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I was doing some work for a project I am doing and had to 'surf' the web looking for some information and I came across this site. http://myhip-t.com/problem.htm It's an alternative to undershirts. I think they would be great for summer.

Thanksgiving

Thanks to our niece Kalli, I have some pictures of Thanksgiving. I forgot to use my camera, what a silly head. We were in California at Dean's sister's restaurant. It use to be an old farm house in Chino, but now is home to The Avocado House. 8 of the 10 siblings were there. We had the First Annual Smith Corn Hole Tournament. I didn't make it out of the first round. It is a lot of fun being around such a big family. Always someone to talk to, or something to do. We ONLY had 4 turkey's this year, and I don't know how many of Grandma Smith's rolls they made, but it looked like a billion. It was a great way to spend Thanksgiving. Thanks to all that made it a great day.

The USMC orders you to....

Our new home in August 2009!!

We were hoping for Hawaii and got California.

Home truly is where the Marine Corps sends you.

Not sure how we feel about it just yet. Actually I do know how we feel about it, aren't overly excited. The cost alone is a bit scary, some of the things our children will be faced with is unnerving, but we'll survive and probably make friends like we have every other place that are still friends today. The up side is that we will be close to some of Dean's siblings.

It's just hard to leave one place and go to another.

Dean will be with headquarters. Not sure where we will live.

Off on another adventure.
Sorry we won't be taking reservations for Smith's of Hawaii, but California is an option.

We offer beaches, Legoland, Disneyland, Sea World-of course your sleeping accommodations will be comped by the management. So save up those pennies, dust off the bikinis and speedos,

California here we come.

Housework

"Our house is clean enough to be healthy, and dirty enough to be happy." -Author Unknown

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."
~ Phyllis Diller

I love these. I've had a cold and haven't been keeping up on the housework, when I came across these I just smiled. Geri once said to me, "you can visit me anytime, if you want to see a clean house, give me 6 months notice." Don't know if she was quoting someone else, but it has always stuck with me. As long as our home is clean enough I would rather spend the time with our children, then scrubbing the wood floors to a high gloss shine that will get spilled on anyway. Sometimes a good reminder is needed of what is really important.

Falling Leaves

Nothing says fun like playing in the leaves. Our neighbors have a nice big tree in their yard, but we get ALL the leaves. The kids play in them until they are crushed in to little pieces so we don't have to rake.
Leaf Angels!!!
Everyday for about a week, the kids would go out and rake up a pile and run and jump in it, or throw them in the air and enjoy the great weather.

Happy Halloween

Caden wanted to have a Halloween Party this year, so I was a good Mom and let him. They had pumpkin races.
Dressed each other like mummies, watched a scary movie, Disney's Ichabod Crane, ate witches fingernails, deep fried eyeballs, ghost meat and drank ghost blood.

Just in case you don't recognize them, this is Batman, Jack Sparrow and the Magician.

Makenna, Rhett, Caden and Dean's pumpkins.

I'm an Alice

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Yep-I'm a Twilight reader. Makenna and I were at the midnight release of the book this last August and will go to the midnight showing of the movie. Hope we aren't disappointed.