Birthday Time! I'm 29!!

At the beginning of September I turned 29!! Where does the time go? That day was fun. Kenny had to work nights that week, so he slept for part of the day then he woke up and I went and got my hair cut and colored. It was nice to get out by myself for a couple of hours. Then I came home to a fabulous cake and my most favorite people. Kenny made me a chocolate cake with marshmallow creme filling and a mint ganache on the bottom with a chocolate ganache on the top. DE-lish! Thanks for a great birthday!!

Families Are Forever

In July Kenny and I took a trip with the kids to St. George. It's a little over three hours away, but that is the temple district we're in. It was so nice to go and feel the spirit and peace that is there. It's hard to be this far from a temple, but I think it's good for us in the sense that we really have to plan when we go.

We also got to see my Grandma and Grandpa that live down there. I wish I had taken pictures of our visit with them, but I forgot. It was really fun to talk to my Grandma and hear some of the stories she had about raising children and all. I'm just so grateful for the gospel and the knowledge that we have that we can be together forever. I love my family!
Just the girls

Just the boys

Mom and the babes

Myles Man! He's growing up so much.

Little Wyn Lady. She totally looks photoshopped in this picture, but she's not. She was really there! :)

Families are forever!

Sister Wives

Back at the beginning of August I did a brave thing. I went on a 7 hour car ride with the kids by myself! We went up to the Boise area to visit my little sister, Tess. Her husband Ryan was gone for the week and Kenny was working nights. So we decided it'd be a fun week of sister time. And it really was!
I had never heard of the TV show 'Sister Wives' before, but Tess was telling me about it. It's a reality show about this polygamist family. Anyway, after a few days Tess and I decided that the husband sharing would be NOT cool in any way, but it would be fun to have a sister wife around to talk to and help out all day long. That week we became each other's sister wives, minus the husband sharing. So really we were just two sisters having an awesome week! :)
For some reason blogger won't let me type above that first picture, but we started out our week with a romantical evening watching the season finale of The Bachelorette! Tess was so sweet to oblige me in this request. She is not really into the show, but got these awesome treats so we could party-it-up while watching. Her old roommate Lindsay came to watch too. It was so fun! I do have to say though, I think that is my last season of the show. I just feel like it's time to stop watching. So, hold me to it cause man that show is addicting!

A few days into our trip we decided to go to ZOO BOISE! I love the zoo and was dying to take Myles since he had never been. I really can't remember why I thought this sign was funny enough to take a picture of. Do you Tess? Maybe it was because we couldn't find the lions and giraffes forever!
There were a couple of fun slides there that the boys loved!

Myles and I riding on a real tiger! :)

Myles and Graham in the "Jeep" The Zoo Boise website advertises this contraption as a "Jeep." Not exactly what I was picturing. They also advertised that they had strollers to rent. Correction: they have ONE stroller and it was rented. We were not impressed with that part of the zoo.

Tess and Graham coming down the slide!

The "Jeep" wasn't terrible, just so hard to push and Wyn couldn't ride in it, because the seat belts couldn't be tightened at all. So I carried her the whole time and pushed the crazy jeep.

Tess and Ryan recently got a puppy, Lars. Myles was wary of Lars, but loved his kennel!

Myles and Graham actually played together more this trip. And when we left they even gave each other a hug. It was so sweet!

Wyn and the T-Rex! I started moving this dinosaur toward Myles and he got kinda freaked out. I think he thought it was moving on its own. It was pretty funny!

We also got to meet up with some friends, that we miss dearly, from Walla Walla. I wish I had taken pictures! Thanks for meeting up Despains!! It was so great seeing you guys!

Sister Wives for a week!

(Again, minus the husband sharing. Don't want any weird rumors started! :))

We were so bored when we got back home with no one to play with or talk to all the day long. Until next time!! We love you Smiths!

Cakes!

Since our Nemo cake we made back in March we've gotten really into making cakes and cupcakes. It's so fun, but I might also add STRESSFUL! No, it's not that stressful, but there's so much more that goes into than I ever imagined. We really enjoy it though. Anyway, here are some of our creations.
This Little Mermaid cake is one that we actually sold. And I can't claim any of it. This was Kenny's project. He did an amazing job!

