Smith Family: September 2011

Thursday, September 15, 2011

First day of Kindergarten!

First day of Kindergarten and Jade was so excited. Zoe was too! I think Ty was still sleeping.

The second day was the first time she got to ride the bus. Here she is with her fellow kindergartener Payton Smith.

Here is the whole gang at the bus stop. Poor Kaylee doing homework on the second day of school, and poor Gunner for being the only boy!

There she goes!

While she was at school Zoe thought it would be fun to try on Ty's pajama bottoms.

Then she tried to dress herself by putting her shirt on her legs!

this picture was from the next morning...nice bed head!!!

Who needs toys when you have a box! That's right Zoe is already trying out 2 different socks. She insisted on wearing them!

Sunday, September 4, 2011

We love family!

At the first of August my parents came up with Aunt Lo to visit. Ty loves his Aunt Lo and Grandma Kathy.

Of course the girls always wanted to be with Grandpa Dwight.

My husband made a bet with my mom that she couldn't get up on skis.

Well, she did (even though I didn't get a picture of it). Kade payed up!

Jade jumped in afterwards to go swimming with Grandma.

We had a nice lunch outside under the new pergola.

We actually got to sit by each other since the kids were occupied with company!

My dads birthday was the day before they came up, so we celebrated once they got here. Any excuse to have to buy an ice cream cake!

We love to play dominoes and boggle when we get together.

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Buffalo, New York

A few weeks ago we took a family trip out to Buffalo, New York to visit Kade's sisters and their families. Here are just a few highlights, and they are in NO order whatsoever!

We were delayed in the airport for a couple hours because of Hurricane Irene, but fortunately we made it home, and the kids were great!!!

Mindi made the kids an egg hunt.

We celebrated Tatum's birthday, and Jade was there to help her out.

Zoe enjoyed the cake/cookie.

Zoe is 18 months holding her 3 month old cousin Reed. They weigh the same, but Reed definitely got her beat in the legs department.

Kristin was our amazing tour guide for Niagara Falls. Here, Jade and Zoe are feeding the birds, and you can see the mist from Niagara Falls in the background.

We took a family photo at the top looking down the falls. The wind shifted and we were getting rained on the whole time just from the mist of the falls.

There was a really pretty rainbow at the bottom.

There was another rainbow coming from the American Falls as well.

We took the kids to the Aquarium. Zoe loved the seals.

We went swimming in a friends pool.

We went to Chuck-E-Cheese

We went swimming in a lake.

Here is another from Chuck-E-Cheese. See what I said no order in these photos.

Kade played Kristin in bball. Kade won, but Kristin was close.

Kade played bball with his sisters and neice.

The kids swam in Kristin's pool.

We got in a few naps!

We went to a really fun place that had restored carnival rides.

We all went to the sacred grove. I was quite shocked at how well the kids behaved!

We tried to take a nice photo outside of Joseph Smith's Barn with the Sacred Grove in the background, but it kind of reminded us of our Christmas Card.