Happy Late Easter!

We had a great Easter!  We missed seeing Mary and Wess, but the poor Nana was sicker than sick.  We started our day with an egg hung before heading off to church where Jamison was ordained to the priesthood by his Grandpa Judy.  I'm so proud of him and this huge choice he has made.

Jamison outlining Trae while Bekham is taking this liberty to draw on Trae.

Bekham and Mason opening their surprises from Nana & Papa.

Jamison and Grandpa on Easter Sunday

Grandpa and his Smith grandsons

Judy grandparents and the boys.

Counting their coins after their egg hunt at Grandpa & Grandma's

 

 

This would be Trae who decided it would be a fun idea to go through the tunnel...

Bekham got a hold of my phone and decided to take a self portrait. 

 Jamison had a fun, wild, crazy, never again sleepover for his birthday with a group of his buddies.  I think it got a bit out of hand at 1:00 a.m......

He could not find any invites, so he decided to go with some princess ones and this is what he ended up getting as a present!  So well deserved!

And here is Mason trying on the gag gift of fingernails...

After all the fun is done, it is back to lacrosse business.  We have lacrosse Monday through Saturday and sometimes even Sunday.  It has made us poor moneywise, but I would never trade the time that it gives us with the kids. 

Trae ready to shoot the ball at the Bountiful game.

Rare moment of happiness from Bekham... although, I do believe that immediately following this picture he was dragged off of the playing field kicking and screaming....

Jamison found entertainment at the game by tossing pinecones at any passerby.

Happy Birthday, Jamison!

It is Jamison's 12th birthday today.  He is now old enough to go to the Young Men's class and hold the priesthood.  Next school year, he will be moving into the big jr high school.  ... Now if those aren't scary thoughts I don't know what else could be.  Unfortunately, he gets to celebrate his birthday watching his brother play lacrosse and freezing in the cold temps and snow.  Next week he'll get his own birthday party. 

Life is moving quickly.  I say that every time I get on here to post, but it really is.  With the 3 older boys all playing lacrosse this year, Jamie is the head coach of Mason's team, helping coach 2 other teams, plus field manager and stat taker for the high school team, and me being on the high school lacrosse board our lives are now officially consumed with lacrosse. 

Bekham is proving to be the child that is blowing his brothers out of the water with his naughtiness.  You know those children that scream and throw themselves down in the store aisle?  Well, I always thought it was a discipline thing... (and some of them obviously are), but he is proving that theory incorrect...  He is the child that just scaled the cupboards while I was picking up his empty water cups off the table and throughout the house (think of the movie Signs here) so he could eat a chocolate exlax...  He is the child who escaped outside and I had to chase and capture kicking and screaming while in my sports bra (I was then seen by my neighbor who wanted to have a conversation with me)... He is the child who you can hear screaming every time we are out in public (and in the house), but most especially at the lacrosse games and practices...  He is my child who slammed the pantry door open and put a hole in it... He is talented enough to scream straight through most of the day and half of the night and still have a voice... Yes, all of these things have happened this week alone.   Oh I forgot to mention that this is also the child that decided to join me running on the treadmill...  But he is an adorable hat model!

The little devils

It was a rough morning the other day.  It started with Jamison running out of the shower and screaming "MASON. You are dead."  Mason just sat there as if nothing was amiss.  I guess I should have realized that that meant he had done something big.  Jamison proceeds to tell us that he was washing his hair in the shower and he picked up his cup (I'm not sure why he uses a cup to rinse his hair while in the shower, but we'll just go with it) to rinse his hair.  He said it was already filled with water and so he stuck his fingers in it to test the temperature.  He said it was cold for some reason and was about to dump it on his head when his nose caught a smell.  Then he decided to inspect it a bit closer when he realized not only did it have a smell, but it was yellow!... yes, please let your mind grasp this bit of information, put the evidence into order, and you will come up with the same ending that I did.  All this time Mason didn't even move, okay, so maybe the corners of his mouth came up a bit, but otherwise, he sat as cold as stone.  I'm not sure what he was trying to get even with Jamison about, but he felt he was justified.  I don't know, maybe it was the soap on the toothbrush or finding his toothbrush in the garbage that pushed him over that edge, but that kid sure knows how to plot and follow through!
As our morning went on, I hear Bekham giggling like crazy in the living room.  At this point, I'm just happy that this littlest monster is not screaming or banging his head on the hard floor and I leave him be.  After a bit he runs to get me to show me what he's been laughing about and this is what I find....

YES, that is our cat shoved into the book case with the door closed and YES, Bekham put her in there.