This cake we saw on a website called www.bakedecoratecelebrate.com. It's a german chocolate cake with chocolate coconut buttercream frosting. The frosting was amazing and addicting!

This is our lemon cake. Lemon pound cake with lemon buttercream icing and marshmallow fondant. We were just playing around and this is what we came up with.

This Tinkerbell cake is one we made for our niece's birthday in May. She loves Tink. Kenny did the hard part (tinkerbell) and I helped in making the butterflies. Kenny is quite amazing with his free-hand fondant art. We've decided to invest in lots of cookie cutters! It makes shaping fondant so much easier!!!

Well, that is all for now. :)

Lake Tahoe

We're back in blogland! I'm trying to play catch up before Wyn's birthday in 5 days. We'll see how I do!! :)

At the beginning of May we took a trip to Lake Tahoe for a family reunion with Kenny's side of the family. It was good to see everyone, but definitely an interesting trip.

For starters, it snowed! :) It was really pretty though.

My little Wyn Lady all ready for church. She was a little over 6 months in this picture.

Getting a bath in the sink!
We got there on a Saturday night. On Monday, mid-day, in a bowling alley, Myles threw up all over me in a bowling alley. He was running around all fine, then he came to me and wanted to be held. All of a sudden I realized he had diarhea (sorry for the details). I started walking to the bathroom and the lady who owned the alley was like, "Oh there's no changing table in the bathroom, but you can change him on the pool table." I was like, "Trust me, you don't want this one on the pool table!" How many kids have pooed on that pool table?! Ewww!! Anyway, before we hit the bathroom he started throwing up. This was his first time ever, mind you. I started calling for Kenny. Immediately my sister-in-law came to help me clean up myself and Myles in the bathroom. She was AMAZING! I couldn't have done it without her. For the next day and night Myles continued to throw up. He threw up five flights of stairs all over me. It was so CRAZY, to say the least. Myles and I didn't leave the hotel room for 2 days. Thankfully though, Wyn and Kenny didn't get sick. I started to get sick, but thanks to prayer I got better quickly. The only fun thing about Myles being sick was that he wanted to snuggle so much. I just love when he snuggles me.

This is Myles with his Auntie Krista and Uncle Kent. Doesn't Myles sort of look like a grown man in his underwear and socks? I love this picture!!

The craziness of the trip continued on Thursday when I went with my mother and sister-in-law horse back riding. I was nervous to go. Horses kinda scare me. You just never know what they're thinking about you. The ride was fine and beautiful. As I was getting off my horse, Pearl, Krista's horse (behind me) got spooked a little and started running into me a little bit, and then I realized that my mother-in-law's horse got spooked first and had thrown her off. She had to go to the emergency room. She had broken some bones in her lower back. She was a tough cookie though. I would've been bawlin' like a baby.
Seriously, this was such a crazy trip! I hope our next reunion will be much healthier and safer. Stay tuned for more recent updates! :)

The road to Nevada

On our move down to Nevada we stopped in Boise and stayed with my sister, Tess, and her cute little family. It was fun to see them. I wish we got to see them more!

In that top picture Tess looks all nice and ready for church and I'm all nice and greasy ready for a long ride in the car!

Wyn and her Auntie Tess!

This was the best picture I could get of Myles and Graham. Maybe next time we'll get one of both their faces!

Sweet Graham!

Ryan and Kenny pulling each other around.

Miss Wyn haning out in the shade.

It was so fun to see them!! Someday I hope to be neighbors!

Goodbye Walla Walla

Goodbye to a good townhome, a good city, a good ward, and good friends.

My friend Danielle and I had babies a week apart. It was so nice to be able to talk with someone who was going through the exact same thing at the same time. We both had our first girls, so that was fun too! Saying goodbye to Danielle and her family was so sad!!

A Goodbye Party

Our good friends had a goodbye party for us. It was tons of fun and sad too. We're so thankful to have met so many wonderful people.

Here's all of us together one last time...until our reunion on the golf course, I mean! :)


Just the guys. I had a really hard time getting a serious picture from them. I seriously took like ten pictures of them.

Just the girls.

Cheerleading pose!

These girls were so much fun! We had many a girl's nights that made us feel like we were fifteen again. I only wish we all would've started hanging out two years ago instead of 6 months ago!

We miss you Walla Walla!!

We still have Mario Cart though, right? :)