We are currently on our vacation in California and having a good time. We drove straight through Friday night, in my Camry, with the dog. It sounds horrible, but it actually wasn’t all that bad. We got in Saturday morning about 2am. Saturday was a pretty laid back day, Nathan tested out Chloe’s new dog crate.
On Sunday, we had a birthday dinner for my wonderful sister and her sweet friend, Roberta. It was a nice evening, with a Motherload of a cake for dessert. Yummmm!
Yesterday we kept a Smith family tradition alive by going pumpkin shooting (though you will see no actual pictures of pumpkins…I’m a dork). Dylan and Avery both shot for the first time, Nathan’s 22 rifle. They took a couple turns each and spent the remainder of the time running around with their cousins, while Nana supervised. It was a fun day!
Last night I noticed the magnets arranged to spell an unusual word, especially for a 4-year-old. So, I asked Dylan what the letters were for.
D -is for Dylan
A -is for Avery
M -is for Mommy
N -is for Nathan (“Because Mommy we don’t have two Ds, so I couldn’t do Daddy”)
C -is for Chloe
A brief history of this picture. First, it is my all-time favorite picture of my kids. It was taken Thanksgiving day 2008, Avery’s first Thanksgiving.
Trick-or-Treating this year was a lot of work, but the kids had fun. It was raining and very cold, so we drove the kids around to about 10 houses in our ward and called it good. It is currently 8:30 and we have had 2, yes two, families of Trick-or-Treaters come to our house, and they were both friends who drove over specifically to our house. We have a lot of left over candy!
As promised, here is Dylan’s video from his preschool program.
Today the kids and I went to see all of the fun witches the village puts out for decoration during Halloween. They weren’t in the best of moods (the kids, that is), so cooperating for pictures and general happiness to be outside did not come easy. The happiest they were was when I let them throw snow into the walking path. We ended our rather short visit with cookies and milk from the Naborhood Bakery.
