a wedding - part 2

After all the hustle and bustle a wedding can bring, most of us headed to Canon City, Co and played our remaining vacation away. My kids, adults included hardly got a wink of sleep our entire stay.

As is the Smith way, and is almost a sin to not dirt bike when together. Honestly, I don't think we've ever not dirt biked. It took my kiddos a bit to warm up to the idea of riding but towards the end they were practically begging. They loved it and we all had a total blast!

I love this guy. I crush his smile. Well, I crush all of him, but oh his smile...

Poor Janai. Gemma had so much fun with her that she wouldn't let Janai put her down. Im sure she was worn out and would have loved to have done something else but she was a super aunt!

Vance and his Momma. She's pretty much amazing and did lots with her grand babies. (It was wonderful)

Sister of the bride, Kim whom is a work-o-holic and i never see anymore and her boy Brad.

And to finish it all off, we did some quick rock climbing and I mean quick. Above is Steve setting the line and then I went up right after him and then we hiked back down to our cars and headed to a BBQ. See, really quick.

Maybe its just me and the fact he's been gone a week for work, but seriously, he's so hot. Yes?

a wedding - part one

Meet Robyn.

The lovely bride NOW wife to the handsome and lucky man Luke Phillips. (Not sure why I don't have a picture of the cute couple.) They married on my anniversary of April 14th and it was quit a party. Really it  was, we danced our hearts out! Well, most of us. Vance was bashful until the end where, with the help of Steve, accomplished a pretty awesome back flip.

Im sorry, but is he not THE cutest dressed kid you ever did see?! Im surprised he kept that hat on as long as he did.

My dearest Gemma had me wanting to tare my hear out before all the shenanigans. She cried and cried and wouldn't get dressed to save her life. Finally, she passed out so Vance and I just headed to the Temple for the Sealing and hoped she'd make it dressed with the rest of the kids to the Denver Temple.

Finally, after all that stress of getting so many people showered and dressed, we all got loose and boogied. Including my little ones. Not even exaggerating, from the time the music started, v did not stop moving until it completely ended. He is my groovy boy and will always love a good beat.

My bashful husband. I tried so hard to get him out on the dance floor to bust some moves. Granted he did dance. Ill give him some credit. But when called out into the middle of the dance circle, he totally chickened. Couldn't believe it. Love you babe.

My twirly girl! She loves twirling.

Ambreigh knows how to rock it too. She's a darling little groover and I think V at times felt like he had to step it up a notch. These 2 cousins don't see enough of each other and it kind-a makes me sad. I always loved growing up playing with my cousins.

easter

Im kind of really behind, I know. But I haven't had a computer in sometime. Our Ward didn't have anything planned for easter this year so we had our egg hunt in our dirty unfinished backyard. The kids loved it just the same. 

This year Gemma was super helpful in making sure her brother had plenty of eggs for himself. She really can be a sweet heart.

The Easter Bunny came to our house after our afternoon naps due to the fact church is early in the morning and Gem and I didn't get back from the Easter Pageant until 12:00am.

new camera and the lizard

Back in March I gifted myself a Canon Rebel T3! I have no clue how to really use the darn thing and it's a bit overwhelming. I hope to have it mastered someday.  This day though I thought I'd give it a try for a mini shoot in my backyard when a lizard had my kids totally distracted. Especially Gemma.

She was totally heart broken that she couldn't catch it. There was nothing I could do to make it better so I just took pictures of the whole meltdown.

Gem finally gave up to her dismay. She tried and tried though to get that lizard.

adventuring

 For Christmas Vance gifted me some climbing shoes and for my birthday, I got rope. This past Saturday, he took me up to Mt. Lemmon to test them out! When we moved to Marana, we had no idea we'd be living around the corner from my cousin Ben. Thanks to him and his wife, we had sitters!
It was a total BLAST! Thanks baby cakes!

He's pretty amazing.

26 and 3

 This is what 26 looks like... Blah. I feel so old especially when i feed the missionaries.

But Gemma turned 3 on the 6th!! She was so excited and high energy the entire day about it.

 G stole her brothers T-Rex because her cute poodle wasn't cool enough.

 Danced with the servers at Texas RoadHouse. It was HILARIOUS!

She got a BIG Texas sized "YEEHAA!" thanks to our super awsome waiter. She sat on the saddle and everything.

Im so proud of you Gemma! I love you infinity times!