Backyard Skiing!!

A Smith family tradition every time it snows more than a couple inches is to fire up the four-wheeler and snowboard/ski behind it in our parents' backyard. There's a new member of the club this year. Jensen strapped in and took some laps. He didn't act too excited, but he took lap after lap with no complaints when he would fall. Justin just kept picking him up and he would keep going. He really enjoyed it, but I guess he just took it seriously.

I wanted some good pictures this time so I borrowed Kalli's camera and we got some pretty awesome pictures. Gotta love the SLR! I love how you can see the snowflakes.

We had an awesome time, as usual. We must have been out there for about 5 hours! And sadly, my body is feeling it today. My upper body is incredibly sore! But can't wait for the next time.

Softball

Since Kalli is slacking in her blogging duties, I thought I would post another random one. (just kidding - Kalli is really busy with picture taking, and she was sick all weekend, and it's not really her duty to post blogs :)

I look forward to playing softball every fall with my brother, Justin, and some other friends. We play in a Lehi league. Our last game, Kalli had her camera and offered to take a few pictures. I'm impressed that she was able to take any since it was like 30 degrees that night. Here are some of the best ones. Thanks Kalli, you're the best!

Justin's power swing. Everyone is always amazed how far he hits the ball for a little guy! (not little to me)

My power swing! It does look like I'm blasting the ball out of the park, but I have to admit I photo-shopped this one. It was actually a pop up - I moved the ball.

Cutest fan award. My nephew, Van visiting from Washington DC.

An all-Smith outfield. We were able to sneak my brother, Jon (Van's dad) onto the team for one night (he and his wife, Melissa were visiting for the week).

5k - what was I thinking

Last Thursday night, my brother-in-law, Brian, asked me if I wanted to run a 5k on Saturday. I said "sure" and so we did. It was at Wheeler Farm in Murray. It was pretty cool to do it just for the accomplishment. I don't really like running, but like my Uncle Gery told me recently, when you get old and can't play sports anymore you have to do something to keep in shape. I think I am starting to fall into that category in my 28th year!

We ran at a pretty mild pace and finished in 26 minutes. It was much easier than when I ran it a few years ago with my little brother, Jeremy, in Bluffdale when we practically sprinted the whole thing (it seemed like it anyway). We didn't train for that one either. From what I remember, our time was around 22 minutes. That was torture!

You might notice dogs in every picture. We were wondering why there were hundreds of dogs. Then we realized the run was for some animal charity. We were dodging dogs on leashes the whole run. Kind of weird!

Looking pretty confident before the race

A sweet shot of the gun smoke. Good one Kalli!

We're in there somewhere

Left: a final sprint to the finish - I had to beat that old man! Right: happy to be done.

Not even phased by the whopping 3 miles!

Halloween

We did some fun Halloween things this year. We went to my work's trunk or treat on thursday with Lindsay, Brian, and Brayden, and then to our friend's Halloween party on Saturday night. After some convincing the week before I talked Joel into growing out his beard so we could be the "fun size" Wolverine and Rogue from X-Men. Much to our delight everyone thought Joel was a very convincing wolverine. And what holiday is complete in the J.K. Smith household without a little photo shoot?

(we need to come up with some new poses)

Yeah thats my husband, he's hot.

I couldn't take it anymore. I had to see the snow, so after class on Friday I took a little mountain excursion with Kalli's camera to take some pictures. I thought I would have to go about half way up the canyon to get to the snowy trees. I found out I would have to go a bit higher to find the good stuff. I got to Brighton Ski Resort and there was only a couple inches so I started hiking. I got about 3/4 the way up the mountain when I found 8 inches of snow and snowy trees. It was fun though; I might make it an early season tradition.

Date Night

We had a little long boarding date at the church parking lot tonight. It's been collecting dust in my trunk for over a year, yikes! We were a bit rusty (ok we've never really had skills in the first place) but it was fun!

Music Break!!

Just wanted to share a few tunes that have been keeping me pumped editing tonight. I love this girls voice!!!


No apologies on this one. I LOVE every bit of it! Tried to post the actual music video from Youtube, but embed was 'disabled'?.....LAME!
What do you guys think???

Here's a little peek at the Heaps family photo shoot last week.

Blogger sucked the color out of these pics, they don't really look like this

Need a Christmas Card photo?

Head on over to my photography blog . I'm trying something new this year, Holiday mini sessions. Just the right amount of time at just the right price to get a few pics of your family and a few pics of your little ones.

School House Rock!

I've been thinking about This all day.....I'm kind of dying to see it.....

Fun Day

We hung out with Madi and her boyfriend Scott today at his cabin. It was lots of fun! We shot guns, took pics up the canyon, ate treats, and took some more pics.

These were some of my favs so far.

Hey Gals and Pals

If you can spare a sec could you swing on over to my photog blog and fill out the survey I just posted about? I'd really appreciate it... and I'll give you a high five the next time I see you? ....and maybe a dime?(tempting right?)...........Are you heading over yet?....
*This is so great! Thanks so much to everyone who's responded so far! I'm getting some really good insights! Keep them coming!*

Hungry!!!!!

Isn't this the cutest thing!!! haaaaaa!!!! I love it! I'm not sure making "Hungry" look adorable is the best marketing scheme, but I sure love this commercial! And now I think I'm hungry.

Good Things

I have a loonnnng list of things I should be doing right now, but I need a blog break.
Growing up my family used to say "good things" at the dinner table. We had to say something good that happened to us or something we were thankful for. It was a good way to keep us positive and remember that even through out the worst days there's always something positive that happened. I felt like I needed a little reminder today about the positives, so here are my "Good Things" for today.
*Chocolate coco puff ceareal with marshmallows and chocolate milk for breakfast. Yum! (I ususally have oatmeal or cream of wheat at work so this was a nice change)
*Getting kisses from my honey before he leaves for school.
*I got to drive to work in my car with freshly changed oil. Thanks Joel!
*I got a second part time job! Extra money is always nice.
*......hmmmm...yep thats all I got for now.

Heaps Cabin

Ahhh what a wonderful weekend. We were both in need of a little R&R last week so we went up to the Heaps Cabin to relax and enjoy some fresh air.

While we were there we:

Made smores

Took some nice naps

Read up on our National Geographic.

Took some pics

Rock climbed
And took a nice drive up the mountain.

This was the only bad part about the trip......we saw snow....I was not very happy about that... Joel was thrilled.

Joel, thanks for a fun weekend and for loving me even when
I'm stressed and cranky. Love you! xo