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will someone blog already :(

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why is no one blogging

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WHY ISENT ANY ONE BLOGGING???!!!!!!!!!!!?????!!

summer is over....

"back to school"..... the 3 scariest words in the universe besides "your teacher called."

                                                                       Annalee

SUMMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ILOVESUMMERIT'SSOAWSOMEIWANTITTOLASTFOREVER-ER-ER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                        -Annalee S.

Hi!

hi!It's me,annalee!It's just that.....I HAVE MY OWN BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!please type in:www.annaleejosmith.blogspot.com. well,that's all I have to say now.Bye!

All in favor of a sequel to the family video (from 6-7 years ago) leave a comment!

We really ♥ love ♥ this video and watch it a lot on Sundays with the kids. So we were just thinking how great it would be great to have a Volume 2 edition with all the new family we've had join since! We could all submit pictures and then split the cost. I imagine this would be a project that would take a while to get underway depending on Lon Gibby's schedule.

What do you all think?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NOAH! JULY 26th

hApPy BiRtHdAy LiLy!

hApPy BiRtHdAy NAthaN!

hApPy BiRtHdAy aNnaLee!

hApPy BiRtHdAy StEvIe!

hApPy BiRtHdAy KiYa!

DAD.... rhymes with RAD

Happy Father's Day!

hApPy BiRtHdAy DaVe!

hApPy BiRtHdAy BrIaN mCkElL!

hApPy BiRtHdAy DeViN!

The Connor Chronicles

Click here to see my new blog.

MOM....rhymes wid DA BOMB

COUGAR STARTED BASKETBALL AT RAVENNA COMMUNITY CENTER!

Cougar is doing a five week program of basketball camp across the street from his Preschool at Ravenna Community Center. He's doing great! Got him a hoop to practice his game at home!

REGGIE AND VENOM ARRIVE AT DAVE AND JENNYS!

Lincolns Super Hero birthday party was a success! The night before Dave and Jenny brought home their 3month baby goats, Reggie and Venom! Dave is working on a lovely dog house and fence for them in their backyard.

hApPy BiRtHdAy DeAn!

hApPy BiRtHdAy LiNcOlN!

hApPy BiRtHdAy CoNnOr!

hApPy BiRtHdAy DaD!

hApPy BiRtHdAy BrAdY!

hApPy BiRtHdAy McKaY!

hApPy BiRtHdAy BrIaNnA!

Cougars Sleepover! SO MUCH FUN!

Cougar has been asking for WEEKS! to have a sleepover at "his house" with his cousins! They are having so much fun! Its 10pm and they are laughing and watching a movie and loving it! Here are a few pictures from the night! Its so nice to have Dave and Jennys kids so close- wish everyone was this close!

hApPy BiRtHdAy BrIaN sMiTh!

Lily is "off and reading"!

Lily really does like books and sitting with someone. Notice she looked up for the photo moment, but otherwise she is really tuned in to whatever is being read to her.

This Place is for The Birds!

Most of you know that I had a collection of bird houses above our kitchen cabinets. WELL :), there were "8" and NOW they are personalized for each of our children with the appropriate number of birds in each! Dad gave me a gift of more "birds" for Christmas and I got busy. They really are pretty cute. If you want to see an upclose pic of YOUR house, please ask!

I remembered that I had this little ceramic basket and brought it out when Chelsea said that we ought to have a little "egg" in her house for the new baby coming. It ALREADY had TWO little eggs in it - one pink and one blue! Okay, so that's like totally what? Theres a word - can you think of it?

We enjoyed Lucy's BLESSING DAY

Here we are in Las Vegas on Lucy's blessing day - Dec. 27, 2009 with proud parents, Jocelyn & Brady. We traveled first to St. George to rendezvous with Chelsea & family. It was fun to see their cute home in Cedar City. Then it was up bright and early Sunday morning to travel to Las Vegas for this happy event. Brady's blessing to Lucy was beautiful and heartfelt. Jocelyn's parents hosted a wonderful brunch afterwards and on our way out we saw the music fountains in Vegas and a beautiful indoor floral display. Best of all, we got to see LUCY and her parents!

