Surprise Visit from the Grandparents!!

So In February my parents surprised us with a visit. We loved spending that time with them and seeing them with their grand kids!! That's one thing I really miss is family get togethers. Especially right now with all the birthdays in the next couple of months, they were always a great reason to get together and spend time with one another.

Brock update

Brock is just over 8 months old and is starting to get mobile. He is not crawling yet, but is starting to scoot on his bum to move around. I have never been one to rush the crawling thing. After having 4 kids you know what crawling all entails. Brock still loves his sleep. A lot of times when I go and lie him in his crib he will get this huge grin on his face, it's so cute! Those Smith boys love their naps!!

Definitely grown out of his baby tub..

Date night with Brody

For my date night with Brody we went to McDonalds for ice cream. I loved spending that time with my Brod and I'm pretty sure he had a great time as well!!

Go Cougs!!!

Taylor and I have always wanted to do parent/child dates with the kids and they are now all a good age to start. With life always so busy, we thought it would be nice to give them that individual one on one time. On separate occasions Taylor took Hallie and Ashton to the BYU basketball games. The kids really loved it and for the next week after they were singing the Cougar fight song and doing cheers.




On Wednesday night I got to go to my first BYU basketball game, it was a lot of fun! Taylor won front row tickets in the students section which made the experience all the better. The student fans were so crazy and into it. By the end of it we were on our feet cheering along with them. During the game Taylor managed to catch a Shade t-shirt that they were throwing out to the crowd (yay for me) and also, he won a $50.00 check card. They scanned the whole audience and out of all those people his face showed up on the jumbotron. I can't believe his luck sometimes!! To top it all off the Cougars won. Go Cougs!!!!

Date night!!

We decided to go to the temple for our date night last Friday. We went to the Mt. Timpanagos Temple in American Fork. We figured the Provo Temple would be super busy on a Friday night and it was a good excuse to go visit one we haven't been to before. It was so beautiful and we had a great night. Of course, we stopped afterward for ice cream at coldstone...SOOOO good!!

January Fun

This snowman is so Taylor, when he does something he goes all out. He said the kids were egging him on to keep on adding more snowballs, they had so much fun. Dads are great for stuff like this especially when the kids have a mom who likes to stay warm!

Christmas 2009: Here, There, Everywhere!!

I admit I have been avoiding this post! We were so many places this Christmas and have so many pictures to choose from. This was a whole new experience this year for us traveling back up to Canada to spend Christmas with our families. It was pretty busy, but we really loved every minute with our family and friends. We first spent a couple of days out in Fairmont BC with Taylor's dad. Then the remaining of the trip we were back and forth between my family and Taylor's mom. The kids loved seeing everyone as well, poor Hallie was in tears the day we had to leave. Thank you to our families for taking care of us. We had such a great visit. Here are a few pictures of our Christmas...




Oma teaching all us girls how to make her specialty cookies!!








Almost 7 months old here!!