Mr. T's Ode to Mothers

This is seriously the funniest video I have ever seen. My brother Sean send this to me a while ago and I still get a good laugh from it!

Mr. T Music Video--Treat Your Mother Right

A Few of My Favorite Sites..

I have found a few websites that seemed unique and interesting that I frequent and would like to share with you all...

1. Tom's Shoes. Cute shoes for adults and kids. For every shoe you purchase, Tom's Shoes will donate a pair of shoes to a child in need.












2. Goosie Cards. Custom flash cards for your kids. Too cute.




3. Stampin' Up! I love this company. I'm a demonstrator for Stampin' Up!, we sell stamps and scrapbooking and card making supplies. It is kinda my addiction.

4. Hot Momma Gossip. This is a little embarrassing, but I'm into celebrity gossip. I know, I know...celebrities are mostly self-centered, materialist people, but for some reason I find it amusing.

5. Sugar Doddle. This is a great site my friend Ashley Bayard told me about. If you are LDS (Latter-day Saint, aka Morman) and are in a Primary or Young Women calling this site will be your salvation for coming up with lesson ideas!

6. Blurb. For a reasonable cost, this company will turn your blog into a book-store quality book.








7. Cooks.com. A recipe sharing website. I have never contributed a recipe, but I often type in a recipe I have been looking for and wha-la about 50 pop-up! Website also has nutrition information.

Family Pictures

Here is a sneek preview of some family pictures we took with the Smith/Kirk bunch last weekend at Shell Beach. It was such a beautiful day, and the kids were not into the pictures, they just wanted to PLAY!

**MASH**

Remember Mash as a kid, well know you can type all your information online and it does all the work for you!

Here were my results...

My husbands name is Aaron, I have one child (all true)
I'm a county singer who drives to work in my blue Lexus rx330 (i wish)
It is truly romantic when I think of the countless nights I will spend with Aaron in my house in Riverside (ran out of ideas since you have to choose five).

Superstitious?

Some friends and I were talking about superstitious ways you can determine or plan the sex of your baby. We started discussing the Chinese Calender where you enter in a conception month and your age at conception and it tells you what gender you will have. I tried it out and it said I was supposed to have a girl when I had Garrett...so for me it didn't work. It is not scientifically proven, but according to some polls it can be 80 percent accurate.

Try it out by clicking the link above or follow the chart below, and let me know if it was accurate for you?

Weekend Full of Fun

It was a action packed weekend for us. We had my friend April, her cute 11 mo. old twins (Cooper and James) and four year old Ellie over until Friday, then Aaron's family came over until Saturday. We had a great time. April and I (and all the kiddos) went to the Mommy and Me potluck at the park on Friday and the kids got to play in the water, they all had sooo much fun. They also spend all day Thursday in the backyard playing in the mini pool...
On Saturday Kiwi took a family picture of the whole Smith/Kirk Family down at Shell Beach. I'm really excited to see how they all turn out. I will post pics once Kiwi sends them over. We all coordinated our outfits light blue/navy and white. The babies were not excited about the whole photo session, so we tried to make it a quick experience.

Goofing Around the House

Garrett loves when Aaron carries him around the house like a horse...he laughs and laughs. I tried to get Garrett to ride on my back, but the horse wasn't getting it...
looks more like a dead horse.




















Aaron and I were talking about our day when we looked over and noticed Garrett prancing around the living room in my shoes...I should erase the last post Dancing in Daddy's Shoes, since he's movin' on to ladies pumps now!

SUMMER TIME

Well Summer time is here which means fun in the sun. It is going to be a great summer now that Garrett is old enough to really enjoy the beach, pool, lake and all the other water activities. This kid should have been a fish. He loves the water and he just plane loves to play.