The Coin Grab

This is why we're definitely coming home next year for Christmas. Late visitors don't get to participate.

haPpY bIrThDaY mErEdItH!

hApPy BiRtHdAy BeCkY!

hApPy BiRtHdAy LiNdSaY!

hApPy BiRtHdAy CoUgAr!

Quote calendar poll

So you've come over to the blog because you are DYING to vote on whether or not we do another quote calendar for 2011.

I've set it up at our blog, since I'm not able to set up polls on this blog I found out.

Please let me know what you think!

hApPy BiRtHdAy CoOpEr!

Lily and Christmas Friends

Lily was game for a special photo shoot. It is such fun to dress up little people when they can't talk back! I had lots of fun dress-up moments with my children and to get another chance is really fun. This little Santa suit was given to Meredith and it fits just right. I would love to see some of your Christmas "shoots".

"Ohhh JULIA!"

Isn't it quite amazing to have a child whose arrival you are particularly anticipating arrive during the Christmas season? A couple of excerpts from a church writing especially touched me recently that apply. A child helps us "rescue all that is finest down deep inside of us." "To help another human being reach one's celestial potential is our divine mission." The "ohhs" that come seem to be our first utterance. Maybe they come because words escape us when we are feeling the awe and wonder that come from that deepest place of within us. So Julia, "ohhh" and WELCOME.

Our Christmas Books

I just wanted to post a note of thanks to that wonderful someone who started one of our family's favorite Christmas traditions, the Christmas books. All year long these books are tucked away and I wish you could see how excited the kids are when they get to open the box of wrapped books all ready to unwrap. It's the beginning of a countdown to Christmas, beginning December 1st (we always start then knowing that we'll inevitably miss a day here or there).

This year Annalee actually tried to smuggle away one of the books after it had been unwrapped from it's place (the Christmas book basket and bin) hiding it in a towel as she was on her way into the car. "These are the most special books we ever get to read!" was her explanation.

Our rule is that these books never leave the room where the Christmas tree is and they get a lot of use there in that room all throughout December besides just the reading when they're first unwrapped. The kids just love these books and love reading with us the memory of the Christmas when they were recieved. The story of "Small One" will always associate itself with the year of Sammy's accident and the "The Night Before Christmas" with it's poem in the back was the book we recieved before we even had any kids (which to the kids it's really really hard to believe that ever a time existed!). The other books all have their stories too, and that's been part of the fun, the remembering.

So thank you, so much. I know it's not easy (or cheap) to keep this tradition up and just want you to know that we appreciate this. It's something that has woven itself into a loved tradition here at our house.

A STABLE of memories...

This is the stable that Dave built. This is the family that Dave and Jenny are building. We were in Seattle last weekend and went to D&J's ward. Jenny mentioned that Dave had built this stable in front of the church to particpate in the local community kick-off to the Christmas season. LOOK at the fencing. Does it remind any of you Smith kids of anything? How about the popsicle fencing that you all saw for years in our family's nativity setting? Cousin Norman made all the ceramic figures and the stable with the popsicle fencing. I think that may of been somewhere in Dave's memory bank. Amazing what we tuck away. Anyway, hope you all are enjoying putting yourselves into the scene that matters most!

So this is CHRISTMAS...

Here is the story of CHRISTMAS (the standing lettering in the picture). We meandered into a "Mel's type" store when we went for a walk while visiting Brady and Jocelyn. I admired (coveted?) this Christmas sign. Jocelyn liked it too. So, just before Jocelyn's birthday I asked Brady to go and get it for her from us. He reported back that she had already brought it home herself! But, not for herself - as a gift to us! Anyway, it was fun to have Brady get "hers" and hide it for me so that I could play "hot and cold" with her.

I had signed off on getting more Christmas decorations, but this one is really fun and looks so great on the mantle! Thanks Jocelyn and Brady.