More Smith Fun

Alas...time to learn to tie a tie!

My Grandma Francom and I on Mother's Day.

 Quinn playing kickball!

 Simon getting ready for his first baseball game of the season.

Xylophone

For two years now Hannah has had the opportunity to take an after school class where she does extra projects in Science, Social Studies, and Fine Arts.  It is only for two students per class and so I am glad that she has been able to do this.  She got the opportunity to learn how to play the xylophones with a few of her class mates for the Fine Arts class.  She really enjoyed it.

What have the Smiths been up to?

See that little black thing under Collin?  Yes, it is our new kitten, "Cora".

 Thayne rescued her at work and brought her home.  We have been feeding her bottles for almost two weeks now.

 We bought a trampoline.  In this picture we are half-way done setting it up.  It was dark when we got done because we had to take all the springs back off after this picture.  So far Collin has scraped up his nose doing a double flip and just tonight Hannah hurt her jaw doing a front flip :)

 Last weekend we visited the Church History Museum.  Here is the family standing behind a pulpit in the Gordon B. Hinckley exhibit.

 Here we are eating at one of our favorite restaurants..The Lion House.

Ahhh the pinewood derby!  So much stress for one little piece of wood made into a car.

 Simon got the straight A student award for his car.  He wishes he won though!

Spring 2012

I had to laugh at our kitty.  She was sitting in the apple tree waiting for a bird to come along.  She was also knocking the blossoms off and then batting at them.

 We took our first hike of the season.  It was actually more like a nature walk in the mountains above our house.  We are hoping to go on many hikes this summer and plan to gradually work our way to the more difficult ones.  I think Thayne and I are the ones who have to work up to it!

Quinn's Big Week

Quinn is ready to go to school the day after breaking his elbow.  That darn sling was so annoying and didn't work very well.  We have given up on it.

 So Quinn broke his elbow on Monday and had a small eye surgery on Friday morning at Brigham Hospital.  here are the doctor and nurse right before he went into surgery.  He was so spoiled and had a great time.  He got a quilt, coloring book and crayons, bubbles, socks and 4 popsicles.  He loved it all.

All ready to go home with all his treasures. 

Random pictures

Quinn fell off the monkey bars at the neighbor's house today.  I was standing right there watching him too!  He cried really hard and so I took him right to the doctor's office.  They aren't sure yet if it's broken but he will see the orthopedic surgeon next week.  This is our first broken bone and we have a 13 yr. old, so we feel pretty good about that.

Here is one more picture of Collin's play.  I didn't get a chance to take many pictures.

 We always enjoy coloring Easter eggs.

 Easter Sunday evening I gave the kids each a styrofoam airplane and let them color them with markers.  Then we went to the park to fly them.  All was going well until Collin and Hannah collided running down the hill.  There were lots of grass stains and tears and a burn scab torn off Hannah's arm.  So the fun outing ended up not being so fun.  Maybe next time...