Doctor Smith

It's official, Cameron is a Doctor. I am so proud of him. He has worked hard and done well in school, there have been countless times when I have thought that it's a good thing he's the one in school and not me, if it were me the entire household would be in complete chaos with each approaching exam. With Cameron I had to keep reminding myself that he is in school and we can't play all day with him. on occasion I would ask him when his next exam was and he would shrug and say, "oh tomorrow morning at 8" seriously... if that were me, everyone and their mother would know when all my tests were based on my level of stress and beastliness. Thankfully he is so smart, and calm about everything, and I lOVE that about him. Now don't get the wrong idea, this is not to say that he didn't study or that I didn't spend countless nights putting the kids to bed on my own, I'm just saying that he is amazing and because of him over all we have loved the student life and will look back with fondness at this time period. I could go on and on talking about how incredible my husband is but I wont... this time...

The kids were.... well... kids during the graduation. Grant was the easiest, he was content to play with Grandma Net, then he noticed Grandma Louise sitting down the row and hustled over to her lap to promptly fall asleep, and he slept the entire time. Grandpa Bob tried to keep the other two entertained by folding origami boxes, cranes and bow ties for them, they were thrilled, but it was a two hour ceremony and my kids can't play with anything without loud sound effects so I tried to encourage them to just hold the "paper toys" and that's just not very fun. they attacked the diaper bag and scarfed down three granola bars each and were still asking for more before it was all said and done.

It was fun to have so much family come for his graduation,

From left to right, Bill (Cameron's Dad), Louise (Cameron's mom), Katelyn, Amy (my sister, poking her head over Dallin) Dallin, Cameron, Becky (my tall sister who doesn't need to poke her head over anyone because she is generally a few inches taller then everyone else), Grant, me, Lynette, (my mom), Bob, (my dad).

Cameron's cousin Jenny and her Husband Blake and Cameron's Uncle Bruce and Aunt Jean where there also, they had to leave before we could get a picture with them.
If you didn't get invited and wanted to come, I am so so sorry! we had a crazy couple of weeks leading up to graduation so the awesome graduation party never got planned, or at least didn't get planned far enough to be carried out.

as we were driving I was talking to the kids about how daddy is a doctor now. I explained how he is all done learning about being a doctor and now he is a doctor. Katelyn was impressed, Dallin thought about it for a while and then piped up, "I want to be a Dragon!" so I said, "well, then you better start studying."

Thanks for all the love and support.

Soon to be our House

I know you have all been dying to see pictures of the house we are buying, and here it is in all it's full housey glory. We are excited to leave the apartment style living behind and have a back yard with a fence and a front yard with a sidewalk, talk to me in a few weeks when I realize that I haven't taken care of a yard in.... hum.... forever and I might be singing a different tune, but for now we are excited.

Front ViewBackyard

it's 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1600 square feet, it has beautiful roses, and it's own mailbox. apparently Temple TX is big on cluster, mailboxes like an apartment complex. Truthfully it wasn't a major selling point but hey its something.

It's near one of the best schools in Temple, and 2 miles away from Scott and White Hospital where Cameron will be living. We thought it would be nice to be close so he would feel welcome to visit us every once in a while.

I completely forgot to take picture of the inside while we were walking through it so we did a drive by shot the morning after we made an offer, we were heading to the airport so we didn't have time for much else. but I've downloaded some pictures from the Internet, or I should clarify, Cameron downloaded some pictures from the Internet, I've never actually done that before, so I'm not even going to pretend that I know how it's done so don't ask me.

This is the kitchen, obviously, they will be leaving the fridge and a play set in the backyard, very exciting!



Dining room or I guess it would be classified as the eat in kitchen... I think.

living room, the bright door leads to the back yard and the red room in the back is the master bedroom, we are planning to take out the carpet in this room and put in wood flooring to match the kitchen, I'm really excited about that.

cute huh? we'll take pictures when we move in with our furniture, or what we bring of it, we will need a table and couches... so if you happen to know anyone......

plus I would really like to replace the kids beds and dresser but it's not totally necessary so more then likely it wont happen.

Things are getting kinda hairy

Katelyn, loves having her hair done, the more elaborate the better, she's willing to sit for hours and hours as I find creative ways to do her hair, and she loves everything I create.... ok so the truth is, she hates it. ok "hates" is a strong word, she has a strong dislike for it. In fact she runs away screaming if I so much as glance her way with a hair brush in my hand, she really really really doesn't like having her hair brushed, but least you think that I am an insensitive mom who takes no consideration for the thoughts and feelings of my 4 year old, it's only the actual brushing out that she hates, um, "dislikes" once that is over with I can play with her hair as much as I please.... as long as there is a movie playing and I finish before the movie becomes uninteresting. and since there is no way that I would let my daughter out of the house without her hair at least brushed, I don't think I am ruining our relationship forever by trying out cute styles. hopefully we don't both end up in counseling because of this train of thought.

so here are some pictures of some of her cutest, and um, most "creative" hair styles.

Naples Open house

Cameron's brother Jordan got married to Jenny on April 25th in Utah and we had an open house for him in Naples on May 1st. It was a beautiful day and I think everyone had a great time. We are so excited to have another sister/aunt join the family.

Jenny with the girls. Lauren, Kathryn, Baby Hannah, Emily and Katelyn. They were all excited for "Princess aunt Jenny."

Thanks to Louise there was plenty of great food. Grant had so much fun eating to his hearts content, he was a complete mess by the end of the night.

Cameron loves to play with the kids, he and Katelyn had a great time goofing off together.

Katelyn loves Jenny and was thrilled when Jenny offered to let her wear the veal.

Dallin seems to be very attached to Jenny, anytime Jenny left the room he would come find me and ask where she went. When she went to change her clothes Dallin asked about her and I told him she was changing, he said, "I want to watch Jenny change!" I said, "I don't think Jenny is quite ready to have 3 year old watch her get dressed" to which he exclaimed, "but mommy I want to." I was insistent and in the end he was content to wait and sit on her lap as she opened gifts.