Sunday, December 19, 2010

Feliz Navidad! Love the Smiths

Smith Family 2010
We have been very blessed this year. We are still living in Price Utah. The more we have been here the more I have liked it. Paul is enjoying his job at CastleView Physical Therapy. He also acts as the athletic trainer/PT for the Colleges men and women's basketball team. He loves to work with the athletes. He is also still the young mens president which keeps him really busy. I have stayed busy teaching aerobics twice a week which I'm trying to back away from a little now that I am 30 weeks along. I am the Valiant A primary teacher and help with activity days twice a month. Tacoma stays busy by going to his play group on Tuesday and Thursday and his Preschool on Wednesday. We still only speak Spanish to him at home, but once he started preschool he took off with his English. Which is a good thing but also makes me sad that we have worked so hard with his Spanish, and English comes out. So now me and Paul make him ask for things in Spanish or he doesn't get it. We have also made him say it in English than in Spanish which is neat that he knows the difference between the two languages. Tacoma is a very loving little boy he loves to say besito and give me kisses all of the time. He and Malia now play really well with each other. She would rather play with his toys so she usually carries a purse and a car when she plays. Malia has turned into a little fireball she is more demanding these days. She loves it when Tacoma chases her or gives her kisses. She knows some sign language for milk, more, no more, hot, book. She can say bebe, agua, mommy, dadda, wow wow (dog bark), alley(our dog), she recognizes a lot of animals and says their sound roars like a lion, baa baa, moo, hee hee. She is obsessed with books she loves to bring all of her books and and does the sign language for book and expects you to read to her over and over again.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Temple Square and Nativity in Nibley

We all went to Temple square a few days after Elizabeth got home from her mission. I think she froze to death but we still had fun. She is still used to being always hot and sweaty in Panama, I think it is going to take her a while to get used to Logan's freezing temperatures. We also went to a live Nativity in Nibley next to my parents house Tacoma loved the sheep, donkey and goats. My dad thought he was a city boy because he kept trying to feed the goats on the wrong end.

Sister Tracy is finally home from Panama!

My sister came home from her mission in Panama on the 4th of December. We had to wait 45 min for her at the airport with 8 grandkids running around driving everyone crazy with balloons tied to their pants. Stephs kids made her a poster and drew pictures of her mission experiences on it. There were two other families waiting for their missionaries. We were all waiting when a lady screamed at the top of her lungs It scared all of us to death we all looked at her and realized she had seen her missionary. We then all turned to see my sister come down the escalater with two other boy missionaries. All of the moms ran and held their missionary for several seconds it was really neat to see. Elizabeth is the first missionary in our family so this was a new experience for all of us. She spoke to us only in Spanish at first. Her Spanish was awesome she spoke really fast and spoke like she was singing. I stayed with her for a week after which was really fun. And she finally got to meet Malia for the first time.

Friday, November 5, 2010

Halloween 2010

This year Tacoma was a skunk and Malia was a fairy. My sister had an extra skunk costume so we borrowed that. My sister Emily came down from Roosevelt to make hair bows and tutus we had a blast we made 5 tutus and tons of bows. For Halloween we went to the ward trunk or treat in the pouring rain, but the kids still had fun.