When Daddy comes home!

Jamie has been out of town for a few days............I know many of you who have traveling husbands are scoffing............but for us it is unusual and hard on the kids (especially my spitfire Parker!). To boot, it has been a crazy windy weekend followed by a lovely cold front, so the kids have been dying to get outside! Jamie hit the door around 8pm this evening and by 8:03---41 degrees I might add.......... the boys had him out skateboarding!

I don't know what was more fun to see...........

1) Jamie riding Parker's trainer skateboard complete with handle.

2) Parker skateboarding with his long john jammies on that are too small because he is growing so fast lately.

3) Noah trying with all his might just to keep up!

At any rate, we're all so glad when Daddy comes home!

warm fuzzies

A few days ago (ok weeks, but it takes me forever to blog) Noah began posting what I am calling 'warm fuzzies' all over the house for everyone. As you can see, brightly colored post it notes all over the walls was Noah's way of sending out loves and kisses to us all.

One day, he covered the walls with these bright and cheery notes (most of them blank I might add) and told me that he was doing this for his Daddy 'because he was so special'. When 'special' daddy returned home he quickly reprimanded Noah for wasting post it notes and requested he remove them from all the walls. Noah was heart broken!! When I explained to Jamie that he was 'special', he reinstated the post it notes and the love continued to spread!

Apparently, if your note has stickers on it, you are extra special.!! Sometimes, he even had someone help him write your name on it! my sweet little boy............spreading warm fuzzies..........love him!! (Right now I would give anything to get him to quit printing off Webkinz and start 'spreadin the love' again!)

oh, Mexico!

Much to my surprise, when our friends approached us with an opportunity to fly to Phoenix, AZ and then drive to Puerto Penasco, Mexico..........Jamie said YES!! So we did it! I am so glad we did! A wonderful time was had by all. Our kids had never been to beach before. They could have spent every minute digging in the sand and catching crabs under the rocks! AND, lucky for us, the Easter Bunny found us....WHEW! It was a great adventure..... Here are some shots of the fun............and the aftermath!

Casa de Smith and Pogue

They've got Sierra right where they want her!~

Some super cool little dudes!

THIS IS WHY I LOVE VACATION!!

the kids loved the music at EVERY meal!

TRASHED!!!

Some very tired little ones!
THIS IS WHY I HATE VACATION!! (and this is just the tip of the iceberg!)

MINDLESS

Is the fact that I used up my long weekend vacation updating myself on the daily activities of all of pop culture the reason I just had to call Jill to help me with my 2nd grader's language arts homework? (don't answer that)!

bring em on out............how bout them JAZZ!!!

OK.........I nearly forgot we had a blog!!!

I have been wanting to post on this for weeks. We had the opportunity to go meet some of the Utah Jazz players (us and 1000's of our closest friends). The players were very good sports posing for umpteen thousand photos and signing twice as many autographs! Way to give back guys!!! We waited in line FOREVER for D-Will and Korver (my new man!) . (Jamie, you're the only one for me!) The kids had a BLAST! and thought it was so cool to get autographs all over their jerseys and get their faces painted and eat hot dogs for dinner! Being a borderline dorky (ok......really dorky) Jazz fan......I think I loved it the most!

Andrei Kirlenko and Jason Hart

he's tall!

Paul Milsap and Tyrone Corbin

Say cheese noah!

UNCLE!!!!!

I know, I know.... on a previous entry I noted that I love winter! I love the quiet storms where the flakes are huge and you can sit home and drink hot chocolate (HA!)............I love the white snow as it blankets the earth for the winter vs. gray, icky landscaping begging for the sunshine of spring and summer to bring it back to it's intended beauty! So..........yes, I love winter and some of its beauty. I do not wish to retract those statements!

HOWEVER,

It is time to cry UNCLE! ENOUGH ALREADY! 2 weeks ago it starts off with 17 inches in the driveway that took 2+ hours to snowblow (yes, I know how to run a snowblower!), and no lie, every other day since we have had some form of a snow storm to add to the mix!

Adding humor to this winter of neverending precip, this morning my sweet husband went off to snowblow for a friend whose husband is out of town. Looking over to the neighbors he thinks it looks like they are out of town too..........so he proceeds to snowblow their driveway too. Moments later the husband emerges from their sleepy, we dont' get up before 10am house and lo' and behold, they are very much in town...........and the lucky recipients of Jamies service project for the year! hahaha! I have been giggling to myself about this one all day!

I gotta go...........we're building an igloo in the front yard!

New Arrival

We are thrilled to announce our newest arrival at the house of Pogue! After SEVEN months of waiting we have finally been blessed with our beloved BUNK BED!!! Ordered on June 7th, it has been a long, backordered, backordered, backordered, snow delayed delivery, wrong address, finally showed up at our door process. I think Noah had me print a picture of it off the computer daily for the last month or two. We finally had to stop making any references to it so as not to drain the color printer cartridge!!

So here it is!!!

Proud Parents (sleepers): Noah and Parker (Noah finally graduates from the crib!)

Height: really tall, about 60 inches

Weight: ALOT!!! it took all Jamie and I had to move it!

Both Mommy and Daddy are doing well!