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!!!

SoCal Fires...

I have had a few family members and friends who don't live locally ask about the fires and what it was like where we lived. Here are a few pictures.
This was the view outside our house a week or so ago when we had all those fires. This smoke is from the Lake Arrowhead fire (I believe).

The Sun.

This is right off the Citrus Exit off the 210 fwy.

Welcome Drew on Jonah's 2 month old date :)

Welcome Drew Preston! Born to Sam and Kelly Taylor October 20, 2007 (exactly on Jonah's 2 month "birthday") Weighing in at 7 pounds and 11 oz. 20 inches long!!!

Happy half birthday Stef (Oct 23)... You know when you are a kid and you just can't wait to be 5 1/2 or 7 1/2.... as soon as I figured my half birthday I looked forward to it as much as a real birthday. At the age of 29 1/2 I don't so much... but I am starting to embrace my upcoming 30's. I think joking about turning 30 has gotten old for me (and I am sure my family and friends too) that I am getting over it :). So I am proud to say, I am 29 and 1/2 :).
I am holding Drew by the way... it isn't Jonah.

2 month old Jonah... NOT Joanie as Hunter has been calling him ... which is a HUGE NO!!! that is a girl name :(.... so whenever Hunt calls him Joanie, we correct him and say Joey! joey is a bit more masculine then Joanie.... :) am I being lame? Probably.

Old Friends and Crazy Family

A week or so ago, Jonah and I got together with some friends from High School. The above picture is my friend Erin and her two boys Jacob and Caden. I think I need a new pair of jeans :). Actually, those are my favorite jeans... it is like wear sweats! :) They are old Express jeans...

Megan and Rachel with their daughters :).

I think Jenny took this picture of the two of them (with my camera when I didn't know).

Haley just loves her Aunt Jenny!

This picture was also taken without my permission :) or my knowledge! This is Scott and my parents dog, Sophie.

MORE BIRTHDAYS!!!

October brought MORE birthday fun for our family. My Grandma Lembke had a birthday...

My cousin , Preston had his 16th birthday!!!My Grandma Smith had her 80th birthday!Here are the kids and I with my cousin Jasen having a tea party at one of the birthday celebrations.

Scott and Jasen have matching glasses :)

Erin's cool site

So I was blog hoppin' and saw Erin's blog on this website where you go and take this short 11 question quiz to see which presidential candidate you match best with... I was really shocked with my results!
Check it out and see who you get matched with... I matched with Mitt... which is funny because I don't care for him personally... but really, what politician do I like? NONE... The questions were a bit hard for me so I am not sure how well I really matched up with him....

Anyways... Here is the site... check it out! Select a Candidate 2008

Thanks Er for the site!

2004 KZ Frontier Travel Trailer FOR SALE!!!!

We are asking $13600

The Master Suit :)

Kids room.... :)

The view from the kids room :)... Bathroom on the right.

FOR SALE... 1984 Suburban

Jim and I need to sell our Suburban and our travel trailer (pictures still to come). Our Trailer is 25 ft with a 5 foot pullout. It is a 2004 Frontier by KZ. It has a kid room in it, with two bunk beds (sleeps four). The five foot pop out is a queen bed. Both the sofa and table make into a bed as well. There is a full bathroom and kitchen. The stove has been used once :). The trailer is in good condition, we haven't used it much.
We are asking $13600.

Our Suburban was my grandparents. It has 134ooo miles. My grandpa had the engine completely re-done and got a new paint job. He took GREAT care of this car! Inside is in great condition (for its age). We have had it for a year and Jim used it mostly to drive 7 miles to work everyday. It has a 7.4 liter engine. (I don't know what that means).

We are asking $3500 OBO.