We have already enjoyed many excursions to the beach, but we have also delighted in the mini pool in the backyard just as much. The more Garrett and I play in the backyard the more I realize how much I love our house. The back yard is perfect for him to play and enjoy himself with little supervision. (if you don't mind the occasional dirt feast)

As well as fun in the sun it is a great house to host parties. Yesterday Sarah was suppose to have a baby shower for our friend Alyssa Bright, but that morning Sarah woke up with the flu. It was awful, fetal position in the bathroom all day, I think best describes it. Garrett enjoyed the shower too, with his friend Maylia!

Needless to say, I ended up quasi-hosting the baby shower with the help of Sarah's great friends. I think I got my fix of estrogen for a while.

Hope everyone is have a great summer. Look forward to seeing all of you some time soon!

One Happy Kid

Wow, that is a face of a happy kid! My friend Elizabeth's kids were over yesterday, so Garrett got to have a play date. The child in the Spiderman costume is Trent (four years old). His dad dropped him off in this outfit...boys! The kiddos had a great time.
For those who don't know, Garrett's nickname is Mr. G. My mom's friend at work made him the shirt he is wearing...isn't it so cute. I'm thinking on using this idea for a Super Saturday project.
I hope Garrett's big grin has brought a smile to your day!

Dancin' In Daddy's Shoes

Garrett came out of our bedroom and started dancing around the living room in Aaron's shoes, it was a great morning dust of cuteness!

Time Out for Women Trip

Over the weekend my friend April, who was my room mate my freshman year of college, come with me to Deseret Books Time Out for Women event in Riverside, CA. April and I have stayed friends for all these years, she holds a special place in my heart since she first introduced me to the church. She lives in Fresno now with her twin baby boys and sweet little girl Ellie, who is four. Wow crazy how time flies! We are able to do just a girls trip, so it felt like we were in college again, it was really fun catching up and getting some girl talk in. We went to lunch to the most yummy bakery Simple Simons, I had a chicken salad sandwich...I think I start to drool a little thinking about it...so bad!

We stayed with my mom and she went to the event with us. It was a uplifting spiritual event and I would recommend attending when it comes to your area. I was truly grateful to be able to attend. Thank you Aaron, Mandi and Kandi for watching my Mr. G! I think that he missed me terribly, and I was really excited to see my little man's sweet face again.

Much love!

Happy Mother's Day

Just wanted to wish all the mommas a Happy Mother's Day! Hope your day is as special as you are!

Much love,

Sarah
Mommy to "Hurricane Garrett"

Another Project Complete

So once again we are working on the house. I have to say after doing this project the house looks complete.
My dad and I poured 2.5 yards of concrete last weekend to fill in a big dirt area in the back yard. I looks great and Sarah loves it.
Aaron

Turkeys

So, I can't hunt elk in CA because the average tag cost about $10,000, so I have become addicted to something else. Turkey hunting. These birds are just like an elk they talk (for the non-hunter reader, talking is used to describe noises the animals make during the breeding season. Elk bugle and turkeys gobble)

Anyway, I have been going out quite often in the early morning chasing these little birds and have had so much fun calling them in. (Calling is what the hunter/me does to get the bird/animal to come to me so I can shoot it) The central coast has turkeys everywhere, they are like flies on food, they are literally everywhere. By the way, this was a hard hunt as you can see the big tom gobbler is soaking wet as was I from being rained on during the whole excursion.

I can't wait until Garrett is big enough to shoot a gun, this is going to be the first thing I take him to do as far as the hunting goes. I am sure he will love it!

I just thought I would share what I have been up to other then taking care of the house which I might add looks absolutely wonderful. And after this weekend we will have a little patio area in the backyard for our outdoor furniture to be placed so it will be a very inviting summer party place. Hope everyone is doing well for everyone else.

Aaron

Santa Barbara Zoo

Friday we had the best day at the zoo. We drove down to Santa Barbara in the morning and met up with three other moms from the ward. Between all of us their were 11 kiddos! There was so many people that we were unable to stay together so Emily and I split off. Garrett was so happy all day, it was defiantly a great trip! His favorite exhibit were the penguins.

