Road Trip is over in less than 24 hours!

This little Smith Clan has been enjoying 2 weeks of VACA! Maps are all different scales. (More details of each trip will be added when we get home.)


Trip 1 - To see the J and J Smith Clan! Mesa, AZ to Fairfield, CA

We had a blast with Josh, Jenni, Caden, Austin, and Koby!

Trip 2 - Over the hills and through the woods to [GRANDMA'S] house we [went]! Fairfield, CA to Logan, UT

Trip 3- Loaded up the people and traveled with family to McCall, Idaho! Logan/Brigham City, UT to McCall, ID
AND BACK to LOGAN!

Trip 4- Was much much much shorter! Logan to Salt Lake City
We met up with Lyndsey and Skylar for some Iggy's and a hike to the Avenues!

Trip 5- Salt Lake City to PaRk CiTy, Utah!!! Alpine slides and shopping!
AND BACK TO SALT LAKE CITY!

Trip 6- Will happen today... Home Sweet Home! Salt Lake City to MESA!!! Yahoo!



Hope to see you soon!

HAPPINESS IS...
Safe travels
Clean Hotel Rooms
Visiting Family
Spending Money! : )
The Camry!
Hubs that loves maps!
Bonine (like Dramamine)

WOW.

On Facebook, I saw some of my family members joining Pray for Ruby Jane and wanted to see what it was all about...

WELL, This story just opened, softened, and broke my heart... even tugged on some heart strings!

Happy thought for Ruby and her family!
www.aniandmatttaylor.blogspot.com

Happiness is...
the power of prayer
love
memories
family

Daniel turned 29 on Friday! We celebrated all week long!

On Tuesday, June 7th, His parents had a birthday dinner for him and Abby his niece who turned 1! Daniel received many awesome presents. This one makes me laugh the most..

Jenni & Josh gave Daniel this Camelbak. He filled it with tissue paper and water to try it out! He walked around the house with it doing homework and cooking dinner! Thanks for the super cool "fourteener"!


On Thursday, June 9th, Lilly and Landon came over so Kyle and Val could go on a date. We made dinner and cupcakes to surprise Daniel when he came home from work.

Before we ate, I asked Landon to say the prayer. He said "Dear Dad, Why did you take mom on a date, to get married? Goodbye."

Lilly and I looked at each other and laughed. Landon tried again and did much better. : )

L & L helped me wrap presents. We ran out of tape so we used stickers! Landon was so excited to watch Daniel unwrap presents.


On June 10th, Daniel’s actual birthday I made him take me to the social security office to officially change my name. It was quite an adventure. We drove to phoenix and spent 30 minutes with a room full of personality. Afterwards, we met up with Daniel’s Mom and sister at Joe’s Farm Grill. While the kids and I waited for food we entertained ourselves with a photoshoot. Kate, Logan, and Seth all took turns taking glamour shots!





For Dinner, we hit up Liberty Market with some friends and then hit up SUPER 8. (The movie). It was an experience. You’ll have to see it to understand.
We rarely go to movies but after seeing Super 8, we wanted to see something else. On Saturday, we saw Midnight in Paris. Another interesting movie... Better luck next time.


RaNdOM hIGhlIGhts -

Daniel left for work one day this week looking like this... I loved the brown bag look!

Super awesome wedding present - This week, we got these cards! We also realized that card games cause contention! We played many rounds of go fish, since we couldn't remember the rules to any other games.




HAPPINESS IS...
Birthdays
Free food
new toys
Family
L & L at our house
stickers as tape
card games
photographs
Summer!

All caught up! Get ready for Randomness!

We'll now our blog is pretty much caught up... now do I dare make a goal to post on here daily? I'll try for the month of June. The task is to see if it keeps me away from Facebook... so far it has. What has been truly amazing of my 2-3 days of blogging all this is the memories that have flooded my mind! I have already seen several typos... that's the joy of reading my blog. I have been so motivated to blog. Nuts since I'm not motivated to grocery shop or clean anymore of the house.

This morning, I went outside to find my neighbor moving... makes me sad and anxious to see who moves in. They have been awesome neighbors!

