Happy 10th Birthday, Shelby!

We celebrated Shelby's birthday with her first sleep over!

Just a few girl friends at the house and we sent the boys away.

Making shirts!

Photo opportunities.

Shelby is 10!!!!!

Mrs. Betsy and Shelby!!!!

Jane and Shelby

Tori and Shelby

Emma, Shelby and Cora

The gang!

A yummy cupcake cake!

We can not believe that Shelby is 10 years old. She is growing into such a young lady! We are so thankful for this special gift that the Lord has blessed us with!

On Shelby's actual birthday, she went with her Daddy to breakfast at the Pancake Pantry. After breakfast Shelby went to work with Daddy until we met them for lunch. With a few snow flakes around we went to lunch and then John had to head to the airport.

We had a special day!

Grant is telling Daddy and Shelby bye before they head to breakfast!

Here is the gang at lunch!

2009 ... I hope to do better!

Well, for the few of you who do keep on reading ...

(I know because you complain for the lack of posts!)

I have set a goal to blog more in 2009!!!!

I am going back to my original intent: to keep family and friends updated on our life!

Mostly for grandparents, family, friends far away and even friends near by

(because we all know we don't get to see each other often enough!).

The way I plan to get this done is to blog when John travels.

So, you should get two or three posts a month, and when I get behind -

ask - maybe we are being blessed with a light travel month

- OR -

maybe I went with him! :)
Happy New Year, a little late!

Michael - Away in a Manger

Here's Michael's new song that was learned at CBS.

Michael's 1st Bible Verse

Praying for Friends

On Sunday I was blessed with the opportunity to attend a memorial service for baby Audrey Caroline Smith. What a testimony of God's grace lavished on his children as the Smiths have lived through these difficult circumstances these recent months.
If you have a chance, read the letter Audrey's mom wrote on her blog! Click the link above on her name.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Well, I am still behind, but on blogging, but I want to share this special Valentine! Enjoy!

Shelby is published! LOL!

2008 already!?!?!?

Well, as you can see I am REALLY behind on blogging! You would think I don't like it by the amount of posts that I have entered recently, but that isn't the case! I have mismanaged my free time some, but mostly I am preoccupied with my life. I am really trying to be a good mommy and an excellent wife. Of course I fail (daily, hourly, ugh ... and more frequently), but I thankfully know the Lord is changing me to be more like Christ as I go through each day!
Even though I am already behind on my "list of things to do this year," I am going to start trying to keep a better account of our lives on our blog! I love to see the progress, so here is goes ...

hum ... how many days will it take me to post?

A Bit of Mommy Wisdom (or Stupidity)

For you laugh of the week! :)

Moms, don't get distracted when you are cutting your son's hair ...

but Dads can take them to ProCuts and make it look like this!

Fall Family Cub Scout Camp Out

Our great weekend!

Preview to Camp Out ...

Cub Scout Family Camp Out Preview

A few pictures from our weekend ... from the whole PACK!


Find more photos like this on Scout Pack 747

Shelby Horseback Riding

Mr. Paul spent some time teaching Shelby some new things about horses today.
Shelby had a GREAT time!

In the country!

John's Company's Family Picnic

A Night at the Races

Visit with Gramps - Woody Smith

New Adventure - Cub Scouts

Cub Scouts! Yep, John and Grant started on a new Daddy and son adventure last night ... Cub Scouts! We have dear friends that were involved for the first year last year in a Dad led pack. We are excited to carve out this time for John and Grant to have some quality time learning valuable skills to mold Grant into a godly young man. Look at their website to learn more about Pack 747!

We went to round-up night last night! Here are a few pictures!

Grant and some of the others are listening to what they have in store for the year! At this time their will be eight Tiger Cubs in Grant's den.

Grant is wearing part of his new scout uniform! Thank the Lord for hand-me-downs.

Grant and John - this is going to be fun!

Friday, Aug. 17, 2007 ~ Day 2 San Diego/Los Angeles

We went back to the car rental place to get the convertible that John had reserved! Fun in the sun!
















Driving up the coast ... La Jolla, CA. We just drove through here on Friday, but went here to the beach on Saturday.















A little further up the coast is the Salk Institute.
John wanted to see this for it's architectural content.

Next we drove on up the coast to Los Angeles. We ate lunch at a Mexican place and then went on the Getty Museum. WOW! What a neat place.

From the Getty we drove into Los Angeles and through Hollywood!









We went down Hollywood drive and saw a movie being filmed on a side road. We just cruised ... kind of funny! Then we put the top up and heading back to San Diego! Late night!