This picture is of the little kids that were with us (the older ones went to check out the monkeys!) From left to right: Jerrome Damery, Emeran Slane, Brane Damery, Niome Damery, Kate Evans, Becca Evans, Garrett Smith, Braden Slane and at the bottom Anna Cavaletto) What a bunch of cuties!

Garrett checking out the flamingos.

Easter in Riverside

The family headed down to Riverside for Easter on Thursday night to spend time with my family. I had a nasty sinus infection, so half of the trip was spent sick. Seems to always happen when you are supposed to go out of town.
My mom make a huge Easter dinner that was so delicious that I'm just getting hungry thinking about it. We had a great weekend visiting my family who we don't get to see very often. Garrett just loves all the attention he gets in Riverside, he was really sad the whole ride home. The picture is at the Easter egg hunt we went to at my mom's church.
Hope you all had a great Easter!

He's doing it!

Ok so Aunt Shelli so graciously obtained a lawnmower for Garrett, and since we were leaving for the weekend to visit family, I needed to mow the lawns. It was time to put all the training to work and see if he really could do it.

Guess what, he is addicted to mowing the lawns, now if the lawnmower he's using only would cut the grass, I could kick back knowing my lawns were taken care of.

Enjoy!

Friday Fence Day

We, meaning the whole family, yes even Garrett, built a fence to enclosed our front patio. Garrett is Daddy 'lil helper!

Yeehaa!

This is a good close-up of our big boy!

One of Garrett's Best Day Ever

So I know I have already talked about Garrett's friend Ethan, but I'm going to talk about him again because we went to Ethan's Grandma Fay's house on Saturday for his 2nd birthday party. Now seriously this was the coolest party ever. There were tractor rides, a bounce house, tent maze, Easter egg hunt and a good ole' BBQ dinner. WOW, huh?

Garrett's fav part for sure was the Easter egg hunt, he was a egg bandit. He was all about collecting those eggs, he even filled up two baskets. Everyone was laughing at how into the game he was. I think that he just caught on to the fact there were goodies inside the eggs!

He's getting even better

Ok, so we are on to the next step of the lawn mowing training. This picture definitely worth a thousand words. Just take a look.

My Friend Ethan

My friend Ashleigh watches Garrett a few days a week for me so I can go into the office. She does a great job taking care of Mr. G. Her son Ethan is Garrett's buddy. Most of the time Ashleigh plays toy referee, but there are other times when the two are best buds. If Ethan is in time out, Garrett cries for him. Too cute! Sadly, our friends are moving to New York and we will miss them terribly! I'm sure that Garrett and Ethan will be pen pals! In this last picture Ethan is giving Garrett a "hug", although it looks like the recipient is not appreciating the friendly gesture:)

Four Years and Still Lovin' It

Aaron and I celebrated our four-year wedding anniversary on Feb. 22. We were in Reno for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, so we got to have alot of fun. Dennis and Kandi met us up there and watched Garrett so we have a romantic evening. We went to dinner at Famous Murphys (wow, the food was amazing) then saw Bill Egnval, the comedian. We had so much fun. If was funny to us that while we were away from Garrett, all we seemed to talk about is how we missed him.

We are looking forward to what the next four years has in store for the Smiths. Hopefully more cute babies and lots of love:)

How dirty was he?

Yesterday Garrett got really dirty so I decided to give him a wash and during the drying cycle he popped out to say hello. He is a true boy, into everything including climbing into the dryer.
I think Garrett can officially say he has investigated everywhere in the house.

PILOT TO CO-PILOT

Its never to young to learn the chores that lay in your future. Today the art of mowing the lawn was taught. See how the pupil learns.

Hey there are all kinds of tricks you can teach them, Garrett likes this so much I figure that by the time he is old enough to mow the lawn himself he will have a fetish for it. I should have been a psychologist. HAHA