Summer lunch dates are my FAV! I don't get to go out to eat very often during the school year so I love making up for lost time. I met Daniel for lunch today at Jimmy John's! So good, you better check that place out!

I came home and caught a rerun of Oprah... I miss the days of watching Oprah daily in college!

Tonight, I think we will try to tackle some yardwork! I know you are jealous!

HAPPINESS is...
computers that work
neighbors internet
Soda
motivation
lunch dates
doing fun things
blogging my thoughts
memories captured on camera
Oprah
pretty yards!

Mesa Arizona Temple

June 1st! I spent the morning with Ashley at the Mesa Arizona Temple. I love that place.
Afterwards, we treated ourselves to Ned's Krazy Subs! YUMM!

Daniel has been working this week and came home to this.... What a lazy blogger!

Happiness is…
TYPOS
Blogging
Friends who are examples
High school buddies
Girl talk
The temple
Beautiful flowers
Peace
Faith
Religion
Mesa, Arizona

Laundry Mess & Blogs!

Tuesday, May 31st!
This is super embarrassing – too much going on to worry about this… first,second, and third day of summer it got tackled!
These piles of colors were in one of our guest bedrooms. haha



Last night the pile looked like this...


Now it is hanging in my closets! : )

These made my laundry task easier! I think everyone who hangs clothes needs this!

Love these for hanging laundry! I searched Walmart, Target, Big Lots and was emptied handed. My mom found some for me today at Big Lots! Yahoo! It makes laundry a million times better especially when you have too many clothes to wash at once... Time to get rid of more clothes!
Daniel started a summer class called PROJECT MANAGEMENT -He is devising a plan to clean up our house! It was pretty entertaining to hear his ideas!

Yesterday between loads of laundry I chatted with Becca about awesome blogs…
Well that consumed me! I am so impressed with people’s blogs! I love LOVE love looking at them!

My friend Mandi, told me she got rid of Facebook and is now just blogging! I kind of want to try it! I think I’m addicted to FB!

Teacher moment – I found this incredible blog!!! (My ultimate dream is to teach preschool) Need something to keep the little ones busy print some of these :
http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/preschoolpacks.html

Math Website - for all grades!
http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-1

Tonight while Daniel did homework, I ran errands with my madre. I told Daniel I was going to get his birthday presents. He informed me that he wanted me to buy him hiking boots. I told him to use his graduation money and he explained that presents aren’t as cool when you buy them yourself… How fun is it when you tell someone else exactly what you want. Needless to say, I think he ordered his boots and I shopped (It’s been a long time, it was so fun! I didn’t even buy anything for me.) His presents are waiting…. The countdown is on! 8 Days to go!



HAPPINESS is…
Clean clothes
Smell of laundry detergent
Warmth of the dryer
Shopping with my ma
Buying gifts
A Clean Hallway!!!
energy to get things done
SUMMER BREAK!

WeLcOmE SUMMER!

Welcome Summer! Memorial Day Weekend!

Last Friday, we drove to Payson to hang out with Pops at the cabin. I had a relaxing weekend, reading by the pool in the mountains while the boys entertained themselves. Daniel and my dad played HOURS of tennis! My dad was so happy to have someone to play with! Daniel started to become addicted to the game! When Daniel was playing his glasses fell off and the lens popped out. My dad called Wal-Mart and we went to get his glasses fixed. They fixed them for free! Thanks Wal-Mart!!!

Once the glasses were fixed Daniel made a wire hook to keep his glasses on his head while playing tennis. I wish I would have taken a picture. It was comical. It kind of looked like headgear. : )

When came home on Monday to party at a Memorial Day BBQ at the Gifts! Which consisted of great food, fun friends, hours of swimming, and volleyball in the pool!

We topped off the weekend ROLLERBLADING with Todd and Amy at Freestone Park!

HAPPINESS is…
Tennis
Being poolside
Sunblock
Reading Magazines
Payson, Arizona (no I don’t want to live there)
Friends
BBQ's
Volleyball
Swimming Pools
Rollerblading
Holidays
WATERMELON!