So that was my morning, all before 8 a.m.  I know there was more that went on, but we'll just leave it at that.  Someone said it sounded like a wine and coffee day and have to agree with them 100%!

Hunting 2012

Hunting was so much fun this year.  Who knew my stress about not working would come in handy because for the first time in years I didn't have to stress about work while we were hunting.  It was kind of nice to be free from the phone calls.   We really missed Brett, but he assures us that he will be joining us next year.

We did things a bit differently this year and decided to forgo the Arches, but in turn, went to the sand dune.  It was the best decision ever.  The kids had so much fun!  I posted a few videos below of them sliding down the sand hill, digging, burying, rolling, anything that their little minds could come up with to do in the sand.

Mason is up there somewhere.

The littles and Cynthia burying Jamison

Jamison and Bekham sliding down the sand dune

Ninja Mas.  He decided this costume 2 days before Halloween.  Crafty and homemade seemed to be the theme this year.

The ballerinas!  They were hilarious and manly enough to pull something like this off.

The 4 Smith Boys

What Trae wore to school on Halloween.  "Too Legit"

Some of the kids that came to celebrate Trae's 15th birthday.

Trae and Tyler at his birthday party

Trae's 15th Birthday!

 

Hunting Videos

Falling behind again, but it's fall so I have an excuse...

It's officially fall here and although I love summer, I love the changing colors of fall.  We took the boys to the fair a few weeks ago and although, it was hotter than it has ever been, the boys had some fun.  Bekham loved the big yellow slide.  We would get to the bottom and he would try to run back up.  We went twice hoping he would get over it, but in the end had to drag him away kicking and screaming.  Funniest thing ever seeing this tiny little guy wanting to go again on the giant yellow slide!

Grandpa is mooing back at the cows.

Daddy and Mason enjoying some shade

Mason, Jamison, and Bekham

Trae waiting for the next text....

Bekham stole Daddy's hat at Trae's football game

My little helper smashing out the pizza dough.

Sssshhhhh.... Don't tell anyone, but....

Jamie shaved Trae for the first time!  I'm surprised Trae survived the moment because Jamie and I were dying with laughter.  He had all of these horrible scraggly loooong hairs that we would try to yank out while we were tucking him into bed at night, but those suckers were stuck in there.  Trae's skin is baby smooth once again now that Jamie helped shave him up.  I won't even think about the fact that he is getting older, but just the hilarity of the situation.

Trae getting his first shave from his Dad

Another fun angle of the moment.

Jamison and Bekham hanging around the house

The chickens roosting on the fence.

Big Steps

Trae and Jamison have been working hard and made the leap (dunk) to be baptized to become members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on August 11th.  I'm so proud of them!  They had amazing missionaries come teach them and we enjoyed our time with them. 
Trae has shown such maturity and strength in leading his brother to be baptized.  Although, Trae did want his own day to be baptized and even went as far as scheduling his own baptism several hours after the one I scheduled so he could be the star.  The kid lost that war and we had 1 party and 1 time for both boys to be baptized. 
Grandpa came down on the 9th to give Trae the priesthood.  It was an amazing experience and something Trae has wanted for almost a year now.  I'm so glad that he made this goal for himself and so proud that he followed through.

Grandpa, Trae, and Jamison

Proud Grandpa and Trae

Grandpa and Jamison

Grandpa and the 4 Smith Boys (Don't mind Mason's hair or the fact that he isn't wearing a tie... He is his own person LOL)

Labor Day Weekend

I can't believe that summer is officially over.  We had an amazing weekend at the resort.  Jamie had to work, but made the times he was there memorable.  We went fishing, hung out at the new little farmer's market they had, attended the chili cook-off (which by the way, we found a picture on the resort's website of the 1st place winner and guess who was right there in the picture eating his chili like nobody's business??  HAHA!  Funniest picture I've seen in awhile.  Mason is awesome!), to the park, swimming, and the kids had a riot hanging out with all of the kids.  Grandma and Grandpa made the short drive to have dinner with us and have some fun.   The thunderstorms were amazing and so loud in the trailer.

Throwing rocks in the stream is serious business...

 Mason was working on making a pole with a stick and some fishing line he found.

The only picture I got of Trae this weekend.  Isn't he precious?

Bekham, Jamison, and Mason awake and ready to party the day away.

Jamison caught a fish, but unfortunately there are no pictures of the fish because he claims the fishy was slippery... uh-huh, whatever buddy....

Jamison is #1 at the funny looks.

And here is a reminder to never leave a toddler alone when he has gone quiet...
He and kitty Korra had a lovely time though...