The cute Smith kids!

We had a great service at church today....from sacrament meeting through Primary! The spirit was very strong and my kids actually sat quiet. We have the wonderful smell of Pot Roast throughout our home as we await our yummy Christmas Eve dinner. Hope you all are enoying this Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas

This is the cutest Christmas baby you'll ever see!! Doesn't she look beautiful in her pretty dress, it is for Robb and Marybeth's wedding in a couple days. She is so pretty !!

A Few Hours Later

We've almost cleared a path to the street in front of our house. But that street is snowed in and the plow on the intersecting street has created a wall 4 feet high and 5 feet wide. Hope Mike is feeling energetic today!

Enjoying our Denver BLIZZARD

We have snow. Wish we could share! More pictures coming. As soon as I clear a path.

Love, Martissa

HAPPY 21ST ANNIVERSARY TO LEWIS AND I

Can you believe we have been married 21 years? Wow, where did the time go? He gave me a tender letter of gratitude this morning. We have a gift certificate for a fancy restaurant down in Dana Point on the beach for a 6 course meal. Not sure when we are going to use it but probably not until the New Year. Nutro has him hopping too much currently. Thanks for the support from all of you too. I married a wonderful man and into a wonderful family.

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You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry

Paisley apparently is not a fan of Santa this year. We knew she would cry, but everybody needs at least one screaming on Santa's lap picture, right? She was very cute. This was her first time out in public with a pony tail. She is such a cutie!

Pretty Paisley

Paisley's hair is finally getting long enough for a little pony tail so we tried to put it up in one last night. It didn't work too well, but she looks VERY cute! The picture with her eating is her having her first real pear. I'm not sure why didn't like it when she loved baby food pears. She's so cute!

Some REALLY cute pictures!

Mialee and her friend at my office Holiday party. It was held at a potty place and we spent the evening painting. She is sitting infront of the turtle she painted. Mialee loved it!

Nathan is our climber. He moved the chair to the piano by himself, climbed up, and began playing.

He likes to walk around pushing his cart full of toys. The toys help it not go too fast so he doesn't fall down.

Mialee and Nathan dressed in semi matching clothes for their outting to see Santa. They are sitting at the tabel anxiuosly waiting to go. We got a smile out of Mialee and only tears came out of Nathan.

Shelley and Steven

How is the training coming? What kind of mileage are you doing? Any problems? Are you able to get out regularly? Are the kids helping with watching Jolie? Painters is just around the corner. Your first half marathon. Woo hoooo. I wish I could be there, but I have a full marathon the very next week here in So cal. I wish you both success. Steven has already done Painters so it should be a walk in the park for him. Take care Shelley and remember to enjoy it while your doing it.

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad

Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary, Haaaappy Anniversary! What number is this? I guess we should check with Lewis about how old he is and then it is 1 more!! hehe Well if the big one is in 2010 then this would mean 46! right? What are you going to do to celebrate in Denver?

Happy Birthday Lewis

Happy Birthday! We hope it is a good one! Any special plans? Go out to eat or anything? Tell us all about it!

Cruisin' In Paradise

A Showcase of Paradise

OK well this should get you good and excited for the movie that is to come. We are starting it (and hopefully finishing it) tonight so enjoy!

Ok, I am impatiently waiting for pics from the eagle court, baptism and now the cruise. Can someone please put me out of my misery? hehe. Welcome home everyone. Sleep well in your own beds and when you are rested give us some pics. Thanks.

Bon Voyage Family

Well we are about 19 hours to embarkation, the excitement is mounting! The Lamberts have arrived and so things are crazy. The Lamberts are packed of course since their vacation has already begun, but most everybody else haven't even started yet (uh humm.... Haralsons!) Paisley is completely packed and Jason and I are almost there, now all we do is wait!! The hard part! We will think of you all often and we will probably eat enough food for all of you (maybe I'll do that alone!) Have a super week and Happy Thanksgiving!

All of the pictures you ever wanted to see

Here is the amazing Pirate Ship Birthday Cake:


Here's little froggy Lizzy
And darling Grace
And happy Lizzy



Here is our communal birthday gift: she saved us a bundle.





Here is Nacho. (Yes, I sewed the cape! Thank you to mom.)




Here is Nacho summoning his EAGLE POWERS.

The Christmas Exchange

I don't seem to be able to post tables here so I'm emailing the gift exchange information for all of you anxiously awaiting. For the rest of you, I'll also email the letter. Loves!!

The Whelchel's World

I want to post pictures but I do not get an image icon on my menu line when i'm in BlogThis. Why not?

2 Questions...

Does anyone know who gives to who for 2006?
Are we having a family Christmas party this year?

Happy Birthday Tracy!

Happy Birthday Tracy! We hope it was fun day. Did you do anything fun or get anything fun?

Happy Birthday Nathan!

Happy Birthday! Was your party fun? Did you get to eat cake? Do you love your new dump truck? post pictures!

Car problems

We are home. We should be in Utah, but it didn't happen. Hope the eagle court was as wonderful as they usually are. Hope Thomas is proud of himself for going the distance. Have a great baptism day McKay. We will be thinking of you. Shelley please post pics of both events on the blog please.

