Friday, July 20, 2012

t-ball

Rylie had a blast playing t-ball when she got going.  There were a few games of tears, not sure why.  It was a bit hard for me to swallow that this may not be her sport when I played college ball. 
BUT, we will wait and see what the future brings.  :) 
Once she got over the tears, she had fun!  And that is all I wanted her to do!!  And her best friend Hannah was also on her team.  They make way cute girl t-ball players. 
We were out of town the last two games and I think she was relieved.  




Thursday, July 5, 2012

the month of June...

The month of June went by so fast and here we are in July already.  June was an awesome adventurous month, cant believe how fast time goes by....   what we have been up too! 

* Started off the summer with swim lessons at the sports academy.  Bode just played with mom in the water and was a bit jealous of Rylie.  Rylie jumped another couple of levels and is swimming so good, she is part fish!  




*We got to have Rylie and Bode's cousins come stay with us while their mom and dad were in Europe.  It was a bit crazy around here, but we had so much fun.  I had a 6, 5, 4, almost 3, and 2 year old!!!   We went to several parks, did swim lessons, bike rides, playing in the water, refereeing over toys and lots and lots of playing.  My kids thought it was so awesome to have the cousins stay over.   I guess I just kept them all alive  (ha ha)  and forgot to take any pictures that week.  :(   

*Our first outing in the camper this year was Bear Lake, Mike ran in the half marathon over there and did awesome.  13.1 miles in about 2 hours, pretty awesome!!!  He has a pretty awesome support crew, we would go a few miles ahead and wait for him to come so we can cheer!   We celebrated his accomplishment at Cafe Sabor at Bear Lake, love this place.    It turned off cold and windy later that weekend, so we mostly hung out and relaxed.  Its always fun to just be gone for the weekend!  
Way to go Mike! 


*celebrated getting older!!! (oh man, it does come around every year)

* Ate our hearts out at the Summerfest.  I enjoy looking through the booths, but I can usually get Mike to go for the food!   A few years ago at the summerfest, I purchased this water color of Jackson Hole Ski Resort and it is still one my favorite pictures, my basement was decorated around this picture.  Each year i hope to find something I have to have, but not this year.  I do want to do the old ski's made into an American Flag, I loved it, so creative. 

* Celebrated the guys in our life.   Was a bit of crazy Father's Day for Mike, in otherwords, not to relaxing, but I hope it was special.  He is such a great Dad and I couldn't of picked a better Dad for my kids.  And for my Dad and Father in law, they are pretty awesome too.  The card we gave them for Father's Day was pretty fitting " the best Dad's get promoted to Grandpa's".   They are the best!

* I got to go to girls camp for four days, we went to the Cinnamon Creek.  What a lot of work, but the girls enjoyed it!   Mike sure makes a cute Mr. Mom while I am gone, nutrition goes out the door, but the kids sure have fun.  I sure missed my kids, but they were spoiled rotten while I was gone.  (thank you Aunt Sharon and Grandma Beak)

* We attended TWO family weddings in the same weekend.  (posts to come, I said I wouldn't spoil the "real" wedding photos with my pics.   :) 

*Had our share of otter pops, snow cones, and ice cream.  ( we caught a sore throat bug for a few days and this is what we lived on, glad that's done so we can enjoy the rest of summer). 

* T-ball games

* a Good friend of mine from California came into town.  She has three kids under three, so its a bit wild, but we love seeing her family and will take them in anytime. 

* and lots of running through the sprinklers, water on the tramp, water fights and pool time. 

* best of all....   being together as a FAMILY!

Friday, June 1, 2012

Dance recital...

This is Rylie's 4th dance recital.  She did awesome!!!  She knew her dance, lover her costume because it was pink and purple and had a fun time while on stage. 
 I love watching her dance and am sad to see it come to an end. 


Grandpa and Grandma Beckstead * Rylie *  Grandpa and Grandma Smith
Both Grandparents are so sweet to come support Rylie and she loves them all SO much!




Wednesday, May 30, 2012

HD and the tooth fairy

Health Day Celebration... this is one of my favorite parades of the year, because of where we live, the town celebration, its the first one of the year, and because I celebrated Health Days with my Grandpa and Grandma Meyer when I was little.  


We were enjoying the parade and all the candy, when Rylie's front tooth came out.  She was a bit freaked out and so was I because I didn't realize how loose it actually was.  Pretty exciting!!!
That day we made a tooth pillow so the tooth fairy could find that first tooth and sure enough
that night the tooth fairy came and brought her TWO dollars. 

She has been begging for color in her hair and we agreed on a  streak of purple.
My how she is growing up! 

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Soccer...


Rylie got to play soccer this year and was WAY excited.  It took a few games for her to catch on to the game, but she sure hustled.  She played goalie one game and made some good stops.  Her 2nd to last game she came SOOOO close to scoring a goal and got all excited.  Then on the last game, she played defender one quarter and then she was put in as forward in the last quarter and she took the ball to the net and SCORED!    She was so excited and a bit in shock that she did it!   And man was she proud and so were we!  









Thursday, May 24, 2012

happenings...


My new babysitter, we finally got our sandbox all done and the kids LOVE it. 
They have spent hours in it all ready. 

Summit Elementary turned 100 years old!  My mom is Summit Elementary Alumni, so she took Rylie to the celebration and to show her the May Pole Dance.  My mom was so willing to teach us, just need 24 girls.  It was fun for Rylie to spend time with Grandma and they even got slurpees.



 Rylie loves to bike!   We have been riding bikes to preschool which is about  2.5 miles from our house to her school.  The round trip is about FIVE miles .  Bode and I get about 10 miles in each day.  But it has been so fun for her to ride that far and she is pretty proud of herself.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

some adorable kids...

A photo shoot for Mother's Day all SIXTEEN Smith Grandkids!   I think they are all a bunch of cute kids, but getting them all to smile and hold still was quite a chore....



 Until we told them to pull crazy faces!