Presenting Our Gift

For more on his name and why he was given it, please read Unwrapping Our Gift.

Unwrapping Our Gift

Abeletham Jaycarl Smith When Trevor and Tawnya set out to name Abeletham , their fifth child and second, son, they took on the honor with blessed assurance, yet under shifting sands. For them, giving a child a name sends them forth on  an adventure of individuality, yet wrapped in the lineage of their ancestors and […]

Smith Tour Idaho: Part II

For our second installment of touring The Potato State, we are focusing our exploration on the southern portion, which may lead us into neighboring states. As our previous tour focused mainly on the Panhandle, this venture will try to avoid towns seen previously and stretch our expectations of the more arid Snake River hugging towns […]

Indoor Starts Getting Bigger

It is so exciting! Some of our little plants are growing! We now have: 16 butternut squash14 spaghetti squash5 tomato4 peas3 cabbage

Working on the Yard

So much more work to be done around here, but we made a lot of progress today. Trevor and the kids prepped for a small garden, and I did lots of weeding. The garden isn’t super big. But they did it all by hand so it was as big as they had the energy for […]

Celebrating Granddad’s Birthday – 2018

What a gift pictures are! Looking back at pictures of what was just another birthday celebration and fun, not knowing it would be our last to celebrate his birthday with him.

Family Trip – March 2018

We took a fun family trip in March of 2018. We stopped first at the beach in San Francisco before heading to San Jose for an Earthquakes game. We visited a church on Sunday morning, and then we went to Palo Alto for Adeliza to buy herself an American Girl doll she’d been saving for. […]

My Girls Love to Bake

March 2018 – Baking a Cake

I Love My Son’s Art!

I always love Azri’s art. He loves to draw with pens, usually one color, but recently he’s been using more color. I love these recent pictures. One is of a soccer player. The other is Azri, Daddy, me, and Avalina. He even wrote my name on the picture!!!

Rag Curls

Last night, March 16, 2018, we decided to try rag curls. I cut old dish towels into strips and rolled their damp hair. After sleeping overnight on them, which Ama said was comfortable and Adi disagreed, we blow dried them a little more. Then, after breakfast, we unwrapped them. They had better ringlets than I […]

St. Patrick’s Day Eve at school and home. Fun!

Special Day with Avalina

Whitney and Audrey’s Birthdays

A Very Special Sunday

SPCF Basketball Awards 2018

A Cute Valentine’s Day Lego Set

Our Easter Garden

U-Conn Basketball Practice

4th Grade Mission Presentations

Finishing San Gabriel Arcangel Mission