Christmas Flowers

The three stakes out here have a Christmas Creche every year to display people's nativities and get the community involved in the holidays. Because of that we have the opportunity to buy poinsettias for display at the creche and then when it is over we can take them home. Since some of you may not have that opportunity but may still want a poinsettia you can get some Christmas Flowers here. Besides all the lights and decorations I like having that Christmas flower around to help get your in the mood. I thought some of you might be interested in this.

T minus 10 and counting

That's right, if we were a spaceship we would be on the launch pad counting down! 10 days til the big event (sorry for those that aren't coming, I don't want to rub it in). Are there any final preparations we need to be doing Lamberts? You guys are our experts for this trip. Mom and I got our formal dresses last weekend so we are set in that department. I even already have a second occasion to wear my dress- to the L-3 company Christmas party! YAY! Well I hope everyone is as excited as we are!

Happy Birthday Stephen

Happy Birthday Stephen! We hope it was a good one. We heard about all the good food that was being made at your house so hopefully you got to eat some of it! Good luck with all the big events coming up this weekend. We wish we could be there, but we'll be thinking about you. Take pictures so you can blog it later.

Blogitive

There is a new website that I have recently joined. It is an easy way for me to make money. At blogitive.com companies have you write blog posts about their services as a way of advertising for them through your blog and you get paid an average of $5 per post. I always go to the company website and make sure I like it and understand it before I blog about it. Sometimes it is things like the mp3 players I spoke of earlier. Yesterday there was a website for getting hard to find tickets to events at a lower price. You can choose which posts your want to participate in and which ones you don't. So far things are working out great for us. I like being able to do something that isn't very time consuming a make a little extra money. If you have any questions you can click the link or ask me and I'll try to help you.

3 Strikes Your Out!

Tonight Jason and I played MLB Slugfest 2004 for our xbox. Now I will be the first to admit that I am a bad loser but it usually isn't a problem with this game. Jason plays well, but I just always seem to beat him. Tonight though he was doing well and when I mentioned something about using all my turbo boost on my guys at bat he beamed because he didn't know you could do that. Anyway after a couple innings I was back to my old self and we finally quit when the score was 22-3. Another part of the game is called "homerun derby" where you get 10 tries to hit a homerun. There was one time we were playing this and I couldn't win for anything and so I made Jason play it with me like 10 times before I finally won. He is a good sport to always accommodate my need to win. In the picture my team is the horses and Jason's is the minotars.

Busy Saturday

It was a busy day here on Saturday. We started off the morning switching storage units becase our other one got robbed. A lot of nice people from our ward came to help. That was fun. Then we head over to the tire store to get a brand new set of tires on our car. We have had a lot of bad luck with tires and so it was time to start completely over. Our car has a smooth ride now. Then we went to the Valencia mall to go shopping for a nice dress for the formal night on the cruise. We were successful! We ended the day is Jason, David, Layne and I going lazer tagging at Mulligan's. It was so fun after the first game we bought a second. We have been talking of going back with the rest of david's family. We don't usually have such busy days and so we thought we would share, plus we are very excited about our tires!! Thanks for reading!

Christmas List

Lately Jason and I have been looking into getting an mp3 player because of all the vacations we have been and are going on and because our baby loves to dance! We happened upon these cool gadgets . One of the mentioned gadgets are speakers with a built in mp3 player. When the speakers are closed the whole thing is a cylinder but then you pop out the speakers and there you go. Too bad that would probably bug people on an airplane! But for other situations it is awesome! The other gadget is a driverless webcam, you can "plug and play"! We think these are great gift ideas for the electronic junkie on your Christmas list!

We have new runners in the family so to speak

I was informed a few days ago that Stephen and Shelley are doing the Painters Half marathon in January. Woo hoooooooooooooo! Stephen did it before and did very well. This will be Shelleys first time. But the "BIG" news is that they are doing the St George marathon next year too. I have wanted someone else in the family to start marathoning. Now I get two. Can you say excited?!! Goodluck Shelley and Stephen. Train hard and enjoy the journey!

Happy Birthday Martissa

We hope you have a great birthday and that your kids are well behaved for you!! Do you have any fun plans?

Halloween at the Smith's

After 3 trys, I can't get the pictures to post...but here is the narrative.

Nathan wanted to be an Airline Pilot and Mialee was a pretty princess. We had our Ward party on Friday night, then Tuesday I took the kids around my friend's neighborhood for about an hour.

Nathan is getting his lower molars on both sides. That will make for 10 teeth. He has learned to sing one song. This is how we sing it:

Rebecca: If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gum drops, oh what a world it would be. I'd stand outside with my mouth open wide saying...

Nathan: ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.

It is so darling.

Mialee thinks we should go trick or treating everynight and she wears her princess dress everyday. :)

Paisley Want a Cracker?? Rrraahh

These are couple pictures from Halloween at our house! We were a very cute pirate family if I do say so myself, and our little parrot was the cutest bird in town.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIEL, HAPPY HALLOWEEN ALL!

Today is another birthday. Daniel turns 19. We greeted him much earlier than he would have preferred with balloons and card and birthday pie. He stayed in bed. ;)

Today we also get to talk to James to find out if he got any of his birthday boxes. As of last week he had not. The mission office was supposed to bring them out on Friday.

Hope all of you have a great day and get lots of treats and not too many tricks.

Paisley's first...

Happy Birthday Paisley

We can't believe that Paisley has been around for a year! She was sure cute at church today with her hat on. We look forward to her next year!