Snow in Rancho???

After an evening of Dippin' Dots, we went to Victoria Gardens for some fake snow fun! Luckily Jane had her camera, I didn't. I stole these pictures from her blog :). For a Utube video of this fun visit Jane's blog!

Mom's Thanksgiving Pictures :)

I tried to recreate the picture Meg took right after Jonah was born... it was a little harder without help :).

Great Grandma Smith holding her youngest great grandchild!

We had a Thanksgiving lunch because my parents and grandparents were leaving to camp in Malibu that evening... so our family of five went to Red Hill Park with the Auzzie family of five to play ball :)
You will have to hear my mom or dad share their Malibu story... They had to evacuate the RV park due to the fire.

Hunter had a hard time sharing the "soccer" ball :) When Haley kicked the ball to him, he jumped on top of it.

It was really cold! Aunt Shellie, me and the little kids watched the big kids "play" softball....

Haley's Thanksgiving Pictures

Haley loves to take my camera and take pictures. On Thanksgiving she was very silly and took some silly pictures of us all... This is Prestin (my cousin) and his very nice left ear.

Here Haley is expressing herself with an upside down picture of her mom and Aunt Jenny :).

Here is a lovely picture of Deron... I am sure he would love to know I am posting this picture :).

A very close up of Jasen!

And Finally... a nice up the nose shot of Uncle Scoby!
Jasen and Scoby have some beautiful green eyes :)

Joe is 3 months old! Which picture is better?

This is my attempt to take portraits of Joe. The top one is with a flash and the bottom two are without a flash, which do you think is better?

Happy Thanksgiving

This is a picture of last Friday at school. Hunter, Isabel and Gracie A. are in Pre-School at Caryn Elementary (CLOUDS) together - kinda. They are all in different classes. Haley and Gracie S. are in kindergarten together.
I think Haley must be smelling a fart or something by her facial expression!

WII Fun at the Smarts

Hunter (with Kyle's help) boxing Isabel

Haley and Gracie duking it out.

A time for thanks

Wow... Jim and I belong to such a great community at the Flipside. Jim and I were blessed with such a huge blessing this week by an anonymous fellow Flipsidian. Jim and I are just in awe. We always hear that this (Thanksgiving) is a time of being thankful... Jim and I are so very thankful for this generous servant and their giving heart. Thank you, who ever you are out there! May the Lord bless you like you have blessed us!

I am cute!

Happy Halloween

Trick or Treating at Gramma and Grandbud's house!

Hunter wanted to be a duck :) Haley wanted to wear this pretty dress and made up her own outfit and called herself Princess Lucy. :) Jonah wanted to be comfortable so he wore this very fancy Carter's sleeper :).

We went to LBF! There were a ton of activities for the kids. They got to play carnival games, visit a petting zoo :), and HOLD reptiles.

Haley is holding a snake!!!! Screams at flies but a snake she is cool with!

And yes, that is me holding a tarantula! Hunter and I are holding the biggest spider!!! (I am not a spider expert so there may be a bigger spider in the world but to me, this was HUGE!!!!) Holding this spider felt more like holding a hamster. It didn't feel like a spider!!! PLUS when I first saw it, it was in the mans hands that owned it so it felt more like someones pet. He was hairy and pet like!
We had fun!!!