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Beach Baby Smith

We had a great day out at Avila Beach last Saturday. The weather was perfect, it is days like these that we feel so blessed to live in such an awesome area. Garrett loves the beach, as you can tell from these pictures, he is quite the comedian.

GLASS CREEK

Most all of my childhood memories have to do with one place, Glass Creek. A small government campground (this means you don't pay but there are no flushing toilets either) just above Mammoth Lakes, CA. My family has been going to this campground for sixty plus years. Sarah, Garrett and I have been fortunate enough to go almost every other year since we have been married. I would go every year but the no flushing toilet thing doesn't go over well with the Mrs.

Anyway, we drove last thursday afternoon up to camp, stopping in T-town to pick up Chris, Mandi and Miss P. so that the whole family could be together. Sounds fun huh!!! Shelli and Robert had already gone up there since they don't have kids they can just jump in a go. Must be nice! Well seven hours later and I think at least 12 potty breaks we were in camp, 10pm and ready for bed.

The next week I spent allot of time fishing. Oh how I wish we had some streams around here that I could fish like I did in the Mammoth Area. Garrett was the 5th generation to catch a fish out of glass creek and believe or not he did it all by himself. All I did was put the bait in the water and he held on and reeled it in.

From late night games of uno, papa 2 riding down the hill with Garrett and Peyton, all the girls and there vacation readings, us guys and our fishing obsession, or let me rephrase that, "fishing quest", to evenings by the campfire. Even an big bull elk to take pictures of on the drive home! I love this place! It was pretty hard to leave, but it always feels good to be home. I love my family! Miss you all and can't wait until next year!

We love IT!

Well, we are finally settled in just a few more pictures to put on the wall and some rooms to be painted. Yeap that right Garrett and Lily's rooms are getting painted this weekend with the help of Grandma Debbie.

We are really enjoying the new house although my honey-do list is as long as the Great Wall of China, no joke. But I guess I have the rest of my life to complete it or maybe not! The backyard is where the work has to go but everything in due time. Right now its summer and we are enjoying every minute of it.

Open invitation for friends and family to come visit. We enjoy the company and we have plenty of room now. Talk to you all soon!

OUR LITTLE FISH

We have been thoroughly enjoying the summer. Even though we moved into our new house, life still is moving. For the past two weeks Garrett has had swimming lessons. More like 30-minutes of time for him to splash and get wet. Which if you know Garrett he loves the water, matter a fact he will jump right in no coaxing needed. It has been a lot of fun, and his teacher even said he should have been in the level one class because he already has a lot of the concepts down for kicking, moving his arms and he even likes to go underwater. He is our little fish, if you want to entertain Garrett for hours, water is the way to do it. Whether its a pool or a garden house he loves to get wet. Hope everyone is having a great summer.