Monsoon Season

It's true Monsoon season is officially a season now!
This was a morning rain before school. Tom had
been trimming the bushes in the backyard and
the kids found the perfect use for them....a tree-
house. I loved it! It kept them busy and they
loved playing outside in the rain. Last night was
the most awesome monsoom storm I have ever
seen in the entire time I've been in AZ. It was
amazing...thunder and lightening for hours literally
non-stop. The streaks of lightening form cloud to
cloud and down to the ground were amazing,
terrifying and beautiful. I didn't have my camera
so I don't have any pictures. I hope someone
took some pictures.

Teagan, Savannah and Caleb did a lot of work
to get these branches up on the fort. The worked
well together.

Landon enjoyed watching them work from down
below. He loves the camera and is really into
the cheesy grin whenever he see me pull out the
camera. Oh, the paci...he'll be saying goodbye to
that in the next couple of weeks. So sad, more
for us then for him.

Savannah also working on her famous cheesy
grin. I keep asking her to smile naturally but
so far not getting much other then the cheese...

Pack meeting

This is Caleb and his Den at their Pack meeting.
He is loving Scouts and has already earned his
Wolf badge. He worked hard and wouldn't stop
asking my to help hit get it done. He was very
motivated and did a great job.



This is T.B, Caleb, J.H. and M.S. (names with-
held). His leaders are behind them. We love
them, they do great work!

Opps!!

Ok, not sure how it happened, but accidentally deleted all of my blogspot links yesterday...so I tried to put some on that I remembered or could find. If you have a blog address please send it to me again, so I can get it linked back up to mine. Thanks so much!!

First day of school

Caleb was a bit anxious but had a great smile and went without complaint. Then he came home on the bus with nothing but positive things to say about his first day. Yea!!

Teagan's a trooper, not much complaining from him about returning to school. He was excited and went without any problems. He also arrived home with great things to say about his first day.

This is Teagan in line with his class. I can't believe he is in first grade already.

Smithson Reunion 2008

Tom and Caleb shooting at the gravel pit. The boys loved this!

Smithson Reunion 2008

Landon loved playing outside. He and Tom are in the fort that the Ray kids and our kids built during fall break last year, yes it was still there and they love to make the "walls" of the fort better each time we go.

Teagan (6), Caeden (5), Austin (3) - they found lots of fun bugs to play with and "take care of".

Savannah and Tom enjoying a ride on the Rays ATV

Teagan & Tom - shooting at the gravel pit