Memorial Day

In May Ellie's headstone was installed. For Memorial Day we met my family down there and got to see it for the first time. I took a lot of pictures. The headstone turned out perfect. I hate having it but I love the way it turned out. Some flowers were brought by us, my parents, my grandma, and my aunt and uncle. I think it was my mom who brought the little elephant. I am hoping that will stay there even after they've cleaned off the flowers. I love the location that she is at. Cokeville, Wy has very special memories for me. I also love that she is next to my grandpa who I was very close to. I like to think of him watching over her. I just wish it was closer. It's only 3 hours away but that's a 6 hour round trip. We just don't make it up there all that often. We thought of going there on the way to my parent's house next week when we go up for Thanksgiving but there is probably too much snow. Wyoming gets a ton of snow and the cemetery is up this hill. I don't think our car could even make it up there if there is a lot of snow. Oh well, I guess it will have to wait until the spring.

ipad pics

Okay, so i'm at work today and i'm kind of bored. I'm off track but i'm just subbing to get some extra Christmas money. I don't have access to all of my pictures but I do have some pics on my ipad I can share. I don't usually take pics with my ipad, I think it's kind of silly to hold up a huge ipad to take pictures with, but it's nice to have if I don't have my camera around. I don't have a fancy phone so if I didn't happen to bring my camera then I can usually count on having my ipad. This thing pretty much goes with me everywhere I go. So, anyway I know the picture quality is not great, and I refuse to get into picture editing on my ipad, but this will give you a brief overview of some stuff that has been going on this year. I will add more pictures when I am at home with my desktop computer.

This is just a new hat we bought for Bobby the other day. It is cold now and he has a hard time keeping his head and ears warm. I just thought he looked cute in it. He was a little bashful but I thought the picture turned out cute.

Tiger Lilly loves to cuddle with Bobby.

She cuddles with me occasionally but usually only when I am using a comfy blanket that she can sit on.

This is an odd picture of Maggie.  I'm not sure what the story is behind it:)

In August my sister-in-law and the the twins moved up to Rexburg. We got to spend some time with them them at my aunt's house.

 

This was a failed attempt at making gold tie dyed tube socks for girl's camp. They looked so funny they ended up being ajoke. We told the girls it didn't matter what you looked like on the outside aslong as  you were beautiful on the inside:)

Bobby has been working on some music and on some picture editing. This is a picture he took that he has been working with.

Another picture of the beautiful Maggie.

I've been having fun making cupcakes. These are some cupcakes I made when we were at my parent's house for the Fourth of July.

This was really my first try at making cupcakes. We took these to the nurses at the hospital for Ellie's birthday.

A good friend of mine sent me this beautiful Elephant stuffed animal that she made. It has become a really good friend:)

Thisi s a silly picture of Thomas. We were playing a really silly game over the Fourth of July break.

My grandpa passed away earlier this year. He was a veteran so he got a really great send-off. I am really glad that my mom had the opportunity to go and be with her family at this time. It was the first time in a long time that all 8 siblings were together.

This is a picture of my grandma receiving the flag at his ceremony.




It was not very user friendly to post from my ipad so i'm probably not going to do that very much. This should give you a brief overview of our year. More to come!

coming back

Okay, I know it's been a while since we've posted but, wow! I had no idea it'd been since January. Okay, I need to be better. I hate posting sometimes because I feel like my life is boring and I just wish I had kids to talk about. Posting about my cat would just be lame, right?
We do interesting things, just not every week. So I won't bore you with daily postings or even weekly postings. I will try to update at least once a month to talk about what we did that month. I may post more but I will be sure to do at least once a month. I have some pictures from this year to share.
Okay, so this post turned out to be pretty lame. I keep trying to think of something more to say, but that's really it. I guess I can tell you what's going on in our lives right now.
Bobby keeps really busy with his duties from church. He is still looking for a job. We would love for him to go back to school to study Chemical Engineering but we are trying to figure out how to afford that with him out of work. He spends his free time right now writing electronic music.
I am in my 5th year of teaching. I am still teaching 6th grade. I teach at a year round school and am just beginning a 3 week break. I spend too much time playing games on my iPad and watching Netflix.
We are really excited to go and visit my family next week for Thanksgiving. Don't worry, I won't post the details of our travel plans so a crazy person can't come rob us.
That's about it for now. More exciting adventures to come. I'm sure:)

New blog

I have created a new blog. It's kind of a combination of me losing weight and us trying for our rainbow baby. Feel free to check it out. 
http://sharonsrainbow.blogspot.com/

Birthday phase 2

Guadalahonky's was phase 2 of his birthday. I forgot my camera so this isn't an actual picture of what we ate but the food was great. He loved it. He said it felt like he was back in New Mexico. We had soooo much food. We ended up taking home more than we actually ate there.

Bobby's Birthday 2012 phase 1

We decided that we need to party this year. We have already decided ahead of time that 2012 is going to be a great year and we are going to celebrate all year. 

We started celebrating a day early because Bobby is off of work today. I started with his first present. I left it on the bed so he would see it when he got out of the shower. 

Tiger Lilly helped me wrap the present.

 He has no idea what it is. He thought I got him a book on CD.

 Yay, he's happy. I'm always worried when I buy him a present. I know I buy him things he'll like but I always second guess myself and worry he won't like it.

 It's the Smith's complete collection. This will keep him busy for a while.

Christmas 2011

We didn't take many pictures this Christmas. I really wish I had at least taken a good picture of the tree. We did the peppermint theme, everything was white and red. We had a pretty emotional time this Christmas so we didn't really take that many pictures. The only pictures we have are to the cat. She was obsessed with staring into the tree.

Halloween 2011

 Bobby was invited to participate with some of our friends in their Halloween. Bobby joined them as Pugsley from the Addams family. This is a terrible picture of him being electrocuted.

This is the whole group set up in their garage. He had a lot of fun acting out the part that night.