Halloween...

She came...

She saw...

She totally CONQUERED!

and...she was pretty stinking cute!

Date Night....???

Friday nights are "date nights" for Wika and myself. We really wanted to go out, however Emma had "other" plans in mind. She had come down with a pretty ugly cold and we didn't want to leave her for the night. She gets VERY needy when she is sick. So this is what we did instead....

We went to Quizno's picked up some sandwiches, came home and had a "picnic"
Emma LOVED it. We set it up in the family room so we could sit and eat and watch a movie. We watched "Fantastic Mr. Fox"...wierd movie, but Emma was entertained as it was animated so that was ok. I know it wasn't a typical date night for us, but really who wants "typical"??

Random Update...happenings in the GSmith household

I know you have all been dying wondering what we have been up to...well today is your lucky day! And boy is it a good one!

I recently was giving myself a pedicure...and of course who also wanted one??
Here is the final product!
I love little toes!

I think we may have found Emma's calling in life...the girl can trim hair!! Wika needed a haircut badly, and well she just wanted to help!! We let her have at it!

I am thinking it may be time to get Emma an ACTUAL doll. She just likes to put her "babies" to sleep. It's really quite cute...

She has to find them a pillow and blanket. She gets them all tucked in and then she sits next to them and while stroking their faces she sings to them. And the song is usually "I love to see the Temple" or even "Teach me to Walk"

SO PRECIOUS!!
(Tigger...and a dinky baby doll)

Pretty much, anything stuffed is a baby. And just an fyi...those babies sometimes join us for dinner where she will have to make sure they are fed as well!

( a moose-in her bed)

And last...October 11th was Canadian Thanksgiving...so I obviously had to celebrate with a Turkey!!I know it's a bit small, but when you are only feeding 5...it was plenty!

So delicious...looking forward to Thanksgiving #2 next month! It's great being

CANA-MERICAN!

OH...so this is Henry, my brother-in-law. He offered to make dessert for Thanksgiving...

this is what he made!!

SO HEAVENLY!

It's Banoffee Pie. (banana and toffee pie)

D.I.V.I.N.E!!

'nough said!

The End!

8 years ago...

I went on a date with this guy....

(*no this isn't a picture of our first date, but it's a good one)

He took me out for shrimp and oysters...yuck...and then he introduced to me Anime....

I didn't care for any of it! I mean...I didn't care for the food, or the movie...but my date?!?! He was pretty HOT! He was a definite keeper!

So 2 years after that "awesome" date, I married that man!

6 years down, and ETERNITY to go!! Yeah...I am pretty lucky!

Happy Anniversary to US!

Here we go UTAH here we go!!

So I know this comes as a big suprise, but we are pretty DIE HARD Utah fans!! I know, you must be shocked!! That's why when my WONDERFUL cousins played, what I would call the best, practical joke EVER on us, I about passed out. It really is that hard to see THAT much BLUE!!

So I wanted to make myself feel a bit better so I made these!

I took them to our ward party, to give them to our BYU devoted Bishop. As well as our friends the Araki's. I too wanted to wish them a very happy Independence Day as well!! :o)

Then once I made those cookies, I was feeling pretty good...but I still needed something else. So last weekend for the game against UNLV we got Emma all decked out in her Utah pride. And well, look at that face, she makes all those bad feelings of BYU blue, GO AWAY!!

We are SO excited for this Football season, can you tell??

GO UTES!

The Fair at the PNE

Every year we get SO excited for the fair...we LOVE it. Yes, we spend too much to get into the fair, and then we spend too much on the food at the fair, and on top of all that, we usually get suckered into one of the demo's and end up purchasing something while at the fair. This year was NO different! We did it all...with the exception of going on the rides, that truly is where we draw the line. They want us to pay $60/adult and $45/child under the height of 46 in. and well, that is just ridiculous. So we didn't do the rides! We did get the food, because who doesn't like fair food, and we did get suckered into a demo!! We purchased a steam mop...but it isn't just a mop it steams and sanitizes EVERYTHING! We LOVE it. We spent one day just taking it around the house to see what we could steam...so much fun eh?

So they had this candy exhibit there...all about the histories of SO many different types of candies...you could just smell the sugar when you walked in. I actually got a bad headache from it. But this picture is of course, Elvis, but it is made entirely out of candy. I thought it was pretty cool.

Emma LOVED the fair also. She got to eat cotton candy, watch "Super Dogs", a parade and go to KC Bear's Street Party!! And boy was it a party!

She LOVED the street party. She got to get out and DANCE DANCE DANCE. Then she got to go meet some of her FAVORITE people/characters in the whole world.

SUPER WHY!

Curious George

Clifford

Care Bears!

(ok, she doesn't know the care bears yet, but she was pink and that is all she "cared" about)

Emma sure loved meeting all the characters...she just kept asking to see Mickey Mouse, so to my sweetheart, we should get planning our trip to Cali or Florida...I am not picky...so Emma can met her FAVORITE mouse!

That's all! :o)

Potty Time...take 2!

So potty training has been going VERY well. She has filled up her very first chart. She now gets to take that chart to the toy store, and trade it for a new toy!

On the down side, no poop in the toilet yet. And I am most certainly not enjoying cleaning poop out of underwear. So, I have changed the chart up a bit. She now has to fill the "poo poo" chart as well as the "pee pee" before she can get a toy. Let's hope it works.

So potty time, TAKE 2!