The Smith's.....of Fayetteville, Arkansas

Another Belt Testing

2009-06-08T19:28:00.001-05:00

Jordan did a great job on his Red Belt testing this week. His pattern was crazy! It had 120 moves that he memorized with no problems. We are proud of our little samurai warrior! Good job Jordan! Keep up the hard work...

House Update

2009-06-07T13:52:00.005-05:00

The brick exterior is on and the drywall and texture are done. They are laying tile and doing the trim work this week. The cabinets are suppose to be installed this Sunday. We can't wait to see them! The garage doors will be installed next week as well. The house looks great and we are very happy to be almost done with it. We can't wait to move in soon! Check out more pics on our photo album link to the right ---->

Root Rocket Talent Show

2009-06-04T14:14:00.000-05:00

On the last day of school Jordan got to perform in the school talent show doing one of his taekwondo patterns. He was excited to do it and all the kids thought he was really cool. There were a lot of great performances from many of his fellow schoolmates too. Jordan is now a big 3rd grader!

Our House

2009-05-12T22:48:00.004-05:00

35 days in and things are moving right along. We were told that the drywall should be done by the end of May. The brick exterior should be on as well if we are lucky. We hope to have it done before school starts in mid-August. We'll see....

Jason Mraz

2009-04-29T13:47:00.002-05:00

Tonight we got to enjoy the Jason Mraz concert in Tulsa, OK. The Plain White T's opened up for them. Thanks to my parents we got to do a meet and greet with Jason prior to the show. He was a really cool guy and down to earth. The kids were a little nervous but they did good and took this picture with him. The show was awesome! He has some mad vocal skills!

Ice Storm 2009

2009-02-01T22:01:00.000-06:00

Well, 2009 is off to a rough start so far. We just went through the worst Ice Storm Fayetteville has ever seen. We were without power for 6 days straight. The kids enjoyed not going to school but they soon realized it wasn't as fun being without the electricity to watch tv or play on the computer. We toughed it out a couple of the nights even with the temp getting down in the upper 40's in the house! We then packed up all our stuff and pets and checked in to a hotel for a few days to keep from freezing. The sounds of trees snapping and crashing down came every couple of seconds. At night the cloudy sky would light up with a blue tint as the power pole transformers blew up. It was a pretty spooky sight. We are settling back in as of Superbowl Sunday and were able to watch the game with the power coming back on that afternoon. Check out our pics on our photo album link to the right. Some have a blue tint because I didn't realize the mode the camera was in...

12 Days til Christmas

2008-12-13T21:19:00.000-06:00

...and Santa gave to me.....Lots of lights to hang, on a wonderful house, for a beautiful fam-il-y!

Thanksgiving Leftovers

2008-11-29T21:26:00.000-06:00

Not for me of course! But a local hawk that we happen to stumble upon as we were driving through downtown St. Louis during the Thanksgiving Holiday. Chow Time!

Thanksgiving in St. Louis

2008-11-27T21:33:00.000-06:00

This year we decided to try out a new big city for Thanksgiving. Last year we ventured out to Kansas City and had a great time (did I say chilly too?). This year we also had a wonderful Holiday. We stayed at a hotel next to the Mississippi River and ate a traditional meal at the Hemp Mansion. It was a very cool atmosphere with an all you can eat traditional meal. Yes, we all ate tooo much! Dad also got to play some poker at the casino that we stayed at. Mom and Meg woke up at 4am to catch all those early bird deals on Black Friday. CRAZYgirls! So, Jordan and I slept in. We took the kids to the City Museum (which is very cool place!) on Saturday for the day. I would describe it as an eclectic mixture of children's playground, funhouse, surrealistic pavilion, and architectural marvel made out of unique, found objects built inside an old 10 story shoe factory bldg. All in all, we enjoyed our 4 day trip and got to drive all the way home in snowy weather. Did I say it was cold there too??

Easter Day

2008-03-23T23:00:00.000-05:00

Today is Easter! We returned home from a weekend trip to Tulsa today to celebrate Easter and to have an Easter egg hunt for the kids. It was a little cold/windy outside (in the low 50's) so we didn't hesitate to hurry back inside to see what the Easter Bunny put inside the eggs. The kids made out with some yummy candy and a few dollars in change! Each of them also found their Golden Egg which had a $5 bill in it. We did miss our annual tradition of going out to AZ to see the grandparents but we still had fun starting a new tradition.

Where's that Easter Bunny?

2008-03-20T23:00:00.000-05:00

It's almost Easter, so we all had some fun coloring Easter eggs. Meagan picked out the camoflauge decorating set while Jordan picked out the silly faces design. They had a fun time decorating them and are looking forward to their Easter egg hunt in a few days!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

2008-03-17T23:00:00.000-05:00

Today the kids did not have school so we met up with mom for lunch and went to the Celctic Grill. Dad wanted to get some green beer and shepards pie while the kids got to enjoy their new green getup! And you thought we lived in the south...It's gangsta style out here!

Jordan turns 7!!

2008-02-07T12:27:00.000-06:00

For Jordan's 7th birthday party he wanted to celebrate with his school friends. He decided that he wanted to have his party at Locomotion. It is similar to a Boomers or Family Fun Center with video games, laser tag, go carts and mini golf. He had a great time with all his buddies, especially on the go-carts! The weather was cool (in the 40's-50's) but sunny. Our boy is getting so big!

Snow Day..No School...Yippee!

2008-01-31T12:14:00.000-06:00

Today was a family day at home due to the snow storm that blew through. We have had some pretty dramatic weather changes that we have been adjusting to. Last Tuesday I left class around 11am and it was about 70 degrees and sunny. I spent about an hour or two running a few errands and came back home to find the temperature had dropped to 30 degrees and we we had some scattered snow showers! Crazy!

The kiddo's got to enjoy making their first snow angels before it got too dark. The next day was a funfilled day of sledding and making a cool snow man!

Our Backyard Trail

2007-09-15T16:00:00.000-05:00