Birthday

I had a wonderful birthday this year. I woke up on the 16th and went to breakfast at this nice little place called Food for Thought with my Mom and sister Amber. It was delightful. We then went to Unwind (a knitting store) where my mom bought me some pre-dyed yarn to make washcloths and hats (that's as far as I've gotten with knitting). I picked out some super cute yarn and then we went home. I walked in my door and saw this...

My sweet husband had been slaving away on this end table for me. I've wanted one to go right here in my house for a long time now and just haven't gotten one. This table was a lot of hard work. He found it in all its beauty from the 60s BRIGHT ORANGE and out in one of the sheds at his parents house. He had to strip the orange paint off and fix it up all nice. Thanks to his little sister Leslie they were able to work on it together and finish it up on time. It is perfect and I love it. Christian also re-framed one of our pictures that I got him for his birthday when we were juniors in high school. The frame had broke on it and I'd been meaning to get it framed again. AND THEN he also got me a clearplay DVD player! My dream come true because I LOVE watching movies, and so many of the movies that I really want to see (like Happy-go-lucky, or Rachel Getting Married, or Slumdog Millionare) are rated R and cuss a lot and I hate watching movies like that, I just didn't grow up watching them and I don't like it when you have to wade through all the filth to get a little bit of good. So ANYWAY what this dvd player does is filters all the crap and edits it. So I'm really excited for that. We haven't gotten to use it a lot yet since we've been gone but I'm sure it will be super. And then to round it all off we left at 10:00 pm that night to go to Costa Rica! Thanks to Christian and My family and friends it was a really nice day. Christian is a real thoughtful guy and I'm super grateful for him.

Out of the office....

Back in 7 days.

Graduation!

Our little sister Leslie is graduating, and with silver cords even! Something Christian and I never did! (we graduated but not with silver cords, we graduated with gold cords...or no cords, I can't really remember). Anyway we're real proud of the person she is and has become. She's super awesome. We love you Les! Way to be.

Signs of Hope International

GET THE WORD OUT! Signs of Hope is growing at an incredible rate. In order to help spread the word about this remarkable organization we've decided to post our video on YouTube. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsDFCwmaQnY .

Complaints

After receiving a few complaints about the graphic nature of my ear picture I have decided to update my blog so that it's not the first thing you see. We haven't done too many super cool things lately, not yet anyway, but Christian can still jump really high and Titan is still a hoot. So...that's really the update. Oh and Christian has finished school for the summer and I'm super excited to start working for Signs of Hope International again. (www.signsofhopeinternational.org). We will be taking some trips to St George in the summer and hopefully a more exotic trip in June or July. We'll keep you posted. Anyway that's about it.

This is just me trying to express my hidden talent in photography. My father in law just had some old stuff laying around out side and the sunset was hitting it perfectly and I thought it looked really cool. Do what you want with it.

Every year we have a big bonfire with Christians relatives. It's always real special.

And this is our dog, Titan. We take him to the park and play with him and when he gets a little too hot he just plops down in the water. He's real funny and we sure do love him. Way to be Titan.

And this is my high flyin' man. He just decided instead of going around the river like the rest of us have to do he'd cut the time in half and jump across beating us by a mile. Show off. JK. But I am real proud of his gastrocnemius'.

the grand adventures of Les and Mishy

Gross! I had a slight accident with a tiger when I was in Africa. Or I got ear surgery. You choose. But the tiger is cooler so....
It's like dumb and dumber except we didn't try and lick the poles. And thank you for admiring me helmet. After 3 concussions from snowboarding it's like a prescription from the doctor. Either I wear the helmet, or I die basically.

tales as old as time. beast and the beauty. from left to right.
by leslie c. smith.
Beast was sick of the beauty so right after this picture was taken she was thrown in the lava behind us and died! And then beasty became the beauty.
here we are, rock you like a hurricane. (Side note: beauty didn't really die and no animals were harmed in the making of this post. Also most of the commentary was done by les, unless it was funny, then it was me. Love ya) And in case you're wondering we had a dandy trip in St. George. Except for the lava.

One of the many reasons why I love my Dad!