly and deliberately, he sounded it out........"Loooosssilent".

Caden had been learning to tell time in school and was asking me about the big hand vs. the little hand on the clock. Apparently Taron was listening somewhat because he held up his right hand and asked "is this the big hand?"

Ella (4) came up to me with some of my reading glasses and said "Mom, when I put glasses on, I still don't know how to read!"

At a restaurant, Ella was impatiently waiting for her food and, looking for the waitress, she asked "when is the human coming back?"

One morning I said, "Ella, come look! There's a wild turkey in the backyard!"
Ella (excitedly): "Can we kill it?!?"
What kind of daughter am I raising???

Ella mistook another guy for Chris and was about to follow him to his car, but soon realized her mistake and said, "I was about to follow the 'not dad'".

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